Best Prisoner Poems

When my muse ruled 
my conscience's compass,
waterfalls of rhyming rivers
revealed unspoken secrets -
long forgotten in my heart.
Exposing vulnerable verses
from vaults where vines
had wrapped my tongue
into subdued silence.

In the Injustices of 
judicial juxtaposition,
speech spoke in a 
paradoxical oxymoron -
'deafening silence'

Pouring in drops of crimson,
I became a...

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I've been in  prison for most of my life,
Not man made bars, I'm an abused wife.







Inspired By Epigram Contest
11-06/19...

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** A protest against the hypocrisy of the death penalty and the decadent environment of the prison system where a simple thief or criminal is unleashed on society upon leaving worse than they went in**


The days are short and gentle 
   in the...

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Oh with her sweet smile
I was taken prisoner,
cry of the castle
shackled to chains of desire
captive hopelessly in love.

© Harry J Horsman 2013...

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Jobless, indebted -
battles with insanity 
- writes haiku shaiku...

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Prisoner of words I am
Chained in a cellar of sentences .... no .... lines
I'm a poet, I think images
think metaphors
similes

Prisoner of words
locked up in brainless nights where only dreams rule
blind wanderer between spoken sentences
arms outstretched
until they meet
a wall
a fork
to scratch what needs to be written

Prisoner...

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“I” is just a concept made by mind. Siddhartha Gautama

Mind has to dwell in a coerced seclusion: 
mind is a prisoner of the conclusion
that mind is mine. I share your letdown,
my mind. Minds cannot shatter the illusion
of the first person singular pronoun.

5/6/2019
Writing Challenge 3, August...

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Send me back home where I truly belong
Cut the chains dear, please let me depart
Why does your brain keep replaying our song?
Let my melody drift to your heart

Making me haunt you is very unkind
I'm no ghost dear, please grant my parole
Why bottle me up inside...

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I sabotage my happiness
with every chance I get
I wollow in my sadness
my fears and my regrets 

I beg for love to claim me
but I am fearful of its strenght
I stop to smell the flowers
but soon forget their scent

I ache for new adventure 
but make no...

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This world it cruel to use its name
Its ruler has a heart of stone,
Yet all its prisons that I’ve seen
There’s one that’s worse, that stands alone.

Its cells of grief are cold I know
Its bars are strong with rusty stains,
Yet cell on cell with trouble soul
Could...

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I am, for that I am a super-giant a magnificent monstrosity,
A ferocious fired fury beyond the Pillars of Creation;
With a billion breaths that burn within me, and yet I am;
A calamitous candle amidst the unending universe.
A plasmatic prisoner of time-a destroyer and creator…
I am a...

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Sorrow lies within
My heart, heavy.
Weighed down as if full of stones.
My soul, restrained. 
Cuffed to the bottom of a seemingly endless well that is this shell of a body.
When did the light go out?
When did my life essence become so shrouded in darkness that I...

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I will be your prisoner
when our world stills
When our eyes turn tender
silence can fulfill

Desire will burn slowly 
its love we will embrace
We'll find our eyes have opened
We'll find we're face to face

   To kiss you every moment
    know your every...

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Metaphors and similes flow freely from my pen 
when I am scripting and scribing in poetic verse.
Across the width of pale parchment pages 
the nib of my feathered pen continues to traverse.
Ink courses fathoms deep within me like life blood, 
rushing through the eddied channels...

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I don't believe in getting angry
and arguing over things
yet there are people who do sadly
as does a bee that stings

why can't people be friends
and love as the Bible says
instead a relationship ends
tis what it does

are we doomed to this behavior
or will it one day lend
finding...

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