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Short Jail Poems

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


He's In Jail
He's in jail
Your religious
Fanatic...

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Categories: jail, betrayal, for him, friend,
Form: Senryu



Life Is Like Monopoly
Fake banknotes,
Bought hotel,
Went to jail....

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jail, confusion
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Idk Where You Are
Idk
Where you are
But you’re in jail
I fear...

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© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jail, absence, abuse, age, america,
Form: Free verse
Free Will
free will

      gets free meal

    go to jail...

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Categories: jail, life
Form: Haiku
Than-Bauk
One day, in jail,
Ask your cell mate
To bail you out....

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Categories: jail, funny
Form: Than-Bauk



Cannibalism
Eat the body
To gain salvation
Eat your neighbor
Go to jail...

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Categories: jail, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Coffee
151
Coffee
Is
Jail
Crack
And 
I 
Got it
On my 
Rack...

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© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jail, abuse, addiction, america,
Form: Free verse
Corrupt Politician
A congress member
who acts in legislation
languishes in jail....

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Categories: jail, irony,
Form: Senryu
Prisoners
Take dark as jail

All asleep prisoners 

All awake,thieves!...

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Categories: jail, dark, environment,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Bird Seed
Bird Seed

The power of a small kindness,
can never be overstated....

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jail, color, gospel, graduate, graduation, grandchild, happy, hero,
Form: Free verse
14
A million jail cells
And behind every locked door
Is a man in thought...

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Categories: jail, faith,
Form: Haiku
Long Ago Seems Like Tomorrow
Naked mirror..... it put me in a jail of Truth (the better half)
......

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© Ggg Bbb  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jail, i miss you, innocence, night, true love,
Form: Free verse
Locket, Pickpocket, Hangs!- ( a Quinzaine)
Old Salley faces gallows.
Will she eat Jail gruel?
Will monks pray?...

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Categories: jail, fantasy, funny, imagination
Form: Free verse
The Hook
beer and Urine smell…
I liked what she had to sell
landed me in jail...

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Categories: jail, social
Form: Senryu
Jail of Desires
One remains in the jail of desires until that is fulfilled or left out...

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Categories: jail, introspection, visionary,
Form: Monoku
Imprisoned Picture
The photo went to jail sans shame, 
It's simply because it was framed....

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Categories: jail, humor,
Form: Epigram
Intend To Aprehend and To Jail Send
what we do intend 
is chase down and apprehend
then to jail shall send...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jail, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Quick Snail
A snail stuck in jail
was quick to rail over the
slow pace of his case....

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Categories: jail, time,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member ..Jail House Preacher Man
jail house preacher man
ring the bell of freedom down
King's hallelujah...

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Categories: jail, dedication, devotion, education
Form: Senryu
Housed
If not residing
in the White House, Trump would be
sitting in jail house....

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© Jim Tidd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jail, political,
Form: Senryu
Marriage of Hell
Dressed in white she was
five years later I'm in jail
Marriage was pure hell...

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Categories: jail, sad,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Truth
Truth 

You are everything you told me you are, 
I just was not listening....

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jail, angel, anti bullying, atheist, hero, inspirational, meaningful,
Form: Haiku
Deep Within Ii
Run, run
Hide under a veil
Heart with mounting hates
Life my torturing jail...

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Categories: jail, life, people, teen,
Form: I do not know?
Dreams Into Reality
Even though in jail.
Dreams were never put on hold.
Dr. King kept his faith....

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Categories: jail, black african american, history, hope, inspirational, life
Form: Senryu
My Body My Prison
My body my jail
       abstract doubts inventory
            my sin sentences...

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Categories: jail, allegory, allusion, analogy, confidence, creation, extended metaphor,
Form: Haiku

Book: Shattered Sighs