Jailers Poems - Poems about Jailers

...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......

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...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 ......

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... Aphotic beneath countless depths energy fleeting, gloom haunting insipid jailers keep locks metaphorical never owning peace, quarrel, rage, surrender torture understated, verve waned xant......

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...“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......

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... Written: June 16, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hope had gray hair and looked downcast, Amid grieving and fears, hope is obscene. At night, just a ro......

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...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......

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...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......

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... 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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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 ......

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