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Water Rations In a Prison Cell

after Ho Chi Minh

I
The stone basin holds
still water. The still water

drinks the arid sponge
as rays of pure energy

slake their thirst on
the ebon wings of crows

II
Yangtze flows from widows peak
pooling briefly in the lock

of a tired eye. Dirt
and salt cry brackish tears

before leaping from sallow chin,
like rain from languid boughs

III
Frogs turn dirges beyond
translucent glass, their croaks

fold

Categories: prison cell, imagery, prison,
Form: Free verse

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 
            it was winter

I had ten minutes to speak 
with a small piece of soap 
then bucket and soap

Categories: prison cell, africa, body, character, emotions,
Form: Bio

From My Prison Cell

Another moment goes by, another monumental stride
day by day, year by year wind-borne dreams
cascade amongst perpetual memories, gifts of light
that penetrates through the windows of time, the clarity 
of it all giving hope to a fading prayer.

the inept causeway
a track into the unknown
life’s a survey map

The village supreme basks in the delicacy
of a summer sunlight,

Categories: prison cell, fate, hope,
Form: Haibun

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

From My Prison Cell

Seated in a cell of this prison world
I watched the night sky
Through a window,
A tiny one
Sealed tight by metal bars
Seeming to tell me
That mightier they surely are
Mightier than me
Mightier than everything else!

The night sky is where freedom lies
The night sky is where freedom loves
Itself,
Or other sorts of creation
All like me
Floating in glass cylinders
Filled up with

Categories: prison cell, death, freedom, life,
Form: Free verse

A Prison Cell For Me

a prison cell for me

with six foot walls a grimy gray
an eight foot ceiling mothen light
today is nothing new
my gruel will come to greet the noon

Writing challenge 2 May 2019
Lind68868 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Dear Heart
May 16, 2019
(a living theme)

Categories: prison cell, dark,
Form: Verse

Caught Up Inside This Prison Cell Yet On the Outside Someone Still Prays--

CAUGHT UP INSIDE THIS PRISON CELL  Yet On the Outside Someone Still Prays--

I find myself within the cross hairs
My life is just a pen rail
Circumstances got me tied to a chair
Persist can’t I this impending cell
Caught up inside this prison jail
Someone on the outside yet still in prayer

I stand alone here in err
The heir

Categories: prison cell, anxiety, change, engagement, hope,
Form: Rhyme

Prison Cell

Never had a mom,
Dad was never there.
Orphaned in my own home, I'm lost and scared
My home is broken,
I find no comfort.
Locked in my room.
Ashamed of myself,
Lost in my own thoughts of death and corruption.
And no one ever cared,
Without escape, 
I walk alone.
So here I sit in this prison cell,
Choking on their poison.
Silence so loud, I

Categories: prison cell, childhood, confusion, family,
Form: Bio