Prison Poems
#prison
Prison poems, here you'll find poems written in prison about being incarcerated in a jail or penitentiary. Prison poems offer views on crime and punishment, and what it's like to be locked up in jail, serving a sentence, or awaiting trial. Poetry about how prison and a criminal background can affect your life. Also poems about whether prison is the right way to rehabilitate criminals.
randyjohnson
Poem Published
23rd May 2023 8:38pm
23rd May 2023 8:38pm
Terror Ten Years Ago
Ten years ago today, four innocent people in a pharmacy were shot.
It took just thirty something minutes for the murderer to be caught.
The two employees survived but the pharmacist and his customer died.
The murderer is in prison for two attempted murders and two homicides.
The murderer shot those four people because of some medication.
He left two families without fathers and caused a lot of devastation.
When the victims loved ones were informed, it brought about misery and tears.
The victims are still missed by their families and friends after all of...
It took just thirty something minutes for the murderer to be caught.
The two employees survived but the pharmacist and his customer died.
The murderer is in prison for two attempted murders and two homicides.
The murderer shot those four people because of some medication.
He left two families without fathers and caused a lot of devastation.
When the victims loved ones were informed, it brought about misery and tears.
The victims are still missed by their families and friends after all of...
#murder
#anniversary
#prison
#nonfiction
#horror
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Anxiety
Poem Published
7th May 2023 9:05am
7th May 2023 9:05am
Perception of addiction
Hey I don’t know if I’m going to jail on Monday
I don’t know if they’re going to drug test me on Monday
But I do know if they do I’m going to cry
I’ll probably be dry
Dry heaving while I’m crying trying to pee in a cup
While a stranger watches this great show my anxiety will create
I’m terrified the judge is going to look at me
And say in the most polite and professional way
Go fuck yourself
And I will do as he:she says
In cuffs
Hands and ankles and I will go back to the striped...
I don’t know if they’re going to drug test me on Monday
But I do know if they do I’m going to cry
I’ll probably be dry
Dry heaving while I’m crying trying to pee in a cup
While a stranger watches this great show my anxiety will create
I’m terrified the judge is going to look at me
And say in the most polite and professional way
Go fuck yourself
And I will do as he:she says
In cuffs
Hands and ankles and I will go back to the striped...
#addiction
#prison
#support
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HadesRising
Poem Published
7th Mar 2023 10:47pm
7th Mar 2023 10:47pm
A SONNET FOR LILITH
Tonight the forlorn raven sang
Upon my quill and parchment
The gallows call to me
To take my place
Inside my shallow grave
So brackish, the vermin
Swarm over me
Beneath the hanging tree
I vomited blood on the page
As a sonnet set to flame
Lilith is the succubus of my dreams
As the haunted moon crests those pregnant skies
The wolves rending the night with winter screams
Worrying the quivering flesh tonight
Weep not for Lilith worship her instead
As nocturnal beasts fall under her...
Upon my quill and parchment
The gallows call to me
To take my place
Inside my shallow grave
So brackish, the vermin
Swarm over me
Beneath the hanging tree
I vomited blood on the page
As a sonnet set to flame
Lilith is the succubus of my dreams
As the haunted moon crests those pregnant skies
The wolves rending the night with winter screams
Worrying the quivering flesh tonight
Weep not for Lilith worship her instead
As nocturnal beasts fall under her...
#love
#dark
#fate #prison
#fate #prison
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da_poetic-edifier
Damon
Damon
Poem Published
13th Feb 2023 9:19pm
13th Feb 2023 9:19pm
Extended Stays Of Vacays
From cotton fields to '94 crime bills
We still fill positions in their prisons
Transitions from cell to cell in living HELL
To dwell like retail to fulfill other's visions
Deplorable conditions as we're sold like stock
Tic toc goes the clock as tick marks grace walls
Not all are emancipated so, dejected, they dock
Locked like a PC outside of P.C. until they all fall
There needs to be a recall on nonviolent offenders
Fathers and mothers asunder can't raise their kids
LIFE vacays should only parlay rapists and killers ...
We still fill positions in their prisons
Transitions from cell to cell in living HELL
To dwell like retail to fulfill other's visions
Deplorable conditions as we're sold like stock
Tic toc goes the clock as tick marks grace walls
Not all are emancipated so, dejected, they dock
Locked like a PC outside of P.C. until they all fall
There needs to be a recall on nonviolent offenders
Fathers and mothers asunder can't raise their kids
LIFE vacays should only parlay rapists and killers ...
#corruption
#LifeStruggles
#prison
#HumanRights
#greed
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2 Comments
jenny_is_hungry
Poem Published
2nd Feb 2023 00:33am
2nd Feb 2023 00:33am
Uprising
The darkness
You cannot understand
It was meant to snuff out hope
But she walled the halls
Took care of the sick
Ailments
Of the mind
The soul
She cooked their meals
Embodied their mother
The fire
For their every impulse
But she was too kind
Too innocent
To kill
An angel with a living pulse
In this prison
She went out in the cold rain
Late at night
To kill
And flay
The islands game
She cooked the meat
Brewed it in a stew
Fed it to...
You cannot understand
It was meant to snuff out hope
But she walled the halls
Took care of the sick
Ailments
Of the mind
The soul
She cooked their meals
Embodied their mother
The fire
For their every impulse
But she was too kind
Too innocent
To kill
An angel with a living pulse
In this prison
She went out in the cold rain
Late at night
To kill
And flay
The islands game
She cooked the meat
Brewed it in a stew
Fed it to...
#corruption
#prison
#inequality
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anomalousmelon
Yitzhak
Yitzhak
Poem Published
26th Jan 2023 5:26am
26th Jan 2023 5:26am
Doggerel Rambling about Drugs
#America
#drugs
#prison
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da_poetic-edifier
Damon
Damon
Poem Published
23rd Jan 2023 6:53pm
23rd Jan 2023 6:53pm
Master(s)piece
Whomever chooses to paint me as a villain
I'll give a paint brush & canvas then let 'em begin
I don't spend an abundance of time trying to change minds
Not gonna be a slave and placed in perception's binds
I find that I'm often misunderstood by some
Miscalculation & disinformation in their sum
Far from a bum and too worldly for sainthood
Refusing to be a merry man of any Robin Hood
Got a good heart but won't depart from my manhood
Trying to stay cool, calm, & collected doesn't feel good
It's understood despite...
I'll give a paint brush & canvas then let 'em begin
I don't spend an abundance of time trying to change minds
Not gonna be a slave and placed in perception's binds
I find that I'm often misunderstood by some
Miscalculation & disinformation in their sum
Far from a bum and too worldly for sainthood
Refusing to be a merry man of any Robin Hood
Got a good heart but won't depart from my manhood
Trying to stay cool, calm, & collected doesn't feel good
It's understood despite...
#peace
#misunderstood
#prison
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da_poetic-edifier
Damon
Damon
Poem Published
17th Jan 2023 7:49pm
17th Jan 2023 7:49pm
Slangin' & Bangin'
Youngins out here screaming Gang Gang
Banging leading to joining the Chain Gang
Hanging like strange fruit growing rotten
Living conditions of ancestors picking cotton
Forgotten after hearing the clanging of those bars
Not talking bout Hip-Hop stars rapping witty bars
A far crying eye from potential that's being snuffed out
Others profiting by exploiting those choosing that route
Banging leading to joining the Chain Gang
Hanging like strange fruit growing rotten
Living conditions of ancestors picking cotton
Forgotten after hearing the clanging of those bars
Not talking bout Hip-Hop stars rapping witty bars
A far crying eye from potential that's being snuffed out
Others profiting by exploiting those choosing that route
#prison
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DAGODDESS
Poem Published
9th Jan 2023 8:51pm
9th Jan 2023 8:51pm
it’s a black panther party (HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY 1/9)
u must be a pimp cuz you just hoe’d me
I can’t, see you in a casket
please don’t od
I ain’t do no tellin have mercy on me
my mama was stressin
ain’t let me breathe
well
i’m done with stressing
I got much more,
blessings
on me
so much that
I be giving
freely
don’t be creepin
next to me
thinking because I give
you can take, easily
God,
protect me
from
my enemies
if they strike me
they stop breathing
no more holding my breath
i’m breathing freely ...
I can’t, see you in a casket
please don’t od
I ain’t do no tellin have mercy on me
my mama was stressin
ain’t let me breathe
well
i’m done with stressing
I got much more,
blessings
on me
so much that
I be giving
freely
don’t be creepin
next to me
thinking because I give
you can take, easily
God,
protect me
from
my enemies
if they strike me
they stop breathing
no more holding my breath
i’m breathing freely ...
#war
#drugs
#addiction
#racism
#prison
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I_IS_ME
Poem Published
6th Dec 2022 10:25pm
6th Dec 2022 10:25pm
Rock
#anger
#violence
#death
#prison
#dirty
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I_IS_ME
Poem Published
13th Oct 2022 2:55am
13th Oct 2022 2:55am
Time Served
Today is the day
The one you knew had to come
The one that makes you pay attention
To every minute, to every second
Between now and then
You recollect everything
Between forever and when
Was that one heart beat or ten
Staring out of my window watching my past go by
Feeling scales removed from my eyes
My situation is my own, I can't deny
I can't forget you although I've tried
I'm remembering the last time we saw each other's face
We both realized what was my fate
Tenderly you clung to me
You cried as...
The one you knew had to come
The one that makes you pay attention
To every minute, to every second
Between now and then
You recollect everything
Between forever and when
Was that one heart beat or ten
Staring out of my window watching my past go by
Feeling scales removed from my eyes
My situation is my own, I can't deny
I can't forget you although I've tried
I'm remembering the last time we saw each other's face
We both realized what was my fate
Tenderly you clung to me
You cried as...
#love
#death
#lover #prison
#lover #prison
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Green_Arrow
Poem Published
19th Sep 2022 4:00pm
19th Sep 2022 4:00pm
Near The One Big House
A friend made a goof
by giving someone a lift
near the one big house.
by giving someone a lift
near the one big house.
#haiku
#fiction
#satirical
#dialogue
#prison
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