cage

August 27th, 2009 | 314 Entries

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314 Entries for “cage”

  1. Cage can be used in any number of ways. I like cagey. It’s a good adjective describing a good quality. The word cage though has a bad connotation.

    Matt
  2. We had a bird cage for our parakeets and finches. Never liked it. Never liked cleaning it . It smelled . It was ugly metal.

    Chris G
  3. This place is a prison. I’m a bird in cage. Whenever someone walks by, I chirp frantically for the key. Some will yank on the bars and offer their sympathy, but no one except my master holds the key to this cell. I haven’t seen the sky outside for years now.

    Blueberryplz
  4. He sits in quietly, eyes looking at me with frustration. I’m sorry my darling, it’s for your own good. He yowls in desperation, wanting to be free. I put a cloth over the bars to block the sun and hope for the best.

    X
  5. The cage was tight. It prevented me from doing a lot of things, but especially that which I desired most. It was, for all intents and purposes, the physical manifestation of an emotional wall. And I was stuck in it for better or for worse.

    Daniel
  6. I’ve been stuck in here for 9 days now. It’s pure torture living like an animal but I’m starting to enjoy it. I feel sadistic and carnivorous. Feed me anything with meat on it and i’ll devour it. I’ll drink it’s blood.

    Justin Younce
  7. Spastic fingers droning against iron. We sit and watch the steam rise from little paper cups of awkward silence. Your hands rest in your lap, and you smile at me, laughing. There isn’t much to say, but our lips are parted anyway. We’re trapped here, I swear to god. We’re trapped in this teenage angst. It’s suffocating. It’s beautiful.

    Sera
  8. I was stuck in a cage. I woke up there and didn’t remember being put in. Was I hurt? How did I get there? Outside the cage are people looking in. Staring at me. It dawned on me that I had been turned into some sort of freak show; a human zoo. What was different between me and the people on the other side of the bars?

    Sue Wiker
  9. animals trapped in a zoo in the 1920s. A Coney Island type of place where people think a tigeris the most exotic thing they’ve ever seen and it is.
    bad conditions. uncomfortable. hard floors. frustration.

    rw
  10. i feel like i’m in a cage. a cage of others’ expectations and limitations – and i’m an animal in a zoo. a zoo for them to come and laugh, and point and say “see that disaster over there? you’re never supposed to be like that. ahaha, how pathetic!” and i’m helpless

    anna
  11. I don’t want to write about cages….They are just devises both physically or metaphorically to contain something, and I want freedom.

    Brittany
  12. Bars, constricting but also liberating, after passing through, they mark departure point for everything else in life that one takes for granted.

    dfredman
  13. Bird Cages, pretty old things… dusty and cramped. But strangely beautiful in the slanting dusk. Faded and beautiful. You knew then, what a cage was… when you could see it glimmering in the light.

    Bluehat
  14. Cages are confining. They keep you in one space limited to their defined area. They keep you in and everything out. Whatever that everything is. Food. Wild animals. Drugs. They can be good or bad. But definitely not black and white.

    Becky Mochaface
  15. She swept out the last of the shared pieces of bone left in the cage, wondering if her life would be the same now thaT THE BIG, BEAUTIFUL CAT WAS GONE FOREVER.

    Beth
  16. by the time I got home from the grocery store, I noticed that she had been in the cage for nearly 4 days. I was not about to give up yet as I wanted to make sure she was trained thoroughly for the upcoming sex show that I was scheduled to perform in. My last assistant walked off the job and I wasn’t about to let that happen again.

    Crazy fred
  17. nothing is coming to mind. it’s like my mind is in a cage and right now nothing is able to get in or out. all words stopped making sense; i hear them but nothing sticks. i know what a cat is…but what is it? my mind is stuck in a cage.

    Abby
  18. It’s all metal and leather, meant to move me – take me places these broken legs can’t go.

    But really this seat on wheels holds me back more than you can imagine.

    Emma
  19. cage is a general anti violence therapy

    Evgenia
  20. “Despite all my rage I’m still just a rat in a cage.”
    Reminds me of that Smashing Pumpkins song when I was 17 and full of angst before being “emo” was cool or even a thing. Reminds me also of my ex boyfriend, a boy who dumped me because he got accepted to West Point and I wasn’t marriage material.

    Tali Hylen
  21. The cage was closed, as the animal moved around looking at his food. Dakota could harly contain her excitement. Today, she got a chance to visit the Zoo. The animal moved closer. She could see into his eyes.

    Ciri
  22. cage
    i was locked in this once
    my brain ever pushing forward
    horrible mental images
    keeping me locked in
    then one day i broke out
    i’ve never looked back

    argentumblack
  23. A place where monkey’s hang out and look at humans who have put them there. A cage is a cube like area that has bar and it encapsulates a being inside. Cage is the last name of Nicolas. Cage is the first word I’ve tried at the oneword website. Cage is the location for beautiful birds. I don’t really like c

    Karen
  24. iron bars, windows, doors with latches, empty, lonley, small, animals, jails, harsh,

    Becky Uptegrove
  25. Do we all live in a cage? I mean, really? We choose our cages. Someone might feel caged in as a housewife, while someone else might feel caged in as a doctor or lawyer or businessperson. There is no one who isn’t in some sort of cage, but the good news is that they are all self-created.

    Batsheva
  26. Cage.
    What is freedom and what is bondage? Is the cage a place to keep me from life, or is it a place to remain safe from everything on the outside? My bird loves her cage. Have I too become too enamored with the cage to fly free in the world?

    Beth
  27. the bird sat in the little cage. the cat chased the bird in the cage. the cage swayed back and forth rapidly. The dog chased the bird in the cage. the bird almost fell out of the cage and died. the boy threw snowballs in the page with the bird in it. the cage is being held by a person. the person let the bird out of the cage.

    Daniel
  28. the animals in the cage were very sad nd hungry . you could tell they had been in there a long time .thier fur was all dirty and matted. it smelled reAL bad. The eop of the cage did not have an shade , so the animal where in the hot sun all day.

    a
  29. I feel trapped. My heart is pounding but there’s no one around to hear it. I feel like if I rattle the bars, people will just stare like I’m some sort of animal, and not bother to lend a helping hand to get me out. The keys are on the wall, I can see them from where I stand but when I reach, they’re just beyond my fingertips, and I can brush across them but I can’t unhook them from where they are. I feel like if I could just extend my arm a little farther, I could get them… but I can’t.

    Jessica
  30. I don’t feel good. My head feels like a tiger’s inside trying to tear out of its cage. So why am I writing this? I have no idea. It sure as hell ain’t helping my head.

    Lizzie Bellows
  31. Birds are locked up in cages. Their helpless eyes looking at you very sadly wondering where their family is. They are like prisoners lockedaway.

    a
  32. The family’s little bird was in it’s cage which sat high upon a shelf to prevent the inquisitive, ever-hungry kitty from gaining access. Here his life was spent in solitary confinement, but safety.

    Johanna
  33. are you inside or out? the bars look the same from both sides, trapped or pitying, happy or sad, free or caged.
    but tell me, you’ve trapped freedom, why won’t you share? let me in there, let me see things the way you see. won’t you share?
    green finch and linnet bird, nightingale, blackbird, how is it you sing? teach me to transcend all else through song, so i too can be immortalised in memory, so you will speak of she who was free in all ways save the physical.
    green finch and linnet bird, nightingale, blackbird…

    claire
  34. one who dont drink alcohol

    Ravi
  35. Brown I,

    Thanks for your mental cage. Love, friendship, loyalty=death in return. I owe you nothing and hope you suffer for your crimes and selfishness.

    R
  36. hmm, cage. Confined. Limiting. Yet giving you views to the outside world. Taunting you with freedom just beyond your grasp. Just beyond your control. Someone else in control of your fate, of your life. Hard, cold. Solitary. A lonely existence. Unless, of course, you’re not by yourself in there. Still sucks, but at least you’ve got company that way.

    Kevin
  37. In one staring out she thought about how she came to be there and how she would get out. Below the creaking of stairs, trod on by heavy feet, mean feet, destructive feet.

    What was she going to do?

    plentyspace
  38. We found her curled
    in the cedar chips
    still warm but stiff
    now she sleeps out back
    under a cinder block grave
    so the dogs can dig her up

    Marcus
  39. Prisoners are ‘caged’, especially when the press are talking about them. A cage is a one-man prison, or a one-animal prison, or a two-man prison during a cage-fight.

    Joe
  40. people like to think that they live their life in a cage. but the real cage is in their head. there’s no shortage of things to do with yourself, if you have the nerve and the guts to go after them, but people regard certain things as unbreakable rules and they allow themselves to be sucked into mainstream pathetic attempts at a good life.

    sienna