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Best Arrested Poems

Below are the all-time best Arrested poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of arrested poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Sophie
Sophie Scholl was raised a Christian in a Lutheran family
Born in the town of Forchtenberg in south west Germany
For standing defiant against evil with her...

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Categories: arrested, death, girl, inspirational, rose,
Form: Narrative



A Letter Home To Rome'
My dearest Claudia, 

     For eighteen months, I've been at this Jerusalem outpost.
     "Tis you and young...

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Categories: arrested, faith, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Let Love Create Rainbows In Your Speech
 Hey you
Don't let hate dominate.
Let love sate - animate

With the pain in your heart.
Set it free from the start.
Let it go, let it part.
An...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: arrested, analogy, hate, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jailbreak At Milton Creek
There was a rumour that outlaw Kyle was to be sprung from jail
But Sheriff Koplin got wind of it and he'd make sure they'd fail...

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Categories: arrested, america, humor, violence,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Perpetual
perpetual 
is my love for poetry.
without it 
how would life taste to me?
i bet it'd be so bitter 
i'd spit it out.
I'd choke 
on thousands...

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Categories: arrested, how i feel, passion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Gods At the Comedy Club
The house was full
Of Gods and deities
The curtain call was soon
The water vasos were poured
And became the finest of wines
The bread multiplied
The baker you see
Was...

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Categories: arrested, art, butterfly, gothic, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thought Police
I'm afraid
So afraid
Of being arrested
By the thought police

Their rules are many
Think this
Think that
Don't diverge from the normal
Stop playing on the street corner of tomorrow
Let sleeping...

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Categories: arrested, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She's Abusive and That's Conclusive
There was a fussy bovine named Flossy
who was snooty and always so bossy
her udders would droop
when she took a poop
She bellowed until her eyes got...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: arrested, introspection,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Fields of Athenry
Irelands' famine, England chose to ignore
The potato blight caused devastation
Michael stole corn from a granary store
To stop loved ones dying from starvation.

Arrested and charged with...

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Categories: arrested, england, ireland, prison,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Slava Ukraini
A year ago, the Russian state launched an unprovoked attack
Seizing land from Ukraine but they've bravely fighting back 
If Russia can't have it, they operate...

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Categories: arrested, death, evil, horror, war,
Form: Rhyme
The Nectars of Love
The Nectars of Love

Let your love fall, that I may wallow 
Let your tears drip of inner essence
Entranced by the nectar I swallow
As I engulf...

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Categories: arrested, growth, inspirational love, longing,
Form: Sonnet
Wall Street
Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth....

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Categories: arrested, political, slam, social, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To My Hanging -Part Deux
Dedicated to a fine poet on soup, Lin Lane
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I shook hands with my brother and bade him farewell
Then set off on my journey away from...

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Categories: arrested, america, children, family, horse,
Form: Rhyme
The Puppet
Slowly the curtains parted a head peeps out
Dressed as a small child so lifelike

Can see the strings working the arms
In a disjointed fashion
But the eyes.....
the...

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Categories: arrested, imagination, drug,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Jan and the Sheriff - Collaboration
The new sheriff of Poetry Soup
 Rode into town on a horse named Snoop
 Jan was on his wanted list
 And the gang she did...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: arrested, fun, poetry,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs