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Best Put Behind Bars Poems

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With Pen In Hand
With pen in hand
How little the world seem to me
How powerful I do feel
For there’s nothing I can’t handle
Everything I tackle
Criminals I put behind bars
Minds...

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Categories: put behind bars, change, emotions, encouraging, hero,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Fat People - Xxix
Unquotable quotes: Fat People – XXIX

(I know this piece sounds mean and cruel but as every single parent must have experienced, this is also the...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: put behind bars, abuse, chocolate, depression, health,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Least Viewed Poem - Old King Troll Written For Alexis Y
Original nursery rhyme ~ Old King Cole

“Old King Cole was a merry old soul
And a merry old soul was he;
He called for his pipe, and...

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Categories: put behind bars, computer, dark, internet,
Form: Rhyme
The Generation Gap 2
The Generation Gap

The fragile, flawless ice encased 
the crumbling soil below
And with it brought bitter winter’s taste – 
the seed that wouldn’t grow.

Many a foggy...

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© Rosy Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: put behind bars, conflict, confusion, judgement, technology,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Incurable Society's Ills
Two scales must always be within an approximate range
for an accurate weight, and the close relationship
between the Humankind and God must withstand any change.


Solutions must...

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Categories: put behind bars, adventure, confusion, health, natural
Form: Terza Rima



Premium Member If Ever I Had a Country : Lxiv and Lxv
IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXIV - LXV


NOTE (facts to bear in mind while reading) : Under the French Penal Code, harm done...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: put behind bars, allegory, anti bullying, corruption,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Bullets and Bars
Bullets and Bars

There goes another one
Shot or put behind bars
Put behind bars with battle scars 
Scars from protests
Ones from which whites try to contest
These white...

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Categories: put behind bars, america, anger, black african
Form: ABC
Shotgun Wedding
(This is a fictional poem)

I stand here with a shotgun pointed at my head.
If I don't marry this man's daughter, I'm as good as dead.
His...

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Categories: put behind bars, daughter, wedding, wife,
Form: Dramatic Verse
21st Century Imperialism
Your country has laws 
freedom and rights 
that lead to the courts 
who settle up fights 

You think it’s a given 
yet see it unfair...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: put behind bars, humanity, international, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Happy Freedom Day, In South Africa
Freedom was preached, 
Millions of South Africans waited,
Waiting for many years.
The regime was very
Hash to  some folks, 
And privileged the minority.
Disadvantaged people 
Cried yearly, 
No...

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Categories: put behind bars, 12th grade, africa, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Educate Me
Educate me people
Can you hear me from the steopel?
How can you learn from the streets?
I know hip-hop can teach you different beats
Music can teach you...

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Categories: put behind bars, devotion, education, history, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If Ever I Had a Country : Xiii and Xiv
IF ever I had a country : XIII - XIV

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: put behind bars, abuse, corruption, football, humor,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
If You Are Tricked By Devi's Beauty
I just do not care myself

If you are tricked by a devil’s beauty
And rush to staunchly support me
And squash all the allegation pitted against
And term...

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Categories: put behind bars, blue, i am,
Form: Free verse
The Agendas of the Marxists Left Wing Progressives
In Southern California and especially in the city of Pasadena. Their local politicians, their local court system plus their Marxist California's state governor. Are attempting...

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Categories: put behind bars, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Slain Dog
You wanted to make a rapist suffer after he got out on parole.
You succeeded but by doing so, your heart became as black as coal.
He...

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Categories: put behind bars, animal, dog, prison,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things