Death Row Poems - Poems about Death Row

...Gagged by the navy neck-tie crowned upon him by the last soldier, the businessman precariously waltzes the death march down into “Sam’s Greens and Grains”, a specialty salad shop that locally sources......Read the rest...

...The morning sun rises from behind the shady hill warming the village with a solemn hymn, everyone has gone out of the town leaving dryness and darkness all around; the dogs are running and barking at......Read the rest...

...In the dirty hands of poverty, Scavengers of the Republic of Enlightenment Quench their thirst under the eyelids of the proletarians. A sinecure of hard drugs To silence the lamentations of t......Read the rest...

...At high noontime, the tires are burning in the streets The sound of barking dogs is everywhere; the cats of hell smell Like never showered rats who are locked up in death row cells Where the air d......Read the rest...

...Back and forth the monkey paces Alone is his small backyard cage. He did not make his cramped cage, But the small cage makes him. Far away, he sees children in a park Running free and laughi......Read the rest...

... Your judgments have me grinning. Don't pretend you were immune from the Avarice of Pride. Which you delved past cover packet into the gutworm of stardoms naked lunch? Un......Read the rest...

... Circle in the sand could tell a story of a lost world, where celestials and machines were one. A crafty place where symbiosis is tasted on the tongue. Chimera epoxies ely......Read the rest...

... Brick by brick I built my walls, despite fires raging, I preserved paths that connected bridges between our breathless existence. Now that my heartbeats have reached a dead end street, let......Read the rest...

...To die old and weak Inside a cold steel box. Do they tag your toe on death row? It may be a moment though. The long reach of justice is slow. As You've taken souls. And threw away your own ......Read the rest...

...I always said expectations will be the death of both of us I made this bed and now I'm lying in it But I was lying when I said the nails were gone, cause they aren't Now the bloods running and ......Read the rest...

... his plea for clemency has fallen on deaf ears - a death row inmate walks to the gallows......Read the rest...

...Breaking news the land of the free is now broken Our Divided States of America is turning third-world Who let the government place their destructive hands over my fragile uterus The ones......Read the rest...

...Anguish in the Rain A dream coming towards true manifestation A scream from the north of my past life commiserations My spleen venting forth through my expressive incantations A green man disto......Read the rest...

...A Good Day To Die They say it's a good day to die, Under this concrete sky, But i know i will fry, On Death Row, a sigh, It's no lie, It's a good day, As, the R......Read the rest...

... "Nicholas Street Jail is a real place" The building is imposing, massive and fearful, built in 1862 as a jail and gallows for criminals; the conditions were inhumane and appalling, ......Read the rest...