Short Incarcerated Poems

SYLLABICS individual innovatives incarcerated...

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From Birmingham walls,
Revolutionary dreams:
King’s manifesto....

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Incarcerated

Love for humanity? truth?

Breaking the net; soon !...

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manacle she felt 
incarcerated by things 
beyond her control



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Never violent
Only hopes for unity
Incarcerated dreams


* For Abe's "Birmingham Jail" Dr. Martin Luther King challenge...

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The mind is bound to thoughts,
And the heart shackle to emotions.

We're chained to multi-moods
Even linked to seductive sensations....

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dreams are beings 
incarcerated inside of sleep,
and we petition for their freedom as poets.

Close your eyes, build a beautiful world
and bring it back in handcuffs....

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He cut some corners when filing his tax
Now poor man is going in for the  max
He got nailed
Cant get bailed
Of appeals his lawyers now have stacks
    


For Carolyn's contest...

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Words apprehend
  a willing prisoner
    —verse to fly between the bars

The latest inmate 
  with breath surrendered
    —an incarcerated bard

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2014)...

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Whenever God 

a soul sends down to earth to be incarcerated 

tenderly whispers to its ear: 

"Forget not how much I love you! "







©  Demetrios Trifiatis 
        20 July 2019...

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An apostle of the Lord
Friend & close colleague of Paul,
Proclaiming gospels truths,was no easy call;
Junia,just a lass,Judah was her home,
A martyr for her faith
Whilst incarcerated in Rome....

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Even though the door was open
The bird sat in the cage
Content to stay within
The comfort that it knew

It is said that
Iron bars do not a prison make
Yet in this prison I have made
I sit and wait for you...

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Incarcerated soul in ribcage of slaughtered  fate
Obsessive saw penetrates secret catacombs of meltdowns
Poetic seascape showing radiations of a human skull -
A cranial Kabuki Mask spreads uncertainty over the Pacific......

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Ima Risk a flim-flam man,
Was always looking for a scam,
Selling his useless diet pills
And passing phony money bills,
Until a judge incarcerated his can.


alternate last line: Until a judge incarcerated his can in the can....

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With her perfect body and nimble mind 
Pleasure she brought when you desired her time
But all too soon pleasure turned to love, and like an incarcerated dove longing to be free, she left without a word
Just a pleasurable waste of time...

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Vanity and pride are my prison
Inhibitions bind and trap my desires
Relentlessly striving for perfection
Greatness eludes my every move
Outwardly concealing my inner turmoil


*Inspired by Danielle White, Acrostic Astrology Contest...

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Not once did I note, 
That the circumstances were of my own delineation,
Strapped in chains of my own making,
Entangled in a web of my own creation,
Incarcerated in a volary of my own making,
Now in the air casting castles of liberation,
Which I know too well may never come into being....

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I
She was a prophetess
Dealing with vision, words 
Then came political correctness
Some tongues are incarcerated

II
Have you paid (absurd)
For your every word
Some want you "wrong"
Others say, "Go along"

III
Dr. King used diction
Minus hate, violent action
So did Diedrich Bonhoeffer
What would you offer?...

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Been incarcerated in a house;
Displeased in surrounding clout;
Walls sadden painted windows covered in 50's paint;
Ridiculed and stagnated
Accustomed to be alienated
 I walk outside still alive vertical choice
 I received my voice
Contemplating
Residue survival

10/10/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2024...

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Blissful ignorance

A vacuous affair

Mind numbing atrophy

Life without a care



Cloud dwelling dreams

Of a world less realized

The pyramid schemes

Of a world materialized



Land of the free

Home of the incarcerated

The money wheel keeps turning

Our debt exacerbated



Before it's too late

Do what you can

To save what's left

Of this common man...

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Vanished (The Urban Wars Collection/copyright 2001)
                                   By Allen Hackett 
                    


Subjugated

Liberated

Migrated

Isolated

Assimilated

Humiliated

Degraded

Violated

Incarcerated 

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she was worried they would go with Daddy
they liked him the best, both Beau and Addie
She poisoned husband before he went to bed.
I did not do it, this lying wife often said.

Beau and Addie were sure it was their mother.
Told the police, it could have been no other.
She is incarcerated for the rest of her life.
No visitors either, for a murderous wife....

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Incarcerated in a prison of one’s tortured and twisted mind
Is worse than any physical chamber that you could find.

Languishing in an existence that fades in and out of reality
With only turmoil and a total deficiency of tranquility.

Fortunately as your mind decays and deteriorates into the void
You embrace the phenomena that most people try to avoid....

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EXTRA  EXTRA

Contextual Comrades Incarcerated,

Victims of vitriols vexation 
denied the rights of their inquisitors.
Censored by the voices of shame
guilt and hubris masquerading
as righteous indignation.
Virtue’s vanity
shouting from the “bully” pulpit
concerned only with its own reflection
“gutturally” genuflecting
before a muted “god”.



©6/3/2021...

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A prisoner 
of sentience
escape
self-denial

Incarcerated
deep inside
with voices
dark and vile

A prisoner
of every thought
his mind
a burning feast

The moments that
protected him
before
protect him least

A prisoner
of déjà vu
where now
and then conspire

His name convicted
to the flames
all dreams
— within the fire

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024) 
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