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Fear Prison Poems

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


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 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...

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

Premium Member Komorebi
I anticipate the first rays as morning draws near.
The day approaches with an abundance of fear.
I gaze into the depth of the cold darkness of...

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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...

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

Dodge Penitentiary
Dodge Penitentiary, what are those voices/
Dodge Penitentiary, losing my mind doing time/
Dodge Penitentiary, where the am I?/
I entered Dodge Penitentiary, hardest of the hard/
My paws...

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Categories: prison, character, conflict, crazy, deep,



Premium Member Escape
One more time and out the door
I could not ever ask for more

I think we knew it was a crime
But we just had so little...

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© Andy Chunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prison, anxiety, endurance, fear, freedom,

Premium Member The Devil's Delights
Plagued by sleepless nights,
Cursed by endless days.
The Devil now delights,
In my hopeless ways.

Trampling on my dreams,
Riddling me with doubt.
Laughing at my screams,
Within and from without.

Shackled...

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Categories: fate, fear, prison,

Premium Member The Power of Poetry
I Climbed rocks winged with words, 
and paint beauties on my path, 
invade palaces unhindered, 
bearing arms welling from this frame.
I draw the sword from...

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Categories: prison, allegory, allusion, analogy, mystery,

Premium Member Another Day At the Jail - Acts 16: 19-34
A jailer has never two similar days
never knowing what will be next
I should know for that's what I do
way back in the days of no...

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Categories: day, prison, truth,

Solitary Confinement 1
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT 1 : Number Four


Many chains, many locks and bars
clattered at four in the morning 
black bitter coffee drugged
a single bucket of cold water...

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Categories: prison, africa, body, character, emotions,

Premium Member Navigating Through Life's Highway
She is anxious
Like the rushing wind
She bleeds worry
Because she fears within
She is insecure, an exposed doubt
Vulnerable to rejection, to the 
Unlocked shame, regret
So dark it...

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Categories: prison, anxiety, dark, fear, hope,

Fog of Voices and Beasts
Fear is an all-consuming fog 
Consuming shining rays of hope and light 
Eyes trapped shut in this ash-filled smog 
Voices of mania are heard at...

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Categories: prison, dark, evil, fear, humanity,

Premium Member The Underworld
The Underworld 

There is a path
that leads to the bridge. 
Well, not exactly. 
It leads under it. 
Why would anyone want to go that way?...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prison, bird, blessing, encouraging, feelings,

Hooligans
Armed to kill with their guns and batons, 
How can we defend ourselves against them, 
Hooligans in uniforms with weapons, 
Police preaching peace and protection,
Yet...

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Categories: abuse, prison,

Premium Member Paying a High Price
Russia's losses have been greater with their Ukrainian invasion
Compared to nine years in Afghanistan, another miscalculation
Many towns and cities in Ukraine are now being taken...

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Categories: conflict, murder, prison, war,


Book: Shattered Sighs