Short Snares Poems

Drums on the back beat
Clogging like snares with their feet
White knuckles clutch seat...

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She snares at his emotions
As her senses caught her intension
Her heart could not resist the cry
Of vengence boiling within her soul
She longed to conquer him....

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A temptress whose first name was Ella, 
Had her best snares set out for a fella, 
He saw through her ruses
And not fond of bruises
Simply said, ‘You’re not my Cinderella’...

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Like fish in a pond
we are often fed lines
baited with lures or hook
so tempting. 

Offerings hung
from invisible threads
shimmering promises
so tempting.

Trust not glittering words
deadly snares
so tempting....

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senryu - ballerina at midnight

firebird in slippers
surrounded by garden snares —
saved by the moonlight

10/25/2018
Senryu-Haiku - October 2018 - Writing Challenge
Dear Heart a.k.a. Broken Wings - Sponsor...

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Memories Lost


past entangled snares
heavy laden under mire
lurk memories lost

deeply seeded held
cleverly hidden in mist
are memories lost

heaving  hoeing
ebbing flowing never showing
all memories lost

~deborah burch©
4/28/2012...

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I don’t know
Why love grows
Why hatred gnaws
Why empathy cares
Why envy snares
I don’t know.

I know
Why the clouds melt
Why the sun sets
Why we come and go
Why curtain falls on show
I know.

Time carries all in the flow....

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Inhales prosaic air
muse probes breeze 
Filtering depth 
as image melees 
Drum snares the heart 
beating out dull pain 
Osmosing spores 
form finely tuned rain
Patters tap source
concept ignites
Erupts into thought
exhales and writes
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 Legend has it Long Ago
 Inked in Papyrus through Scribes and Scrolls,
 a Halo of Fire the Seeds Of Life
 Blaze in Salvation, Hidden Beyond Sight
 The Final Triumph over the Snares of Night
 The Golden Helmet, Zin Uru Above and Beyond Plights

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the kettlleir awakes Lyrics
while the Horns are Frenched
and Trumpeted.
The Snares are rolling the Intro's
then Lyrics are ushered in.
While Chellos and Viola's
compliment the Oboist thing.
Cantar uses Lyrics
and Cantrix listens while
he sings!...

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It’s time to
		          Blast off
		        To cast off
		     Cares and fears, 
	            Snares and tears.
		  
                          It's time
                   To heal, unwind 
		  To steel your mind
		   And steal the show
		         Now GO!...

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Life has hidden snares.
Men are unaware.
As you go your way,
If you really care,
You will always pray.

Whistle a song
On your way home.
And keep yourself,
Out of harms way.

Pray a bit.
Then you take.
Your burden...

Leave it
At the

Cross!


*For the contest...

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Old solemn heart yon Spirit hold;
Venture forthe entwined Spirit gold;
Fluttering fragrance snares.darts;
Embrace to have to hold a beating heart;
Soliciting solace variants grace
Beating in simple faith 

4/10/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020...

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A mother strives to love her child,
To shield it from the woes and cares,
The strife and hardship man endures.

The world is full of traps and snares
That Mother always frights away,
The evil beast that haunts our dreams.

We run to her in times of need
But turn away when she needs us. 

March 1984...

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Handle with care, for heart fragile
Love suffused, stance erect
Be wary of thought forms agile
Lower mind urge suspect 

Watch tremors rise and fall
Hark voice of conscience call
Mind not rebuffs, stand tall

Ego snares scare
Handle with care

04-December-2021
Quietus ...

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Let your mind be free . Let your mind be free to glide , to fly has high as the Engle . Let your mind  soar above the haters . Let your mind know no limitation's and rise above it's own weaknesses , gain strength through challenges . Feed your mind with truth that brings freedom to ascend above life's snares ....

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As the rain showers the land
and the flowers and grass
stand hand in hand
As birds take a bath
in nature's tears
and butterflies scurry
to avoid certain snares
Like a boat's sail
the wind guides the rain
to strategically find its place
on a window pane
and when it's all said and done
Rain has a name....

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Self Pity is my pillow
One piece of human emotion
To prove i'm still alive

Heavy medication veils the sun
Motionless through day time tv
Wean out around 4 to see

When darkness has fallen
When i'm able to feel
Paranoia has taken over me

Weigh myself
Against yesterdays decline
Extra pound snares perfection

It can't be mine...

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CAGES

trapped in  
apparent spaces
power
extinguished
bird in a
forgotten
tree

building cages
safety nests
apparent
circumstances
placing bets 
on novel lives  
sunken 
and clean

stuck in barb wire snares
itch itch itch
the language is
obscene
headbound in
freakish Atlantic
sea



© Kim van Breda—8 January 2016...

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I have unpoetic thinking at times
half thoughts that hang in the air
like a welcoming noose
trying to kid you into position 
or perhaps the reverse 
some brain trickery to coax 
away from traps, snares or the threat of
then without warning
I recall that I can breathe
move out of that moment
forget what that numbed non fuss was about
until the next time
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Each soul journeys here
Dreaming upon a dream,
Fear sets up fond cheer:
Lost dream within a dream!


Discern such a fate
That channels living quest,
Joy seems brief and late
As dark nightmares drown fest.


Allure snares odd touch
In the quicksand drowning,
Madness floods as such
The dreamy dance plunging.




Leon Enriquez
26 September 2018
Singapore...

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Bones of rotting timbre mimic 
morgues of truth
Pleading memories of oaths to rigor 
mortised youth
Snide sacrosanct hides under 
shrouds of pride
placing careful snares under 
gleaming stares
These selective few
they ingratiate you...
Even the doubtful  few
These ephemeral ghosts clapping at 
unspoken jokes
Wheezing from their throats to 
laugh as they choke....

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I fell in a trap, that was set for me. along life's path which I did not see.
had my eyes been on Jesus, the one who can guide,
the snare set by satan, I would have spied.

but my eyes were on me and which way I could take,
while focusing on self, I didn't see the snake.

be careful where you look while traveling through,
you may not see the enemy, but he can see you....

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A sneaky stranger stocks her stuffs
In subtle silent style and sort
She struts with slavish sensuous snares
And seeks a simple soul to sour
In shady streaks and sinful sludge

My soul sense not her startling stunt
Nor search her stunning sights to see
My Sweetheart’s sparkles surpasses all
Her shamming sleek speech and stance
My Soul seeks not the stranger’s Strokes...

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Cinnamon memories catch my soul in snares

    as I trace in anguish the curve of your lips

      in a photo stained sepia with my tears;

a thousand words... spoken through my fingertips.


Susan Ashley 
October 14, 2020


~ Second Place ~
Excerpt from: Lost In My Lost Cinnamon Dreams; May 9, 2019
Premiere Contest: Rithimus Divisa 10
Sponsor: Gregory R Barden...

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