Short Hostage Poems

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


Premium Member cancer is a killer

cancer survivor
eight years with a clean record
feeling some relief
year nine is a killer year
cancer takes body hostage
Form: Tanka


Premium Member Haiku 3-3-2019

Haiku 3-3-2019

a cool sun shivers
held hostage by graying skies
fluffed feathers await



John g. Lawless
©3/3/2019
Form: Haiku

Child of Night

The gray dawn baptized,
 —a child of night

Salvation hostage,
 —imprisoned light

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

Hostage

Hostage

I'm hostage to Payne's grey
ninety percent of my mind
My star is quenched in heavy clay
despite the worlds dispensations
Form: Rhyme

Hhh - Captcha Contest

Hostage Horror ... Hungry ...Hallucinating Haze However...Hopes Held High
last captcha H.H.H. penned 14 April 2015
Form: Acrostic


Premium Member Now Stick to Your Guns

    Now, Mr. President, stick to your guns

       Hamas releases all hostage by this Sunday eve

          ~ or else Hamas is forever done
Form: Rhyme

Time

Time has my heart hostage the ventricle all bent
I will not surrender till every second of time is spent






For Black Eyed Susan's contest:  Time
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Twilight

twilight's curtain my senses acute hostage of age HAIKU CONTEST inspired by BASHO Sponsored by Damned I-Be 07/01/2022
age
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Cat Takes Us Hostage

The cat can stretch out anywhere
In grass or gravel
In catnip patches 

However he has a favorite spot
In front of the front door
Holding us hostage
cat

Hilary Hiccups

Hilary hiccups had helped
Hilary Hellstrom hide the
Historic helmet at her
House in the Hamptons
But the Hamptons held
Hilary Hellstrom hostage

JANUARY 9, 2021
© Daisy Ward  Create an image from this poem.

Lies of Omission

Wounded, woeful woman.
Hostage of hindered hope.
Yowling, yearning, for you.

*1408 Acrostic Triplet Poetry Contest
*Sponsored by: Brian Strand
*Entered on: 08/31/2025
© Talia Hill  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Words Held Hostage

Words held hostage 
by a giant hive keeper.
Queen lost.

Trying to survive 
hostile takeover of 
narcotics 

attempting to flush out poisons
so Queen may live again….

Privilege Shares

Privilege shares with friends and family
the whys and wherefores of your creed;
lest your lack of concern and charity
keeps a faith hostage that they need. 

July 5, 2020
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Pretending I Am Her Hostage

Imagination fills my soul with her own sweet purity
Dashing and crashing through and ahead of every other thought
Taking me sweet hostage while I pretend to kick and scream.
Form: Sijo

The Moment Hostage

The past cried out a dire warning
  unlocking you from the moment

“History rules, the die is cast
  —the future of your discontent”

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2018)

Reality Check

The Electoral College is fraud.
At it's best they take us hostage
Then pay our ransom in jest
This two-party-system
Disingenuous
Slithery snakes
Investing
In fear
Stock.
Form: Nonet

Wheelchairs and Prams

Wheelchairs and Prams

Alive wheelchairs and prams should 
hold hostage people who 
breach the condition of 
not permitting entry to 
the disabled into 
their buildings!

Cagey Canary

Yellow Canary on top of a cage 
Rests in hush as it turns another page  
From wild slip, it is carefree
Silence is a sight to see 
Deep, it thinks that the cat is its hostage
Form: Limerick

Premium Member clock tower held her hostage

the clock tower held her hostage
she knew there was a message
aren’t you asleep yet? called her mother
she was quiet, feigning sleep
knowing it was not going to happen tonight

Obsessive Compulsive

Check door, handle, lock. Check them twice.
Life with O.C.D. - that's the price.
Do the same each and every day;
"Unlocked!" the inner voices say.
Holding you hostage in a vice.
Form: Quintilla

Boulevard, Usa

Fluorescent signs shout
     "Liquor" and "***,"
cardboard boxes
     hold the land hostage,
pushers and prostitutes
     pirouette
with survival
     their only choreographer.

Unlocking the Soul

let's untie
all grips
that tie us back
We are so fragile
 as our dreams...
Let the heart
does not be hostage 
of our weaknesses anymore
and let's so thus
 be free,
  to love again!

Premium Member would it still be poetry

What is poetry…well
Y’know, like when
A thought is captured by an idea
Held hostage
By a pencil
Interrogated
By itself
Answering wordlessly
If I knew
……………would it still be poetry

Premium Member If I Am Taken Hostage

If I am ever taken hostage
I hope it’s by my grandchildren
They will take me to a park,
And make me swing and slide,
I will crazy laugh
And chase them down
Play and play
The best 
Day
Form: Nonet

Ball and Chain

Hostage to fortune,
prisoner of time

Trophies a burden,
 polished and shined

Greed but a jailer,
freedom denied

Hope in confinement
—wishing a crime

(Dreamsleep: October, 2021)
Form: Rhyme

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