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Dad Prison Poems

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


I See You - Part 1
Dear Single Mother,

Who Works two jobs of 12 - 14 hour days to keep the lights on, & to feed little Johnny.

I See you!



Single Father...

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Categories: prison, black african american, courage,



Thirteen Dollars
We scrounged up
Every penny we could
The night the policemen took you.
We had thirteen dollars
For your five hundred dollar bail....

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Categories: prison, dad, daughter, father daughter,

My Mind On My Money
I got my mind on my money and money on my mind/
Cat scan if you like you'll tell I ain't lying/
Verse One
Money is all I...

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Categories: prison, character, guitar, how i

Lost Childhood
I was just a child,you took that away,I wanted to be like my friends,just go out and play..No longer wanting to be locked in my...

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Categories: prison, child, child abuse, hurt,

Premium Member The Execution of Paul Carter
My name is Paul Carter and I want to tell you my tragic story
About the wrong path I chose in life, that wasn't one of...

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Categories: prison, america, dark, death, drink,



Premium Member How Some Guys Can Actually Cage a Bird, I'Ll Never Know - Both Audio and Text
Seeing for the first time - as I lifted off the tarp - 
Dangling from the apex of its shiny silver harp,

What Sarah Jane, my...

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Categories: bird, prison,

Premium Member My Daddy Is In Jail
My Daddy is in jail, he says. 
He is six years and six days old.
Big brown eyes, mushroom skin, trusting me. 

That’s too bad, I...

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Categories: prison, school, student, teacher,

Pumpkin Man
riding in a car past large trees
away from the house I am staying in
to shelton I visit Dad

I look at the airport
wondering where we are...

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Categories: prison,

Invitation Part 2
Maybe I asked him to rape me
the first time in the bushes
hiding from one adult and others
prison kids do some mean things

playing footsies I sent...

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Categories: prison, youth,

Joint
When my wife found my pot, she thought it was tea.
And her employer fired her after he made her pee.
My dad caught me when I...

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Categories: dad, drug, funny, prison,

Stop Abusing Women
Stop Abusing Women 

A man saw a beautiful woman 
in white cloths 
She was going to church. 

He called her, 
pretty come to me please
She...

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Categories: prison, abuse, evil, hurt, husband,

A Chibok Dream
In Chibok once, I met a maid, three hundred was her name.
Brim-filled with hope and not afraid, her life like sheets was plain.
She had a...

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Categories: abuse, africa, daughter, prison,

On Days Like These
Its always hard on days like these
To forget
The times spent together 
Running through the fall leaves 
Hunting in the mountains.

Its always hard on days like...

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Categories: prison, dad, daughter, emotions, father

Premium Member Early On
Early On

Sitting there alone in class
they said it wasn't cool.
He should not bring his bible
to read while he's in school.

The gave him detention
and they took...

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Categories: prison, abuse, addiction, analogy, anger,

Arsenic
I should've known something was wrong when my dad started getting sick.
My Stepmother is evil and for many weeks, she poisoned him with arsenic.
It was...

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Categories: prison, dark, death, evil, father,


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