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Manacles Poems - Poems about Manacles

Why Your Cities Burn, Part II
......Finally Gobayth came to a devastated mountainside, the trees and soil stripped away, slaves cutting out blocks of great size. They led him to a wooden hut where several gold coins were exchan......

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Categories: manacles, anger, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Martyred for Freedom
...Masha Amini was an Iranian woman who was kept captive in jail for clamoring for Women’s Rights. Later she died in police custody under suspicious circumstances. Her death led to widespread civil ......

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Categories: manacles, abuse, betrayal, leadership, woman,
Form: Free verse



Closer To The Heart
... Felicity balms in a vapor of gold, where the dawn silverly unfolds, as flagged standard- bearer showing, pregnancy of colors bold, of heavenly hue. Like dew on petals of hope- retu......

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Categories: manacles, art, color, deep, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Eat Slow
...Free yourself from the manacles of food and drink Accede with God for a holy covenant Silence yourself away from the mundane to pray and unthink Temperance is paramount in this divine mom......

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Categories: manacles, allah, beautiful, blessing, devotion,
Form: Acrostic
Temple Hymns of Enheduanna
...Enheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE), the daughter of the famous King Sargon the Great of Akkad, is the first ancient writer whose name remains known today. Temple Hymn 15 to the Gishbanda Temple of ......

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Categories: manacles, faith, father daughter, god,
Form: Free verse



Death by Clothing
...I worry that my coat will murder me. Hanging on Banister’s Edge it’s a man lurking, dark. I’ve seen rows of killers shadowed and waiting, hidden in the ridges of the living room radiator, ready......

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Categories: manacles, analogy,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Favorite Mornings
...I am an early riser, usually between 4 and 5 a.m. That's my quiet time for reading, and thinking, And sometimes writing. I especially enjoy it when, After a pre-dawn shower, I can look out my......

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Categories: manacles, imagery, morning,
Form: Free verse
Why did I Fall for You, O' Sun?
...O, why did I fall for you, O' sun, When my soul is nestled in the deeps? Agape and afraid, my eyne mosey deeper still; they run, Yet on the colder current your warmth invitingly sleeps. The dis......

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Categories: manacles, crush, cry, depression, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Get Out There
...Break away the manacles of fear Get up and get away from here Out into the great, great yonder Scratch that incessant itch of wonder Follow the steam of your heart Chug, chug, chug on down the......

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Categories: manacles, adventure, beautiful, change, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
Love's Manacles
... You are the Angel of curiousity and poison, in my little shop of errors. You are my penance, a dungeon as I sentence myself in pre-judiced derision stoked, with desire's f......

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Categories: manacles, art,
Form: Rhyme
My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month
...My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month Which acknowledgement ought to be year round, similar to altruistic, humanistic, and philanthropic unconditional acceptance and ......

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Categories: manacles, abuse, africa, age, america,
Form: Free verse
The Antics of a Yoyo Thief
...The Antics Of A Yoyo Thief Potential life of as juvenile delinquent (ala bam mean future streetwise thug) stopped dead in the tracks – manacles the above two lines hopefully gives hint nearly ......

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Categories: manacles, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance
...Recluse by dint of circumstance Proud anonymous troglodytes forerunners of mine confronted threats less horrific than forty fifth commander in chief of United States of America. He/him (ma......

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Categories: manacles, adventure, america, angst, anti
Form: Free verse
My Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month
...My nascent poetic tribute to black history month more apropos and alternately titled: praise to thee people of variegated melanin color, whose immense understated improvements and enhancemen......

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Categories: manacles, 12th grade, adventure, africa,
Form: Rhyme
Honestly I Wont Like It
...Could it your fancy tickle: The fluid you need does trickle; Legs once free like vehicles On Stopped Feet of Manacles? Won’t it up get one’s hackles That one often tasks tackles Others’ Wrist......

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Categories: manacles, allusion, conflict, cry, work,
Form: Rhyme

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