Short Imprisonment Poems

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


Scares of War Confess

How do 
We survive this
Torture and 
Imprisonment
Until these
Scares of 
War confess, 
We wear
These clothes
Of death


Self Pity Party

we made ourselves lonely on purpose to befriend their egos so they could recuse us from our self built imprisonment just to do it all over again

Self-Defense

"Unlawful attacked
                               Provoked him to kill and rush
                                           Imprisonment reigned".
Form: Haiku

Life Imprisonment

cocaine  with cocktails 
free fearless fun fantasy--
life imprisonment 




8th April 2019

Delilah Ventura's Contest
Freedom to nothing to something
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Nostalgia

My love’s fictional
Truly once found it.
Fate’s casted its division.

My life’s depiction
Truly once manifested,
Time’s implied its imprisonment.

My world’s real,
Truly once serene,
Mind’s revealed its darkness.


Darkness In Love

I'm a prisoner
For I thought we would last forever 
Stuck in the past 
Darkness imprisonment of my lover 

I want us to be together 
Yet destiny rip us apart 
The reason why it broke my heart 
And made me cry in dark because of love
© Luna Vera  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Angola Silence

Angola Silence  (Renku)


In a silent mood
Await the pure white horses
To draw the carriage 

Someday comes my turn
Laid amidst the other graves
Angola will reign 

Carry a brother 
Dispense final dignity
In this place of pain
Form: Haiku

Through Trauma Comes Empowerment

I am not inhuman. 

Even though they made me feel that way. 

No- it’s not a tragedy. 

Because I am empowered. 

Through a loss of innocence. 

Through a stint of imprisonment. 

I have escaped. 

Only for them to try and hunt me down again.

Shared Love

She shared her love

He gave her his blessings

And she respected him for this

Released not Imprisoning

Escape not needed

Love he knew, she needed more

Open heart and mind he had,

Vicariously he felt her passion

Everything she shared with him.
Form: Acrostic

Free From Imprisonment

crossing 
threshold 
stepping 
beyond 
closed 
door 
sneaked
through
the small 
creak that
exists 
pushed way 
back inside 
pushed way 
back into the 
room were the 
memories of 
the past reside
in order to unchain
the love from it's 
imprisonment
Form: Lyric

A Bird In a Cage

That's what I feel like- a bird
in a cage
Who from imprisonment, is filled
with rage
On the brink of self-destruction; about
to engage
Due to the melodrama of a theatrical
stage
Got Me with grey hair looking a bit beyond
My age
And, contemplating LIFE without ME, turning
the page

Premium Member Blest Freedom

Blest freedom secured imprisonment in God's will where I enjoy best liberty*.
*Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. January 19, 2023

Trial

There is a trial against me,
I have been punished and cannot be appealed
I guess it is severe than “Life imprisonment”
Or a “Capital Punishment”, sins would be pardoned in heaven
A crime neither I am aware of nor shared
Eternal mental torture I have to bear
The verdict passed with my birth

Premium Member Wrongful Imprisonment

Here I live in darkness
Dreadful fright and fear
Kept from all my fam'ly
And friends that once were near

Why am I imprisoned
What has been my wrong?
Why this dreadful sorrow
Instead of happy song?

Naught has been my trespass
Innocent am I
Robbed of all life's goodness
Condemned in jail to die
Form: Quatrain

To Resurrect

I try to sleep more.
It's easier that way,
as time slips away.
Allowing me to grow old,
yet remain eternally youthful.
A sort of living death.
As I inch my way towards the awful 
imprisonment called conformity.
As I attempt to resurrect that
which society tries to eliminate
each day of my life.
Form: Ode

Entangled By Sudd

Entangled by sudd in the mirky
White Nile river, the helpless water
foul became damned prey, sure to be
eaten by the alligator.
Life fleeting, water rising
to take its victim. 
Struggling to free itself,
constricts it, causing stricter
imprisonment of the sudd.
The alligator finds an easy meal today.

Ode To a Friend

I feel I"ve lost a friend this night.
Released from her imprisonment,she has fled.
No longer a slave to this life,she ascends to a higher plain.
Without the weight of her burden,she becomes as a leaf in the wind,
skittering about care free.
Her laughter filling the air.
Sad that I can no longer hear it.
Form:

Wings

oh why , oh why can't caterpillars fly?
for within them theres a butterfly.
why if I could fly and achieve so high,
for my future would change from imprisonment or meet death and die.
so as I ask the question , oh why cant caterpillars fly?
why if it was I , id really try because in a few months my wings will arrive.
Form:

Clock Imprisonment

The time has melted the construct of its clock 
Time is now free to terrorize the unexpected 
Sudden deaths and severe illnesses as a result of its vengeance 
Trapped no more, time turns to no specific rhythm
Unpredictable, it is feared by those who count its existence 
Today is already tomorrow, the same as last week

Prisoner

Don’t think too hard.
They sting behind your eyes.
Sharp swells
from the recessing snake pit.

Faces warp, wrap, and real.
Knotted limbs 
of trying tapestry.
The marriage of scale and skin.

Remember to forget.
My soul was not to keep.
A window woe.
Through eyes not mine, I see.

Take from me
what was yours already.

Prisoner.

Dirge

Now at this hour 
on this day and 
time of year 

cracks of light 
leaves of green 
buds and birds

possibly everyone 
and everything 
augur spring 

I look out upon it 
open my mouth 
move my tongue 

nothing comes out 
no lyric no music 
no song can be sung 

save a lament 
the eye all I 
my imprisonment

2014 February 24
Form:

The Shackles of a Prisoner

I am a prisoner, and a victim of myself. 
As a condemnation of a forever lonely soul becomes more realistic, 
the shackles bound to my ankles tighten, and assume a more dense form. 
these are the shackles of my own imprisonment. 
they drag me beneath a bottomless ocean, 
where the most horrid creatures reside. 
with no escape, 
I am forever falling.

Rip

Severing the attachment, 
Desperate to liberate myself from self imprisonment,

Each Separation ensuing with agony,
Feeling as my own worst enemy,

Further and further I tear,
Seeking the long sought relief but it becomes to much to bear,

Allowing the mold to feel anew, 
Leaving me in a state of subdue,

Almost craving the need to illustrate  some emotion
© Ty Price  Create an image from this poem.

Self Imprisonment

SELF IMPRISONMENT
by 
JOHN M. ARRIBAS





There Is One Thing of Which I’m Sure
A Self Imposed Guilt Has No Cure
One Can Not Carry the Burdens of Fate
On the Shoulders of a Surviving Mate
We All Could Have Been a Better Person
Self Imposed Guilt, an Unmerited Burden
Loss of Peace, Waste of Precious Time
To Feel Guilty, When There is No Crime
Form: Rhyme

Freedom Is But An Illusion

The plane soars in the direction of said location 
To the predetermined imprisonment that was suggested 
Trapped within the hand of the airline's puppeteer 
Your life hangs in the balance of their emotions 
A bad day and the dummy is getting ejected 
A spacious venue to those with limited luggage space
Enclosed like sardines in route to a holding cell

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