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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.


My Grandfather
Stuck in his wheelchair
a prisoner in his own mind...

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Categories: prisoner, confusion
Form: Monoku



Prisoner of Fate
Jobless, indebted -
battles with insanity 
- writes haiku shaiku...

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Categories: prisoner, depression, hope, life, loss, on work and
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Put Me In a Chain Gang
i’m a prisoner
please put me in a chain gang
so others will know...

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Categories: prisoner, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Yearning
years of waiting bring
a father’s desperate cry…
prisoner released...

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Categories: prisoner, courage, cry, father,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Prisoner
prisoner 
deeply buried
inner voice



posted on April 28, 2018...

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Categories: prisoner, change, freedom, heart, longing, psychological, voice, wisdom,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member Bird Seed
Bird Seed

The power of a small kindness,
can never be overstated....

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prisoner, color, gospel, graduate, graduation, grandchild, happy, hero,
Form: Free verse
Winter's Hostage
Petrified by snow,
Captive limbs...shackled by ice:
Prisoner of frost....

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Categories: prisoner, nature, seasons
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Prisoner
04-27-2021
Contest:Writing Prompt - Breathe
Sponsor: Constance La France...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prisoner, for him, love,
Form: Sonnet
Ears Versus Nose
The lone prisoner 
escapes from the police dogs 
for he hears their barks....

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Categories: prisoner, life,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Truth
Truth 

You are everything you told me you are, 
I just was not listening....

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prisoner, angel, anti bullying, atheist, hero, inspirational, meaningful,
Form: Haiku
Prisoner
Darkness wraps itself
around my heart,
raping my spirit,
keeping me it's prisoner....

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Categories: prisoner, depression
Form: I do not know?
Imprisoned
Darkness wraps itself
around my heart, 
raping my spirit,
keeping me it's prisoner....

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Categories: prisoner, depression, life, sad
Form: Free verse
Some Days
Some days when the curtains are drawn
I sit naked, pretending to be a prisoner
of love....

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Categories: prisoner, abuse, betrayal, confusion,
Form: Free verse
The Prisoner
Mansion of body
Adorable abode of soul
Converts into prison
By the cruel hands
Of passing time...

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Categories: prisoner, life, philosophy,
Form: Tanka
Briefly
every claim not truth
what take you prisoner
flying too much lie
among difficult from wriggle...

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Categories: prisoner, age,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Great Escape
Gone
Run Away
Entirely
Alone
The
Enemy
Xhausted
Communications
About
Prisoner 
Escaping...

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Categories: prisoner, 10th grade,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Disappeared
written special
blinked one time
cyber prisoner
...

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Categories: prisoner, on writing and words,
Form: Haiku
Define Love
Love, giver of life
Love, often prisoner of hearts 
mentor, tormentor


Cynthia


"Skat Contest"...

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Categories: prisoner, love,
Form: Senryu
Caporal La Violette
Victim of format,
prisoner of rhyme

Inmate of vision
—exile sublime

(Monmartre France: April, 1978)...

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Categories: prisoner, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
There's light in every season
Grey clouds convene and - take the sun as prisoner. Only then... snow falls. 01.16.2024
...

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Categories: prisoner, blessing, encouraging, endurance, life, light, loss, weather,
Form: Haiku
Luscious
just one look: love captured far,
prisoner of your chocolate bar.


Here and Now Contest Entry for Mr. Parise...

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Categories: prisoner, love
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Words That Hurt
Words that Hurt

…
Fill in the blank.
…
Keep writing.
…
Stop crying.
…
Pray.

See.
It worked.

Amen....

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prisoner, abuse, anti bullying, anxiety, art, atheist, death,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Forgotten Trees
fresh rain sticks out its tongue, a depressor.
tortured trees give up, hands held
up like a prisoner.

2/6/2019...

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Categories: prisoner, weather,
Form: Kimo
Prisoner
I know a man who is a prisoner
It breaks my heart to see
Because it is he
Who holds the key
For him to walk free...

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Categories: prisoner, confidence, conflict, courage, depression, prison, violence, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tides
lazily the waves

lap the pebbles on the beach

a crab scurries by

to burrow beneath wet sand

a prisoner of the tides...

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Categories: prisoner, ocean,
Form: Tanka

Book: Reflection on the Important Things