Short Prisoner Poems

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


Free Prisoner

The free prisoner
captured by uncertainties 
where is your mind strength?





By:Charles Melody (lightning ink).
Form: Haiku


Premium Member Ignorance and Folly

Listening to the words of ignorance prisoner one becomes of folly!






© Demetrios Trifiatis
   19 November 2018
Form: Monoku

Van Winkled

I went to sleep at fourteen
and woke up at forty
A prisoner of reluctance
—casualty of time

(Dreamsleep: July, 2022)

Premium Member Myelopathy

Myelopathy Miracle Man 10/6/2024 Myeolopathy has made me its prisoner until my time’s up.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Getting Older

He sits in the nursing home confined to a wheechair for the rest of his life, still able to think, a prisoner in his own body.
age
Form: Haiku


Angel's Prisoner

Angelic creature
Imprisoned by your beauty
In chains I hobbled
Spewing darkness from the soul
Cleansing myself to be yours
Form: Tanka

Stationary Prisoner

bidding her farewell,
mist of unsaid confessions
rail track  forever
in legs turned heavy anklets 
--stationary prisoner--
Form: Tanka

Dark Ransom

Hope trumped last
  a prisoner of death

A final capitulation
  —devil’s ransom beset

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Prisoner

I knew you would be gone soon, but I wasn't prepared for this prison called  sadness. 

















10-11-16
© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Monoku

Drak Ransom

Hope trumped last…
  a prisoner of death

A final capitulation
  —devil’s ransom beset

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Prisoner

I've been in  prison for most of my life,
Not man made bars, I'm an abused wife.







Inspired By Epigram Contest
11-06/19
© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Epigram

Premium Member Twiddly Dumb

Twiddly, twiddly dee
The prisoner sang happily
He was told by his snout
That he had plans to get out
Of prison and he would be free
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Pristine Pink Petticoat

A pristine pink petticoat prissily pranced priggishly and primly.
A prideful prima donna prisoner of Peggy’s prideful preteen
promenade.

Premium Member This doesn't feel right

I was meant to soar
your love is smothering slowly killing me
~ won't you set me free



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: 2nd place 2025
Form: Other

Sphinx Head On Mars?

Was that Sphinx head on Mars
Or some prisoner behind bars
Seems like a mutated face
Of a different race
Like human parts in doctor’s jars
Form: Limerick

Darkening Moon

Destiny looms despite my luck
its hunger cries and waits
As Vincent ran but couldn’t hide
—a prisoner of fate

(The New Room: July, 2022)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Captive Minds

When the mind is held captive the body is the prisoner. Kale Brereton January 19, 2019
www.thefreethinkinghuman.com
Form: Epigram

Prisoner Of Sin

Allergic
to the truth
Immune
to virtues glow
One infection
plagues my soul
Whose cure
— my sin forgoes

(Dreamsleep: December, 2024)
sin
Form: Rhyme

Haiku

Senryu
See the eagle fly
Prisoner of its nature
Freedom an illusion

Haiku
Spring, old sparrows die
Fall exhausted down from sky
A nest too many
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Prisoner of Love

Oh with her sweet smile
I was taken prisoner,
cry of the castle
shackled to chains of desire
captive hopelessly in love.

© Harry J Horsman 2013
Form: Tanka

Prison of Love

Your love has arrested me,
Sentencing me to another life,
Your love has made me a prisoner of hope,
Forever is all I can see.

By: Sabina Nicole
Form: Verse

I, the Poet

Prisoner of God's creative flamboyance,
I allow the wonders to guide my pen,
I overdose on beauty,
and kneel at the splendor of every sunrise.

Class Time Prisoner

I am stuck here in this class, a prisoner but without a crime,
Time slows to a crawl, and day by day we go,
Stuck here in this invisible slime.
© Ty Pirkle  Create an image from this poem.

The Falsity of Time

A prisoner of the truth
  sole inmate of denial

Serving time falsely promised
  —paroled in cold exile

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2014)
Form: Rhyme

Spoken Confinement

Prisoner of the
cursed phrase
shackled by the terms
Sentenced with each damning
breath
— inmate of what’s heard 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2024)
Form: Rhyme

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