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Beautiful Prison Poems

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


Premium Member Bridge of Sighs
the story goes 
that convicted criminals crossing from court to prison
to be executed 
or locked away in dank windowless cells 
received one last look at...

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Categories: prison, beautiful, life,



Premium Member The Cruelty of My Pen
THE 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...

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Categories: beautiful, betrayal, prison, psychological,

Their Endless Prison
Look around
A building beautiful in its time
Closed and hidden from the world
Still, it is filled with hope
And filled with despair
Mists show traces of past lives
Spirits...

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Categories: prison, halloween,

The Widow Still In Her Twenties
The widow still in her twenties and tender 
Can an account of her glamour render:
Jesus Christ, just her temporary darling 
She, sure to later catch...

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Categories: prison, absence, beautiful, cheer up,

Premium Member When We Feel Imprisoned
When we feel imprisoned
by our past,
by bad opinions,
negative aggressive reputations
from get-down bullying
on our worst bad day
or mind/heart-altered night
of rightbrain prominently
screaming red-blooded outrage.

When we feel imprisoned
is...

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Categories: prison, culture, earth, light, political,



Premium Member Eleutheromania
His hands felt tougher than the bones
That cracked beneath his blows
He didn’t always throw these stones
At times, he brought me a rose

Suffering from the lack...

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Categories: prison, abuse, anger, conflict, courage,

Welcome
fragile lace domain
traps all who venture inside
arachnid's pantry 


Written 8th November 2020

Premier Contest H I - K U 
Sponsor Briand Strand
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Categories: beautiful, food, insect, prison,

Tawfiq Zayyad Translation: Here We Shall Remain
Here We Shall Remain
by Tawfiq Zayyad
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Like twenty impossibilities
in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ...
here we shall remain.

Like brick walls braced against...

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Categories: arabic, poems, poverty, prison,

Premium Member Woman In Chains
She lately hears lyric nightingale at the sole window,
And through its bars witnesses a melancholy moon,
And her heart longs for the freedom of velvety flight,
But...

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Categories: prison, abuse, angst, hope, innocence,

A Stormy Prison Turned Mercilessly Stubborn
i hardly recognize the brand new you
the fog has changed me and left my canvas monotonous
you remind me of the day we first met
i was...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prison, i miss you, lost

Premium Member Sunflowers
Sunflowers

Your face is bright and beautiful. 
I can not look your way and not smile. 
I can not think of a world without you. 
Every...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prison, america, dance, devotion, hero,

The Dance of a Prince
His dance is a dance of a prince.,
He is tall and very handsome.

He flies on the stage like a giant seagull,
Graceful and strong on his...

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Categories: prison, appreciation, blessing, dance, god,

Premium Member A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To My Hanging -Part Deux
Dedicated to a fine poet on soup, Lin Lane
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I shook hands with my brother and bade him farewell
Then set off on my journey away from...

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Categories: prison, america, children, family, horse,

Premium Member Prisoner
A prisoner here in his prisoner’s cell, 
Imprisoned here all alone,
Alone with his thoughts thinking away, 
Everything that he has known,

His memories of when he...

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Categories: freedom, prison,

A Liberated Star In Prison
A liberated star in prison

I lie miserably in the 2nd layer of the three course wall
With chains on my hand and no chance to even...

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Categories: lost, prison, star,


Book: Reflection on the Important Things