Prison Poems | Examples of Prison Poetry

We welcome you to Wonderland, there's fun for all the ages. The locals roam in circles when permitted from their cages. Amenities are costly, but they'll make your stay divine. Just don't forget the Golden Rule- "What's yours is also mine." We'll keep...Read the rest...

I turn the key to trap you, and you grin a wicked grin. Half-crazy, burning, imperious eyes glow out from behind cold steel. You are quite confident that your day will come, and you will be free to exercise your...Read the rest...

Like uneven waves from a tsunami My mind is just as crazy as the waves, The endless and eternal prison My mind keeps me in drowns me in my sorrows. The thoughts I have shower down like an acid...Read the rest...

Through every field, copse, and wildflower, Ran a little boy every happy hour, Until, once, the troll king, ripe with power, Imprisoned him in his dreary tower... Never again, to see the light...Read the rest...

I was innocent as I went to sleep, But soon I would be in trouble, deep. My problems would pile up in a heap As I went to sleep, to sleep. I began to nap, blameless...Read the rest...

I feel nothing, and everything. An empty echo. Trapped, screaming but yawning. I go unheard. There is a spark, A promise of reanimation In endless pools of blue. I can die and live A thousand lifetimes In an interlocked gaze… But what happens When the...Read the rest...

Sing Sing old prison walls still sing As men worked beyond their limits The stench of old sparky still clings Silence lingers as its laws prohibits Yet Sing Sing old prison walls still sing Of those prisoners laments, within Blooded weal’s on...Read the rest...

she could see in their eyes they looked at her , as if she was a Dove. she was the freedom they wanted to capture , they wanted to hide her, to encage her to keep her only, only...Read the rest...

Bound by walls, we dream of flight, But freedom lies within, alight....Read the rest...

Gagged by the navy neck-tie crowned upon him by the last soldier, the businessman precariously waltzes the death march down into “Sam’s Greens and Grains”, a specialty salad shop that locally sources lettuce from Upstate...Read the rest...

“Freedom is just another word for nothin left to lose. Feeling good was easy Lord, when he sang the blues” ~ Janis Joplin ~ Life was filled with laughter. ...Read the rest...

I dreamed of Johnny Cash last night, his music spoke to me, I said I thought that you were dead, but music lives said he, but music lives said he. From Folsom, to Fort Bend, for every soul behind bars, he asked...Read the rest...

Remember America’s humanitarian aid to Germany’s Nazis and Japan’s Kamikazes ...Read the rest...

“We may think of freedom, not as the right thing to do, but as the opportunity to do what is right.” ...Read the rest...

You spend all the day sneaking about but you'll pay for each rule you now flout You can bet that sweet tail, you're the next cat to jail and you'll sing like a bird to get out!...Read the rest...