Short Snared Poems

Attention is snared,
but understanding slips through
the spun web of words....

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Dreams we could have shared
You acted as if you cared
My heart your lies snared

By Robb A. Kopp...

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Snared by the moment
Details turn into stories
Choking petty minds
Liberated when they find
Stars are the true scale of life...

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C  aught and snared

A   nchored to a sharp hook

R   ash choice of "food"

P   roducing its' own demise


(rash in incautious of what it chooses to ingest)...

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Vermont Limerick

There was a tall man from Vermont
Who always was out on the hunt.
But when he got snared
And layed in the lair
There was no more packing his trunk....

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S ick of scary screams,
C ausing guilty streams.
A lone and anxious about past,
R emorse of misdeeds snared me at last.
E very sin has a reward,
D o guilty souls has tranquil depart?...

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Lured
by her
lush lashes,
forever thralled.
Snared!

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(C) John C Michaels, April 2017

Inspired by the "Form L - Lanterne" contest sponsored by Broken Wings....

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S ick of scary screams,
C ausing guilty streams.
A lone and anxious about past,
R emorse of misdeeds snared me at last.
E very sin has a reward,
D o guilty souls has tranquil depart?
It's an acrostic poem...

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Snared for an errant tweet
    Never thought to be discreet
  
  Escorted by a kick to the seat
    Hope fell to grieve at his feet

  Kremlin brass-knuckle browbeat
    ~ Carves innocence into mincemeat...

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she sleeps quietly in the forest 
shares dreams with the animals 
frees the rabbits bloodied foot
snared in the perfect trap
she sends out a roar that thunders
showing her displeasure for a time
then back to her dreams...

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Listen to poem:

At the center of my orbit,
You were Jupiter, huge, remote,
Surface roiled by raging storms.
I was a dim, distant moon --
A tiny ice-bound clod
Eternally held at bay --
Still, snared inescapably
By your awful gravity....

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Scared ( acrostic )

S ick of scary screams,
C ausing guilty streams.
A lone and anxious about past,
R emorse of misdeeds snared me at last.
E very sin has a reward,
D o guilty souls has tranquil depart?
It's an acrostic poem...

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inside
a frozen
minute
you wait

the door
ajar
as if
to capture
the faintest
echo of
footfall

the mirror
scrutinizing
that empty 
space
beside you
on the couch

my reflection
endlessly
snared
in mute
counterpoint

03/22/18...

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Veronica and I, share the same brave dream
With Veronica snared, we made a great team
Xylophone extraordinaires, the world had never seen
Yikes folks, I ate swords or flares that burnt and bent my teeth
Zoo turned me into a circus freak, I long for the long grass of home....

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Wise Solomon called it vanity
that men should strive to gain
more earthly possessions than wisdom
even tho it brings strife and pain.

For we know not what time we are given
tho we be snared in an evil time.
So live joyfully with whom thou lovest
that true joy your heart shall find....

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A shrivelled presence. 
A mere shadow. 
Curled tightly in 
foetal submission 
unconscious tae owr 
subconscious fears. 
Eyes dart back 
an fourth amongst 
the participants in 
this ritual of ruination. 
Never lingering though 
fir fear of also 
being snared in 
the abyss's gaze....

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Trapped 'tween 
  adjectives' objections
succumbed to
  long-windedness,
snared 'neath an
  expanse of circumlocution,
paraphrasing periphrases 
   buried under layers
       of infused technicalities, 
all in a day's multiformity
   working midst the sublimity
           of poetry's madness...

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HYSTERICAL MOMENT IN DOLL HISTORY

small             ///////////////////

doll                    X           X

maul                          *

pall                        xxxxx

Screen darkens with small doll. Scared!
Found human to maul — pall snared.

                            1/25/2018...

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Who can see this happen? I'm scared
It moved me and made my heart feel snared

But I knew I could only watch
Blood splattered violently across the botch 

While you are engaged in an endless game
Everything is unfair, I kept thinking, what a shame!


Written: September 21, 2022...

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while the rest
of the world
vanished
she zeroed in
on her target
had him in her sights
nothing else existing
he froze
knowing all to well
he was snared
she ravaged him
he had no say
entrapped
guilty of the charm
he exuded
in spite of himself



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on June 14, 2019...

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this is such a plus in my life....all these talented new friends..where souls are 
bared, and laughter shared....and you've all cared.....how I dared....my mind 
compared, to someone who sweared, that he was fared amongst those who 
blared, their trumpets snared, in time now squared.  Ya didn't expect it ta'  make
sense, now, did ya?...

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Hear the hated song
Think things will go wrong
Cannot relax, on edge, scared
Expecting illness
My fate seems hopeless
Sweating like a creature snared

Play the remedy
Callas works for me
Relax, unwind, heave a sigh
Play again for luck
Lets me off the hook
Smile and wave ill luck bye bye

Jack Horne for Nette's Aloutte your Cleansing Ritual...

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Maybe we're wasting time
Pretending to be fine
Not addressing the strain 
We inflicted on our brains

Naming names
Placing blame 
Never saying sorry
For fear of furry

Screwing up the script
Saying things without etiquette 
Words lost in translation
Hearts snared in confusion 

Paying homage 
To the image
Of love
Up above....

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Maybe we're wasting time
Pretending to be fine
Not addressing the strain 
We inflicted on our brains

Naming names
Placing blame 
Never saying sorry
For fear of furry

Screwing up the script
Saying things without etiquette 
Words lost in translation
Hearts snared in conflict

Paying homage 
To the image
Of democracy 
And carnage....

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Grey rabbit... White paper...


I am the grey rabbit
Snared, trapped by restrictive wires
Unseen
I reach for the quill of significance
Yet she teases
Just a tug too far
Ink wells spilt upon verde grass
Parchment paper
Leaves me parched
I cannot paint nor write
My fluffy tails lost it's sheen
I'm off down the burrow
To lick my wounds
And
Ensure my hovels clean...

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