Farewell Prison Poems

You stood before me,
Smile o’ so bright,
The plate of mush you gave me,
I've always feasted at night.

A reached my hand out,
Wishing for just one word,
Yet...

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Prison Dixie

An orange glow reigns down
Upon concrete paths.
Ash flails as it falls.
Vanished pine needles
Blackening the ground beneath.
Drifting along sidewalks. 

Ominous haze hangs air
As darkness eases...

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There once was a bad egg named Drew
Who had a good friend he knew

He said, “I can’t tell,
If I’m going right to hell”

“But if I...

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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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I don't think that he really did come home 
He spent too much time there all alone 
Some memories is all he has 
Living thirty...

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(Haiku)

Gold dust rides whirlwind,
softly speckles wet canvas,
Lost Dutchman Mine found

Prose ~

"Maggie save your strength..." words whispered in the corridor of a prestigious art gallery in...

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Screw my father
that I never knew.
If you take the blame
screw you, too.
Help my family
my Mom, Grandparents, and my Brother.
Let them live happily,
and get along with...

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For entirely too long I held onto
This image I painted of you
But somewhere along the way
The man I met that August day
Got buried down deep...

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I am with you in your cell
reading cheap drugstore
literature.

I am with you in your cell
though you curse me, and the spring.
Your mind, macabre.

I am with...

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They stood there like ghosts
these apparitions.

 Survival was attrition-
 Eyes, like big black holes.

Slowly ,barefoot , moved 
these emaciated Poles.

The one in front ,raised his...

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