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.
She Seemed Nice
She didn't trust meeting him
they were really tight online
she was afraid he'd be a psycho
years back she served some time
He knew nothing about this
she wasn't saying a word
one day her story leaked out
he thought this was absurd
He questioned her through e-mail
asked if she was ever in jail
Yes, but I didn't do it
she never posted bail
The authorities are looking for me
I don't have a place to hide
the last thing she said to him
I'm going to skin you alive
they were really tight online
she was afraid he'd be a psycho
years back she served some time
He knew nothing about this
she wasn't saying a word
one day her story leaked out
he thought this was absurd
He questioned her through e-mail
asked if she was ever in jail
Yes, but I didn't do it
she never posted bail
The authorities are looking for me
I don't have a place to hide
the last thing she said to him
I'm going to skin you alive
#friendship
#MentalHealth
#prison
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Heroine
Heroine
Ragged souls seated around room
Seeking solace from storm lashed lives
Woman conducts orchestra of therapy
Her soft curves and smile
Soothes tempest tossed madmen
In the quiet presage of session
She sits gazing in contemplative beauty
Her sage words play the piano of our hearts
“Women and men are made differently.
To deny that is to deny the truth.”
Calm sea of communing
Threatened by tidal surge ...
Ragged souls seated around room
Seeking solace from storm lashed lives
Woman conducts orchestra of therapy
Her soft curves and smile
Soothes tempest tossed madmen
In the quiet presage of session
She sits gazing in contemplative beauty
Her sage words play the piano of our hearts
“Women and men are made differently.
To deny that is to deny the truth.”
Calm sea of communing
Threatened by tidal surge ...
#women
#prison
#feminism
#sensual
#healing
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by the slice
I feel it!
in my stomach
that low vibration
of want...
need
I crave pizza
not a whole pie
mind you
just a slice or
two
but there is a
problem
around here most
of the pizza shops
that sell by the slice
are already closed
leaving me with the
damnable choice of
a dozen cookie cutter
big outfit cooperate
America pizza chains
with their crust that
taste like paste
their cheese as flat
as a glass bottom
boat...
in my stomach
that low vibration
of want...
need
I crave pizza
not a whole pie
mind you
just a slice or
two
but there is a
problem
around here most
of the pizza shops
that sell by the slice
are already closed
leaving me with the
damnable choice of
a dozen cookie cutter
big outfit cooperate
America pizza chains
with their crust that
taste like paste
their cheese as flat
as a glass bottom
boat...
#America
#city
#prison
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mental shackles
There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to
break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-
right ignorance.”—Martin Luther King, Jr.
zoot scales fell from my eyes,
but i did not yet know
that light was mine, if only i would look;
brute chains fell from my thighs,
yet i did not know how
to move along where, years, no step i took.
when sighted men fall blind
by willful ignorance,
then shall all else, for vision-lack, bear blame?
when former...
break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-
right ignorance.”—Martin Luther King, Jr.
zoot scales fell from my eyes,
but i did not yet know
that light was mine, if only i would look;
brute chains fell from my thighs,
yet i did not know how
to move along where, years, no step i took.
when sighted men fall blind
by willful ignorance,
then shall all else, for vision-lack, bear blame?
when former...
#oppression
#freedom
#prison
#escape
#FeelingTrapped
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Tear You Apart
freelance assassin
every target is hit in the chest
leaves you broken and responsible...
you've been hit by the best
long-suffered and less delusional
excommunicated, self-martyred
let this be a confessional
unapologetic and unforgiven
fingers are numb, nails are bitten down
trade one habit for another
learned nothing from what i couldn't keep down
and everything from my mother
in my own tears i drown
lest i offend my father
bottom of the barrel, disguised as top shelf
i thought i had what it took ...
every target is hit in the chest
leaves you broken and responsible...
you've been hit by the best
long-suffered and less delusional
excommunicated, self-martyred
let this be a confessional
unapologetic and unforgiven
fingers are numb, nails are bitten down
trade one habit for another
learned nothing from what i couldn't keep down
and everything from my mother
in my own tears i drown
lest i offend my father
bottom of the barrel, disguised as top shelf
i thought i had what it took ...
#sex
#suicide
#confessional
#MentalHealth
#prison
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Imprisoned by Lies
An innocent man behind bars is free in his heart
Even when the law has failed him
While a guilty man will always be on the run
Whether he knows it or not
It will eat away at his soul
The same could be said for those who have fallen
Having believed lies
They will embrace it and live in it
And not for one single minute they will open their eyes
Reality is too harsh for some
It is a prison cast upon the hearts of many
Who think they know the truth and will fight for it
Unable to perceive the sinister designs with them...
Even when the law has failed him
While a guilty man will always be on the run
Whether he knows it or not
It will eat away at his soul
The same could be said for those who have fallen
Having believed lies
They will embrace it and live in it
And not for one single minute they will open their eyes
Reality is too harsh for some
It is a prison cast upon the hearts of many
Who think they know the truth and will fight for it
Unable to perceive the sinister designs with them...
#MentalHealth
#humankind
#prison #morality
#prison #morality
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Pretty prison
Confined fear handcuffed to metal bars
crimes of innocence laid out on a cot
cemented walls are new confessionals
Prayers slip between pleas
echoing through minds but only reaching the dead.
Painting pictures passing sentences
One photo doesn’t make it a pretty prison?
One lie did make it my own hell
crimes of innocence laid out on a cot
cemented walls are new confessionals
Prayers slip between pleas
echoing through minds but only reaching the dead.
Painting pictures passing sentences
One photo doesn’t make it a pretty prison?
One lie did make it my own hell
#prison
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wall
I have imprisoned the walls of my house
She wants to breathe, she wants to kiss the winds
I have decorated it with various colors but
Still she keeps looking at me day n night with her colorless face
She embraces the soil, she kisses the silent shadow
When I go to hug her, she remains standing straight
she is standing for me, she is surrounded by me
She wants to bathe in the clouds, she wants to be away from me
She has grown old and her bones often broken.
When I fix it, she peeks even through the cracks
She wants to breathe, she wants to kiss the winds
I have decorated it with various colors but
Still she keeps looking at me day n night with her colorless face
She embraces the soil, she kisses the silent shadow
When I go to hug her, she remains standing straight
she is standing for me, she is surrounded by me
She wants to bathe in the clouds, she wants to be away from me
She has grown old and her bones often broken.
When I fix it, she peeks even through the cracks
#WritingPoetry
#prison
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We Walked Into This One Bedroom
We went over to this one house
looking all over for the louse
who kidnapped our friend Jennifer.
We walked into this one bedroom
and looked at what made our eyes zoom
in a huge box we found under
the bed which was Jen stripped naked
and tied with a gag on her head.
She was their sex slave prisoner.
looking all over for the louse
who kidnapped our friend Jennifer.
We walked into this one bedroom
and looked at what made our eyes zoom
in a huge box we found under
the bed which was Jen stripped naked
and tied with a gag on her head.
She was their sex slave prisoner.
#friendship
#fiction
#dialogue
#prison
#sensual
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Must They Torture Me, Too?
This
one guy
opened his
eyes and saw that
wife of his stripped nude
and chained to a wall like
her husband but also with
a blindfold on! Why must they do
this? I already agreed to be
their prisoner! Must they torture me, too?
one guy
opened his
eyes and saw that
wife of his stripped nude
and chained to a wall like
her husband but also with
a blindfold on! Why must they do
this? I already agreed to be
their prisoner! Must they torture me, too?
#fiction
#dialogue
#prison
#emotional
#sensual
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Prisoner In My Mind
Prisoner in my mind...
All In time....
A disaster you will find.
Through deeper depths,
I let you intrude, becoming a
Prisoner in my mind.
For this I truly regret.
What will happen next...
A disaster you will find.
Manipulation, your greatest strength.
Somehow, you made me a,
Prisoner in my mind.
And after all this time,
Letting you deep inside,
A disaster you will find.
You called me worthless.
Believing that, also made me a
Prisoner in my mind.
A disaster you will find.
All In time....
A disaster you will find.
Through deeper depths,
I let you intrude, becoming a
Prisoner in my mind.
For this I truly regret.
What will happen next...
A disaster you will find.
Manipulation, your greatest strength.
Somehow, you made me a,
Prisoner in my mind.
And after all this time,
Letting you deep inside,
A disaster you will find.
You called me worthless.
Believing that, also made me a
Prisoner in my mind.
A disaster you will find.
#dark
#prison
#disappointment #manipulation
#disappointment #manipulation
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Six Pleonasms in Search of Euphemism
Let's be honest
as in political correctness.
Politics lie!
Let's go outside
of this prison...
and save ourselves victims
of an innocent thief.
as in political correctness.
Politics lie!
Let's go outside
of this prison...
and save ourselves victims
of an innocent thief.
#violence
#mirror
#WritingPoetry
#prison
#FeelingTrapped
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