Short Convicts Poems

Short Convicts Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Convicts by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Convicts by length and keyword.


Premium Member Who Is He a Riddle Rhymed

He
   convicts,indwells&seals
   guides teaches&reminds
   comforts,counsels fills
   equips &empowers
   as&when He wills
Form: Didactic


Premium Member Barney Fife

Barney was captured by some convicts one day
 and so he never thought he'd get away
 But dancing it proves
 And Barney's slick moves
 Helped Andy capture them without delay!

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Fat Cats and Lawyers

Sharp Suited Sharks 
Feeding
Fervently Feasting, Foul Fiends 
Covetous Cuthroats, Cultured Convicts Convincing
Innocents Inked In Immensely Incurred Interests, 
Indebted
Enslaved, Effaced Emotions, Exasperated

Cafeteria

Patiently waiting in a line
eyeballed an wary
harsh barking of subterranean cultures
standing weary and inured
to the rotten
fug
the rotten
oxygen

inside the high walls and wire, the weighted stone of
the convicted

existing like convicts

Metal World

They took all my metal parts. 

Which they said were dangerous. 

And handed me a crayon. 

Convicts, get to work!

Write away your lives.  

And leave them here. 

So you will all be reformed!

They commanded. 

They demanded. 

Until we were trained. 

To act without urgency.


Hypocrits Hallelujah

I follow you lord with all my heart,
so i shall kill others in your name.
I will be the officer who enforces the laws,
even if they are unlawful themselves.
I will be the jury who convicts those before me,
even if they did nothing wrong.
I will also be the executioner,
even if being so means I sin.
All this I do in your name oh lord.
Amen.

Insecticide Spray

Insecticide spray

Death is coming 
can you hear the planes? 
Spraying their poisonous package 
Sprinkling down like rain 

deaf to  violence 
blind to famine 
The government convicts and kills 
with without remorse to feel 

death than silence 
confined  & dilapidated 
United states of terror 
New world order 
 creeps nearer and nearer

Humanity Calamity Insanity

Institutional reformation inside of this nation 
Prisons have risen to the ranks of solicitation

Politicians in formation line up for their vacations
Due to a prisoners isolation

The ideology behind this hypocrisy
Is some kind of demented democracy
And a continuing demagoguery

Oh the humanity
A convicts calamity
Thanks to political insanity
Form: Ode

Premium Member Saving Me From My Imagination

Sophie dog is bark-crying, howling in consternation
As if robbers with machetes are in the closets
As if home invaders have slept under our beds.
As if sixteen escaped convicts are eating her bologna.
As if someone is approaching with two assault rifles.
As if a SWAT team is getting ready to break down our windows.
Someone knocks on the front door and I jump straight up to the ceiling.
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How Did Our Sun Rise Today

How rhythmic is the silence
Of them that await their doom?
How melodic is their woe?

While hearts blossom
And remember with gratitude
The resplendent surge
Of their first conception

While convicts of our longing
Fish with the golden roe
The majesty of our history-
Committing acts of desecration

A stern righteous voice
Clad in beauty and ecstasy
Comes leaping upon hillocks:
Promising eternity beyond our dreams!

Correctional Officers Prayer

We Go Inside The Fence For Every Shift,
We Pray It’s Safe, Peaceful And Swift.

We Put Up With Inmates, Convicts, 
Administration & The Rest.
We Pray Each Day To Do Our  Best.

We Have A Thin Line That We Must Walk,
With Courage From God, We Shall Not Balk.

Each Day We Put Ourselves In Harm’s Way,
So Our Family & All Have A Safer Day.

This We Do, To Better The World You See,
For We’re The Officers Of The D. O. C.
Form: Rhyme

D.O.C. Soldiers

We are D.O.C. soldiers down for the cause.
Missouri's convicts and solid outlaws.
The rule that we live by are written in stone.
We are powerful and fearless we are bad to the bone.
We come from these towns all across the way.
Doing our time taking it day by day.
We are solid most blasted with ink.
We don't give a lick what other people think.
All this in time makes us mean ruthless and hard.
It's all a small price to pay to survive on the yard.
© James Byrd  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Premium Member We Gather

We gather 
    thirsty, weary
        like a flock of birds after a long flight
 ready to drink Holy Spirit revival.

The congregation 
    children of God
        the bride of Christ, His beloved
     sing praises to the risen King
voices lift like the rising sun. 

Holy Word of God
    burns like fire within the soul
          convicts hearts to follow Him
     sin’s deadly stains washed away
cleansed by the Redeemer’s blood.

Jail-Like

Some inmates, when released from jail,
Don’t waste a lot of time
Before old habits do prevail
And they commit a crime.

A subsequent arrest may cause
A trip back to the cell
And to the life that prisoner
Has come to know so well.

The outside world intimidates;
Protection disappears,
But being back eliminates
The risk of hidden fears.

Like convicts, I am also stuck
Inside my Covid realm,
Not knowing when I’ll have the pluck
To once more take the helm.
Form: Rhyme

Our Great Motherland

Our great motherland
Called the giant of Africa
With the shadow of an ant
And the night of an earthworm
On her way to glory.

Led 'magnificently' by the thieves
Ex-convicts,murderers and mad men;
Our souls they've reduced to slush
And our spirits have been 'sharpvilled'
For revenge.

The French revolution 
Should be played in our motherland
In the hope that our 'magnificent' leaders
Be thoroughly eliminated from us
And a new dawn we await for our motherland.
Form: Didactic

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