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Black and WhiteIn the visiting room evening's ebony is shellacking everything.
He sits across from me at the sable-shaded table, in shades,
pours black coffee pungent as the Gauloises he smokes,
his sun-starved skin bone-white but brooding black light,
an abandoned...
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Categories:
life, murder, prison,
Form: Free verse
Have You Been?
Have you been
Hiking the Quiraing trail on the isle of Skye?
watching golden eagles as they fly by?
Have you been
Hiking through fields of paintbrush on Mount Hood?
From Trillium Lake to Timberline, if you haven't you...
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Categories:
courage, feelings, horror, prison,
Form: Verse
Judged And No Jury
Judged And No Jury
Justice is not just , but blind , as
Under your own sky , lives virtue ,
Dictators of the feathered quill .
Grieve, lost souls without wings ,
Eradicate impurities...
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Categories:
betrayal, judgement, prison, truth,
Form: Acrostic
TO A PRISONERO prisoner, in your cell so drear,
Your thoughts must wander, far and near.
Though your life's restricted here,
The spirit's free, and ever near.
Your situation may seem quite dire,
But freedom's found, in heart's desire.
For though you're bound...
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Categories:
prison,
Form: Sonnet
Recollections of a condemned man
178 months, 129940 hours,
now only 10 minutes remain.
Sitting in cold eerie darkness,
he observes the rhythm of water drops,
slowly wipes away streams of sweat
with his withered trembling hands.
That aching fear, gnawing in his fevered brain,
spasms...
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Categories:
prison,
Form: Narrative
Pound Of FleshLiving in one
renting the other
Owning them both
then to discover
As owner I’m captive
the tenant is free
In debt to the banker
—remortgaging me
(The New Room: January, 2024)
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Categories:
prison,
Form: Rhyme
Gulagthe ghost mind is a curious space
a gulag held in wire
haunted huntress, somber sky
coldest winter sun defy
Cossack, Hessian shadow churn
maze of madness, memory burn
strung from stars furnace spent
eye of ochre...
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Categories:
memory, prison,
Form: Rhyme
THE VENOMSitting in a void
Staring at vacant walls,
Imagining its myriad colors,
Reminiscing about the binding brilliance in life
Ah, the heart!
Such a terrible foe.
Futile perceptions of the past...
Mercilessly, all...
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Categories:
prison, angst, irony, journey, life,
Form: Free verse
The Cruelest PrisonsImpenetrable fortresses built from the many stones of regret,
re enforced with the concrete mistakes we can never forget.
Confined within these walls only your guilt shall dwell.
The cruelest prisons are the ones that we build...
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Categories:
depression, prison,
Form: Rhyme
Break Free OpposingBreak Free (original).
I decline to be bathed in abject defeat, I intend to break free.
My endeavour isn’t dead, intellect serves as a panacea for me
My muse and I must find impassioned advocacy to...
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Categories:
prison,
Form: Rhyme
Accepting My PlaceIn my place nobody longs to die
but they don’t care to live their “like this”
In my place there’s echoes of silent outcry
enduring deaths slow burning kiss
In my place shattered photographs
of family and friends paint the...
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Categories:
prison, anxiety, conflict, death, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
Prison SongLove lives on the other side
It may as well abide
On another planet,
These chains on my heart
And my spirit behind bars,
I am far from touch
Exiled from ecstasy,
As if I grow roots here
And as merciless time moves
They...
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Categories:
prison, longing, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
From Crayons To the PenChildhood comes to an end when you go from crayons to the pen
*In this case, pen can mean writing utensil or penitentiary....
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Categories:
7th grade, childhood, prison,
Form: Monoku
Sardar PatelMemoriam of the Great Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
Who was the first Vice Prime Minister and Home Minister
United each petty kingdom and state and made them dwell
In a single unit, and thus he did administer...
Ironman, he...
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Categories:
prison,
Form: Sonnet
KomorebiI anticipate the first rays as morning draws near.
The day approaches with an abundance of fear.
I gaze into the depth of the cold darkness of night,
Shyly waiting for the solace of days early light.
As I...
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Categories:
prison,
Form: Rhyme
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