Best Jailed Poems

Never thought I would adorn prison stripe
of black and white without fashion or flare.
News coverage was an exaggerated hype
that could give me a lifetime to wear.

I proclaim that I am blameless and innocent
with no record of violence anywhere.
My heart is heavy with sorrow for this...

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A bridge that lifts into the air
A foggy moat warning beware
Do not cross or you will be
Part of this castles history
That has claimed a lot of victims
Trying every kind of system
To rescue the trapped princess
But there has been no success
To get in this eerie castle
Is...

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I'm a hostage and it's great
I'll gladly be your inmate
And put under lock and key
With no choice of getting free
You can take all the control
Of not giving me parole
A life sentence I will take
I promise to never break
Out of this cell I am in
Wanting my...

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Tears fall like rain due to all the stupid little things left in your mind,
All those things are to remind you of your bad decision to do this crime,
So you will sit in your 5x10 cell and think about why you're doing time,
Soon you will...

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I am not someone I’d ever want to meet 
Storms rage in my head, 
Ashes settle on my feet.

My sanity is bleeding,
My hairline slightly receding
My touch a wicked chill, 
With a mangy heart and too weak a will

I am not someone I’d ever wish to...

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In the shade of his smile,

Echoes much depletedness.


In the depths of his eyes,

Is a spectacle of inanition,


In the chaos of his heart,

Lays one true thing, a lie...

 

His cocoon of titanium,

A grim cage of no opportunity.

 

Boundaries set,

Letting nobody in.

 

His deserted being,

Hidden in the shadows.

 

Reflecting a destroyed...

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A zoo ---visited....
the keepers locked me away
for scaring the apes

© Harry J Horsman  2010...

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Jailed

Tears fall like rain due to all the stupid little things left in your mind,
All those things are to remind you of your bad decision to do this crime,
So you will sit in your 5x10 cell and think about why you're doing time,
Soon you will...

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Insects
meek mosquito
came, sung, drank blood to live
harmless to harmful they’re killer
in race!

I killed
colored my hand
no blood I kept in them
They were mosquitoes of last night
none knew

CID team
from the insects
charged, seized and punished me
for lifelong; coward I was jailed
sleeping!

-November 10, 2018 Chattogram...

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Here in this land of tranquility,
blossoming with the fragrance of spring,
lie's the entrance to the land,
that know free man has seen,
down you will burrow,
away from the light,
here you will find it,
a land of such fright,
the people who dwell here,
some wicked, some small,
some will tell nothing,
while...

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You used to be a gentle lover
Memories of that now just hover
Over a cold dark jail cell
You created from the hell
Pills you took broke your spirit
It so hard to try and clear it
Once you start this filthy habit
You are hooked, each day you grab it
Addiction...

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You used to be a gentle lover
Memories of that now just hover
Over a cold dark jail cell
You created from the hell
Pills you took broke your spirit
It so hard to try and clear it
Once you start this filthy habit
You are hooked, each day you grab it
Addiction...

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they shuffle them in,
quiet and cold, like bodies
stacked in a morgue, breathing
in the scent of rot, sweat, piss,
dreams beaten down to dust.

this is where they house
the lost and the broken,
the ones who drank too much,
who listened too little,
who were loved even less.

no place left but...

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The color of your tongue
Rhymes not with your song:
No longer the deeper red
Of the truly well-fed
But the darker black
Of one in bare lack;
What lies do to the lips
And to The Dishonest that quips;
Your charcoal tongue, a mark of Cain
Spares you not a deserved pain…

And –...

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