Best Remand Poems

Remand


A desperate prisoner
Out on remand
Am I
Till sentence do us part
On her hand 
Lamely hung;
Inconsiderate
And
Irascible woman’s
Husband-
Suspect of love
 Treason
(Heart’s betrayer)
Defying reason
To forever wear garb
In a wrong season.


JM

05th January 2014...

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Refusing to obey
he took command
The power not given
but by his hand
Looking no further
he forged within
The years and the seasons
aboriginal sin

Broken commandments
rust on the gate
Eyes burning inward
past-futures abate
Refusing the mandate
of time’s desperate plan
He slew first the minutes
—as the hours remand

( Dreamsleep: February, 2023)...

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'Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! all stand,' 
said the bailiff before remand,
as legal eagles had looked for loopholes,
flaws in the law,
large enough to lose a lorry,
is that what they became lawyers for?
If I had taken their advice,
blindly handed out to me,
I'd have gone directly to jail,
if not...

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