Unfree Poems

Premium MemberDeath Row Man

...As morose as it may sound
I know I’m really just another 
Death row man.

No, 
I’m not locked away
For a crime I have done.

I’m free,
But that doesn’t mean
I’m still not on that row.

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Categories: unfree, death, life, perspective,
Form: Narrative

So many tiiimes

...I keep telling you to move on on your own
I keep telling you to leave me the hell alone
My mind is stuck on stupid it seems
My heart is everlasting and it beams

So many times I told you —
Let ...
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Categories: unfree, appreciation,
Form: Free verse


A Silent Room

...The silence presses heavy, thick,  
Like walls that close with every tick.  
I walk through days, but none I own,  
A shadow lost, a heart unknown.  
My family’s gone, my friends are far,  
The ...
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Categories: unfree, anxiety, death, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLove Others As God Loves You

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Really, no kidding, is this today’s thinking?
Just be demure, sweet with a dark soul sinking.?

Jealousy of all who have a dime more than we,
We haughtilly wish, they hang from the nearest tree...
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Categories: unfree, dedication, god, love, uplifting,
Form: Couplet

unfree newspaper

...What an unfree newspaper writes 

According to a leading English newspaper
the alarm is the upcoming election 
will labor be back in power
like that would be different from now
England (not Bri...
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Categories: unfree, abuse, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse


The commuter

...You see the sunlight amongst the scree
There was a man 
who couldn't tell me anything
Where there was once the comfort
of the evenings telegraph line
he runs wild amongst shops turned into flatl...
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Categories: unfree, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMusEcology of Peace

...I would like to see
and hear
and feel a peaceful day
and silent night

When guns
are as rare as typewriters

When partisan hate
is as extinct as flying dinosaurs

When ranting out of anger...
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Categories: unfree, earth, health, integrity, music,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberPoetic Cloud Land

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                        11/28/2023


Let’s be fools and pretend this planet won’t implode.
Beneath a mosaic ceiling, hiding in a grand,poetry dome.

Where ethics and morality are ...
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Categories: unfree, america,
Form: Rhyme

Lost Words

...I feel like a poppy
in a field of hogweed
My sentences have run dry
I am rudderless in the wilderness
I lack a welter of  letters
unassigned to the wherewithal

I am lost in a cave
unfree to ...
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Categories: unfree, angst,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAlone and Abused

...When couples tie the nuptial knot,
They hope to leave the lonely lot.
But far too many newlyweds,
Soon realize their dream has fled.

Instead of being bone of bone,
They live as married and alo...
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Categories: unfree, abuse, anxiety, betrayal, confusion,
Form: Rhyme

I Am Filled Up With Words

...I am filled up with words
By Michelle Morris
15/06/2020

I am filled up with words;
They are everywhere inside. 
They are there in the shadows;
In the darkness I can't hide.

They are there ...
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Categories: unfree, emotions, i am, meaningful,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDeborah Et Al

...DEBORAH &CO
Women of the world may
lead,teach and oversee.
Deborah a leader upon God’s
call with Miriam & Esther ,
females to name the famou three.

In later times these four
Anna,Phoebe,Pris...
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Categories: unfree, christian,
Form: Didactic

Premium MemberAngry Slaves

...None are more enslaved hopelessly,
than those who falsely believe that they are free,
and none get angrier than any by far,
than those you attempt to enlighten how unfree they are....
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Categories: unfree, slavery,
Form: Rhyme

The Freedom Song

...Britain thought that they were tough-
told us what to speak,
pay your taxes and shut up-
just how it shall be.

Born in the woods,
for our families trained to fight,
not pushed around,
farmer...
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Categories: unfree, america, appreciation, freedom, history,
Form: Rhyme

Up and About, Feeling Empty

...I feel rather empty…
Flushed, confused, free me?
I’m feeling kinda dirty
To be honest, I’m fake happy

Wearing a smile like the rest of us
But, there’s a million rivers and fires between us
So...
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Categories: unfree, abuse, adventure, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

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