Best Incarcerated Poems

He cut some corners when filing his tax
Now poor man is going in for the  max
He got nailed
Cant get bailed
Of appeals his lawyers now have stacks
    


For Carolyn's contest...

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What was created to expose,
  now a fortress meant to hide

Bastions of higher learning,
  masking havens safe for lies

Where discourse once was treasured,
  the ivy droops and sighs

With comfort their true measure,
  the dilettantes all cry

Plato is disgusted,
  John Locke...

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I grew up with my little sister, Betty Anne Waters
Until conviction took me away in 1980, for a murder in our town.
Which, I would never do! Betty wouldn't let  me stay, and wouldn't believe. 
She got her ged and many years of college. Passing...

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The mind is bound to thoughts,
And the heart shackle to emotions.

We're chained to multi-moods
Even linked to seductive sensations....

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What was created to expose
  is now a fortress just to hide

A bastion of higher learning
  within a haven safe for lies

Where discourse once was treasured
  the ivy droops and sighs

With comfort their true measure,
  the dilettantes still cry

Plato is disgusted,
...

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He chose the illegal way,
instead of honesty and prayer,
to deny his sordid existence with the blankest stare;
and while tragedy strikes home,
he can't evade those prisons' walls and run free
to comfort with his shallowness a wife drowned in sorrow,
struggling to make a living,
giving more density to...

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Vanity and pride are my prison
Inhibitions bind and trap my desires
Relentlessly striving for perfection
Greatness eludes my every move
Outwardly concealing my inner turmoil


*Inspired by Danielle White, Acrostic Astrology Contest...

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The silent implosion of an unwanted notion, 
that chisels the surface of a mind still in growth.
the dormant progress of life still in motion
will mold the clad fist that grabs at your throat
the illusion of silver at the crease of a spoon
will drip over flames...

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From Birmingham walls,
Revolutionary dreams:
King’s manifesto....

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Even though the door was open
The bird sat in the cage
Content to stay within
The comfort that it knew

It is said that
Iron bars do not a prison make
Yet in this prison I have made
I sit and wait for you...

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Not here to scorn you, but I must warn you my patience are none existent. I have 
been convicted to a life sentence without the possibility of trust or love. I am 
confined to these four walls inside my mind. No way to escape this...

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Strong brains

Driven insane

Tired of mundane

Instruction tuned

In to the ways 

Of the world's sin

Many gifted from

Birth many treated

As if they have no

Worth. Satan on 

Their life path because

They have so many 

That their lives affect

So they are locked up

And inprisoned 

Like the world rejects

Some are not...

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EXTRA  EXTRA

Contextual Comrades Incarcerated,

Victims of vitriols vexation 
denied the rights of their inquisitors.
Censored by the voices of shame
guilt and hubris masquerading
as righteous indignation.
Virtue’s vanity
shouting from the “bully” pulpit
concerned only with its own reflection
“gutturally” genuflecting
before a muted “god”.



©6/3/2021...

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Incarcerated Thoughts
Written: by Miracle Man
1-17-2020

Thoughts wear my brand while Incarcerated, 
until spoken by tongue or printed in ink.
While I may think they’re five star rated,
others have the option of thinking they stink.

Many times, thoughts seem to come with ease,
others arrive quickly and in like manner...

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Limbo 

I’m in a dark space
There are no edges
And the sides flex if I push
I am blind and deaf
The taste of doubt
In my mouth
The scent of fear 
In my nostrils 
I roll and kick
But I make no impact
I want to be free
But there’s no way...

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