Short Detention Poems

I don't worry about losing my lunch money
Or being late for the bus.
I don't worry about detention-
Being homeschooled is a plus!...

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In love with him
No just a crazy crush
What a rush

The teacher said hush
Left alone just me and him
Sitten in detention
With a crazy crush...

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In school, Maxwell never paid attention
Got punished with maximum detention --
  They seized his smartphone
  Maxwell moaned and groaned --
But, Wow! ~ Did it improve his retention!...

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We are the vandals
Desires create our misery
Breaking in pieces
Earth now a detention cell
Nature dressed in plastic sheets

31.05.2021
Sponsor: M.L.Kiser
Contest: Tanka Contest...

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   My teacher, she relies on prevention
   That is why she puts me in detention
     Ha-ha, I'll pull the trigger
     'Cos this is what I figure
   She probably believes in 'suspension'...

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Freedom comes packaged
entrapped and confined

How big is your cage, 
 to roam and define

Always constricted,
with borders that move

Its bars of detention
—forever reproved

(Dreamsleep: January, 2021)...

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I got yelled at today
For being worn in the hallways

My owner put me away 
And I was very lonely
 
I was taken out hours later 
And given a lot of attention

I was happy as can be
To be finally out of detention...

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My life consists of nothing.
Underestimated boring.
Yet people are still adoring.
And here I am forlorning.

I don't crave this attention.
Something I never mentioned.
It is my own detention.
Attention, my conviction....

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administration argued asylum
children court criminal 
detention families
federal government illegal
immigrant judge
parents question seekers
separated succeed
Trump unconstitutional
victory violates

June 25, 2018...

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That ulcer
in his 
consciousness
bleeding
to be heard
A canker
of a 
muted past
abscessing
every word

Cold sores
of detention
that fade
but never
cure
A virus
of his 
hopes and dreams
recurring
— untoward

(Septa R5 Train: May, 2024)
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Atmosphere burning
Souls are hurting
Desires need quenching
O’ did I mention?
I am in detention
Locked down in my prayers
I speak life abundant and it is all well
I speak Life Abundance and it is well

8/19/2023
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©...

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take my pure sweet senses into---------Love 
ecstasy before my soul completely---- Defies
dries up and withers in infinity-------------Prisons
taking me to the end road ----------------Thereof
creeping out of my spirit of love---------Cry’s
for you my darling resonate all----------Reasons...

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An old blue uniform 
that hadn't fit in fifty years,
beneath which:
Letters I don't recall sending,
a daub in oils, 
slashed, repaired, and saved.
A note, detention, smoking,
tucked inside
a dictionary, first prize in spelling.
The invitation to the wedding; 
unanswered, unattended.
The will....

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An introvert in isolation

Talked to fairies in desperation

Not even quit faint

So neighbours complained

Called Police for incarceration


An extrovert shut up and inside

Climbed into tupperware as his guide

Held in detention

He gained contention

But then the lid was dissatisfied 



28th April...

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Finals Result

A month before,
Begins the tension,
Something you would like to,
Give a detention.

Of being grounded for a month,
Is perhaps the fear,
Or getting a spanking,
And shedding many tears.

Or perhaps it’s competition just plain,
Or fear of falling behind the class,
The probabilities are clear,
More clearer than glass....

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not paying attention
not caring a damn
now he's in detention 
in Spokanistan
by just doing nothing
he went way too far
out huffing and a puffing
on a faraway star
it's a manner of thinking
that he did do
he flew away drinking 
a forgetful brew
he forgot all his money
in the trash can
he left his kissin honey
in Spokanistan...

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I had a passion 
For touching girls' obsession
A charming profession
In every nation

I went to Jen's mansion
Probed intention
And in tension
She kept me in detention

Five days' action
Had a reaction
I was in traction
Fracture in a fraction

I speak with conviction
It was not a fiction
Ask Jen for reason
I am in her prison...

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Nervous in my sleep
Passed the year with boiling heart
Pushed down the anger

Hide in detention
Feel moody in the morning
I know you are mad

Feel sorry to hear
The things you try not to say
But slipped already

We drown on emo
But hurry stood on our sane
Forgave each other

I'm glad it was you
Person who chased on my days
The love of my life...

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I met this girl
Hollow through a shade of her world
Reluctant to move
A lily on hand await

For an old friend she said
The bizarre anxiety implied
Waiting within the uncertainty limits
Insecurity snatch the sparkle in her eyes

The allure of mystique
Sweeping through her mindset
Live in a simple detention
Her landscape imprisoning, but no mention...

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??All is lost
This is how it will all end
Wars and rumors of wars environmental calamities hatred haters and warmongers dissension prejudice detention families against families animals against animals fires vandals nuclear Holocaust All Is Lost burning lands??








11/21/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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When Donald Trump rants
or a drunk pulls down his wet pants

Mike Pompeo runs his detention camps
in Gods name of course

When the Fox
Is wiser than the hen

One day Freddie
will boil in mercury

never to come back
from the dead

Queens will have their say
Pushing the bully over to the quay

When arrogance yells high on the hilltops
NO COMMENT...

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Stalking a dream
trailing a memory
A scent came in focus
  wafting desire

Seized by the moment
alluding a time warp
Tracking its shadow
ambush on fire

Covered in greasepaint
fear is approaching
Hearing its footsteps
the jungle embarked 

Crosshair detention
target redemption 
Locked and reloaded
—one shot in the dark

(Dreamsleep: September, 2023)...

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The perverse acceptance of dehumanization
coincides with the illusion of vulnerability
Degradation underlies the prolonged process
systematically re-wiring a once skeptical public


Manufacturing receptiveness to a diminished existence
is the prevailing goal
The need for coercion dissipates as resistance vanishes
Turning imprisonment into an implied circumstance...

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If it’s a “jail“, “prison“, or even “detention center”,
it is not a place I would like to enter.
I also certainly will not like to stay.
Commit a crime, and they lock me away.
Four walls and bars make up a small cell.
The entire environment can be a living hell.
Nobody can escape even though some have tried.
When I meld with society, I can stay outside.

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Two hundred dollars to treasure
And praises one cannot measure
For your shows of Frustrated Men
And Robbers in Unhappy Den.
Swell Audience for your attention
And five-star hotel detention
For your soft tales of A Brother
And stories taken much farther…

But for your stabs of a mother
And acts of one who’d not bother
A charge of attempted murder:
Against your escape Sealed Border!...

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