Short Parole Poems

Soldier on parole
Didn’t listen wife's gay songs
Sharpening the sword,...

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Look but don’t touch I’ll lose control;
My heart cannot violate parole....

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cold tulips languish
in crystalline confinement
awaiting parole

John G. Lawless
©4/8/2018...

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All the babies are from hell. 
They're assholes who did 
their time and are getting 
another chance. 
Birth is parole....

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cash johnny and june
getting married in a fever
   ~ lifetime parole


AP: 3rd place 2020, Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on June 13, 2018...

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Hey Diary I'm happier now. I've been 
On the pizza palace patrol Parole 
For  a few weeks now. The month
Of May is winding down. A few days
To go....

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Anna the bandit and shady jane
set out to rob a railroad train.
So, they went for the gold.
Then botched the escape.
In for ten, no parole,
Makin license plates....

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About Trump Should Share

About Trump this we should share;
Only about himself does he care;
Put on parole,
After rigor moroll;
Loves women when bodies are bare.

Jim Horn...

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- He passed by the needle... !
-because he was skinny...!
- No, because he had no sin...
But, but, he was a sinner...
-not at the time ... he had received pardon ...
 he was on parole......

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To be honest, I'm a sweet loving soul
Haven't lied to you since being granted parole
For beating an old lady
She was about eighty
Falsies fell out, and she choked on a hairball>center>...

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You curl up every day, next to my soul
So close I can feel you, with this heart that you stole
The penalty for theft
Is a lifetime obsessed
A life sentence, with really no chance of parole...

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she mailed me her
exact words were:

Later today
i'm going before
the beauty salon
to regulate
my fingernails
and some eye
lashes.

surely they will
pardon her
for good
behavior
and sheer
beauty...

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Poppy the parrot

Picked pus from a pimple’s peak

but then Poppy pricked Poe’s pajama pole

Patrolman Pat picked Poppy up by his beak

Prisoned Poppy pleads for parole

and pecks popcorn and crumbs all week...

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ali di sicurezza
il silencio delle parole
spumeggiante bevanda
cremis
atrocita
dell'ultima guerra
labbra
eloquenti
di vuole
bighellonare
nel corridoio buio
di avidita
sto declassato
ad una diversa
domension...

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Way down deep in the depth of my soul
Lives a naughty wee genie who's in total control
I'm absolved of all blame
Stumble forth with no shame
Damn genie's responsible, I'm now out on parole


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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I’m singing the Behind Bars Blues,
And thinking over my mistakes.
It’s hard to be here in my shoes.
I’m singing the Behind Bars Blues.
Parole will be such welcome news!
I look for hidden files in cakes.
I’m singing the Behind Bars Blues,
And thinking over my mistakes....

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That language she spoke,
              that word she said ...
               What he said overflowed
              emotions in my soul ...
               But today when I remember
               fills me with pain ...
               Le mot, parole amour ...
               word love ...!...

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once upon a time
they used to say
the French were
very rude

with the 
attitude 
if you 
can't

speak 
French
don't
come 
to France 

but i was in Greece
when in passing
a French tourist
said to me

bonjour monsieur
i in turn replied
he me parole past
francais madam

kalimera...

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Send me back home where I truly belong
Cut the chains dear, please let me depart
Why does your brain keep replaying our song?
Let my melody drift to your heart

Making me haunt you is very unkind
I'm no ghost dear, please grant my parole
Why bottle me up inside of your mind?
Set me free to go dwell in your soul...

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c'est comme ça qu'il m'a dit

écris exactement 
comme je te conseille
haut et fort
clairement
que même le vent le comprenne
souffleur fou
qui dit la parole
quand il la dit
et laisse la terre livrée à elle-même
qu’elle tremble
en entendant tes paroles
c’est bon signe
que tu t’es fait obéir 



traducere de: Angela Mamier Nache....

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Finality
Written: by Tom Wright
February 2015

As days surrender to tomorrow,
They become captives of our past,
Forthcoming is No parole, no pardon, 
Just short visitation privileges. 
As our past enlarges, finality grows closer.
One breath sets-apart, today and tomorrow,
And each has a destiny with death. 
...

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Absence of eyes awake my hate
in you I do despise forever
just and true I thought you'd be
path to paradise a muddy road of potholes
hungry for despair
invade my lair
wont cut my hair
again
a steel face and a stone soul
now on parole
cant dig your arse out the goddamn hole
no matter how you try
thank fukk for the white lie
do or die...

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Lost In My Mind


I stare out my window onto a landscape
Devoid of life and color
No trees, grass, or flowers
No warm sunshine or cold rain
No people or animals
No love no hate or any other emotion
I am trapped inside my own mind
No key no jailer no warden
There is no chance for parole or release
I can only stare at the blankness of life...

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Drainage cracks and fingers of
eroding souls.

Long dim hotel stairwells
are sarcastic chasms to the flood,
like artifacts of insanity
and poet's blood.

We dare to run down as
prisoners on parole,
humming parodies of parables
and dying at sea.

Our graves are laid in the
phantom fathom estuaries
and reciprocal tunnels
of our beginnings....

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Weeks and months, 
go by without a word passing my lips, 
save for the necessity of the shop. 

I walk this earth without a friend,  
Self Inflicted of course,
I push then push some more, 
then everyone goes.

Solitary confinement, that's what it is
without a cage or parole, 
there will be peace one day 
and to my shame yes 
I do wish my life away....

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