#prison poetry

[trans-axolotl]

"REMEMBERING A 15 YEAR OLD PALESTINIAN WOMAN IN PRISON CHAINED TO THE BED SPRINGS SHE HAD REFUSED TO STOP SINGING

chained for singing clear minor notes still her song soars skyward

women sing songs lullabies lovesongs blues songs chants of exiled lives and martyrs’ death

voices search out sounds not yet noted on bars not yet ordered on scales

to bring down walls to raise Palestine, free

Summer 1988"

-Marilyn Buck

[darealprisonart]

My Ebony Valentine

Been kind of overwhelmed, I believe I missed last week’s love poem, here’s a pre-Valentine poem, in my 52-week, love poem, per-week, personal challenge. I gotta make sure I copyright my shyt, just like they be stealing Katt Williams’s jokes, these Intellectual Property thieves are fo’real. No. 5 MY EBONY VALENTINE In hues of melanin, our love story starts, A melody of souls, entwined like…

[soracities]

Samih al-Qassim, "The End of a Discussion with a Prison Guard" (trans. A.Z. Foreman, ID included), from A Map of Absence

[artharakka]

Beautiful, But Broken

[zilabee]

if you google "what is it called when" and the first letter of a beatle, autocomplete writes you a little poem about their apocalyptic destiny.

john paul

george ringo

(I'm sorry, but "rats get stuck together, reality feels like a dream, rocks fall down a mountain" has more emotional comprehension of the beatles story than many nine hundred page biographies.)

[luthienne]

Reginald Dwayne Betts, from Felon: Poems; "Behind Yellow Tape"

[Text ID: All the stories I keep to myself tell how / violence broke & made me,]

[hauntedbythenarrative]

Ghost I, Christina Marie Brown//The Prisoner, Emily Brontë

[darealprisonart]

High Speed

Another Monday love poem drop. No. 4 HIGH SPEED Skirt, skirt….. We damn near crashed in our Bugatti from high speed smoking weed it was you and I till we die damn near went off that canyon road Wake up call cause it wouldn’t been you and I no mo’ But nothing could break this love Not even death So we flirted with it Played with it This is what you do When you’re Bonnie and Clyde…

[srisrisriddd]

Prisons Are Mirrors Of Degrees Of Civilization - Dr Devang H Dattani

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[autumnwoodsdreamer]

Boba Fett 🤝 Sabine Wren 🤝 Din Djarin

Going through an unbelievably traumatic past, losing your family, getting cast out, throwing yourself into bounty hunting, but ultimately finding a new family and choosing to be good and kind despite everything

[usefulquotes7]

We are products of our past but we don’t have to be prisoners of it. Rick Warren

[starrynightsxo]

okay but HOW was Holly Black able to make a poem from Charlotte Mew, a poet from the 19th and 20th Century, work SO INCREDIBLY well in a story of faerie fiction???

[luthienne]

Reginald Dwayne Betts, from Felon; “Night”

[Text ID: What she / tells me: prison killed you my love, killed you so dead / that you're not here now, you're never here, you're always.]

[blocky-tides]

sbi; how much of yourself can you spill at your family's feet?

for anonymous

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[darealprisonart]

All My Life

Every Monday, I want to try to be the day I publish one love poem a week. It will only be for 52-weeks. Listening to the music being played in the cell next to me is an OG Crip, well he is older than me by ten years out of Watts Vario Grape. He really goes bacc to what sounded like The Shirelles, and Sam Cook. But what really had my mind going there, as far as a Monday Love poem type of vibe was…

[feral-ballad]

Linda Hogan, from Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems; “In here"

[Text ID: “I am from a world of secrets like prison doors / That never open.”]