Best Incarceration Poems

They kill a body and to prison go
Behind the bars with time they have to pay
A life that’s deadened with a life exchanged
So law and...

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I realize limitation
	Is an illusion.
My destiny is without
	Boundary.
		Looking,
Beyond death. Beyond the periphery 
Eternal Incarceration
Cosmic chaos is cooking...
	Infinite combinations
In infinite situations
Attuned yet unaware,
A universe of oppositions
Frequency...

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Pushed aside, location of home obscured, limited by isolation:
drifting aimlessly - subscribing to a voluntary incarceration.

Outcast by an alternative perspective, a differing sense of direction,
through...

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The Illuminati are a con,
It is how they have won,
From the formation of the nation that they sit upon 

While we are stuck taking our...

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PRICELESS Me
 
Satan, Im priceless you cant put that price on me
This beautiful structure GOD has created simply does not have a fee
So all that...

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"Cocoon"

They say...
a New World 
traces over the old,
leaving the unaware,
erased, far behind 

the old unaware, 
left far behind,
crawls the walls
in its web of lies
spinning suspect...

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Statistics show an epidemic
A problem at hand
the statistics are looking at me.




They say that my education is an unattainable, unfathomable, distant goal
That a life on...

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Up in the old house down by the creek
Stood a mammoth waiting on me.
Blackbirds in the sunshine (are)
Omens (that) fly high in the sky…
Solemnly seizing...

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BLOCKHEAD

Some folks’ say all my life I’ve been a BLOCKHEAD.
Maybe if I could have gotten through that last ROADBLOCK,
news of my incarceration wouldn’t be such...

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Blackbirds in the sunshine (are)
Omens (that) fly high in the sky…
Solemnly seizing Martin Luther’s time (of)
Religion and precarious minds…
White men personified lost their lives (without)...

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I forgive you my dear country
And her ignoramuses
To my televangelists who prophesy 
earthquakes
And hellfire
Instead of love and forgiveness
So they steal from the poor
To buy miracles...

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When it comes to being a good father what do most young black men see? 
Can they picture their fathers passing down any legacies? 
Do...

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Poetry is activism/Penned in prison/Gleaned from prisms/I been in this system/Where the scene is livid/Pedophiles, thieves/Fiends and killers/It seems forgiveness/Is a religious construct/The Dept. of...

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As I travel on the path to an unknown destination.......
I must conquer the process of never-ending education
Average math pupil but good with money multiplication
So I...

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Alchemy

What process need there be to make
of broken things – the real?  Great
sorcerers have failed, formed molten
monuments to greed’s glory.  I, poor
peasant that...

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