Best Jail Cell Poems
Below are the all-time best Jail Cell poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of jail cell poems written by PoetrySoup members
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Categories:
jail cell, art, dark, evil, funny,
Form:
Free verse
I Am Free- Healing Power of Forgiveness- RevisedYou abused me physically and mentally,
I believed I was everything you said.
I thought you had my back totally,
But my belief in you was hanging by...
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Categories:
jail cell, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
Its TabooI can’t have you
Girl, I want you
Never felt like this before
On the wind
I feel you dancing
See you standing at my door
You’re way with words
I...
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Categories:
jail cell, angst, betrayal, conflict, confusion,
Form:
Lyric
Rarely Spoken WordsRarely Spoken Words
Rarely Spoken Words
"Please forgive me, I was wrong" --
" when I thought I was right "....
If you ever hear those
rarely spoken words...
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Categories:
jail cell, integrity, relationship,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Don'T Hug and DriveOn this eve before New Years I resolved to be cheerful
But while driving my car, another car bumped me
The driver got out, and he gave...
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Categories:
jail cell, funny, me, new year,
Form:
Rhyme
I Am Free- the Healing Power of ForgivenessYou abused me physically and mentally,
I thought you had my back totally.
I was locked in a mental jail cell,
our union together was a living...
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Categories:
jail cell, forgiveness, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
The Ivory RoseVictorian white lace, ivory fair of face,
Lips as red, the rose bud does grow, and is
Cut's deeply by it's own thorns.
Graceful maiden, beauties sheer elegance,
Of...
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Categories:
jail cell, beauty, imagination, inspirational, international,
Form:
Free verse
Saving the ButterflyButterfly precariously caught in screened in porch
Desperately struggling trying to get out, held captive
Can see her frolicking friends through mesh that confines her
Her wings are...
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Categories:
jail cell, butterfly,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Clown Car Or ElevatorA clown car or an elevator?
A forest or a meadow?
Sad or happy?
The choice is yours.
Pink polka dots or Linen Gray?
A kitchen accident or a freight...
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Categories:
jail cell, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
List
Oh, Oh KakapoOh, oh Kakapo
You are the world's rarest
Dweller on the ground- Ancient parrot
Your tinged emerald hue is the fairest,
The greatest respect you merit.
Oh, oh Kakapo
Magnificent...
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Categories:
jail cell, animals, dedication,
Form:
Rhyme
Billy the Kid's Great Escape*
Sentenced to hang in the town of Lincoln,
Billy made his bold escape.
Both of his guards died from thinking
that a shackled young boy couldn't break away.
*
I've...
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Categories:
jail cell, history, horse, humorous, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Our Moral BehaviorToday's problems can't be fixed by legislative law.
It is our moral behavior that is our flaw.
For being a racist, you can't be arrested.
Even though it...
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Categories:
jail cell, hope, life
Form:
Rhyme
The CannibalIn the night the wolves howl in the distance,
As the spring lambs bay, with the first stirrings of life,
Close lies the pack of humanity, those...
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Categories:
jail cell, dark, fear, halloween, holiday,
Form:
Free verse
PhoenixAll human life on earth starts in a school!
In my case I was born just left of hell
It was a simple time but...
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Categories:
jail cell, girl, school,
Form:
Narrative
A Troubled SonA child grows, but not the way you hoped
both strong willed and wayward thinking
troubled teens and young manhood
lead to a troubled life
drugs and a jail...
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Categories:
jail cell, child, drug,
Form:
Nonet