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Time Prison Poems

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


Premium Member Trick Up Her Sleeve
Written by Gail DeBole
on April 24, 2024

He ransacked the dumpster near the vacant campground
Looking for small trinkets like a well-trained bloodhound.

You know the story. His...

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Categories: prison, betrayal, death, murder,



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 The Twilight Zone
“We may think of freedom, not as the right thing to do, but as the opportunity to do what is right.”    ...

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Categories: granddaughter, grave, prison,

Premium Member Have You Been?
Have you been
Hiking the  Quiraing trail on the isle of Skye?
watching golden eagles as they fly by?
Have you been
Hiking through fields of paintbrush on...

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Categories: courage, feelings, horror, prison,

TO A PRISONER
O prisoner, in your cell so drear,
Your thoughts must wander, far and near.
Though your life's restricted here,
The spirit's free, and ever near.

Your situation may seem...

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Categories: prison,



Premium Member Accepting My Place
In my place nobody longs to die
but they don’t care to live their “like this”
In my place there’s echoes of silent outcry
enduring deaths slow burning...

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Categories: prison, anxiety, conflict, death, discrimination,

Prison Song
Love lives on the other side
It may as well abide
On another planet,
These chains on my heart
And my spirit behind bars,
I am far from touch
Exiled from...

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Categories: prison, longing, lost love, love,

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,

I See You - Part 2
Dear Single Mother, - Part 2


Young man or woman who is, black, white, or any color under the sun, & you identify as Blue, Pink...

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Categories: prison, black african american, courage,

Premium Member Cell Prison: a Parasite of Life
My pixel prison, / parasite of my mind, / tyrant of my time. 

Once upon a time- a letter or a call sufficed.
Now, years vanish...

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Categories: prison, addiction, anxiety, computer, conflict,

Premium Member The Pace of Peace
The Pace of Peace
Br-a-a-a-a-a-ang! Goes my morning clock!
And from my bed, I flew.

Off goes the sheets and into the shower...
brush my teeth, and eat...
I better...

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Categories: prison, peace, remember,

Premium Member I've Just Finished Recording An Album of Post-Prison Singles
these songs are about wizards (mostly)
the untroubled child sleeping peacefully

and when the new washing machine
arrives at the same time as the food delivery

you do wonder...

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Categories: prison, rain,

Kingh
My cousin started molesting me at the age of 9. He said, “Don’t worry you’ll be just fine”. 
You told me I was special, said...

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Categories: prison, drug, goodbye, hate, life,

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 It Never Rains
It never rains
But it pours,
Is an old proverb 
That still endures.  

For: 
When you’ve a leak in your roof 
And your buckets for drips...

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Categories: prison, irony, life, poetry, poets,


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