Get Your Premium Membership

Death Prison Poems

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


Premium Member 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...

Read More
Categories: prison, betrayal, death, murder,



Corporate America
Gagged by the navy neck-tie crowned upon him by the last soldier, the businessman precariously waltzes the death march down into “Sam’s Greens and Grains”,...

Read More
Categories: corruption, prison, work,

The Legend of Johnny Cash
I dreamed of Johnny Cash last night,
his music spoke to me,
I said I thought that you were dead,
but music lives said he,
but music lives said...

Read More
Categories: prison, death, dream, music, native

Premium Member Black and White
In 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...

Read More
Categories: life, murder, prison,

Premium Member 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...

Read More
© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prison,



Premium Member Accepting My Place
In 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...

Read More
Categories: prison, anxiety, conflict, death, discrimination,

Sardar Patel
Memoriam 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...

Read More
Categories: prison,

Premium Member And To Thee An Hourglass
suddenly in a gap between talking, he was taken over
by a new page, turned mid flow, as he clutched his chest, 
creases betraying a defeated...

Read More
Categories: prison, death, health, heart, judgement,

Wailing Idols of Wood
Under the sun and moon, flawed men linger in the cold 
Who in the mist of darkness, cut and rip apart trees eons old 
While...

Read More
Categories: prison, dark, horror, insect, irony,

Premium Member The Pace of Peace
The Pace of Peace
Br-a-a-a-a-a-ang! Goes my morning clock!
And from my bed, I flew.

Off goes the sheets and into the shower...
brush my teeth, and eat...
I better...

Read More
Categories: prison, peace, remember,

And Murdered in Her Bed
(Oscar Wilde wrote that long poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" in 1897, quoted here. In it, a man met his death; for some decades...

Read More
Categories: prison, anxiety, death, emotions, fate,

Rock of Damnation
from his rock he  sends out a deadly summons
  that calls  
          ...

Read More
© Markus Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dark, prison,

Premium Member Infernal Prison
We dance beneath a carousel of blood
Tears flowing from the eyes causing a flood
We're just damned by our own intentions
Brewed by our interpersonal tensions
Lightning lances...

Read More
Categories: prison, corruption, dark, death, evil,

Premium Member 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...

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

Synthetic Epidemic
Yet another soul taken away.
Another family's loss is great.
Another time tears rolled down this face.
Why won't they realize its purpose and quit making these mistakes...

Read More
Categories: prison, abuse, addiction, drug, funeral,


Book: Shattered Sighs