Memory Prison Poems
These Memory Prison poems are examples of Prison poems about Memory. These are the best examples of Prison Memory poems written by international poets.
Gulagthe ghost mind is a curious space
a gulag held in wire
haunted huntress, somber sky
coldest winter sun defy
Cossack, Hessian shadow churn
maze...
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Categories:
memory, prison,
The Frontline Behind Closed DoorsThoughts of my abuse courageously spirals out of control
No drug in this world can conquer this raw resilience…..
Its ability to conivingly creep up with silence...
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Categories:
prison, anger, anti bullying, dark,
Escape From PrisonPrisoner mortally confined,
plotting your escape like Papillon,
conceiving freedom like a zoo animal.
Then dreaming on,
you meet a flying child in all your mirrors.
Nearly weightless, pulled...
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Categories:
prison, death, dream, memory, myth,
Folsom Prison Blues-FIt is 9:17am on Wednesday, October 14, 2020.
As I was leaving Folsom after an early morning doctor's appointment,
I crossed a very familiar intersection that I...
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Categories:
prison, children, family, god, memory,
Year End Brag LetterNormalcy seemed to resound
like a year-end brag letter,
for out of reach are those possibilities
when locked up in a ward.
Voices itched inside her body
and...
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Categories:
prison, loss, memory, mental illness,
Locked Up In a Word PrisonThis mind locked into a syllable count
Receiving maxim sentence seventeen
Monoku one liner is this amount
Shakespearean Sonnet it’s revealed in
The Acrostic is vertically straight
Like these prison...
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prison, poetry, poets,
Time's PrisonIf you call out loudly,
the past will find you
The pain but a looking glass,
all time a shroud
As memory surrounds,
its...
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Categories:
prison, time,
Remember ThisMy mind was trying
To make fantasies
Of my memories.
But struth,
For me
I would rather live
In reality
Than seek a land
Of fading things.
My mind's eye
Now sees the world
With a...
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Categories:
prison, dream, fantasy, imagination, lost,
The Battle Between Body and SpiritThe battle between body and spirit
Housed as I am,
in this earthenware vessel
I witness,
the raging between body and spirit.
My mood- sullen and morose,
a telling sign-
a flashing...
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Categories:
prison, evil, faith, health, hope,
Attica To Alcatraz
From sea to shining sea,
‘Merica ain’t never been nothin’ but
a prison for
angry black boys like me
Childish rage moved my hands,
hateful oppression reaction expression
made me feel...
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Categories:
history, prison, slavery, truth,
If Ever I Had a Country : Xix and ***IF ever I had a country : XXIX - ***
...
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prison, anti bullying, betrayal, people,
This Is UsWhat would you say if I told you I didn’t know if I loved you?
It’s hard to really know for sure.
How can I say either...
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Categories:
prison, i love you, i
AaronFortunes and fishermen
drowning in helium.
We should be priority
but we're
numbered
wings clipped
put behind bars as if
the sky has been ripped
from our grasp...
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Categories:
christian, destiny, prison,
White
"WHITE"
White is a vacant colour
there is no substance
there is no depth
there is no surface
to check beneath ...
White is a base colour
Ground Zero where...
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Categories:
prison, color, dark, emotions, imagery,
2amThe night is long and lonely when it's just myself and I
Sleep has gone travelling without even a goodbye
Eyes shut but they're roaming the depths...
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Categories:
loneliness, longing, love, prison,