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Detainment Poems - Poems about Detainment

A Windless Sea

...Opinion,
  shapes the 
  aftermath
  of what once was free

A commentary of 
  detainment,
  adrift
   —on a windless sea

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

Categories: detainment, words,
Form: Free verse

Do It For Your Children

...Here are the cold hard facts everyone.
If you have given birth to a daughter or a son,
their future is going to be a very harsh and dark one, 
as will all of their future generations.
No one appe...

Categories: detainment, children, political,
Form: Rhyme

My Terrorist Watch List

...I Am NOT An Angry ANON,
just a very angry recently informed man.
There will be guns world wide aiming at yours truly,
along with over one million other citizens of my country.
sometime in the ver...

Categories: detainment, political, self, war,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Lockdown

...Here I am
loafing away
like a king
on the roof
when princes
have gone to battle
petting his senses
on a naked eve's navel

I do no evil
though, but idleness is evil
I can't be there
'caus...

Categories: detainment, how i feel,
Form: I do not know?

The Weatherman

...I move through dark clouds in 
search of the sun...the 
everlasting LIGHT that is the 
SUN...I hope that I can stand 
the rain...better yet the 
frightening STORM...the roaring 
of the thunder....

Categories: detainment, growth
Form: Free verse

Hiding Behind the Cameras By Kenny Davis

...Hiding Behind the Cameras by Kenny Davis

In front of the cameras
I would flash my prize winning smile
Even for just a little while
Basking in my glamour and style
While under the vile, pile of this ...

Categories: detainment, confusion, depression, imagination, life,
Form: I do not know?

Cursed

...I lost my mien I lost my unity
To the shadow of tartarus 
Abided by the doom of iniquity
To the horde of vicious
Ached by the blamed chastity 
To the blood of befouled gravitas.

I lost my ali...

Categories: detainment, depression, loss, lost love,
Form: Rhyme Royal

Under the Influence of You

...Virgin breezes sweep through our distant white curtains
A cluster of candles lit our shadows silhouetting two 
Purposeful detainment- 
Soft conjoined lips breathe warmth throughout our bodies 
Lo...

Categories: detainment, happiness, love, passionlove,
Form: Free verse

Scene In Daze

...Can’t keep my mind steady
Paranoid about where I’m headed
Asking me why I changed 
I tried not to
But at the time
It seemed inevitable
Leaving spectators  to judge my heart
Tell me was it cred...

Categories: detainment, adventure, caregiving, life, music,
Form: Lyric