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Life Sentence Poems - Poems about Life Sentence

Life Sentence Poems - Examples of all types of poems about life sentence to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for life sentence.
Fractured Rhythms
...In the darkest recesses of my mind a maelstrom brews, a tempest unseen epilepsy's insidious tendrils weave a tapestry of chaos, thoughts ensnared Every step a battle, every task a test concent......Read the rest...
Categories: life sentence, mental illness,
Form: Free verse



our curse - a love poem
...i see the way you look at him, holding his hand, kissing him, and i see you’ve been cursed. cursed to love a man you never truly loved, cursed to lose the girl who gave you butterflies. if y......Read the rest...
Categories: life sentence, break up, gender, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member MEMORY THERAPY-You Have Entered the Twilight Zone Poetry Contest
...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nick Tipton lived a quiet life, west Kentucky, in rolling hills; been farming there for ten years, all according to his own will. This simple li......Read the rest...
Categories: life sentence, memory, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
I Imprisoned My Heart
...Being tugged at pulled apart Every time I tried to start My life over I'd just fail I put myself in a jail Of despair- no escape key A life sentence if for me Imprisoned by a deadly past My he......Read the rest...
Categories: life sentence, feelings, loneliness, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Life Sentence on Death Row
...Back and forth the monkey paces Alone is his small backyard cage. He did not make his cramped cage, But the small cage makes him. Far away, he sees children in a park Running free and laughi......Read the rest...
Categories: life sentence, anxiety, depression, freedom, loneliness,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member And To Thee An Hourglass
...suddenly in a gap between talking, he was taken over by a new page, turned mid flow, as he clutched his chest, creases betraying a defeated face as a thousand thoughts bottle-necked the wasp-wast......Read the rest...
Categories: life sentence, death, health, heart, judgement,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Jagged
...Some thoughts sail through Others cut a jagged path Snagging on innocent brain cells Serious damage can be done Obviously invisibly Shouting for help ......Read the rest...
Categories: life sentence, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Superman
...I sit in a full room, no one knows I am there, stuck in a corner, the place I have chosen, away from all focus its all I can bare, safe from attention, the thing I fear. Why is this? I do not u......Read the rest...
Categories: life sentence, lonely, mental health, mental
Form: Free verse
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and Gaoled
...Self destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled... with kidnapping little boy ordered to suffer life sentence without parole. The deadly scourge of one obsessive/compulsive di......Read the rest...
Categories: life sentence, 2nd grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse
Face
...Her face pops up on the screen and she stared directly at me looking into her dream and, as the verdict is read, she grips tightly to her symbolic bed. Her eyes were motionless, her lips speechle......Read the rest...
Categories: life sentence, baby, community, corruption, courage,
Form: Narrative
Piece of Her Soul
...Inspired by a moving storyline from a show. Rape takes more than a woman's body. It is a violation of her soul. Piece of her soul By Michelle Morris 12/08/2023 She sits in the dark Can't l......Read the rest...
Categories: life sentence, history, native american, violence,
Form: Free verse
Stricken With Turbulence At About Seventy Two Inches
...Stricken with turbulence at about seventy two inches Yours truly issuing a deafening rebel yell bursting forth with such might courtesy cooking under pressure analogous to volcanic upswell, fo......Read the rest...
Categories: life sentence, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Prisoners
...Prison is more than what meets the eye, Her beauty is more than what meets the eye. I don’t want to be a third wheel, just you and I. No one can type without pressing you and I. Prisoners we al......Read the rest...
Categories: life sentence, character, pain, sad, society,
Form: Epic
The Cop
...Caller Waller who was just about holding onto life said that he didn't remember what had happened when questioned by Police.Of course,that is understandable, as the lad had just been shot in the h......Read the rest...
Categories: life sentence, abuse, body, boy, chicago,
Form: Free verse
Memory Therapy, Part Ii
......Jack watched her go, rather confused, he looked to Johns and said, “That’s strange…” Johns nodded, said, “It will made sense, there’s much that I have to explain.” He had a folder in his han......Read the rest...
Categories: life sentence, confusion, dark, memory, mental
Form: Narrative

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