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Florida Prisoners Should Have Their Institutional Work Count Twords Their Social Security

...Florida prisoners should have their institutional work count toward Social Security benefits. 
This policy would recognize their labor's value and provide a safety net upon release, aiding reintegra...

Categories: recidivism, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Psychologically still thirteen

...Psychologically still thirteen 

Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener 
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place th...

Categories: recidivism, 7th grade, age, angst,
Form: Rhyme

Growing Healthier Hopes

...For measuring fleeting successes
of punishing policing justice,
we have overly relied on recidivism rates
in response to curiosity about
How to decrease crime.

For enjoying compassion
of rest...

Categories: recidivism, culture, earth, health, hope,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Monument

...The Monuments 

Have you the strength to spear a spine, and will you ladle blood pudding into the Battle Queen’s bosom, under contract that ye shall taste sudden death, and then feast with the gods...

Categories: recidivism, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

This Heart of Mine

...This is the last poem I'm writing for you, we're  the only ones that know what we've been through, from the highs to the lows, from the friends to the foes, I stayed down ten toes, if pain is inspira...

Categories: recidivism, art, beautiful, black african
Form: Ballad

The Carnivore Within

...The Carnivore Within...

Meaty morsels besiege
this vegetarian advocate
yet, the atavistic Jainist within me decries,
egg hen hies his, and lamb hence
carnivorous ache that won't abate
case in...

Categories: recidivism, addiction, conflict, cry, environment,
Form: Free verse

Chastise Monkey Chants

...Monkey chant and fake fraternity front
Brandished on the grand soccer stage
Rush Russian bear invectives to decant
Insanity and indignity rolled into ribald rage.

Monkey chant and plastic smile...

Categories: recidivism, poems,
Form: Free verse

A Man's Memoirs

...I have loved the best
In my tenure as a blue-eyed boy
Injecting zeal and zest in my quest.

I have bestowed care in my romance to attest
To the enduring power of joint joy
I have loved the best...

Categories: recidivism, poems,
Form: Villanelle

A,B,C's of Alliteration

...Almost always, as additional allurements arrive, ask as a Being...
 By better borne behests become best Causes ?
  Can causes create concise concepts Diligently ?
   Do doers do decidedly dumb dol...

Categories: recidivism, conflict, fun, imagination, introspection,
Form: Alliteration

My Mind

...My mind        

My mind is a prison
Overpopulated with remorse
Incarcerated by images of sin
My mind refuses rehabilitation
It cowers in a concrete corner
Face in hands; protesting parole
My mind pu...

Categories: recidivism, death, fear, forgiveness, imagination,
Form: Free verse

Quasi

...Timeless my breath
But for what insidious monstrosity?
Drivel this forms as it goes
Send for my resignation

Drain my thoughts
Feel these fangs dig into my heart
Claws shine bright against moo...

Categories: recidivism, introspection,
Form: Free verse

You Can'T Hurt Me

...Resounding echoes awaken the child
demons in the attic beckon unto him
stark fear grips his Vick's laden chest
shivers vibrate rusty springs of down

footsteps creak closer upon loose floorboard...

Categories: recidivism, introspection, life, sad, education,
Form: Free verse