Short Hostages Poems

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


Set Free

Blood moon follows, blood ties undone
Revealing players under righteous sun
No hostages to fortunes, emotional bonds
The self awakens, new dawn begun


Premium Member WARS WITHIN AND WITHOUT

Wars within and without with unimaginable ends.
My imagination crawls through the network of tunnels.
Minor hostages bound to their mother’s terrified heart.
Form: Sijo

Premium Member Fly and Die

Words
Flaunt their authority
Demanding attention
To a limitation
A seeker's delight..
And the limitation 
May hold hostages
Form religions..or
Simply
Fly and die...

Premium Member Words flaunt their authority

Words
Flaunt their authority
Demanding attention
To a limitation
A seeker's delight..
And the limitation 
May hold hostages
Form religions..or
Simply
Fly and die...

Premium Member The Forgotten

People by the billions 
watching a moon devouring a sun.
Soon after, the devouring is forgotten.
Like a holocaust.
Like the Twin Towers.
Like a trinity,
Like the two hundred
Hostages 
of 
HAMAS.


Premium Member Listless Song Of The Starving-POTD

Israeli hostages and Gazans hollowed,
the dark cold cruelty of some in humankind.
Gray circles under frightened eyes,
bones protruding from fading frames.
Listless song of the starving,
grieving God. ~

Untying

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

Premium Member Through my Telescope

through my telescope I spy teepees
bonfires
Watusi dancers
a wrecked plane
hostages
pirates
witches
angels
faeries
stories march in and out of my mind
I cannot slow them down or stop them
I am a writer
Form: List

Premium Member Benoit B Mandelbrot

Boggledy Mindalot
Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Perfect recursion sought
Infinitely!

Franticly, fractally
Near-mathemagickly
Spiraling endlessly
Exquisitely!

Bratwurst and sausages
Mandelbrot hostages
Escaping inwardly
Labyrinths for me!
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.

Pray For Paris

I’m all shocked and confused
after watching the news
hostages, bombings and shoot-
ings, this is really too much
I can’t do much
so my mission
is to pray for all the victims
their families and the millions
of French people all over the world
© Elis Artis  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Hostages to Fortune

Before dawn, the world breathless~ heartbeats become tethers to the whims of fate and old dreams flying out of reach. Fickle fate holding our fortunes hostage to power~ meager money eked out from minions of despots.
Form: Verse

Premium Member Welcome Home Hostages

You may not like his politics, 
and you may not like his choice,
You may also not like the way he speaks, 
with his somewhat cocky voice.  
But one thing that we have to like 
about that man, you see 
Is that he's done well with Israel
Helping twenty hostages- free!
Form: Verse

Premium Member IsraHELL

Trained dogs to rape
raped doctors in prisons
used human shields
snipers to kill children
bombed churches
taken woman and children
hostages of the streets
beating them
burning villages
bulldozing history
Zionists deserve
to burn in hell
is your choice
to burn with them
or join humanity

The Word I Spit

The word i spit
is so venomous 
step away from the fangs
razor sharp
will cut u deep
like a katana squared
double edged
no taking hostages
run quick
coz my spit
is so sick
it will
cause
explosions
in your mental
with the force
of three supernova's
for when its all over
i will be the star that was birthed

Premium Member So it's come to this

It's right out in the open for everyone to see ~

puppets bought and paid for
dancers strung and played
delusional parrots with microphones
hostages read the demands of a madman
while maintaining somewhat of a poker face

It's never been so obvious : integrity has its price.



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Premium Member They're 'Only Jews'

   Where is the outrage over Hamas
      still holding 100+ hostages 

   who might still be alive, who might all be dead --
      Screams of ‘Kill the Jews’ in their stead… 

   Five hostages are American too 
      Does anyone protest that?

   I guess not, they’re ‘only Jews’
      ~ the uncomfortable fact
Form: Rhyme

Confederate Blaurt vs Police Academy

Billions in property lines
Child hostages 
John Candy and male stripping?

Owners of school holsters
Ama Jewish norigins










Watered ears kneeling 
Complicated boarding times
And unfinished conversations 
When and won't
Built a school
Running out of jobs together 

American Debts we can't shove 
Out of the paperwork

Premium Member America's 'Ironclad Support'

    Three US peace proposals for Gaza
      Bibi Netanyahu accepted every one
    Sinwar of Hamas turned them all down

    Then Hamas murders six hostages, gangland-style
      And Biden-Harris puts Netanyahu on trial!
    
    Where is the pressure on Sinwar and Hamas ~
      Or is America’s ‘ironclad support’ for Israel just verbal gas
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The hostages are human'

Its a reggresive sight to see the condition of hostages
Being released by hamas?? Its a sad counterpoint to the
Whole sad situation.' And gnaws away at hope of there
Being any good solution, any way to sanity..For barbarisam will
But destroy all souls that employ it.' Enough.!! Time to
Consider on our humanity surely' and the positives it can
Facilitate.'
Form: Narrative

Premium Member How to 'Bring Them Home'

   A most pathetic sight to see
     Negotiators grovel at Sinwar’s knee

   A speedy way to set hostages free 
     ~ Put Yahya out of his misery



   ______________________________ 
   Yahya Sinwar is the name of the 
   architect and mastermind of the Oct.
   7, 2023 terror attack on Israel that
   abducted about 250 hostages and
   murdered over 1,200 people.
Form: Monorhyme

Hostages

People have hopes and plans
 That they want to be
They are often
 Very driven
To make these
 Come true
Also they often have
 Children they take along
Children who rarely
 Have any say
In how their life’s
 Will be
The hopes and dreams
 Of the child
Will never have
 A chance
Adult plan and work
 Their dreams to have
But the children
 Are not asked
For children are simply
  Luggage to take along

the Gaza hostages

Gaza's hostages  

When IDF tried to free six of Hamas hostages 
holed up in a tunnel, the six, two women and
four men were found dead 
three questions arise.
When were the hostages shot?
During the firefight?
Or were they sacrifices?
we know that the vile regime
the Israel regime is capable of anything foul 
Hamas could have murdered 
the hostages to stop the IDF from searching 
for more hostages
© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.

Hostages to Fortune

I see waves
going higher and higher
in the shape of horns.

Why don't we call horns thorns?

These horns are extending
in my head.

Ha ha ha, imagination.
And even there,
I couldn't think of a crown.

People are trying
to get to the tip of my horns:
ambitious,
dedicated,
hardworking.

But why are they even trying?

And even if they reach the tip,
wouldn't it still be my horns?
Or will it be theirs?

The Sun Doth Shine

The sun doth shine, 
and the birds do sing,
on Sundays,
man, the church bells he rings.
He prays for guidance from his lord,
then he steps outside, into his tank,
and wields his sword.

Innocent men women, and children, 
are blown up, and slaughtered,
hostages taken, 
beheaded, and quartered.

Will man, ever learn to live in peace,
or will he just go on for ever, killing,
until his very existence, comes to a cease.
© 38 Tango  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Terrorism

Flickering are the stars of compassion as they are mourning the slaughter of the innocent!*







(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
          02 July 2016


*Terrorist attacks everywhere has rendered our world a dangerous place to live.

After the terrorist attack last Tuesday at the Ataturk airport in Istanbul with 44 dead and close to two hundred injured, 20 innocent hostages were killed in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka.
Form: Monoku

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