Imprisoned Poems

Self-imprisoned

In this abyss, where senses fade,
A labyrinth of fears, eyes stick to spade
A choice self-made, a soul betrayed,
In pale moonlight, a tearful price is paid 

Man without a shrine, longing for time,
A barren altar, with no falter, heart in chains,
Death’s embrace, leaves no trace,
Echoes remain, whispering in pain.
Silence.
No more pain.

In bleakest dreams, her face indiscernibly
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Categories: imprisoned, anxiety, dark, gothic, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSelf-Imprisoned

It is just another little solitary prison,
Containing everything of which I am as a person.
Seems I am meant to be alone without any visitation.
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Categories: imprisoned, depression, loneliness, lonely, mental
Form: Sijo


Premium MemberLove Imprisoned - TRI 2

Love wrapped her heart from the first glance,
A tender bond she couldn’t shake,
Would she surrender to the dance?
Fear held her back from what’s at stake.

A tender bond she couldn’t shake,
Though passion called her to explore,
Doubt whispered, "Stay, don’t ask for more."

Would she surrender to the dance?
Or let her fears keep her in place?
Love's pull was
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Categories: imprisoned, love,
Form: Rhyme

I Imprisoned My Heart

Being tugged at pulled apart
Every time I tried to start
My life over I'd just fail
I put myself in a jail
Of despair- no escape key
A life sentence if for me
Imprisoned by a deadly past
My hearts broken from the blast
Of love criminals who shot
 Hurtful bullets through my heart
I would bleed sorrow and sadness
No escaping from this
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Categories: imprisoned, feelings, loneliness, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme

Imprisoned Heart

Music is my source of escape,
For when the night pours its sadness on me.
My heart resides in that place,
For when my thoughts starts bullying me.

Lent everyone my ear but never my secrets
When the world isn't here, there's no one to see it.
They think they know me but they are gullible,
To be deceived but I'm often
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Categories: imprisoned, sad,
Form: Rhyme


An Imprisoned World

I'm about to lose my mind
when did we become unkind
to our other human beings
and all of their needs and feelings
where did the great passion go
this world used to see and know
without asking we'd be there
now we need to be aware
of dangers lurking all around
we have to take leaps and bounds
to get this world back in
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Categories: imprisoned, abuse, change, humanity, love,
Form: Rhyme

Imprisoned

What do the years mean
when they come to an end
their number a prison
if hearts cannot mend

A month or a decade
results but the same
when love is abandoned
—there’s nothing but pain

(Dreamsleep: August, 2023)
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Categories: imprisoned, love, prison,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberShe Imprisoned Herself

She thoroughly imprisoned herself at the age of twenty-one.
Putting herself into a dire situation.
Assuring herself there was no way out.
Telling her mind not to bother to escape her predicament.

Her mind readily jumped onto her new hopeless mindset.
Assuring the rest of her body it could shut down.
They were in prison today and would never escape.
Others tried
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Categories: imprisoned, women,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSong Imprisoned

Song imprisoned

      Lone musician
     engrossed to play violin.
    Resonance ripples
    on prelude to interlude.
     sinking in self consciousness.

     Self-oriented!
     Releasing emotive urge
     in joy
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Categories: imprisoned, 12th grade, music, song,
Form: Tanka

Imprisoned

Imprisoned 
Im locked away 
Ive been in a cage
most of my days
Wasted away my young age
All for something that 
Made me a slave 
Now im full of rage 
And full of hate
Shame and pitty yea
They know my name
Drove insane
By the dope through
A poke from a needle's stream
Dope it controlled everything 
My hope just drove away
Now
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Categories: imprisoned, absence, anger, anxiety, depression,
Form: Free verse

Cell

Nature, if it is unknown
is just a cell
even at all scenes
all matters instead
may rest
the soul needs
knowledge, a matter of demand
for without such
all is blindness
in a dark night
only the contrary rules
the day
what I would have been these
people's identities retailer.
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Categories: imprisoned, love,
Form: Free verse

Imprisoned Picture

The photo went to jail sans shame, 
It's simply because it was framed.
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Categories: imprisoned, humor,
Form: Epigram

Premium MemberAn Imprisoned Weed

an imprisoned weed
stuck between two rose bushes
thorns are piercing through
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Categories: imprisoned, rose,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberLanguage So Learned Begins

Language So Learned Begins


I always thought it too audacious to think myself a poet-born but I tried it at age ten then my mother laughed rattling my precious penned paper as she pronounced from her parent-throne “No, your brother’s the natural writer not you” from her ken of always reading in our house of nearly
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Categories: imprisoned, christian, language, perspective, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberWhen We Feel Imprisoned

When we feel imprisoned
by our past,
by bad opinions,
negative aggressive reputations
from get-down bullying
on our worst bad day
or mind/heart-altered night
of rightbrain prominently
screaming red-blooded outrage.

When we feel imprisoned
is our moment of opportunity
to imagine Earth
where all Tribes feel win/win free
for grateful co-invested opinions,
positive compassionate communications
through get-back-up ecofeminist
green peace revolutions
for our best healthy cooperative outside day
and egoLeft/ecosystemicRight
co-aligning night
of RightYang/LeftYintegral
compassionate bicameral
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Categories: imprisoned, culture, earth, light, political,
Form: Political Verse

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