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Grief Prison Poems

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


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,



Ecstasy
ECSTASY

 O morning breeze of West and South Asia

 Let my soul sip sherbet
 From your breasts like lily of the Incas 

 Nightingale of...

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Categories: prison, black love, cinderella, crazy,

Prayer Number 3
what happened?
words pass by. i watch for a glimmer.
i still wait - there is no hurry, and i smile....

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Categories: prison, fate, grief,

Shadow Man
walks with trampolines on his feet
Cracks jokes with the mortician
Reminds you of drunk uncle Todd at any wedding ever
Chops oak trees with a single swift...

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Categories: prison, birthday, drug, grief, loss,

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,



Prison
Invisible shackles,
Untouchable burden;
Silent noises,
Unseeable vision.

Am I in a prison?
Or left stranded under a shade?
From fruit of my poison,
Of all efforts that were made.

Hear Ye! Hear...

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Categories: prison, endurance, grief, people, work,

Life
The tick tock,of this very loud clock,time goes really slowly,in this cell,with this big lock...i often sit and wonder " why oh why"did I end...

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Categories: grief, prison,

Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the Panther
The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is...

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Categories: prison, allegory, analogy, animal, cat,

Premium Member Mad At Madoff
Concrete walls, empty soul
Each day the past still calls
Another day kept inside
Things he did, they could not abide
Trails of bad, buckets of grief
Never a broker,...

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Categories: judgement, prison,

Accountability
Just read in the papers
your name once more;
illogical the powers
which huddle unseen.
You sat in my class,
scholarship’s pilgrim. 
I recall your nascent soul,
tranquil but with drive.

Now,...

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Categories: prison, 11th grade, angst, death,

Premium Member Taken To Prison
The blue pile was hidden from her view
Left in a place to surprise her later
Left by an uncaring, unthinking lout
     Who...

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Categories: prison, grief, life,

You Cheating Slime
He's leading an investigation
About your manipulation
Facts going in his report
You've been busted, slowly caught
Cheating all over this town
One of these days you were bound
To make...

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Categories: heartbroken, hurt, prison,

Aung San Suu Kyi Myanmar Rohingya
aung san suu kyi  MYANMAR Rohingya
Sad when human life become intolerable,
inhumane,
nauseating,
heartbreaking, 
kids deliberately taken from their parents,
left to fend for their sustenance,
begging and pleading,
countless...

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Categories: prison, abuse, baby, dark, evil,

Premium Member Good and Bad Faith Communities
Prisons fester further desecrating guilt by association
as churches
and synagogues
and temples
and mosques
foster sacred innocence through re-association,
communion of the wanna-be saints
and Bodhisattva suffering warriors
for EarthRights Peace and...

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Categories: prison, christian, community, culture, innocence,

Home Alone
Are you coming home?
Home to me, 
Home to where you said you would be. 
Are you coming home? 
Home to me, 
Home is the place...

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Categories: prison, absence, grief, longing, love


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