by Tim Smith |
Categories:
depression, life, light,
First rays splash lines of love
across naked bits of detour
dawn's door distracts
chills of the night dissipate
and I am free
Free of fight
held hostage ever tight
First rays flash and I see :
yellow bits of honey dripped
scarlet tanager at play
horizons filling out the day
Darkness held at bay__
by Daniel Turner |
Categories:
adventure, fantasy, ocean,
I'd love to buy a boat and sail the seas
Just loaf and let the string of life unwind
Drop anchor anytime or place I please
To visit every island I can find
I'd sail from cape to cape, from gulf to strait
Each bay and channel up and down each coast
My dog would be companion and first mate
Most likely, he'd be sleeping at his post
But every night we'd find a still lagoon
Perhaps we row ashore and build a fire
On first appearance, I'd harpoon the moon
And hold him hostage until we retired
A life at sea, beneath large wind filled sails
With peaceful friends, the dolphins, gulls and whales
February 21 2017
by Daniel Turner
by Gail Foster |
Categories:
dark, joy, leaving, life, light, mystery, religion,
For Sarah, who left the Plymouth Brethren, with love
The light is not a solemn thing, it shines
With merry glee and mirthful gentleness
Will not be held a hostage, in confines
Of darkened halls where little ones confess
The sins of fathers that they never chose
Nor be a slave to chapter, scripture, verse
Be boundaried, or fettered in its flows
It is the joy of blessing, not a curse
It isn’t how you said it was. You lied
I ran, and left your lies behind the door
And here I am, and oh, the light is wide
Mysterious, and infinite, and more
A wildly wilful, free, and feisty thing
I wear a ribbon in my hair, and sing
© Gail Foster 26th February 2017
by Emile Pinet |
Categories:
12th grade, angst, anxiety, depression, fear, feelings, imagery,
When life suddenly gets scary,
you search around for a safe place.
And try blocking reality
with tricks of imagination.
Yet anxieties quickly climb
when life suddenly gets scary.
And paranoia stalks your thoughts,
overshadowing happiness.
As yesterday's ghosts haunt today,
those memories morph into tears.
When life suddenly gets scary,
love retreats into wishful dreams.
But dreams only come out at night;
fantasies fade with morning light.
And you're held hostage by your fears;
when life suddenly gets scary.
by Tim Smith |
Categories:
autumn, love,
I already miss the summer grapes
so sweet and succulent to taste
chill infringes the Autumn night
bringing forth added layers
to the satin already slid on top
slip in close
where whispers beg
lay upon my warmth
holding dreams hostage
wrapped meticulously
in every crease and edge
hypnotized a desire's bred
nothing more needed said
still one with the night
comfort held ever tight
by Keith Bickerstaffe |
Categories:
philosophy
Despair shrugs off its dirty shell
emerging as Enlightenment;
cramped and crumpled she crawls
off in dazed bewilderment
as remnants of vile Guilt and Rage
plot her demise, (shameless vestige!)
and residues of spiteful Hate
conspire to take her hostage.
Sitting in her brand new skin alone
Enlightenment is like to die,
'til Love, Confidence and Joy conjoin
to bolster her into a butterfly!
by Adeleke Adeite |
Categories:
art, love, writing,
From page to stage,
poetry is my love language.
No cross, no cage
can hold my heart hostage.
by Beata Agustin |
Categories:
blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, true love,
Drops of precious blood
Out from great Deity’s love*
Shed on Calvary’s tree…
Absolutely the only ransom-payment
For every sin-guilty hostage
To gain triumphant liberty
From death, transgressions’ wages.
*Ephesians2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us...
June 18, 2019
by Caren Krutsinger |
Categories:
depression,
I sit in the dark needing the light.
Pretending I am content living in sorrow.
The blinds could be opened
Changing the course of the day
Bringing light and Love into a bleak place.
One gentle tug and the forest sun will brighten everything
Bringing rainbow light into my life. My soul begs for me to begin.
Three hours later here I sit in a gray place staring at a ridiculous I-Pad
Which has brought me no joy in hours; a hostage to my own laziness.
by Tim Smith |
Categories:
love, sin,
Ambient light flickers
and I enter the dark
a slight murmur from the other side beckons
thoughts aimlessly wander about
without any filter
without hesitancy
I confess
ruined amidst rages of jealousy
murdered moments of bliss
crimes of passion smolder
falling prey to my own weakness
love held hostage
When calmness takes
when spirits wake
when white doves flee
with minds set free
dark nights clear
as vision reappears
Absolved from an inferno of lost control
Moonbeams glow on a humbled soul
love thought to be withered
and faded away
can once more be nurtured,
be strengthened, to stay
by João Camilo |
Categories:
allegory, love, nature,
Do not stay there for long, little bird,
can’t you hear? She is coming anytime
and will say: “leave, this place is mine.
you are free to go, I see no iron gird.”
But if you are resolute to stay, be silent,
enough of your melody, not until she
reaches my arms and her gentle touch
warms me and beautify the moment.
Oh, on her bosom you choose to nest,
where I can find you, safe in heaven,
the spotless sky, where stars leaven
with their gleam her silver-light dress.
Either way, carry swiftly a message:
You are not a love’s single hostage.
by Meagan Price |
Categories:
girlfriend-boyfriend, life, me,
"love is fleeting"
love is untrue
love is jealous
love is a liar
love killed trust
love is filth
love is arrogant
love laughs at honesty
love ruined my chance
love threw away my happiness
so love could keep me hostage
love is disgusting
love enrages me
love is unbearable
love is a joke
love is ignorant
love is not true
love loves no one
love loves itself
love hates you
love is fake
love broke me
love had me blindfolded
love will not win, not the long haul
love is an oxymoron.
"love is fleeting"
"Love" never was.
To 'my' "love"
by Bekim Tocani |
Categories:
inspirational, me,
Confession
Even when nothing remained
And the hope was third with a yellow rain
I didn’t kiss the marrow of autumn
Forgive me the word of pain and tear of mine
I don’t recognize the language of sins today
I left you my soul hostage
But you never whispered the Bible
You crucified the saint feeling
Forgive her oh Lord, even while she doesn’t know what she’s doing
Forgive me because I believe in love
You can not betray what you do not have
You never felt The Lyrics of Pain
The story is completely different
Burn my sins tonight you death of mine
While I believe yet in your infidelity
by Emile Pinet |
Categories:
beauty, encouraging, feelings, happiness, inspirational, psychological,
Perfection's reserved for God
we mortals must deal with less.
For beauty's more than you see
and lives in souls others bless.
Flattery fuels conceit
with its perfusion of lies.
For passion's prerequisites
aren't meant to recruit the wise.
Feelings of loneliness are
held hostage within the heart.
For reality is harsh
crushing dreams before they start.
But life is imbued with hope,
for every soul is a gem.
Who can see its true beauty
with only eyes to guide them?
When you believe in yourself,
pangs of crippling self-doubt cease.
And feeling confident, your
odds of finding love increase.
(Quatrain)
1/28/2015
by Robin Davis |
Categories:
feelings, funny love, joy, love, romantic,
I'm a hostage and it's great
I'll gladly be your inmate
And put under lock and key
With no choice of getting free
You can take all the control
Of not giving me parole
A life sentence I will take
I promise to never break
Out of this cell I am in
Wanting my life to begin
Chained together now and always
As we walk down the long hallways
Of our hearts so full of care
I'm not going anywhere
I'll be jailed happily
Never wanting an attorney
To defend me from your love
I can never get enough
So book me without a chance
Of freedom from this romance
Charge me for eternity
With love in the first degree
by Just That Archaic Poet |
Categories:
heart, love, sexy,
Eyes hypnotic, body exotic-
Envelop me in your embrace!
Oh, I fear your touches toxic-
They set my Heart to race!
As is my fashion, a hostage of passion,
And bathed in an amorous flood
And now I feel my feelings gnashing-
Like a shark that senses Blood!
by Demetrios Trifiatis |
Categories:
devotion, love, romance,
The secret key with which ,
The lock of your heart to open, at last, I
Have found,
Thus
The chains that kept you hostage of the past,
With my kisses, I shall smash for to let
Your love unbound!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
23 August 2015
by Kyleigh Henderson |
Categories:
dark, loneliness, longing, love,
You're so used to
Sharing every bit
Of your life with
Someone else
You're so used to
Breaking yourself
Just to make
A person whole again
That's just what makes you happy
Now you're alone
The parts you've broken
Are crashing down on
The rest of you that's whole
Now the black mist
That holds many others
Has taken you hostage
You can't find your way out
You never saw a speck of light again
If only it was yourself you could love
by Michael Poyntz |
Categories:
love
the crime of the century
was letting you do
what you did to me
the scene of the crime
was wrapped in your arms
you left your fingerprints
on the walls of my heart
the crime of the century
was that I accepted
moments stolen with you
ransoming emotions
with the counterfeit treasure
of a kiss so sweet
it should have been a felony
the crime of the century
was running to your side
I am now a fugitive of love
a hostage to your dreams
two lovers forever on the run
looking for you to return
to the scene of the crime
IRISH
by Gregory Golden |
Categories:
inspirational
The day before the
Twin towers died,
The skyscrapers cry
For love and mercy
People jumping
Through broken
Glass windows,
Falling down
Unto a sea of death
Who will listen
To their call
As hostage
Passenger jets
Crashed into
These steel walls
Making the
Twin towers
Tumble and fall
We could not
Put them back
Together, again
Evil exist
In this world
Still, we have faith
God shall
Deliver us from
All evil
On this earth
I know
God is working
Behind the scene
On this 911 call
by Kimberly Larocca |
Categories:
loveme, me,
Love
Why do you laugh at me
Why do you hold me hostage
Why not set me free
Love
What sense of humor you have
I hear your sadistic laugh
The jokes are all at my expense
I laugh along in my defense
Love
Why do you pretend to be a friend of mine
Oh, how you love to tell your lovely lies
Love
Let loose your hold on me
Just break your chains
And set me free
by Shirley Hudson |
Categories:
beautiful, blessing, celebration, dream, encouraging, romantic love,
I realize as I looked into your eyes,
You have completely enchanted my soul.
All I can do is melt into your arms,
Knowing you have taken,
My heart hostage.
This is where I want to spend all of,
My days knowing that you have,
All of my heart and,
I'm hoping this will be our beginning.
You are my world.
All I want and feel is you within my soul.
Many never get to experience this love.
The dreams I have of our love and,
What our future will bring,
Continues to grow every day,
That I spend with you.
Even after all these years I,
Look into your eyes and,
You Continue to enchant my soul.
by Faye Gibson |
Categories:
child, love, mother, passion,
You commandeer my thoughts
no matter where I am or what I do,
each day you carry me away.
I am happily kidnapped,
held hostage by love.
Tethered to me,
though the umbilical
long ago was severed,
there is a cord no one else can see
binding you tightly to me.
Even though one of you
has passed beyond earthly touch,
it will be forever such.
Three times my heart was invaded,
captured,
by love larger than me persuaded.
Sweet baby love, dependent,
I would be your champion still,
keep you safe, your dreams fulfill.
May 22, 2022
by Sheol Moribund |
Categories:
dedication
The press held her hostage each and every day.
No matter what Diana tried to do,
the paparazzi would block her way.
Once a princess of England,
she never felt real love.
And now that she had found it,
her life took like a dove.
Far away from the media and
all of their intrusive ways.
Where Lady Diana will be at peace,
for all of her infinitive days.
by Jack Ellison |
Categories:
desire, love,
It's always best to keep some feelings
Hidden from even your mate
Not to share every innermost thoughts
When relationships are at stake
Each of us can be emotionally affected
By charm, personality and image
Doesn't mean we don't love our mates
Feelings at times hold us hostage
Human nature is what they've call it
Might as well cash in your chips
If you can't look at beauty passing by
It's there to brighten life's trip
So please don't call it illicit or immoral
When males are driven by desire
The female form is a vision of beauty
That ignites every man's fire
© Jack Ellison 2013