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Best Jail Cell Poems

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Premium Member Modern Poetry
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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...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jail cell, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Its Taboo
I 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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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jail cell, angst, betrayal, conflict, confusion,
Form: Lyric
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...

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

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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...

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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...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jail cell, beauty, imagination, inspirational, international,
Form: Free verse
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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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© Just James  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jail cell, girl, school,
Form: Narrative
A Troubled Son
A 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

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