Short Entraps Poems

Sun
Excites
After lunch
Swimming with friends
In
Deep
Entraps
Floundering
Under water
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Written 17th March 2019
Contest:  Light up the Page 3
Sponsor:  Joseph May
4th place...

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Heart’s Choice

Caged love’s
opened door
invisible
bonds that hold you within
engaged

Freedom
in heart’s grasp
compulsory
need to be loved in turn
entraps

Released,
loving self
empowering
the heart that lives within
set free

©Debra Squyres...

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EVENING
     Eye catching hue of sky
     Entraps diffuse daylight
     Ephemeral, fleeting
     Enshrouded by dark night.
     Enamouring splendour
     Enthuses poets mind
     Evokes celestial pride!

       Date Sept 17. 2016
        Name of contest
         Plieades E...

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today your heart is pierced and you’ve lost hope
but dare not die today
tomorrow’s a breath ‘way

shake off the darkness
this heavy mantle of woe
that entraps your soul
re-write the future today

one choice to be made-
stand tall; cast the fear aside
watch as light invades
~*~
6/8/13...

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Reaching into the demon’s mouth,
  the search entraps and burns 

With every click and byte we choose,
  the less we seem to learn

Our privacy we save as bait,
  the wolves set free to run

Stripped and naked, to live as prey,
  —our pasts now theirs to hunt

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)...

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Twilight has fallen
that's when you see her

Dancing in the moonlight
goddess of shadows

Swaying side to side
wind playing with her long hair

She entraps you 
her hyponotizing stare

Taken away your
her new captive

Sweet, darkly melodic laughter
following her into the dark

Giving your life away
to the sweetest sin...

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Twilight has fallen 
That's when you see her 

Dancing in the moonlight 
Goddess of shadows 

Swaying side to side 
Wind playing with her long hair 

She entraps you 
her hypnotizing stare 

Taken away your her new captive 
Sweet, darkly melodic laughter 

Following her into the dark 
Giving your life away to the sweetest sin...

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Up or down
  forward or back 

Polarity ends
  in a panic attack 

Start, stop 
  the stillness portends

The middle a wasteland
  lost years of pretend 

Before or after
  in front or behind 

Timing entraps
  with the devil’s design 

Salvation, damnation
  souls to contend 

To live or to die
  —to start or to end 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2018)...

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Darkness surrounds me 
I can no longer move
The flowers you once gave me 
Now entraps me in its roots
How could kindness turn so rude 
Yet I will never stop loving you
I watch as these flowers now black
Suffocate me 
Wrapping around choking out my breath
Keeping from me air needed to survive
Voices whisper in my head
This is no longer a friend
Yet I cling to these roots for dear life
Wishing it wasn’t right...

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The fox gnaws flaking muscle
From speechless rabbit, cold
In mind and body. Men shiver
As bodies dry, spat from river.

Rings of globes circle hands
Of the thoughtless, so beaten
From paths to be told of Him, 
Waiting until eyes grow dim.

Walking among us is plague,
Standing above us is but love,
These winds will claw our youth
While faith entraps this truth.

Winter comes but we survive,
Breath and bones, colonies thrive....

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Climbing the tree of life; 
ascended masters are free.

Mortality never entraps them; 
those infinite beings of light, burn forever.

Pouring through the mortal healers hands, 
they infiltrate body and soul, with cleansing light.

Those who listen and learn, may join the sacred fold.  
Branches on the tree, never stop growing.

Each limb embraces the newly ascended; 
Mother God’s womb is infinite.

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I feel you in the trees that, dance in the wind.
I hear you whisper, in their leaves.
Encrypted secrets shared, with we who listen, with our soul.

From my soul to your soul;
unzipped code in the wind; 
sorted by the leaves.

The material world entraps all souls;
trees awakened by chanting winds, 
will speak with their leaves.

Trees tell the wind, with leaf voices;
whom are the worthiest souls.
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She sits above the rolling waves,
Her golden waves capture the sun,
The sunlight beckons wistful slaves, 
Enslaved their hearts are led to dun.

For her beauty entraps the soul,
The soulful songs she sings at sea
As eyes see her beauty cajole,
So cajoled they can ne’er be free.

And I, the poet, gave my art,
In artful words pleading for love,
But can love touch her wicked heart,
Or leave my heart her mourning dove?




Form: Wreathed Quatrains...

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A sylph appears beneath the night -
beguiling smile and touch invite...

As honey flows and nectar drips,
Sweet laughter ripples 'cross her lips...

Her crystal eyes are flashing blue -
They beckon with a lusty hue...

Her silken strands of flaxen hair
Are waving wildly in the air...

The music plays, her swirling dance 
Entraps me in a mystic trance...

She disappears as nighttime wanes - 
I'm left bewitched, my soul in chains......

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