by redclay | Sep 16, 2022 | Detention Center Writing Contests, Poetry
by Thomas Carlos Felder, Jr.
Poetry, Arlington County Detention Facility/Heard/OAR writing contest, August 2022
They see balance and they want to challenge or damage.
Thy heart <3 wants thy mind can’t percieve,
Bring in this state of pandemic a lot
of people run off envy and greed.
Our children look up to us
To balance their lives,
but from sitting in a 4×6 cell,
They can’t see how much we cry.
A true balance of life metaphoricly speaking
sometimes our heart <3 will die within.
We all miss our kin
Sometimes we have to tell our children,
beautiful lies to keep them happy inside.
Once is all it takes to upsetting thier normal lives,
That’s why it’s a must to have balance of life! 😊
by redclay | Sep 16, 2022 | Detention Center Writing Contests, Poetry
by Hassen Hassen
Poetry, Arlington County Detention Facility/Heard/OAR writing contest, August 2022
How can we protect our goals;
When we are not being keepers of each other souls?
Obsessed with our past;
too blind to see our present.
Too caught up in current trash;
To understand our future’s present.
In a tureen; lost in a sea of oblivion;
looking for away out; out this morass material.
Reaching for a hand; to pull us up.
Event a rope or a ladder might make us jump.
Shedding tears of joy; and smiles of sorrow;
painfully hoping and happily despiring.
With pain so deep, like the marrow’s in our bones;
And comradery so fake, like a cartoon’s souls.
We both hungry for just a little refuge;
But, all we feed each other is plates of subterfuge.
Brainwashed to inure less;
When we are supposed to be our best.
How do we protect our goals;
When we are not keepers of each other souls?
So, place me deep, where you look within;
abyssed in your soul when you need a friend.
Place it dearly next to your heart,
But never negated when we are apart.
And even thought we have different mothers;
That doesn’t mean we can’t be prison brothers.
by redclay | Sep 16, 2022 | Detention Center Writing Contests, Poetry
by Christ Joshua M. Fletcher
Poetry, Arlington County Detention Facility/Heard/OAR writing contest, August 2022
11-B
Mental Health Lied
D. H. S
Evil igh atan
Q Asked have she called my family? Hel-Nawh Requested to communicate/
Lack of honesty contact.
Time frame is lest then #5-10 mins.
They’re response is always’s:
OK-, Alright; Yeah; or nobodie answered;
Lies!
I will try still lying! ORE ye know!
Never a correct complete answer!
Right: Some-thing (Left) wrong w/that answer
bcuz (No-thing’s) nothing is
OK, or right, or alright (which is changing
the chain of correct verbal communiteation
left wrong!….
by redclay | Sep 16, 2022 | Detention Center Writing Contests, Poetry
by Travon D. Porter
Honorable Mention, Poetry, Arlington County Detention Facility/Heard/OAR writing contest, August 2022
by redclay | Sep 16, 2022 | Detention Center Writing Contests, Poetry
by AP22
Poetry, Arlington County Detention Facility/Heard/OAR writing contest, August 2022
Hand in hand,
Side by Side;
GOD is beginning to change the tide.
So just hold on,
don’t let go;
may GOD let it be so!
Put GOD FIRST,
We have work to do,
And I onlhy want to;
Do it with you…
Let GOD in, your spirit
To HIM entrust;
And HE promises to
Lead us through:
The rest
Of this mess;
Into LOVE, Joy, peace
And FREEDOM
To do HIS work
And to live our BEST…
Life…
Im listening GOD,
You know ALL of my cares;
All of my Fears.
Even if I want to
keep them hidden;
but then it seems like I’m
put on the bench just
sitten…
Out of the game of life,
until I acknowledge,
Theres nothing GOD don’t already know;
So why put on a show?
We need to be completely real;
with the MAKER of the universe,
So we can learn in life how to deal!
The tides are changing; a new
Life is coming out of all this rearranging
Our GOD just keeps in reassuring without
blame; with HIM our lives will never
be the same…
JESUS showed HIMSELF to me;
And let me know, FAITH IS THE KEY!
I’ll never forget that day;
Or all HIS HEART has to say!
I believe, in faith: TO LOVE GOD 1st;
HE keeps us safe,
We’ve already been through the worst…
And I can see, just up ahead, is our victory!
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