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Poetry and Prose by Russell Wardlow

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Russell Wardlow

Figure of Speech (Free-verse)

March 3, 2022 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

I am the definition
of an acrobatic radical
versatile as my vertebrae
vertical verses reverse the subversive and emerge on the surface
like sermons
to the needy persons
like verbiage, the wordage is worms to the birds that keep swarming earliest
my mentality merciless like the enforcement and legislation of laws
and the time I’ve spent observing cold-blooded murders from systemically created murderers
nature nurtured hurt
and murmurs of the worriers
and warriors and tormenters I’ve placed inside of my melancholic melodious journalism
scripting their penchant for privatizing and profiteering the purges of pain
punished inside of the urbanization of prisons while pundits and partisans politic “if I’m fit for forgiveness, and my guiltiness”
just to guillotine my worthiness

so when my body is liberated from this captivity
actually, they’ll attack me more actively
provoking me vocally, passively
with preconceived notions and statistical quotas
by the weight of my record amidst the gravity of keeping me grounded and over-blaming me for the grounding,
I swear that this shit is maddening
but I’m a daddy and
I’ma keep rising the saddle daily battling defying the averages
prose of a con is an ionic bond,
to the iconic WayOfLife
just give me a mic and I’ll fight the fight I was born to take on
like the son of creed, all I need is a ring, and a bell I can ding
I stopped kicking the stones that was thrown at me,
when I was down vulnerably on my knees,
and I picked them up like David with his sling
so just give me the platform to set every stone free
ready or not, hear comes the figure of speech

Filed Under: Inside, Mercy, Trauma

Always in You

March 3, 2022 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

anything that inspires us
is already 3 levels deep inside of us
incited, and now invited
to revive, ignite and thrive thrice in us

Filed Under: Spirit

Tricks Don’t Treat

March 3, 2022 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

simply knowing truth, isn’t enough…
what you gunna do wit it, when it comes time to live it?
doubt is clever
the senses
will make you believe that everything is all good
as long as,
this and that,
until, this and that
but this, is that
yet to doubt, I say
This, ain’t That!

Filed Under: Spirit

Sojourners Way

March 3, 2022 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

survived the savagery and salvaged my sanity
by satiating my spirit in the silence
fore there is no serenity secured in solids
only solemnity
yet solace survives in the most subtle
and the subtlest of subtleties settle me
where the solar soul shines and sojourns
surmounting all surroundings, sounds, and sights
shhh, silent night, shhhh

Filed Under: Spirit

EgoTrips

March 3, 2022 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

you are the first in a long while
to have shown me
all dreams don’t come true
because, all dreams I dreamt
I dreamed of living them out, with you

Filed Under: Love

This Thing of Thr33’s

March 3, 2022 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

that which I am
I am not
and this state of not
I am!

but this is only
the elements of duality
its contemplation elementary
in the whole of parts

for the trifold nature
would be what you see
and that I experience

as I am
duality externalized

and my manifestation
must be the primordial trinity

thus, suspense said to
I, myself and me

there has always been
something about trilogies

Filed Under: Spirit

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Prose of a Con

Prose of a Con is a collection of Russell Wardlow’s prose and poetry written entirely behind bars. Through writings on family, spirituality, freedom, love, justice, redemption, and vulnerability, Russell seeks to show the humanity and hope of individuals like himself who are incarcerated.

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