prison poetry Archive

  • i desperately want freedom. i perspire to cool myself off from the heat of being imprisoned by mental bars and walls. the correctional officers are clocks and the keys on their waists go tic…toc…tic…toc as they walk down D-block. “Who […]

    Arts Competition Poem: Incarceration

    i desperately want freedom. i perspire to cool myself off from the heat of being imprisoned by mental bars and walls. the correctional officers are clocks and the keys on their waists go tic…toc…tic…toc as they walk down D-block. “Who […]

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  • Penal Patterns He moves from home to jail and home again Connected to God’s pendulum. He blames the world And especially the man. He swings at random. He enters lives. Several babies don’t know him. He borrows starts. His mother […]

    Arts Competition Poem: Penal Patterns

    Penal Patterns He moves from home to jail and home again Connected to God’s pendulum. He blames the world And especially the man. He swings at random. He enters lives. Several babies don’t know him. He borrows starts. His mother […]

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