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April Prison Poems

These April Prison poems are examples of Prison poems about April. These are the best examples of Prison April poems written by international poets.

Trick Up Her Sleeve

Written by Gail DeBole
on April 24, 2024

He ransacked the dumpster near the vacant campground
Looking for small trinkets like a well-trained bloodhound.

You know the story. His...

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Categories: prison, betrayal, death, murder,

No Racing Rat Is Indeed Above the Law

No racist rat is indeed above the law
Justice must be blind, fair, equal and raw
For all, in a democratic society
We are sick and tired of...

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Categories: prison, bullying, evil, firework, insect,

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...

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Categories: death, fantasy, loneliness, prison,

Sandbars

Are you digging a hole
you will never crawl out of,
a prison self-made by your hand
The metaphors mix
as you lie there betwixt
—the bars sinking into the...

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Categories: prison,

Forsaken

cloistered
a remote cell
unattainable
captive caged in heights
out of reach
and out of sight
the lofty dismal tower
of her despair
confined within
all hopes dangle anchored
to a passing ray of sunshine
or...

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Categories: dark, hope, light, prison,

My Home Is a Prison

I am secluded,
      oh, I like my solitude but this is different;
        this...

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Categories: prison, fear, scary,

Prisoner of Time

Does your past 
inhibit the meaning

Does a smile work 
 to cover your pain

Does today lie in wait
for tomorrow

Your messages cleft,
forever the same

Do you write...

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Categories: prison, time,

Time's Prison

If you call out loudly,
  the past will find you

The pain but a looking glass,
  all time a shroud

As memory surrounds,
  its...

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Categories: prison, time,

The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wilde
with ‘Bosie’ Lord Alfred was utterly beguiled
Falling from grace by the public defiled
Two years hard labour for playwright Oscar Wilde

A former shadow...

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Categories: betrayal, love, prison,

Beauty Fraught

I was a soldier, but never sure
  of those things I was  
  charged to do

I was asked to fight
  pick...

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Categories: prison,

Caught Up Inside This Prison Cell Yet On the Outside Someone Still Prays--

CAUGHT UP INSIDE THIS PRISON CELL  Yet On the Outside Someone Still Prays--

I find myself within the cross hairs
My life is just a pen...

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Categories: prison, anxiety, change, engagement, hope,

A Fabulous Beast

I met a fabulous beast today,
I met him in a zoo.
I was looking at a tiger,
And he was looking too.

Such strength and dreadful power
He carried...

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Categories: prison, strength, tiger,

The Prisoner of Time

Does your structure inhibit
 the meaning

Does a smile work to cover your
  pain

Does today mean much less
  than tomorrow

Are your messages forever
 ...

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Categories: prison, time,

Unshackle My Verse:

When Rhyme was a crime:


I send all my kites in metaphorical rhyme,
So the screws can't decipher them in time.

I hang low compared to all the...

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Categories: humor, humorous, prison,