Jailers Poems - Poems about Jailers

Pin Pricks

...My hands hold the bars
I’m a good prisoner
Hoping to be let out for good behaviour 
Head down
not meeting my jailers eyes

At night when the lights are off
When the moon is in the sky
When me...

The Fantasies of Sirens

...The bullets did not fly into the wind,
They struck, leaving indelible scars,
Blood on the pavement, pain in impure souls,
The bodies fall, but the eyes remain wide open.
The pains we hide become ...

The black hole of DC

...“My name is Jonathan Mellis, I'm solitary confined
In a D.C Jail, where they destroy your mind
They call solitary confinement “the hole”. 
They drop you in and let time erode your soul.

It’s ha...

Spawns Dimness

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Written: June 16, 2024

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Hope had gray hair and looked downcast,
Amid grieving and fears, hope is obscene.
At night, just a ro...

Memories of the Salon

...He said what he had to say
to tell the story
He did what he had to do
to rescue time
He paid what he had to pay
to bribe the jailers
He gave what he had to give
—per Gertrude Stein

(Dreamsl...

St Valentine

...I was inspired to write this poem because of the true nature of this brave Holy man, St Valentine. It tells the story of courage, compassion and resilience in the face of adversity but above all it i...

Deranged

...
to the tune of Home on the Range

In the woods, in the gloam
There’s a muttering gnome
Like his mind, he’s wandered away
And he should be interred
Yes, the thought has occurr...

A Dead Letter Picks Up Its Stone Bed and Talks

...Departed poems in a gray post-dated heaven
clatter wings together like hens in a jailers coop.
Words never die, they bury themselves in
heaps of dry leaves, distant laughter scatters
the sadly sa...

Without

...What are liberals without conservatives
truth without spin
vision without sight
peace without war
strength without weakness

…three without four

What are predators without prey
the moon wit...

Jailer From the North

...We peep through grated beams in the dark confines, 
Kept in chains by the  tyranny  of audacious  jailers,
unending cynosure of profligates and imposters:  
ruining the destinies of  million  wear...

Sojourn

...Stow away the congeries of aches
overtly attenuating the life-force
Joints grinding bones as growing muscles waked
Oft, stomping like an apoplectic horse...

Under strained newness, a glum dispo...

Key

...All I gotta do
Is die
For those wings
To set
And fly
Skirt
The lows of time
Before I am asked
Again
To dine
And 
If I were
An Albatross
Sailors of yore
Would call
And point
Smile upon...

Maid In Orleans

...Intro 

Unable to get her to admit being a heretic 
or committing any crime against God, she 
told the truth to her inquisitors, she had
dressed as a man, to avoid detection by 
enemy forces as...

Freedom Fight

...Just because it has always been does not mean it should always be
The institutions have failed the madmen
We must fight for our right to be free

Though the fires of rebellion have raged through ...

Easy Pickings

...People, prepare for chaos;
democracy is struggling.
Worldwide ideologies lean far right;
dictators, potentates, and tyrants rule
unconstrained by any semblance of law.
The young don't re...

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