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I am a mom, an artist, and an office monkey.
 

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Categories: death row, change,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Nicholas Street Jail
The structure is imposing, massive and fearful.  Built in 1862 as a jail and
gallows for the worst of humanity.  "Living"  conditions were sickening and
appalling.  The top floor was reserved for death-row...

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Categories: death row, scary,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Good and Bad Faith Communities
Prisons fester further desecrating guilt by association
as churches
and synagogues
and temples
and mosques
foster sacred innocence through re-association,
communion of the wanna-be saints
and Bodhisattva suffering warriors
for EarthRights Peace and Justice.

When our faith communities
feel like monoculturing monotheistic prisons
of fundamentalism,
then our...

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Categories: death row, christian, community, culture, innocence, integrity, prison, religion,
Form: Political Verse
Mr Fritz and Black Sheep
MR. FRITZ AND BLACK SHEEP  :

Arrival at the clinic,
We're here to fix things.
Where's the the dentist?
This dude tooth's aching,
Thus Black Sheep;
He's not fit for some days.
He returned from London last two weeks.
It's pain's such...

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Categories: death row, inspirational,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Execution of Paul Carter
My name is Paul Carter and I want to tell you my tragic story
About the wrong path I chose in life, that wasn't one of glory
I was born in the state of Maine in the...

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Categories: death row, america, dark, death, drink, drug, god, prison,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member You'Re It, the Secret
"You’re It, The Secret"



Inside you
a whole new world

Outside 
You … exist

Outside
the game is ‘resist’

such an anxious world
the questions forever 

pressing on 
You

wanting answers
your gardens soiled and turned

new seeds for blooming
planted

your muddied waters
become in your mind...

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Categories: death row, i am, journey, life, western,
Form: Free verse
The Eyes of Stanley Tookie Williams
November 2, 2015 11:42 am
The eyes of Stanley Tookie Williams
What I visualized is a man
A man that committed crimes
Stanley Tookie Williams was the name
His tragic game in the fallen streets was being a gang banger...

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Categories: death row, black african american, conflict, death, forgiveness, murder,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Young G
Young G

as a young G in the hood running rampant like he should
he started off with a seed in his mommas belly in time he grow into jelly
with a bright crooked smile he knew all...

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Categories: death row, africa,
Form: Free verse
Deathseeker
I got a story 'bout a boy from the hood
Stayed out of trouble tried as hard as he could
Initiated when he was 12 years old  
They gave him a bandana and he did what...

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Categories: death row, america, cry, dark, destiny, dream, how i
Form: Rhyme
The foot of the hill
The morning sun rises from behind the shady hill warming the village with a solemn hymn, everyone has gone out of the town leaving dryness and darkness all around; the dogs are running and barking...

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Categories: death row, animal, change, cinco de mayo, city, courage,
Form: Narrative
Alabama Kin
It's  hard to think about now 
as easy as it was then 
It flowed effortlessly like conversation with a life long friend 
I hate thinking about back when 
but love living back then
And I...

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Categories: death row, age, america, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
1148 Greentree Lane
Circa: 23rd of Tevet, 5760
     to 15th of Tevet, 5770
     in accordance
     with Hebrew date
(converted, asper Gregorian
     Calendar) courtesy...

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Categories: death row, absence, atheist, grief, jewish, mental illness, my
Form: Free verse
Love For Hip-Hop
Let's take it back to the days of Melle Mel & Grandmaster Flash
The Rap masters, who actually had swagger
Dr dre, When he was in N.W.A before Death Row records or Aftermath
Ice Cube, Eazy E, Mc...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death row, dedication, deep, dream, hip hop, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Our Future Career
Will I be a cleric or a pastor?
I 
I think of be a priest in Catholic Church,
All allies & helpers cry
Yes, my fiancée said I dared not,
 I awe her logic of rejects me to...

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Categories: death row, 9th grade, appreciation, best friend, bible, career,
Form: Musaddas
Premium Member Scar Me Good
The building is imposing, massive and fearful,
     built in 1862 as a jail and gallows for criminals;
conditions for the inmates were inhumane and appalling,
       ...

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Categories: death row, history, prison, scary,
Form: Narrative
How To Be a Good Soldier: In the Army of the Lord
one of the world's greatest men was an apostle named Paul
and when he when he wrote this text he was behind prison walls
he had been arrested for preaching God's Holy Word
now Isn't  that the...

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Categories: death row, devotion, faith, inspirational, life, philosophy, uplifting, words,
Form: List
Immunity To a Death Sentence
Now the public library in our town contains the knowledge for mankind, 
and there’s not much happening ‘round the world, that I cannot find.
I can think of any subject that I like and tell Jenny...

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Categories: death row, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One From the Dark Side of My Poetry
 "Nicholas Street Jail is a real place"

The building is imposing, massive and fearful,
built in 1862 as a jail and gallows for criminals;
the conditions were inhumane and appalling,
on the top floor was death row with...

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Categories: death row, dark, prison, scary,
Form: Verse
Dead Man Walking
I am still alive but am not living,
My life is gone am just existing,
Am still in shock am barely breathing,
Waking up from this dream is all that am wishing,
But this is the reality there is...

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Categories: death row, jealousy, murder, prison, , cute,
Form: I do not know?
Fake My Death
I will be reborn again
but hide me from the government
those at my wake will come to know the new loop
and those who walk by the suffering will know nothing
until I am reborn
and i Will be...

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Categories: death row, death, faith, history, inspirational, life, mystery, social,
Form: Free verse
Dope Rhymes To Share With Society By Big Mwv
done near got clipped yet even tripped
out on the patio blasting the stereo
my son was inside eating his Cheerios
man that kid don't quick eating some ice cream with another lick
it seems that times like these...

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Categories: death row, rap,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Waltz Of The Werewolves
At high noontime, the tires are burning in the streets
The sound of barking dogs is everywhere; the cats of hell smell
Like never showered rats who are locked up in death row cells
Where the air does...

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Categories: death row, anxiety, deep, dream, evil, fairy, hate, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Haunted Jail
The building is imposing, massive and fearful,
built in 1862 as a jail and gallows for criminals;
the conditions were inhumane and appalling,
on top floor was death row with only one way out.

It closed in 1972 and...

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Categories: death row, scary,
Form: Verse
Dark Side of the Moon
this is a twisted little tale of a moon king cult leader on death row...enjoy and employ

to all of my fans and fanatical fantastics...to all of my disciples of doom...living and breathing on the dark...

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Categories: death row, epicdark, dark, moon, sad, i love you,
Form: I do not know?
Letter To The Editor


             Your judgments have me grinning.
Don't pretend you were immune 
from the Avarice of Pride.

Which you delved past cover packet 
into the gutworm...

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Categories: death row, art,
Form: Free verse

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