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Depression Prison Poems

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


Premium Member Gingham Prison: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road
(Lights dim, a single spotlight illuminates Judy Garland, center stage. She wears a faded housecoat, her eyes holding a lifetime of stories. She speaks directly...

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Categories: prison, addiction, anxiety, depression, loneliness,



Premium Member Illusionary Art
My perception of the world is illusory art
The darkness is absolute
Women suffering violent abuse
From the one who said, “I do.”
Men and women  pushing dope
To...

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Categories: prison, 12th grade, allusion, betrayal,

Premium Member The Cruelest Prisons
Impenetrable fortresses built from the many stones of regret, 
re enforced with the concrete mistakes we can never forget.
Confined within these walls only your guilt...

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Categories: depression, prison,

The Prison Lights
The prison light are
never turned off.
The darkness would
give the
prisoners' imagination to
run and dance in the
fields full of flowers;
to joyfully stroll in the 
streets of their
distant...

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Categories: prison, depression, destiny, dream, emotions,

Premium Member Recluse
heart of compassion, stifled by rejection 
conceiled with conscientious imperfections
marvel mind mortified by manmade mistakes 
confined in constraint, no mental escape

flunking society's supposed expectancy, 
failing...

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Categories: prison, depression, hurt, mental health,



Prison of Flesh
Prison Of Flesh

Pregnant and constipated
Gagged
Asphyxiated
Want to jump out of my skin
Nonplussed and exasperated
Black bagged
Unenumerated
Everything is without
And I am locked within...

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Categories: prison, angst, deep, depression, feelings,

Premium Member I Am a Prisoner Here
I am a prisoner here,
Though I have no bars to contain me,
No chains to restrain me,
Nor any crime to detain me.
My only offense is being...

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Categories: prison, age, depression, environment, freedom,

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

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Categories: depression, evil, humanity, prison,

Prison Storm
When this storm finally passes and you wonder how you made it through it with each day that passes and learn what to do.Inside you...

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Categories: prison, absence, addiction, anger, dark,

Premium Member Dark Sun
There're days when the sun is up
When the solar rays hit you
You feel been dropped from the top
And you end up right on the screw.

You...

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Categories: prison, dark, day, night, power,

Wayward Soul
Woeful wandering wayward soul
Hither thither you go, to a place
so lonely and cold

Dwelling and sometimes reveling in
a sunken place
Hither thither you go, leaving
a dark trace

Wandering...

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Categories: prison, anxiety, conflict, death, depression,

The Fule Lord
The follies of fools 
The lord of fools 
The fools that are lords
a leader of the damned 
Insane the minority of minions 
Deplorable and disdained...

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Categories: prison, america, analogy, anger, bullying,

Good Day
There was a day, 
A very good day,
So long ago now, 
I hardly remember,
Before I was here,
At this low point in life,
Before pining for love,
Consuming...

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Categories: prison, addiction, america, angst, childhood,

Premium Member Prisons
I know you are locked away behind real bars,
I never really know your scars.
I have never really been there,
But I know you live everyday on...

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Categories: prison, dark, depression, feelings, mental

Maelstrom
A god mended in string and wired corsets, armature. 
The blackened police the striders in the dark… 
a crippled plaything, 
a hymn of the tourniquet...

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Categories: prison, adventure, allegory, art, class,


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