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Captors Poems - Poems about Captors

Conquered, Part I
...She’d not heard the horses approach her village in the plains, had known nothing or war of death until their arrows rained, fiery streak against the night, set flame to thatch and straw, scramblin......

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Categories: captors, change, confusion, depression, desire,
Form: Epic
St Patrick
...St. Patrick was a slave. He escaped and then forgave. He brought Christ’s holy word To those who had not heard. They had been his captors. He saved them from terrors. With shamrock plant in han......

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Categories: captors, appreciation, christian, jesus,
Form: Rhyme



Without a Shadow of a Doubt
...A poem inspired by “Involuntary Spies” by Marion Strobel: Without a Shadow of a Doubt Soldiers, Spies, Brute Strength, Intelligence Without a shadow of doubt, there is a difference The latter......

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Categories: captors, 9th grade, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
The captives
...Held as captives in a ship Chains binding us together Hunger, but we could not starve Tears but we could not cry. We were warriors of our land Children of the soil May the gods forbid that ......

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Categories: captors, africa, culture, death, freedom,
Form: Free verse
prisoner rape
...prisoner rape  We read of the plight of the Hamsas hostages they could have been freed, but for the brutal Israel's regime they are still there At the same time, and not written about are th......

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Categories: captors, absence, abuse, addiction,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member what common house pet is nocturnal
...What common house pet is nocturnal? My king cobra? You guess. Is that a COMMON house pet? It is common at my house. Maybe my cat? Another pet-owner ventures to guess. In truth both dogs and ca......

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Categories: captors, cat,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member power animal reassures me
...I spent my first day of retirement chopping down small trees. Renegade brambles full of ivy and poison vines, Kansas kinds. Tripped on several of them, landing hard, without using my hands. I hear......

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Categories: captors, work,
Form: Narrative
I made a good impression today April 19th, 2023
...I made a good impression today April 19th, 2023... getting fitted for a new pair of dentures at Liberty Dental in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania; The tab picked up courtesy Aetna Medicare Advantra ......

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Categories: captors, 9th grade, anger, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Political Prisoner's Victory
...Captured, Tortured, Endlessly, Mercilessly, 24/7 Continuously. What did I do that was so terribly wrong? I was born in an era, where the powers that be felt, I did not belong. As the quality o......

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Categories: captors, political, prison,
Form: Rhyme
The Father in the Child
...Every father’s child, A seed in the wild, Nature and nurture are its tutors, The unseen are its captors. Every father’s child, Crafted by the gentle and mild, They come to a vast field, Obli......

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Categories: captors, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain
Like Tupac Like Mohbad
...?•?LIKE TUPAC LIKE MOHBAD?•? Pain persists; Mysterious exit. Tupac & Mohbad's demise calls for justice. Tupac reigns in death & we await his rise, Mohbad's the first superstar buried twice. Jux......

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Categories: captors, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member As Saturated Earth Bids Me Adieu
...As Saturated Earth Bids Me Adieu As saturated earth bids me adieu Angry moon spat out darken, molded cheese There, prisoner in chains, thinking of you My evil captors doing what they please. W......

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Categories: captors, courage, creation, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member How Did I Do
...she defied her captors staring at their vile faces, she slowly unsheathed her sword Her vacant hazel eyes dared them to kill her never losing contact her face was fearless as they approached fiv......

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Categories: captors, war, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prisoners Exercising Van Gogh
...Inspired by Prisoners Exercising by Van Gogh Take my face and etch it into your mind I am captured, detained, instructed When to put one foot in front of the other Soul destroyed yet there is ......

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Categories: captors, depression,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Silence of the Ewes
...The silence of the ewes He helped run them up seven sheep for the slaughter got them into the truck, taking them to the abattoir in a pen outside, they waited and bleated nonstop Dim-witted p......

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Categories: captors, animal, betrayal, lost,
Form: Blank verse

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