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Best Jailbird Poems

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Jailbird -Alex-
You locked yourself inside a hole
And you threw away the
Key
You got so lost in the bottle that you 
Forgot just how to breathe
You're waiting for...

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Categories: jailbird, life
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Jailbird
Fierce Arctic blasts were but things of my past
Once I found romance in the south of France.
How could she entrance with one simple glance?
My lonely...

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Categories: jailbird, destiny, freedom, lost love,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
I'M In Love With a Jailbird
I'm in love with a jailbird, whether he committed the crime or not. 
I hope that he realizes and never forgets that I really love...

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Categories: jailbird, love, me, love, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Captive Quill
Written: September 09, 2023
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In the abyss of night, I'm held captive tight.
Addiction to idioms fuels my Phoebus fight.
I abide, vouching sporadically to escape,
From the clutches...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jailbird, addiction, analogy, appreciation, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Joy of Spam
One day, a convict got away, and went out on the lam.
And on the sly, he did buy, his very own kitchen cam.
Wanting to glow,...

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Categories: jailbird, food, funny,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



Desperado
Desperado..
Searching for my fate
Lost and traveling
Trying to redeem my reckless ways

I'm kicking up the dust
On this dusty ol' back road
Searching, seeking
To redeem my outlawed soul

At...

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Categories: jailbird, change, growing up, heart,
Form: Free verse
A New Country Song
A NEW COUNTRY SONG




I was ravaged today
by

three country songs 
on the truck radio 
each moaning the lyrics  
". . daddy's pickup truck"
and "the Georgia...

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Categories: jailbird, humor, music, social, song,
Form: Free verse
Poverty
Poverty 

This ailment clips my bare soul 
My malady hides my ample sight
Penury loads my cognition. Watery hole 
Shift not far my destination, yet too...

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Categories: jailbird, poverty,
Form: Elegy
Country Music
COUNTRY MUSIC

I was ravaged today
by

three consecutive country songs 
on the radio while driving
each moaning the lyrics  
". . daddy's pickup truck"
and "the Georgia mud"
while...

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Categories: jailbird, humorous, , western,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Letter To My Jailor
-The Jailor-

a light darken 
jailbird misery
What does freedom feel like?



SKAT...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jailbird, dark, dedication, deep, emo,
Form: Questionku
Chained
Staring down the dark empty halls of loneliness
Left devastated, vulnerable and absolutely helpless
Will we ever walk out into the light to find happiness
My intuition feeds...

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Categories: jailbird, black african american, depression,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member Land Feet First
Fool me once, shame on you;
     fool me twice, shame on me.

         ...

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Categories: jailbird, funny,
Form: Narrative
So Farewell Then, Eddie Bunker
To some he was a punk,
to others quite a mystery.
A jailbird and a drunk?
A fan of film and fistery?
But now that he’s defunct,
finally, Bunk is...

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Categories: jailbird, eulogy,
Form: Rhyme
My Best Buddy and Friend
My Best Buddy and Friend

Jesus will be my buddy and best friend;
And what I heard is that he does intend,
Remove my sin;
Save me again:
Differences we...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jailbird, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Dreamscape
DREAMSCAPE


jailbird l l l l  bars l l l l l horizontal
free
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flying
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stairs

angel fish           ...

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Categories: jailbird, dream, prison,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things