Confinement Poems - Poems about Confinement

...I had a silly thought. What if my parents… Locked me in the basement? It doesn’t make sense, because that’s illegal! It doesn’t make sense because they are supposed to love me. What ......Read More

...Guns, and ballistic threats don't settle anything They can't, more quickly kill. Mindfulness, and compassion therapies, might restore peace We could most inclusively embrace. Could ou......Read More

...Written: August 26, 2023 Pour Your Heart Out Sponsored by: Matt Caliri ______________________________________________________________ In a world......Read More

...Optimist? Pessimist? Recognizing the glass as half-cracked Often explains the level of its contents. Freedom is being satisfied With the terms of one’s confinement. ......Read More

...Purgatorial Perceptions By Mark D. Stucky In the basement, I heard fluttering sounds coming from inside the old chimney. Cautiously opening the clean-out trap, I came n......Read More

...A tale unfolds, of souls in twisted spells. Of Leslie Van Houten, her fate entwined, With Charles Manson, the mastermind. Once a flower of innocence, pure and bright, She fell into Manson's web......Read More

...How proud they put them on display Two thousand of the first of fortyk They’re President Bukele did say They’ll live in the jailhouse for decades he went on boasting, in jail it’s judgement day ......Read More

... If people would only read some Dickens, they'd know that 'bedlam' begs confinement, not release If people would only read some Bradbury, they'd shriek at the horror ......Read More

...Thicker rays of summer sun Just poked through the clouds And licked upon at my face Like I was somehow painstakingly applying a fresh coat of lipstick In a subtle shade of fleshy pink ......Read More

...The cancer in my head Patently obviously Is ever so slowly Taking over Me Day bye day So here's to you Al Parkinson My imaginary childhood friend Who as a single child ......Read More

... Donald Trump could be doing Jailhouse Rock. DOJ has his head on A chopping block. Trumped up on charges that Include espionage. Donald trying to do The duck and do......Read More

...A Jailbird Cry” Have you ever heard a jailbird cry Its outer body is alive but its inner soul has died In several attempts it try to resuscitate its life It tries and tries But its heartbeat is f......Read More

...In the realm of blindness, behold the sight Eyes, mouths, bodies, and feet in desperate plea, Caressed by brushstrokes, an artist's decree, A gem with facets, dripping only with you, so bright. ......Read More

...i dont like thinking of you as something that ended as if the connection doesn’t transcend the confinement of a commitment as if our minds didn’t see eachother so well mine still loves yours......Read More

...Recluse by dint of circumstance Proud anonymous troglodytes forerunners of mine confronted threats less horrific than forty fifth commander in chief of United States of America. He/him (ma......Read More