Ransom Poems | Examples

A King's Ransom We'd Spent

     Went to school, got good grades
         a decent lawyer, I made

     Met a girl, saved some dough 
        She was my bride, I her beaux

     Three little girls nearly broke the bank
        retirement loomed 
                 Was anything left in the tank

     A king’s ransom we’d spent
         What had it all meant

    The forced smiles, the countless deceptions
         ~ Was any of it worth a single damn cent

Fake Ransom

I can't believe
Someone deceive
To be captive.

A King’s Ransom

What is the gift in your life
Is it your husband or wife
Is it your children, your lover, your pet
The notion of someone you haven’t met yet 

Is it the door that you shut on the havoc
The sanctity of your four walls
Relaxing with something with lemon and ice
The chatter when family calls 

What is the essence of life
Is it the joy or the strife 
Is it the gift of another new day
Is it the moonlight that wipes it away

Is it the senses that most take for granted
Til veils are pulled over your eyes
The joy of the breath that means you escaped death
And you realise your life is a prize 

What is the price of a life
When it dwells on the edge of a knife
Is it dollars or cents as it sits on the fence
Before it stands firm or repents

Is it a penny ignored by the many
A glint to the partially blind
When shots overhead leave passers-by dead 
As I kneel to see what I may find

So what is the value of life
When gangland reprisals are rife 
And witnesses number not many
But my life was saved by a penny

So is this the value of life
Not a bargain store bear nor a Steiff
A penny: A low value find
But a glint to the partially blind

Ransom notes

The phrophets have ordered disdained execution of phrophecy 
A cleansing
Chaos to order
Death and birth
One in the same
Crinkling elder writings 
Static in sound
In vibration
The center
In the eye that weaves 
At the edge
On one leg
Teetering 
Balance of none
A storm
In the midst
Winds of change 
Heavy
Shivering and teetering 
Wobbling and shaking 
The weave
Such a fine 
Slippery line
Yet 
Perfectly 
Symmetrical 
All around
Infinite loops 
Within
One
As a whole
More intelligent than the rest 
The others
The eye
The space
Within the commotion

Ransom of Souls

Politicians do favors for a bribe

Priests grant forgiveness for pay

Doctors will heal if money is real

God sees all of their deals

Hostages For Ransom

They were wasting the hostages,
This deftly handling in stages;
Thirty minutes another one slew,
Nor bothered they would soon be few...

For the beauty of Twelve Million;
They're not asking for A Trillion.
Twelve fine girls,nine boys handsome
And only Eight left for ransom
Captor tells captives "I love you!
Just that parents do not facts chew;
Like I do kola and bitter pill...
For delays, impatient guns kill..."
Isn't it too hard to swallow:
What we'd do to in wealth wallow?

On the Run

Nigerians are on the run
Refugees in search of Asylum 
No more sweetness in their fatherland
Their dreams have crumbled 

The giant of Africa is in shambles
With hope of her youth buried under the rubbles of
Man made insurgency
Banditry and insane killings

Evil holds sway everywhere 
While goodness scamper to safety 
Succor for the needy 
Has been looted by the greedy 

Kidnapping has been legalized
As perpetrators haggle ransom 
With constituted authorities 
Like in the open market 
While security forces stand aloof 
Awaiting their share of the pie
Armaggeddon is surely here

Abduction Trail

Thya thya thya
Ghaat laga k thya
Zoor laga k hya
Bap bara na bhaya
Sab say bara rupaya
Paar laga do naya
Thya thya thya.

Made the Ransom Gave-

The price is paid yet never made the ransom gave 



7/14/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr.© 2020

Plain Words

God’s Word is a mirror, strong proof,
a basic, factual tool which can typify mankind.

Archaic illustration from this book…
abduction, untruths, conniving and killing.
Individual, loyal to God for a long span
abruptly drops control, turning corrupt.

King David was that man with a mind for God
How did such disloyalty occur?

First a craving for that which was not his own
having way too much; lust commands sway. 
Adultery runs to duplicity
Fornication functions 
as assassination’s aid.

Words unmask a king’s guilt, Nathan’s symbolism.
Most important, words also log the king's sorrow -
“My sin is against you, my Lord.”
David is pining for pardon; his ransom awaits.

David owns up to truth;
his body, spirit and soul worn out, 
his rapport with God brought back 
always mindful of its implications.

July 12, 2020

Brian Strand, Vers Libre

A Ransom Paid By Christ

God was making provisions for a Messiah.
The Father’s plan had already been laid.
And only His Son could cancel our debt.
There was a ransom to be paid.

God sent Jesus for those who live today, 
as well as for those who came before.
The selfless, loving gift Christ offered 
succeeded in opening a heavenly door.

Jesus was the sinless and blameless One 
who never fell prey to Satan’s attack.
He loved us enough to die for us.
The least we can do is to love Him back.

He willingly took on our transgressions.
He readily paid the immeasurable cost.
He bravely accepted His mission in life 
to ransom the souls of the lost.

Unfair Ransom

Quiescent body but a flying mind
Crave the peak, alas feet paralyzed 
Damned days darker than night
Scratch my soul sharper than knives
Burning from inside, outside only ice
Wrathful wounds with sanguinary eyes
Besieged with a legion of harms
But who fights with fragmented arms?
Crestfallen eagles surrendered to the wind
Cannot soar with broken wings
Here nightingales hunt, eagles sing
The frozen root of life tree
Hopelessly dreaming of spring
Shadow resides on the throne
Wolves dance while sheep mourn
Even Legendary dragons live in vain
So cruelly are chained with pain
Someday, not late not soon
"Hey, brother, guess we are rescued."
Night runs, day comes, sun shines
But no eye, for darkness has made us all blind.

Drak Ransom

Hope trumped last…
  a prisoner of death

A final capitulation
  —devil’s ransom beset

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

Dark Ransom

Hope trumped last
  a prisoner of death

A final capitulation
  —devil’s ransom beset

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

A Knight's Ransom

Nobility,
  in debt to all virtue
   —on loan to the truth

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)

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