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Prison Cell Poems - Poems about Prison Cell

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Premium Member Love Letter for April :139:
...Dear Love, Just a quick note: You caught me unawares I thought I lived in circles You taught me to accept squares I write to ask for guidance As straight lines tend to bend The route we though......Read the rest...
Categories: prison cell, confusion, crush, friendship love,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Mandela and Shoebills
... So suddenly it appears in my Facebook feed as if it has always been part of nature as if it always made its presence known in all the years of nature shows I've been watching surely a......Read the rest...
Categories: prison cell, nature, perspective, science,
Form: Free verse
Hickory Dickory Dock
...Hickory Dickory Dock, The mouse hushed up the clock. But Cuckoo caught him by his tail, Now mouse is serving time in jail. Until once more the clock will chime, And with ......Read the rest...
Categories: prison cell, bird, nursery rhyme, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Clarity of Mist
... A Clarity of Mist Silence pervades the harshness of reality To unveil a life, decorated by walls And screams of memories, most not her own, But seized and claimed by ot......Read the rest...
Categories: prison cell, conflict, depression, loneliness, longing,
Form: Rhyme
The Great Catching Away part nine
...Raymond Miles heard what sounded like a super sonic boom in the air while he eye witnessed jet airliners fall to the ground on the freeway. His family watched cars piling up on the freeway totally......Read the rest...
Categories: prison cell, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Recovery Isn't Just for Addicts
...Becoming the prey I’m melting away like a 5 foot wick To show a skeleton of who was once the author Now the pencil tips break and the pens ink tends to escape My eyelids worked overtime as haza......Read the rest...
Categories: prison cell, angst, devotion, emotions, lonely,
Form: Free verse
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 night, Shyly waiting for the solace of days early lig......Read the rest...
Categories: prison cell, prison,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Abandoned
...Was here yesterday morning, disappeared this afternoon Gone a certain aegis, like the wearing off of perfume See nothing can last forever, time elopes with esprit Winds of change unchangeable, ......Read the rest...
Categories: prison cell, absence, nostalgia, perspective,
Form: Sonnet
My Beautiful Addiction
...I lie here in an empty freezing prison cell, Alone apart from the black mirror in my hands. How long I have been here I couldn't say, A prisoner and jailor with the key in one. You're my nico......Read the rest...
Categories: prison cell, addiction, computer, internet, solitude,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member In the Misty Corridors of the Soul Contest
..."In the misty corridors of the soul" I fear misery and growing old Confined within a prison cell Of conformity, a kind of hell Told what I can and cannot do Criticised by only you Doubts creep ......Read the rest...
Categories: prison cell, abuse,
Form: Rhyme
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 Ya......Read the rest...
Categories: prison cell, imagery, prison,
Form: Free verse
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 with......Read the rest...
Categories: prison cell, fate, fear, prison,
Form: Rhyme
Saddleworth Moor
...Crossing the Pennines, rocky spine Of the country running North South, Following the motorway west From the Humber Estuary Mouth It always felt cloud bound whatever The weather or the time of ......Read the rest...
Categories: prison cell, dark, death, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Captive
..."But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men." *Ephe......Read the rest...
Categories: prison cell, blessing, christian, faith, freedom,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
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 ......Read the rest...
Categories: prison cell, africa, body, character, emotions,
Form: Bio

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