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Short Captive Poems

Short Captive Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Captive by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Captive by length and keyword.


Prism
incarceration

a tongue unable to flex

captive elixir...

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© Chris Con  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: captive, kiss,
Form: Haiku



Catch of the Day
preach a man a fish
a gun a bomb a barrel~
captive audience...

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Categories: captive, introspection, murder,
Form: Senryu
Nature Haiku 7
Swim in waters of
Precious, admirable love
Be not captive, dove...

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Categories: captive, desire, love, passion,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Possessed
Held captive by you 
my soul tormented by you 
all because of you...

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Categories: captive, depression,
Form: Senryu
Captive of the Moon
Every wave
In this ocean
A spirit, 
When captured,
By this moon...

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Categories: captive, imagination
Form: Free verse



Message In a Bottle
captive to the sea,
my treasure hidden within;
trapped in a bottle...

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Categories: captive, adventure,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Rainbow Holds Children Captive
rainbow
benefit
of summer rain
holds young children captive
me too...

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Categories: captive, 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, 9th
Form: Cinqku
Stars
Stars twinkle bright,
like diamonds in the sky,
holding you captive....

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© Cory Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: captive, nature
Form: Haiku
Winter's Hostage
Petrified by snow,
Captive limbs...shackled by ice:
Prisoner of frost....

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Categories: captive, nature, seasons
Form: Haiku
Indiana
plain boy,easy time
just pine away,love song rites
and be still,captive...

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Categories: captive, art,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Captive Beauty
night to fuchsia’s blush
so oft the hues emblazoned-
driving east to work...

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© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: captive, sky,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Death Winks At Us All
Death has the last laugh
and a captive audience -
divine comedy....

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Categories: captive, death, fun,
Form: Senryu
Captive Leaves
The cold Wintry nights,
Release the imprisoned leaves:
Bailed out by the sun....

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Categories: captive, nature,
Form: Haiku
Captive
a veiled, hollow cage
guarded peeks of cloud and brine
sheltered from the world...

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Categories: captive, anxiety, depression,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Pleasure
pleasure
favor complete
delicious happening
captive moment evading time
treasure...

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Categories: captive, emotions, life, passion,
Form: Cinquain
Shrewd Awakening
Captive
Grinning coyly 
She feigns timidity
Cunningly knowing fools become
Ensnared...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: captive, on writing and words,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member Pettibone Park Zoo
captive Wolverine
pacing edge of confinement
only hates humans
...

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Categories: captive, nature
Form: Haiku
Love's Captive
Surrendering to love
  —an imprisonment of joy!

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...

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Categories: captive, joy, love,
Form: Free verse
Love's Captive
Surrendering to love
  —an imprisonment of joy!

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...

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Categories: captive, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Drifting

freed captive, tears spilled ~ unfulfilled in shallows and shadows
...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: captive, sorrow,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Yin and Yang
Evil and Good, Good and Evil: Man's held captive in their Yin and Yang.
...

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Categories: captive, god, nature, philosophy, religion, symbolism, truth, wisdom,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Glittering
glittering stillness
undulating sea
captive midnight moon



posted on August 15, 2018...

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Categories: captive, beautiful, moon, night, sea, summer, uplifting, water,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Thought of the day
many souls now know that life’s but a dream ~
yet captive to ego, thought forms still stream...

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Categories: captive, dream, introspection, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Thought of the Day
As long as consciousness is reactive ~
To latent impulses, we are captive

03-December-2022...

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Categories: captive, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Captive of Love
What the heart holds captive
 —the mind will never free

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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Categories: captive, love,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs