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Short Traps Poems

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


Premium Member Rest Rooms
Most inconvenient our conveniences ~ saber-laving traps...

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Categories: traps, technology, word play,
Form: Monoku



Premium Member Mix It Up a Bit
The garden traps sun
Just as I trap the raincloud
Rainbow recipe...

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Categories: traps, anxiety,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Lobsterman
lobsterman hauls traps
powerful, rhythmic movements
third generation...

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Categories: traps, family, imagery,
Form: Haiku
Athens
fish markets bristle
tourist traps brim with coy baits
acropolis shrouds...

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Categories: traps, adventure,
Form: Senryu
Menace
orbiting menace

beneath the traps that crop up

cut between eye teeth...

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© Chris Conn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traps, betrayal, class, corruption,
Form: Haiku



Haiku
countless falling leaves
forest color patchwork quilt
hidden hunting traps...

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Categories: traps, autumn, color, nature, tree,
Form: Haiku
Peace Please
Quarreling can
Result in
Self
Traps.
Harmony doesn't end in verbal slaps....

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Categories: traps, forgiveness, friendship, happiness, introspection,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Lush Greens
lush greens
and sand traps
golfer's summer



posted on September 6, 2018...

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Categories: traps, appreciation, golf, green, passion, summer,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Child Support
Paper planes spoon food trains
Red shoes blue jeans jacket hat
Pedophile traps...

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Categories: traps, abuse, angst, anxiety, baby,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Coyote Moon
coyote moon howls 
owl swoops killing midnight snack
moonlight traps black eyes...

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Categories: traps, art, bird, moon,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Figuratively Speaking
To literal minds
similes are like stumbling blocks,
but
metaphors are death traps....

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Categories: traps, language,
Form: I do not know?
Angst of Burden On An Overcast Day
onus
traps me inside
myself -- suffocated.
to love but be unloved -- my cross 
to bear....

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Categories: traps, angst, introspection, life, love, on writing and
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member 8008135
Booby traps 
Turn the page
Paint by numbers
The town red rage
Over and out
A dark new age


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Categories: traps, conflict, dark, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Her
Her
Awaken with her in morn
So sweet her face angelic
Her emerald eyes set jewels
Her sweet pose traps me...

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© Nick Faber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traps, love, romance, wifesweet, sweet,
Form: Dodoitsu
The Back Side
For fifty years I laid out the traps
that I find myself in
—as old age attacks

(Dreamsleep: January, 2021)...

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Categories: traps, age,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What We'Re Made Of
Of rubber is youth made
     bounding over life's traps laid
 
   Age gives way to silly putty
     try to stretch ~ no elasticity...

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Categories: traps, age, change, strength, youth,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Seals Versus Sea
caught in frigid traps
seals struggle against the sea…
population culls

*Strong waves hurled seals against rock walls, killing some....

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Categories: traps, animal, grief, horror, nature, sea,
Form: Haiku
Rat Traps
Many rats 
Capturing my kitchen
An alarming menace 
To end up at once 
Going for a trap is the answer 
But selling my cat is a question...

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Categories: traps, care, conflict, environment, health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member With Just a Wink
with effortless ease
traps him hook, line and sinker ~
         her seductive wink



Date written: 03/29/2021...

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Categories: traps, poetry,
Form: Senryu
Surrender
The dyed bamboo of Chinese finger traps
Should have taught me everything

To strive is to cut through jungle
To surrender is to know
I am jungle...

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© Lee Cox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traps, growth, spiritual, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thunderstorms Interlude
Sinews like steel traps, Contracting and expanding. Rhythm of movements In fluidic four-four time; Black stallion racing the wind.
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Categories: traps, beautiful, earth, environment, metaphor, nature, storm, weather,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member The Orkin Man
I itched and called the Orkin man 
he sprayed and gently set his traps
he smiled reassuring me
with one-month guarantee
31 days in karma came scratching back

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Categories: traps, people,
Form: Limerick
Booby Traps
concealed 
booby traps 
hidden throughout 
the interpersonal 
land 
meant to trick 
the unsuspecting 
passer by
spread out in order
to try and catch 
another victim...

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Categories: traps,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Tomb
Tomb where darkness traps Where hate broods from deep within Where the sadness grieves Even to point of terror And fear wallops a great blow
Russell Sivey...

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Categories: traps, holiday, life,
Form: Tanka
Long Black Beetle
Today I am
A long, black beetle
In a supermarket
Scurrying
To primal mandates,
Obscene on the shine
Of polished plans,
Not knowing
That bigger traps
Have room
Like freedom....

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Categories: traps, freedom,
Form: Free verse

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