Short Incarceration Poems

incarceration

a tongue unable to flex

captive elixir...

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Frosty white grotto
Glacial incarceration
Diamond daggers hang...

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I wake up unknown
Then fall back asleep awake
To remain alert....

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$uccesses
Obscene Profits
Pocketed Naked Bribes
Crowed Triumphantly, then Wept
Incarceration...

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in contemplation-

incarceration frees up

thoughts  into a dream



Inspired by Abe's photo of Martin Luther King...

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If continued, the present rate of incarceration
will have one out of every fifteen persons
spending some time of their lives in a prison....

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TOMMYROT


Flabbergasted – a swimming head

A cold intrusion

A sullen bed.

Cantankerousness

Apt delusion

Inept in death

Dyspeptic relation

Cryptic tree

Unjust incarceration

Liberate me....

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A man steals a hundred dollar watch to get money to feed his family.
He gets caught and thrown into a penitentiary.
The taxpayer tab for his incarceration will be extremely costly for us.
I think all would be better off if we just gave him the watch....

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Were I to know how you feel
I could traverse the wastelands of ignorance
Free from this incarceration in myself
Marvel in the elation of empathy
Feel the stuff we are made from
And belong
Alas I observe from a distance and presume

©db April 2015...

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Sick and tired of incarceration,

Of going to jail 4 no damn reason.

I’ve done more time & litigation,

Probably covered most every season.

We clean & scrub 4 unfit grub,

We bust our ass, so time will pass.

We want to leave; we’ve paid our dues,

Can’t they see, debts paid times two....

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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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An angel, 

in his heavenly tranquility, observing the lamentations of an inconsolable soul  because of its

upcoming incarceration within the walls of mortal flesh,  turned towards it and calmly said:


" Be patient dear soul for manifold your rewards will be for such a sacrifice !"








© Demetrios Trifiatis
      27 March 2018...

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The silent voices
crying in pain
your soul has known struggle
 Shades of gray
knowing of your incarceration
your isolation
 The tears feel worthless
laid down in emptiness 
so bitter, so cold
 Prayers seem like vain words
said without meaning
lost within the winds
 Faith has forgotten this soul
tied down by this world
bound and oppressed...

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there is a sound when you leave
all electricity is lost
all water is dissolved
all air is thinned out
there is a blankness as time passes
all age is tainted
each era is ruined
every period is murky
there is a change when realization comes
what matters drown
what is important suffocates
what is relevant becomes inanimate
the golden road is now blue...

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I sat by her bedside
As she lay motionless
Cruelly aware of her incarceration
Trapped inside a broken body
Unable to move
Unable to speak
A mere shadow of what once was
And in my black despair
I prayed for her
And I heard Malachi’s words
So I prayed for her release
So she would awake with the Lord
And burst forth from her stall
Like a young calf in springtime...

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I`ve waited for long
to see my star and starlets,
Pains of incarceration,
can`t stop my passion,
My body can be weakened,
not my heart and emotions.

Great pearl of my soul!
No sickness can hold me down,
though my liver may fail me,
I will rise again
to take you to mount of bliss,
Now that I`m home,my love reigns!.


*Romantic

Olusegun Arowolo
(old poem)



CONTEST:"Impress me with a small poem v"sponsored by GV...

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I try to embrace you and you walk away, I try to kiss your lips and you turn away, I can 
hear your heart beat from it's little locked box, and I can hear your voice telling me to stop, 
but where are we in a life without love? Alone and confused face down in a fog of our own 
design. Let my sunshine break us from our prison. Our life's incarceration, where true 
happiness is just on the other side of the wall....

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BLOCKHEAD

Some folks’ say all my life I’ve been a BLOCKHEAD.
Maybe if I could have gotten through that last ROADBLOCK,
news of my incarceration wouldn’t be such a family BLOCKBUSTER.
So here I sit all alone in my CELL BLOCK.
I’m suffering a bad case of WRITERS BLOCK,
without a clue the path my mind should take to UNBLOCK.
By the time I get out of here, I’ll need 100 spf SUNBLOCK.


For the BLOCK-BLOCK-BLOCK contest....

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Boy, I wish I knew some funny kids
so I could win ten bucks
But, I am here at fifty nine
I guess, I'm out of luck
If I hung around some playgrounds
To get some inspiration 
It wouldn't take to long
before I faced incarceration 
The world has got me second guessing
Can Men and children mix
Is everybody suspect
Of someone being sick
I have to say I love kids
but I surely do, at distance
Ashamed to be apart
Of a world with this existence...

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