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Jailbirds Poems - Poems about Jailbirds


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... Years ago, a young man in Brooklyn wheeled his bike out the gate. His plan, to cross the land, exact route left to fate. The first week was the hardest, scared, he doubted his quest. It took all......

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Categories: jailbirds, adventure, america, courage, endurance,
Form: Verse
Power and Fame
...Power and fame requires discipline No such thing as a lawless hero or heroine The scope of celebration is the scope of condemnation You cannot sway a nation to refute your apprehension Once you a......

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Categories: jailbirds, power,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Kiss
...Melanie: Why would you want to marry me for, anyhow? Jake: So I can kiss you anytime I want. Sweet Home Alabama THE KISS See Rodin’s sculpture, sumptuous or a stiff on the s......

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Categories: jailbirds, funny love,
Form: Rhyme
Can'T Fool Mother Nature
...DOUBLETHINK Can’t Fool Mother Nature 1: THIS LIFE Newspeak, Doublethink, and other similar words only bedevil us. When trying to figure out what was said, George Orwell In his novel, “19......

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Categories: jailbirds, abuse, appreciation, confusion, earth
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jerry a Jim Dandy Jezebel
...Jerry, a jim-dandy jezebel in a jerkwater town, Jiggled her jangles, joking her jubilant ways up and down. Juicily Junoesque and jocular, Jerry jawed with the best. Such jiggery-pokery was soon pu......

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Categories: jailbirds, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration



Hard Case
...Hard Case Brubaker was a real big fat fecker He lived by the jail and hunted escaped cons Using three Bloodhouds and his wits He carried a shotgun loaded for cons With rock salt to maim but not ......

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Categories: jailbirds, america, jobs, judgement, prison,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Chalice of Murdered Crows
... "The Chalice of Murdered Crows" How many moonbeams would it take to overflow my chalice bathe me naked dew kissed diamond glistening bar......

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Categories: jailbirds, dark, destiny, fate, love,
Form: Free verse
The Great Narcissist
...“I will be unbeatable in 2020.” Trump said at the end of 2017. What is wrong with the great narcissist? Doesn’t he see the writing on the wall? Doesn’t he feel the pounding on his golden door by......

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Categories: jailbirds, political, truth,
Form: Free verse
Jailbirds
...here are those whose bones inhabit clothes and muscles feed on flesh except for mine — here in concrete and florescent light between closing walls and slamming locks where the doors bear nam......

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Categories: jailbirds, prison,
Form: Free verse
I Love My Country
...Dawn again in this gaol The jailbirds are imprecisely numbering One hundred and sixty million Or more of my countrymen. The jailors are three hundred and sixty humpty down And 109 dumpty membe......

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Categories: jailbirds, angst, patriotic, political, social,
Form: Blank verse
-jail-Bird's-Prayer
...Oh Lord,forgive the arresting officer who first caught me when I committed crime__ for destroying my future. Again,I pray to blindfold the inspector of police__ that He may order police officers to d......

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Categories: jailbirds, forgiveness, funny,
Form: Clerihew
An Unforgettable Crime, Between Sunrise and Sunset
...An Unforgettable Crime, Between Sunrise and Sunset Mankind shall never forget their choice and misdeed. Yes! He was highly displeased. An incident like none ever before. A betrayal of love and t......

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Categories: jailbirds, confusion, dedication, girlfriend-boyfriend, husband,
Form: I do not know?
The Bachelors Way
...The bachelor sits alone eating his microwaved dinner the commercials say they're tasty but he begs to differ. tonight, its pot roast and beans for dessert, a lousy brownie honestly, I wouldn't ......

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Categories: jailbirds,
Form: Rhyme

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