Short Caging Poems

lavender roses
twining around my flesh
caging in my love...

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May I be frank with you...
Why, that's something you should never do
   Unless you live in the zoo
   And the animals look just like you...

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I caught a glimpse of myself in the sideview mirror.
my eyes replaced by two large black buttons,
similar to the ones on my Fathers' outdated overcoat....

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You first forgive
to then forget
Judgment lost
in past regret
To change the mantra
soul’s unfilled
And cage the snake
—from now until

(Freemont Street Las Vegas: July, 2022)...

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I’ll ransack the caging golden towers,
Slip your hands from the twines of forlorn hours;   
Spirit you to fields ‘neath conspiring stars,     
Coif your hair with a headdress of flowers....

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Robed in the garments of alabaster hem, was she the matron of ethereal divinity; the sovereign culmination of a hallowed hand, caging my only begotten heart, was it unbeknownst to she, my beloved bearer of me. "



Alfredo Gonzales (C)...

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Turning pages
Blaspheming churches
Crucifying sages
Causing rages

Turning pages
Wandering mazes
Furthering crazes
Nullifying searches

Turning pages
Erasing phrases
Controlling phases
Dazzling praises

Turning pages
Relenting urges
Escaping cages
Paging ages...

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pausing before entering the temple
the monk burst out into fits of laughter 
at man’s idiocy of caging God in an edifice 

the fundamentalists admonished him
but the nondescript beggar simply smiled
astonished at the ignorance of the bourgeois 

24-May-2023...

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Overlooking our Identity 

This is the activity
in which each of us
engage..
Overlooking our Identity
as expanse and expanding
confining it to a
constraining cluster of
perceptions and thoughts..
Until!:
we notice the caging
and the confinement
sounding freedom's call......

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Once I give my heart,
it never fully closes.
There’s always a small part,
that will have love shining through.
I’ve tried tape, glue, thread, even caging,
but it never worked.
Once I truly love someone,
that feeling will never fade.
A small list of people,
forever tattooed in my heart and soul....

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Chronometer,
sands slips through
narrow glass marrow
counting seconds
of elusive time
skin wrinkles
hairs whiten
eyes fade
walks limp
chronometer stops no way
ageman turns it upside down
it goes on and on
millions and trillions of times
aging and caging souls
and then
setting them free
as yet it remains on it's spree....

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Chronometer,
sands slips through
narrow glass marrow
counting seconds
of elusive time
skin wrinkles
hairs whiten
eyes fade
walks limp
chronometer stops no way
ageman turns it upside down
it goes on and on
millions and trillions of times
aging and caging souls
and then
setting them free
as yet it remains on it's spree....

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Blank page
Broken
Shattered
Empty space
A zombie trying to feel
Imitating what you see
But, never experiencing true emotion
Concept of love escapes you
Feeding a desire
To free yourself
Blind to the realization
That you are only
Caging yourself in like an animal
Dead inside
Hollow existence forever
A lost soul 
Endlessly searching for fulfillment...

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How many people find rest
After a caging arrest?
How many can give their best?
When locked doors from them, dreams wrest?
They are crops their jailer pest!

Freedom they seek East and West:
Much like The Only Wished Guest,
'F' of Freedom stamp on chest,
On my polo it's a crest.
Women would theirs mark on  breast;
They don't like this kind of test:
Bird whose best home is its nest....

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Wild hearts
too wild to be tamed
break loose from their chains
like birds in cages
they try to break free
and fly away
like stallions running free
wild hearts wants to flee
from conformity
why try to tame a wild heart
when it wants to roam freely
let it loose let it break free
no sense of caging
no sense of restraining
no sense of putting reins
when it wants to run away
it is its nature to be free...

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Is your soul blood red
A dowry of bitter wine
Spilling mortality
Staining the divine

Is eternity a prison
The rusty knife of time
Carving your senses
Caging your mind

Is flesh a pardon
A tactile bribe
Begging the question
What is alive

Is there a reason
In this chalice of mine
To sip my faith
And fear no demise

Is there a forever
In your crying eye
A word to grasp
When your child has died...

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insistent emphasis
dogmatic views
make for faith
fundamentalistic

specious belief
eristic rigidity
stagnates in a cave
caging spontaneity 

seeking without surrender
clinging to scriptures
imprisons the soul
in a mind trap

repeated affirmations
manifest heart’s aspirations
as a conjured epiphany 
deepening delusion

sans thought who are we
unfettered and unbound
beyond mental concepts 
look for that oh hermit...

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Something magical aligned in the stars one night-
which birthed the love of the Cardinal and the Rose
A balance which propelled the universe to motion

The Rose, a beauty of sharpness
The Cardinal a mysterious blur

The Rose nurturing his faulty ambitions-
with dreams of caging his love 

The Cardinal cursed to fly away to greener trees–
feeding on her zealousness 

Bound by the wind and the rain and the sun
Faced with the need for the other...

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A Look Into Forever

I look upon the face of one
Whose beauty defies aging
And feel the anxious moment
Like a wild beast before caging.

The things I feel about
The one who stands before me
Will last a thousand lifetimes –
As long as she adores me.

And who can count the moments
Or add one single day
To a lifetime spent in praising
The One who leads the way.

This bond we cannot sever
Unless we gaze into forever.


Written by John Posey...

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During war folks don’t breathe with ease, 
Kids don’t keep frolicking; they cease,
Haters of blood shed soldiers seize;
There’s caging in a once free breeze.

During war most men jittery, 
Eyes on the doors of Eatery,
In hands spoons in mind butchery
Some granted favours Trickery
Easily seen Debauchery
Yet some actors for Bravery…

During war Hard Principles bend,
Murder and Rape some kind of trend
No new Robes; The old one you mend
One for oneself prefers to fend....

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I look out from the iron bars
Wish I could go out for a long walk
Living in four walls 
Walking within is maddening
My body has become stiff, I desperately need exercise
I want to chat with others
Share, laugh and enjoy life
This life is depressing
Especially for an extrovert like me
God please end this 
If not at least give me death.

Note: I was talking about caged animals. If you could relate to this, please empathize with animals. Stop caging animals and visiting zoos....

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