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Poetry and Prose by Russell Wardlow

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Long Distance Love

October 3, 2017 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

How can you feel you’ve lost what you have
Yet never feel like you ever had what you lost
The paradox of love distance relationships
Long distance love
How can any real love be distant
Or be explained by the length of separation
When love is the desire to be one with
Not to be with one

Filed Under: Love, Trauma

Atonement 

October 3, 2017 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

I’ve spent so much time trying to atone 

A lot of things I’ve toned down 

I’m not perfect, and yet you still first, see my tone

Can you even feel the pain in my tone

Or are you tone deaf

I pick up the phone – no dial tone. 

Filed Under: Love, Mercy, Trauma

Son’s Day- Sunday

September 13, 2017 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

You’ll probably never know, maybe one day

But I saved blocks of time and space

Hours of thoughts and memories

Nights of dreams and sleeplessness

Plenty of ink and paper

All for you…

Antagonistically the amount of buttons we push throughout our lifetime-

I have devoted as much time for love,

Countless time and an infinite amount in tow I saved –

A space, thought, memory, daydreams, pen and paper

But most importantly, a day

To infinitely press your mom’s buttons

Just to get to my son on Sunday.

Filed Under: Love, Mercy, Spirit

Hurts Good

September 13, 2017 by Russell Wardlow 1 Comment

I ran away from pleasure

and embraced the pain

to which became her name –

love hurts – but I love hurt

and I love hers – because I love her….

pain

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Insight

September 13, 2017 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

The inspiration that women incite,

Excites – and that’s insight

For inside, in that dim light

Within that dim life

In the depths of a lions den haunted by them nights

When the ink pen writes

every ink bleeds, the pen cries

symbolically when a man cries

with no woman in-sight.

Filed Under: Culture, Love, Spirit

Cunning-Linguist

September 13, 2017 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

I don’t need to know your whereabouts or what you’re wearing out

and if you wore it out –

Even if it’s a dress, unless you’re undressed

But there’s one thing we need to get addressed, before you get a dress,

Like, why were you seen leaving his address?

Filed Under: Love, Trauma

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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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