Short Doing Time Poems

He thought it was the perfect crime,
But now, alas, he’s doing time.

For Susan’s Time contest...

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kept this in mind
and not lying
you committe
a crime
read the sign
you will be not free
you'llbe
DOING TIME...

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Thirty days hath September, April, June
November and anyone...
over the speed limit. 

 © Harry J Horsman  2011...

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don't be bought
you might get caught
don't be blind
there trouble of all kind
its a crime
might you to do too
it
DOING TIME...

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its deep am off my feet
around you am weak
my heart beats and beat
am not lying
yes am doing time
over you too
IF LOVES A CRIMES...

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working on the road
was there gaol
doing time
it was jail line
drinking from a ten cuff
going thur pain
ii was
HAND CUFFS AND CHAIN...

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yes i agree, Frank...

what is my crime,
 i'm doing time,
 locked away from the light, 
its so unfair, the birds out there,
are in flapping floating flight,

Don...

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KILLER COD
"there was a cod that killed a man and is now doing time on death roe"
Indiana Shaw . . . ; )...

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I shake my head in disbelief
and learn the details of a crime:
the relatives are full of grief,
the killer's angry, 'doing time',
the victims' bodies in quicklime...

for Sara's contest...

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They can print money, when there’s a big dept
for us that’s a crime, and we’d end up doing time

It smells of baloney, with this concept
it’s for them to shine, so they can have their dime...

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Doing Time With Love

Like a raisin in the sun
Time is its own enemy.

Encountering love on its battlefield
It ticks away with ageless accuracy.

Eternity knows no boundaries;
And love is infinite....

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Adduction abduction,
Of a mind,
Thats doing time,
In the blind.
Undaunted dreams,
never knowen.
Leaves one owen,
To this sin.
Mindful meanings,
To the hurtful.
Looks like art,
Until both sides
Pull apart....

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It feels like we’re doing time,
like life is a cell in a big round ball.

But keep doing what you do that makes you, you.
No matter how hard it takes to pull through.
In due time Heaven ain't hard to find.
No doubt earth is one hell of a kind....

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Concrete walls, empty soul
Each day the past still calls
Another day kept inside
Things he did, they could not abide
Trails of bad, buckets of grief
Never a broker, more like a thief
Some lost their very last dime
All are glad he's doing time...

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Tears

Roll

Gently

My heart cries

As it dies once more

My arms go limp as you break free

Standing alone with memories and a broken heart

I am lost, a pauper without a grave, doing time waiting for Him to call me home...

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Jail 
Prison
Gets me down
Sometimes I vent!
Now I'm in solitary confinement.
Doing time for something I did not do.
Will be home soon.
Patience counts
Concern
Time 
Love
Need it.
Physical
Heart emotions.
Freedom and love will find me very soon!


* Wrote for Jared's contest...

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A limerick reply to Jan Allison's limerick 'super series' on a 'Bi-polar Bear'
~~~~~~~~~~~~*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Haven't checked where in the world your from
But should I be dialling 999, or 991
For murder is a serious crime
Many years spent doing time
But I am hoping it's just all some limerick fun...

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I’m from Toronto on police blotter.
Coppers after me for killing a man.
I’m not doing time for slight manslaughter,
a debt I’m not paying, mate, that’s my plan.
I like a snug place to stay where I can
make some dollars doing fishing helping
Steve on Miramichi River’s nice span.
A past keen friend likes there be none matching....

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You were arrested and put behind bars.
I guess you deserve to be where you are.
But we all make mistakes, to err is human, to forgive is divine.
Many people want you out of their lives but I still want you to be a part of mine.
People can change and you are paying for committing that crime.
I'll still be there for you while you're doing time....

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A slide show in my mind
Doing time with memories

Everything that has made me has a slide

The good, the bad, the insanely mad
The gained, the lost
All embossed

The pain, the rain
The sun, the fun

Left alone to watch the show
Where it will go, I just don't know

When the show is done
All slides complete
Only then can I rest my feet...

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Some children found her battered, bloody corpse
inside the tunnel, face down in  the trash;
they screamed, 'She's hurt' and ran to fetch some help. 
Detectives wondered why he'd left her cash.
They didn't catch the brutal killer (or at least,
they still don't know he's doing time now as 'The Beast').

written 26th January for Kai's Murder in the Tunnel contest...

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Thirty five years ago I met a man in the coffee shop.
 He told me that he had been coming here for thirty five years. 
I smiled at him and said really?
That was my first time.
Thirty five years later I am still here in the coffee shop.
Today I spoke to a young man.
I told him I had been coming here for thirty five years.
He smiled at me and said really?
This was his first time....

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Lose your mind
Doing time in all the wrong places

Got some friends
Lots of friends
In all the wrong places

Choose which one
They're all fun
Pretty faces

Dressed their best
Wearing less
In all the wrong places

On display
Come what may
Lined up like vases

Take your chance
Cash advance
In all the wrong places

Lose your heart
Here's where to start
In all the wrong places...

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don't throw away the keys,
don't let me rot like this.
time can only tell why?
i'll rather die.
don't treat me like threat,
shackles on more than my wrist.
doing time for the wrong reason,
persecution for the wrong reason.
to weather a judgement;
crucial to the conflict of the inflicted.
many have hung,
stunned and shunned,
the last days were mine to fight!
still pleading up to the last numbered nights....

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My cousin is wearing an ankle bracelet because he got in trouble with the police.
He's always getting himself in trouble, his mischievousness will never cease.
He was given the ankle monitor and placed under house arrest.
Just thinking about his situation is enough to make a person depressed.
Don't be like my cousin, never commit a crime.
Because if you do, you'll end up doing time.

(This is a true story.)...

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