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Prisoner Poems - Poems about Prisoner

Prisoner Poems - Examples of all types of poems about prisoner to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for prisoner.
Premium Member Life as a Rat
...Life as a Rat Yes, every city is a labyrinthine cage woven from streets seen from celestial heights, but also – from the silken threads of your habits: The paths you follow, or avoid, the cafes ......Read the rest...
Categories: prisoner, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I gaze out the window of my soul
...I gaze out the window of my soul, Scanning a distant horizon where dreams and reality intertwine, Seeing patches of ethereal clouds, Drifting across the vast expanse of the blue sky. I am bound f......Read the rest...
Categories: prisoner, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Prisoner For Now
...I turn the key to trap you, and you grin a wicked grin. Half-crazy, burning, imperious eyes glow out from behind cold steel. You are quite confident that your day will come, and you will be fr......Read the rest...
Categories: prisoner, desire, freedom, god, lust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fashioned Fortitude
...A mirror never reveals fallen secrets sewn with soulful sequins; time unmutes raven melodies within, tawny tunes of truth~ I once spoke in colorful dialects. Now, I trust just the......Read the rest...
Categories: prisoner, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Carousel
...How did I become a human from stardust? Born from stardust, a prisoner of the sky and earth, Hidden by the distant stars and scattered by the wind in the night, I feel like a nobody among forests ......Read the rest...
Categories: prisoner, creation, destiny, dream, faith,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Nadir
...Ripples of pain weave circles round her. memories sad and stark crucify her. at night she encounters mindless phantoms vampires who come to suck her blood, and tear her flesh. She seeks a shel......Read the rest...
Categories: prisoner, angst, conflict, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Self-Sentenced Solitude :POTD:
... Locked within the confines of my mind’s dark cell, Both convict and captor, a self made hell. Each thought a shackle, every memory a bar, Confined by my own mind, a prisoner of psychological sca......Read the rest...
Categories: prisoner, anger, angst, dark, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
2016's Trauma: Living with a Narcissist Part 1
...She spoke to the universe and calmly said That she wanted a marriage. She wanted to wed So she was sent to Johannesburg and into a monster's bed Where God taught her a lesson of life instead ......Read the rest...
Categories: prisoner, abuse, divorce, marriage, recovery
Form: Didactic
Premium Member In the deep night, when stars fall like tears on the fields of dreams
...In the deep night, when stars fall like tears on the fields of dreams, My thoughts drift aimlessly, lost in the whirlpool of consciousness, Somewhere between reality and fantasy, my wounded heart b......Read the rest...
Categories: prisoner, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Skeleton
...I am the prisoner of the ice voices That talk to me with a lashing air About cold and dark lands Where forever I will find my grave. Chilled by their cold speech I let myself be hurt by the co......Read the rest...
Categories: prisoner, dark, death, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse
Eternal Prison
...Like uneven waves from a tsunami My mind is just as crazy as the waves, The endless and eternal prison My mind keeps me in drowns me in my sorrows. The thoughts I have shower down like an acid ......Read the rest...
Categories: prisoner, prison,
Form: Dramatic Verse
This Place
...Shut in this place In close, closer the walls move Waning light as darkness grows Ebbing joy and mounting woes Claustrophobia erecting and waiving its sullen hand Continually the mercury drops......Read the rest...
Categories: prisoner, dark, depression, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I couldn't talk about it, so I wrote a poem
... In flames, feelings bruised my spirit, Maze of ethereal lights, Delicate as the dew who whispers soundless poetry, Pouring out gentle into the moments, Soundless adventures, dancing In rhyth......Read the rest...
Categories: prisoner, appreciation, christian, encouraging, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member These wars teach us nothing, not even how to conquer our fears
...These wars teach us nothing, not even how to conquer our fears. We are still cave people. Democratic cave people, perhaps, but that brings little comfort. Our struggle is to emerge from the cave. ......Read the rest...
Categories: prisoner, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Mirror morgue
...Haunted eyes stare through me, Searching, longing, lost at sea, Soundless cries echo within, A prisoner in her own skin. Hidden traumas itch and gnaw, While the circling buzzards caw, hands ......Read the rest...
Categories: prisoner, death, depression, fate, gothic,
Form: Quatrain

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