The Innocent Prisoner
Georgia Evans 1999 (Preston)
Brown bear paces, her fur matted with dirt
Her sad sunken eyes reflected in the steel bars
The most innocent of prisoners
Serving a life sentence
Even to be executed would be kinder
Than a life squashed into a rectangular box
One day she will feel her claws on the soft forest floor
If only in her dreams
About this poem
I wrote this poem inspired by my passion for animal rights. Through this poem, I hope to shine a light on the barbaric conditions bears in captivity in confined spaces and cages are subjected to.
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Submitted by evansgeorgie on February 13, 2024
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 307 |
Words | 61 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
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