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Prisons Poems - Poems about Prisons

Glass Prisons
Man— born to think freely, now trapped in a prison of pixels. Facebook— a wasteland of worthless chatter, where minds rot in the soil of mediocrity, graves of shallow likes and empty words. Telegram— a playground for the desperate, lust clothed in secrecy, hands searching...

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Categories: prisons, change, computer, freedom, internet,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Cruelest Prisons
Impenetrable fortresses built from the many stones of regret, re enforced with the concrete mistakes we can never forget. Confined within these walls only your guilt shall dwell. The cruelest prisons are the ones that we build for ourselves....

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Categories: prisons, depression, prison,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Prisons of Norway
Sun, moon, stars, and universe are captivations, Scenes, sceneries, lands, landscapes are activations; Like a child, at each lovely scene, I do wonder, Today, to a certain concept, I surrender..! ===== === While third-degree punishments of severe beating, Depriving prisoners - of food, drink; ill-treating: With piercing needles betwixt nail and flesh and nose, Electrocuting; What else? Who exactly knows…? Indian prisons have...

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Categories: prisons, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Prisons of Promise
These walls. These walls are strong in structure. These walls are as cold as ice. These walls bake in the summer sunshine. These walls know our truths, our fears, our lies. These walls witness our darkest dreams living. These walls see our happiest smiles. These walls watch our bodies weaken. These walls hear our most painful cries. These walls are not just bricks and...

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Categories: prisons, abuse, beauty, bereavement, cry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prisons
I know you are locked away behind real bars, I never really know your scars. I have never really been there, But I know you live everyday on a prayer. I just know my personal prison, The life that some say is a life of indecision. But really is a life of pure hell, So here is my story to tell. Thoughts of...

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Categories: prisons, dark, depression, feelings, mental
Form: Rhyme



Prisons Long For Company
Prisons long for company, Itching to swallow many; One ruinous day and we are there, In their confinement graduating to heir... Simply an indictment mimicking a spear, Scarcely reckoning how to others we are dear. One doesn’t have to be misdeeds haunted, Our handcuffs not by our infractions prompted; In deed any allegation at last alighting on your skull, By this preparing you...

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Categories: prisons, absence, anxiety, death, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Of Pockets and Prisons
Whole countries abide in my pockets. Places that live in closets of cloth, pokes, pouches, and nests hid darkly as the cloistered and inert. Mossy dens and dimples of lint they are, until hands fumble for a castle, a temple or even derelict homes; then as fingers recall their shape they reform to places that can be entered again. Once I was in a prison I...

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Categories: prisons, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Prisons
Traversing veiled and hazy twilight sleep My thoughts meander and begin to creep Through channels only visible at night Unleashing fears kept harnessed by the light When faces reappear from deep within In shame, remorse enhances my chagrin To face the truths of weakness hidden still From those I’ve loved and lost through silent will If I could only have...

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Categories: prisons, anxiety, loss, lost love,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Prisons Are Not Made of Walls
Bricks and cement do not make walls for a prison Only cruel minds and premeditation Is it not murder? Is it not fraud and theft that locks one in?...

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Categories: prisons, prison,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Castles and Prisons Seem Cold
Castles and prisons seem cold High ceilings Icy walls Rules galore Who would want to live there? Not me. Princess or prisoner. I want neither role. Castles and prisons seem cold....

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Categories: prisons, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Pride Ism's and Prejudice Prisons
You can be proud of your city, home town or your village. You can be proud of your home county and local heritage. You can be proud of the school where you were taught. You can be proud of the local pub, club or restaurant. You can be proud of your family without taunt. You can be proud of the...

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Categories: prisons, people, perspective, prejudice, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prisons
Prisons, like slavery, and economic and political prostitution, are rooted in unfortunate histories of criminal choices. Criminal behaviors are rooted in revenge and fear and anger and insanely aggressive feelings of entitlement, bad faiths in superior wants and isolating needs. Retaliation is rooted in blame. Blame is rooted in guilt. Guilt is rooted in shame. Shame is rooted in insufficiency, poverty, feelings of marginal value, remedial weaknesses. Lack of value for healthy life, for all lives, is rooted in circles...

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Categories: prisons, gender, health, integrity, mental
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Prisons of Conceit
Confined within the steep banks of a narrow mind is a cryptic river where men stumble in and go blind They construct reinforced dams that hold them back from accepting the candid truth; white is not black Like the slow moving current of a trickling stream their thoughts are clogged and clot like curdled cream What chance do the...

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Categories: prisons, character,
Form: Rhyme
Three Worlds, Three Prisons
I think about human freedom I search for human liberty I get none in human life Humans have never carried Freedom and liberty in bags In mother’s womb Surely I see no freedom, no liberty! In the womb- world humans; have eyes but not allowed to see have ears but not allowed to hear have mouth but not allowed to eat have tongue but...

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Categories: prisons, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Cruelest Prisons
Impenetrable fortresses built from stones of regret, reinforced with concrete mistakes we can never forget. Confined within these walls only your guilt shall dwell. The cruelest prisons are the ones that we build for ourselves....

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Categories: prisons, depression,
Form: Rhyme

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