Jailers Poems - Poems about Jailers

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

... 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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...People prepare for the worst, for democracy’s struggling. Worldwide ideologies lean fascist right, dictators, potentates, and tyrants rule unconstrained by any semblance of law. The youn......Read the rest...

...Forever forgive me For my one and only iniquity Please forgive me With forbearance eternally Lots of anger and lust Got a hold of me… So, I must...oh, I must… Set my soul free Forever for......Read the rest...

...ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN PRAISE ELISHA'S GOD IN HEAVEN! "Go dip in the Jordon", he said; The prophet who must surely be mislead, But after travelling to Israel, I will test th......Read the rest...

...There's a Senior's home called the Shady Lane and life's curse is at an end. Where a hundred souls are kept in line till Death its message sends. They built a country... fought its wars, ......Read the rest...

...She'll be rather willing to be burnt on the stakes forgotten than sleep and wake in the jailers chains watching her purpose gather up dust. Rake her charred remains heap upon heap among others ......Read the rest...