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Best Life Sentence Poems

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A Life Sentence
Dear freedom, your sweet innocent voice seems
Now like a distant echo, lost in the wind.
Hopes lost in a set of broken dreams,
With heavy chains, to...

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Categories: life sentence, allusion, bird, death, deep,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member The Victim - Through Their Eyes 2
You stood in the dock when the guilty verdict was read out …
Just a spotty youth with a cocky look in your eyes
Now sentenced to...

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Categories: life sentence, addiction, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
False Imprisonment For Contest
She looked at his face as he raped her
Making sure she remembered all
When it was time to go to court
She watched as the jail sentence...

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Categories: life sentence, faith, forgiveness, life, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Romance In the Reflections of the Steely Green-Eyed
"Romance in the Reflections of the Steely Green-Eyed"



Romance is in the 
reflections of the
steely green-eyed

time stolen and framed
bars to freedom 
champagne dreams remain

the prisoner’s heart...

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Categories: life sentence, freedom, journey, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'M Guilty
I confess and waive all my rights 
Premeditated crime in plain sight 
Songs will be written ‘bout my spree 
I’m guilty of “love in the...

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Categories: life sentence, love, word play,
Form: Rhyme



If Only
If only it didn't just take a second to get to heaven
The devil's smiling, bet he didn't tell you it's the fast track to hell
My...

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Categories: life sentence, hope, love, passion, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Bonnie and Clyde (A Collaboration With Jillian M. Johnson)
To Bonnie:
If everything should fail, I’ll raise some hell until we make it right.
We’ll rob that bank and the motel even if it takes an...

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Categories: life sentence, life, loveme, earth, life,
Form: Free verse
At the Gbv Protest This Saturday
Their hands raise with ours and for a moment we are all standing in perfect unity, every set of fingers curled in anger and defiance...

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Categories: life sentence, abuse, africa, anger, hurt,
Form: Free verse
With You Forever
Calm as the still waters
Breezy as autumn's dew
your eyes depict the  skies

Right here in your love's prison
I'll serve my life sentence
I'm tempted with no...

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Categories: life sentence, love,
Form: I do not know?
our curse - a love poem
i see the way you look at him,
holding his hand,
kissing him,
and i see  you’ve been cursed.

cursed to love a man you never truly loved,
cursed...

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Categories: life sentence, break up, gender, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse
Thug Love Letter
thug love letter
I only hope that you will drink these words i say to you, and be drunken by
my every emotion, as i hold the...

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Categories: life sentence, love, words, love,
Form: Lyric
Jessica Mccord: Selfish Assassin
It was February 2002 (WWF Raw, WWF SmackDown!, and WWF No Way Out), that Jessica McCord and her then-husband, Jeff, killed Alan Bates and his...

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Categories: life sentence, daughter, death, father, funeral,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Chained
   "CHAINED"



imprisoned by choice
scars and bruises my cell mates
death follows future
abuse is a life sentence
the force of love keeps me jailed.

walls enclose vast...

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Categories: life sentence, sad,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Poetry Police
by: Poet destroyer 

I investigated many poems today
Friendly people on this (Love Boat)
Everybody different in their own way
The evidence I found is hidden in every...

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Categories: life sentence, happy birthday, hilarious, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just Cause
JUST CAUSE

Without cause, teachers, classmates, and neighborhood kids mocked at my pitiful station of poorness and entrenchment in painful shyness, calling me dreadful names that...

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Categories: life sentence, abuse, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs