Caught Poems - Poems about Caught

Despairing seafaring..can be Lore of days of yore Glories or gory Bold stories told Foreshore folklore Hemingway’s…Old Man and the Sea Smiles..feeling chipper Like a wee nipper Reeling in a ripper Serious delirious skipper No not a wee kipper More like stealing Flipper (ah remember Flipper) Sort of caught Trials snort beguiles Rather overwrought Wiles & guile..fraught Palaver..how they fought All went iffy in a jiffy This grouper.. a storm trooper All...

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May is the season of Rain droplets of soft note tapping rhythm into my coat tip— tap. tip— tap. she walks with me and starlight for a silent talk midnight May is the season of Rain I watch her dance as sun sinks beneath the fence— tip— tip— ...

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We're mannequins peering from a storage bin. We slouch across from the "No-Food" paper sign. Its message sags to a pulp taped to the shoulders of a glass door. Shoppers, incoming, their shared orange squirts juice. Our mannequin-custodial grins bar us from the lips' sweet 'oh'. Crowdsourcing emboldens shame, our French kisses hung on tangy wind chimes breezes tongue....

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In the deep silence of thoughts, where the poet's soul flutters like a butterfly caught in winds, He carves his path through the shadows of a culture that swallows him, relentless, unforgiving, A son of words, a bastion of verse that refuses to be shaped by the hands of time, He stands before the storm, bare-chested, unwavering, seeking...

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Caught in seaweed forever I guess My legs are tangled; they’re in a mess Merman comes along and cuts me out I am too weak to flail about Who will save a wretch like me? Floundering in the Baltic Sea...

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You caught me smiling in a moment Because your love has made its way to my heart Into my heart You caught me smiling in a moment Because you are the one I have been waiting for Waiting for You caught me smiling in a moment As you pass me by Passing by You caught me smiling in a moment Now I am face...

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When looking at reflections it draws and paints from a spirit certain visions sit on the sidelines set aside afraid to choose honestly and grow a backbone straightened by facts in those refusing to stand up for the most basic human right Then again many follow the bully name calling suppressing the truth branding wisdom is...

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The wings of a butterfly do not compare No fish of the sea would compete for my stare And stars and the rainbows are just things in the sky Why is it always the thing I can’t try The beauty that captures the attention of my eye ...

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I know she is strong, I know she is independent, I know she is courageous, I also know she is a little impatient, I know she is curious, I know she is adventurous, I know she loves to explore, I also know she cannot lift her trolley up, I know she is short, I know she is cute, I know she is beautiful, I also know...

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Let me see your hands! I need to see your hands! Face forward, Turn to your right, Click, click, click. Roll in. Squat and cough. Change out. Open your mouth and lift your tongue, Say ahhhhhhhhh. I need to see a badge, Your I.D. need to be at the door. Stand behind the line! I'm a man, I'm a black man. You the man, We fam. Roll up....

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Ivory flakes fluttering down, Turns the ground into white from brown, A soft blanket of silver snow, Kisses from heaven sent below; It clothes the earth with milky mark, Has that extra glittering spark, God rains down blessings floating slow, Kisses from heaven sent below; Moonlike little stars in the air, Frosted fluffs flying everywhere, Covered in...

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His meds kept Andrew sane He lived with us, no one to blame But one day he refused his pills I knew what that meant, a battle of wills. In a few days voices told Andrew to leave. He vanished, left a note I didn’t believe. I tracked his SIM card to Idaho. I had lots on my plate but I had...

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Caught I am caught in a web of your deceit I’ve tried to escape but can’t I am your prisoner ...

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It would be good to be a thought set free of what holds it here in time and space, to go wherever a whim might take it, some far galaxy or a small pond in a garden bathed in moonlight. It would be good to be caught in the gravity of the Sublime and begin that slow spiral dance inwards towards the centre of all...

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You, with your everlasting sorrow mom deserve nifty hands and healing ways of You, who always loved with the truest calm now sit bereft of food and needs God's glove You, the womb that bore consecrated Zen sit still with your emptiness praying that You, will once more be as fertile as a hen...

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