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My Mind On My MoneyI got my mind on my money and money on my mind/
Cat scan if you like you'll tell I ain't lying/
Verse One
Money is all I know all I see and remember/
From January to December I'm...
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Categories:
prison, character, guitar, how i
Form: Lyric
Behind The Walls
Storage for souls,
Home for the deviant,
Imprisoned for a transformation,
Secluded for a change,
Made to walk on a sombre-solitude path,
Harbinger to newness.
May 17, 2022,
Bite Size Poem No. 44 Poetry Contest.
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Categories:
loneliness, prison,
Form: Free verse
hooligansArmed to kill with their guns and batons,
How can we defend ourselves against them,
Hooligans in uniforms with weapons,
Police preaching peace and protection,
Yet proving themselves a constant contradiction,
As they beat up defenseless innocence,...
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Categories:
abuse, prison,
Form: Free verse
Paying A High PriceRussia's losses have been greater with their Ukrainian invasion
Compared to nine years in Afghanistan, another miscalculation
Many towns and cities in Ukraine are now being taken back
As Ukrainian defenders launch, a devastating counter attack.
At a river...
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Categories:
conflict, murder, prison, war,
Form: Rhyme
Reach OutSoft spoken like Charmin
The earth is down to you
You’d sacrifice the clothes off your body
in a winter storm
Forever putting yourself out of the photo
Loyal to snakes
Spearhead in your spine
Future bright as a billboard at 2...
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Categories:
prison, birthday, drug, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
They have Made Life Money BasedI have toothpaste because I paid money.
I watch TV for the same reason.
And this money thing is far from funny:
Without it you are as in a prison!
I have polish that I also have bought.
Water, power,...are...
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Categories:
prison, anti bullying, anxiety, crush,
Form: Sonnet
Prisons of promise
These walls.
These walls are strong in structure.
These walls are as cold as ice.
These walls bake in the summer sunshine.
These walls know our truths, our fears, our lies.
These walls witness our darkest dreams living.
These walls see...
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Categories:
prison, abuse, beauty, bereavement, cry,
Form: Free verse
fubar
losing best friends is tragic ~ lose one for taking a life, stigmatic
By
David Kavanagh...
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Categories:
abortion, allusion, prison,
Form: Monoku
If I were Immortal
One may think what a boon it is to be immortal
Defeating death may at first seem the greatest victory
When ill health plagues, striving for a cure, seems pivotal
No doubt, longevity of life in many...
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Categories:
death, fantasy, loneliness, prison,
Form: Rhyme
Still I Will MoveYou may together fetter my legs
With my hands shackled at my back
Then you stand aloof and laugh
But like Lazarus from the grave
Still, I will move.
You may lock me inside the dungeon of terror
All around...
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Categories:
prison, allusion, christian, encouraging, faith,
Form: Free verse
Rhapsodic Freedom
The remnants of the castle I had built
with the silver sands of my dormant dreams,
sank at the bleak bottom of breaking waves
in the stormy sea of wrecking strife.
Emerging free out of the...
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Categories:
analogy, bird, freedom, prison,
Form: Free verse
Snail Sealed AwayTrapped in slothfulness
Trapped in spiral labyrinth
Will she leave her shell
Inspired by a mosiac art of snails in Aquileia Basilica. Explained here: https://theomagica.com/blog/visit-to-a-gnostic-sanctum-aquileia
Aquileia's official website explaining the site: http://www.comune.aquileia.ud.it/index.php?id=6903&L=4...
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Categories:
prison, allegory, analogy, animal, dark,
Form: Haiku
FreedomWhat good is freedom
without Our own time.
We're society's prisoners
but have committed no crime.
Life's like a journey
on a slow-moving train.
From station to station
nothing lost nothing gained.
From our very first breath
we're all caught in a web.
Hills become...
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Categories:
prison, society,
Form: Rhyme
around my brain
Kings resemble Worlds
tears from silent streaming stars
rosary circles...
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Categories:
character, games, prison, religion,
Form: Haiku
The Cruelty of My PenTHE CRUELTY OF MY PEN
The mind can think one thing, but it is the pen that is in controlIt commands all of my words, and all the lines of my story told
I can fume and...
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Categories:
beautiful, betrayal, prison, psychological,
Form: Couplet
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