Short Paroled Poems

A prisoner of the truth
  sole inmate of denial

Serving time falsely promised
  —paroled in cold exile

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2014)...

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When your stories have all been told      
          Or worse yet, heard by young and old  
I can tell you what to do    
Find an audience that’s new
And torment them until you’ve been paroled...

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Have a crazy brother-in-law named Dickie
At times Dickie can be rather tricky
At 90 years old
He's just been paroled
His crime... he asked a cashier for a quickie


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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that guy’s sure in rags
      sniffing glue from plastic bags
             his torn trousers sag
           i drive past in fancy jag 
          paroled with an ankle tag
        


By
David Kavanagh...

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see a man of a man
in some world
   twisted
   discarded
a nature waiting 
to forest a barrenness
paroled from a stench
in a pre-birth of time
   his time
when . . .
. . . and that shall
be asked again


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Dentist Ben

Hampton had a dentist named Ben,
Inflowed nitrous gas to begin.
Just then his wife called.
Kept on talking that's all.
Life until paroled from the pen.

1/20/19


Limerick II Poetry Contest      Sponsor   Joseph May  NA...

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A very old vessel lined with gold
They tell me it is very old
Within each crack a story told
To fix this treasure mighty bold
And from destruction's door paroled
A new master work to behold
Its future now is not foretold
A keepsake to forever hold
This old vessel all lined with gold

Written 12Jan14 for contest Kintsukuroi sponsored by Roy Jerden...

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Oh, those days of a Midnight Son
Of wild abandon
Love on the run

When sunset goals invade the brain
And hijack thoughts
A one-way train

For life begins at 12 am
At clubs and bars
No rules to stem

In rendezvous, in tryst of love
Where lusts prevail
Affairs thereof

Alas, a Midnight Son grows old
Yet, memories stand
In thoughts paroled...

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Numb your cortex and let her siblings speak,
Dumb her with a dactylic drumbeat
And let the fronted sound put her to sleep. 

Turn off your domineering manager, 
So others may awake at waking hour
To pour their paroled thoughts into your art.

Let the furnace of creativity 
Create new combinations and concepts
For that is the art, not the detritus....

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Just lead me through your gaze;
I feel achingly lost;
An unabsolved labyrinth 
will not have a champion;
Wordless we plead the fifth; 

Just lead me through your gaze,
explain the unspoken;
The bright Moon reflected
is full and without clouds;
It leaves me enchanted;

Just lead me through your gaze,
can I please be paroled? 
Keep you but lose the frame
that blacks out the answers;
Let us finish this game....

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Paroled from- My Love

What of the whispers of your heart;
When do these feelings ever stop;
Such a tangled hue, lovely view;
Open your mouth, I’m touched
Love you so much you take my breath;
Kisses of grandeur, mostly guarded;
Prisoner of my passion closely guarded;
You shall ne’ver be paroled from my love;
For I’ve sentence you to life;
Forever imprisoned unto me

2/14/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr....

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Brrrrr
Weather Forecast
By Tom 
2/15/2021

No clouds, sky solid gray,
chill factor, twenty-seven below, today.
Eighty-nine days I’ve seen temps freezing,
will be next week before it’s easing.
About two more weeks before its done,
It’s been three days since snow begun.
Expect seven to ten inches two days hence,
and drifts three wires high on a barb wire fence.
Being paroled to the yard was bad I attest,
until parole was revoked and I’m in house arrest.
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