Best Paroled Poems

How do you do it...
   arrested again.
Paroled for awhile
   then back to the pen.
We know you don't mean it.
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Lord, Lord

Lord, Lord come to me
your love is all I need
You’ve restored my soul and paid the fee
now grace and mercy is my greed

Lord, Lord...

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Have a crazy brother-in-law named Dickie
At times Dickie can be rather tricky
At 90 years old
He's just been paroled
His crime... he asked a cashier for a...

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In the winter of 1873, Alfred Packer was hired to guide a prospectin' trek.
In the San Juans of Colorady they'd heard of gold that they...

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A child hears a song on the radio
and the music sets his mind aglow...
at his age he’s too young to know
he’s being sucked in the...

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When we learned our elderly, kind granddad had died,
All paternal cousins traveled, gathered and cried.
Later, the ‘reception drive’ offered varied rides;
In Rachel’s auto, they shared...

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Wrongful Imprisonment

I am bowing again, in prison, no advocate to plead my case;
Forcefully constrained: by years and years of hardship and lack. 
Believing, this was...

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As dusk their line visibly bows
Cropped heads beneath mounds fold
Glum shadows through addle fields row

Listless turrets sprout o'er demarcated woe
Sallowed eyes in bleary sockets rolled
As...

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Born to this world in sixty-one
Another child of the sun
I entered in the dead of night
To breathe the air and see the light

Though rooted in...

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Tonight, save me and wife and child from thee
Haunted horror our home assumes to be
Enchanted with evils, souls hell has freed

Oh God, thy neck is...

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THE MAD MAN IN THE CORNER
By Roy Merritt

A mad man in the corner was ranting on insane
A man who was blinded wracked with mental pain
He...

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The equanimity of the day reached beyond my solitary realm,
As if the tune of demise fathomed the doleful heart of mine;
Escaped from the autistic aftermath...

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Cold.
It's the only word that seems to fit your mold
But my heart is as young as your heart is bold
I beg to fly, I beg...

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For god so loved the world that he gave his one
and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not
perish but have eternal life. ...

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that guy’s sure in rags
      sniffing glue from plastic bags
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