#caged poems on Hello Poetry

Jules Feb 2020

How did it feel?
It was like my wings had been clipped, and I would wait patiently for them to grow back.
Slowly and languidly, one feather at a time, until they were thoroughly repleted so that I could take flight and soar through the skies!
Only to remember...
I was still in the cage.
- That's How It Felt

#caged #trapped #hurt #pain #sad #love #lovehurts

Lou Jan 2020

Locked away

You can’t keep her in a cage,
Clip her wings,
Tell her lies,
Say that fragile birds were never meant to fly,
Watch her live behind a rusted door,
Latched tight,
Her spirit slipping away,
So you can keep her in sight,
Beautiful creatures cannot be confined,
Her wings will grow,
She’ll find the sky.

#locked #away #caged #up

She Writes Dec 2019

Sad Songs

Even the lonely caged bird
Sings a beautiful song at dawn

#song #bird #sing #beautiful #morning #lonely #caged #trapped

Amanda Kay Burke Dec 2019

The Storm Starts

In morning hours my eyes open
Hurricane starts right away
Cannot stand on unsteady feet
Guess this is the price I pay
Living the past I loved
Abyss of pain
Moments gone
Loneliness the only thing
I truly depend upon
I cannot believe in hollow words
Or your beloved higher power
I can't see it with my two eyes
In my thoughts won't flower
Yet it is hard to wake up by myself
Solitude wears down sanity
Gathers on your possessions
Cursed to repeat this exhausting routine
Hateful emptiness rains onto me
Hate my body
Mind
Heart
And soul
Not for any person around
For the days taking control
I scream at the world letting me fall
Will for faltering under stress
Did smiling become a daunting task?
Do fatigued muscles need more rest?
I do not choose to be unhappy
With a permanent dusty scowl
I open my mouth to speak
Voice sounds more like a growl
I feel hatred bubbling over
With care try to keep it sealed in
The world is chock-full of reminders
Everything will never be the same again
Flat soda filling my coffee mug
Flat broke wishing my pulse would flatline
Mirror's angle exposing each flaw
Life I'm ready to decline
I am a terrible excuse for a person
In a museum of a house
All the rooms are testaments
To lonely feelings I no longer rouse
Living with bruised ego
Legs
And knees
Delayed reflexes
Lay down pride
Funny thing is I'm not a captive
Door is open wide
But I'm a bird
My wings are broken
Irony is that I can't fly
I breathe fresh air on my lonely perch
Love enough to make me cry
Caged in a pool created from tears
Can barely stay afloat
I'm on a flimsy raft
I'm in need of a sturdier boat
Every overwhelming day I face is terrible
People watching how I react
Stuck inside a glass cage
My prison is under attack

I did not end it very well I will admit haha

#love #life #depression #storm #starts #morning #caged #pool #created #tears

Cyclone Wolfok Baltimore Sep 2019

A man's man heiress

My sweetheart is a man's man heiress
Her man must be a carbon copy of Jupiter, her father,
An alpha, a beta, a kappa, an omega male altogether
A carpenter by trade,
The epitome of masculinity
Who could solve any math problem in a second
And knew how to fix everything
A car, electric, plumbing
A family hero, a handy man
Who built houses from the ground up
He could swaddle a baby's nightmare properly
Open doors to the winds of sadness
And pull chairs to the lights of happiness
And he could dress every day to the nines
Infusing in her heiress forever wine 's bouquet
And the love of animals.
So consequently
My sweetheart is an animal 's animal heiress
She eats meat only if it has a label on it
Saying that animals are not caged
Or mistreated in anyway.

#mansman #carpenter #plumbing #car #electric #animal #caged #mistreated #heiress

Chiquita Jun 2019

Bird in a cage

She was a bird in a cage
Locked from the evil lurking in the outside world.
All she wanted was to fly and see the world.
But she was kept locked in the cage.
Such beautiful feathers of a rare kind,
If it gets in the wrong hands,
Oh what bad could they do.
The owners kept her in safe and sound
But that's not what birdie wants
She wanted to fly and be happy
Just like all other birds.
But not everyone gets what they want
Especially not a bird with a broken wings.
Her heart was in pieces ;
Some of it far from her reach.
She couldn't go find it so she held what she had left.
Clutched to her chest she held it there.
Sometimes it went numb.
Sometimes she could fell everything crash ,
For she felt like a useless bird in a cage.
Less of a bird more of a doll.
Stone cold;
Sometimes she sang a sweet melancholy,
A melody so sad and alone
But sometimes it was more of a dream.
She looked through the windows
As she sang her bits and pieces
In a rhythm,
Wondering if they'll be a day
She can fly safe in the sky.
Till then she'll just sing all day long.
No matter much the owners took care of her,
Daintly like a proceline glass valuing the feathers she possessed,
Yet she couldn't stop to wonder where the pieces where gone.
She wanted to find it but she couldn't
Cause she's just a bird in a cage.

#bird #notfree #caged #locked #sad #depressed #unhappy #wings #fly #world

Jo Barber Jun 2019

Beauty of the Chase

The puffs of air around me
were impossible to catch,
but I jumped along
and snatched at them anyways.
The beauty lay in the chase,
not the capture.
Wild things were meant to be free.

Beauty loses its touch if caged.

#air #beauty #catch #chase #wild #free #good #freedom #caged