Best Jail Cell Poems


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Categories: jail cell, art, dark, evil, funny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am Free- Healing Power of Forgiveness- Revised
...You 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 a thread.

I was locked in a mental jail cell.......

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jail cell, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rarely Spoken Words
...Rarely 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 keep
them near your soul...

If ......

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Categories: jail cell, integrity, relationship,
Form: Prose Poetry

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Premium Member Don'T Hug and Drive
...On 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 me an ear full!
It took but a moment, and I knew he was beer ......

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Categories: jail cell, funny, me, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Am Free- the Healing Power of Forgiveness
...You 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 hell.

Your vicious attacks tarnished my self wor......

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jail cell, forgiveness, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ivory Rose
...Victorian 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 olden years past, weep ye no more.
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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jail cell, beauty, imagination, inspirational, international,
Form: Free verse


Premium Member frankly speaking
...fool me once shame on 
me ~ fool me twice shame on you ~
but more I ignore ...

facts of life ~ well taught
lives well ~ so-so not so well ~
not at all ... jail cell

Spring to life ... summe......

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jail cell, character, fate, integrity, judgement,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Saving the Butterfly
...Butterfly 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 fluttering fas......

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Categories: jail cell, butterfly,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Clown Car Or Elevator
...A 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 train?
Joyfulness or Melancholy?
The choic......

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Categories: jail cell, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: List
Oh, Oh Kakapo
...Oh, 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 New Zealand y......

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jail cell, animals, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Billy the Kid's Great Escape
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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.
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I've often wondered what thoughts ......

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Categories: jail cell, history, horse, humorous, love,
Form: Rhyme
Our Moral Behavior
...Today'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 is their freedom, that is molested.

If y......

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© Chris Matt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jail cell, hope, life
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Cannibal
...In 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 for whom hunger for the
Fresh taste of the blooding’......

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jail cell, dark, fear, halloween, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Phoenix
...All human life on earth starts in a school! 
In my case I was born just left of hell 
It was a simple time but not that cool 
This hell was time spent in a hot jail cell 
I went and suffered on m......

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© Just James  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jail cell, girl, school,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Moral Corruption of Capitalism
...The Bible says "thou shalt not kill"
now proudly join the army lad, and go kill,
come back home, and follow your Bible again.

O middle class, your fathers built your homes
with union help, now dispe......

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Categories: jail cell, faith, bible, bible,
Form: Narrative
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