Get Your Premium Membership

Jail Cell Poems - Poems about Jail Cell

The Battle Within

...My mind is so prismatic,
constantly thinking all erratic,
the perfect cage, 
to hold the rage,
but wait...
I am all that it can hate,
whilst inside it is trapped,
I must find a way to adapt,
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: jail cell, dark, feelings,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPlagued By Memories

...Memories of whip-lashing words 
steeped me deep into a roil of rancid oil
my soul a weeping blistered sore  
my heart a gangrene amputee 
pus-green-memories rupture to plague me 
infection still...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: jail cell, abuse, dark, memory, pain,
Form: Free verse



mosaic

...i am nothing mere of a mosaic
a broken frame
of what should remain
a whole personality
but it split
and caused me great chaos
i am a mosaic that nobody can piece together
i am a mosaic with ra...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: jail cell, anger, angst,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberSEPARATED FROM SOCIETY

...Once a free happy man enjoying the outdoors
Surrounded now by jail bars that don’t bend
Inmate correction to society
A life that totally went apart, and have no name but a number
A place an inmat...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: jail cell, anger, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

Off fish hill Daylight saving time 2025

...Off fish hill Daylight saving time 2025

min(no) newt effect on me.

As part and parcel of terpsichorean repertoire,
one whirling dervish 
flaps his wings at the speed of sound.

With twenty ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: jail cell, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



More of the same

...Artificial intelligence is the future with more of the same


Just a more scary aggressive approach and a new look.

Racist bots, systematic manipulation and race based preferences as usual.

...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: jail cell, abuse,
Form: Free verse

Ariana Lynn Portillo

...Wedding  dress rides bicycle.
She cracked ribs staring in my window. 
                        Crocodile teardrops jail cell.
Peat shale lignite.
                   Venus squaw bean.
Police car m...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: jail cell, adventure, allegory, america,
Form: Concrete

Premium MemberTerry And Bobby

...



























































He was right at home with 'being himself',
And had 'never a longing' to be any...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: jail cell, childhood, friendship,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberPieced Together Again

... One of those castoff items that we shove 
Promptly deemed ‘junk’ upon a second glance. 
I hid you on the highest shelves above 
With a slim ‘someday’ of a second chance. 

In solitude y...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: jail cell, solitude,
Form: Rhyme

They've Betrayed Us - III, Part I

...III.
Do you know of naïve Martin
who saw a report on the news
of how a young, black man was killed,
that the police had shot the dude!
Now protestors were raising hell,
he saw a large mob on TV...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: jail cell, betrayal, celebrity, confusion, evil,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Memberfrankly speaking

...fool me once shame on 
me ~ fool me twice shame on you ~
but more I ignore ...

facts of life ~ well taught
lives well ~ so-so not so well ~
not at all ... jail cell

Spring to life ... summe...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: jail cell, character, fate, integrity, judgement,
Form: Senryu

Evileye

...spiritual 


   conversations



           screaming


                     the jail cell

        where the wickedness festers


like worms on a plate

                   of sacred...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: jail cell, sin,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Silent Scream

...Worst cry ever heard, a scream from the depths of a soul
It’s a silent scream that can only be felt
By another heart that cares and refuses to scold
Never condemns but offers God’s grace. love, an...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: jail cell, christian, deep, forgiveness, grave,
Form: Rhyme

Daylight savings time more'n minute effect on me

...Daylight savings time more'n minute effect on me

In 2024, daylight savings time will begin at two o'clock ante meridiem on Sunday, March tenth. That will mean losing an hour of precious sleep and ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: jail cell, adventure, age, appreciation, creation,
Form: Rhyme

Pills Jailed You

...You used to be a gentle lover
Memories of that now just hover
Over a cold dark jail cell
You created from the hell
Pills you took broke your spirit
It so hard to try and clear it
Once you start...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: jail cell, abuse, life, strength, trust,
Form: Rhyme

Related Poems


Book: Reflection on the Important Things