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Butterfly Prison Poems

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


Premium Member Papillon Perserves 2
cranial cocoon
caterpillar compromise
butterfly escape
perseverance frames our time
the mind's eye unlocks freedom....

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Categories: prison, abuse, analogy, anger, angst,



Premium Member Papillon Perserves
cranial cocoon
caterpillar compromise
butterfly escape...

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Categories: depression, evil, humanity, 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,

Goldfish In Bowl
Confined in a  bowl of silver bubbles 
human eyes to view, hurled and thrown 
round and round, aimless drift in orbits 
a prison of...

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Categories: prison,

Cleansings
Cleansings
by Michael R. Burch

Walk here among the walking specters. Learn
inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave
to bone this tightly if their hearts believe
that God is good,...

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Categories: holocaust, prison, race, racism,



Butterfly In a Bottle
Slowly opens the eyes
Amazed, flutters to the skies
Contained. Settles and sighs....

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Categories: prison, butterfly, how i feel,

Dark Prison
unhinged i wake
tying ribbon around the tree
of amnesia, the butterfly startles,
despairs the blue of humility,
all i wanted was the silence
of ceremony to greet the prosperity
of...

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Categories: prison, art,

Dark Prison
unhinged i wake
tying ribbon around the tree
of amnesia, the butterfly startles,
despairs the blue of humility,
all i wanted was the silence
of ceremony to greet the prosperity
of...

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Categories: prison, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,


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