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Poetry and Prose by Russell Wardlow

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Spirit

Free Flower

May 3, 2022 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

rising from challenges like the sky
where the falcon is

reception as high as Verizon is

while I peer at peers from a pier
or a balcony

my thoughts as pure as alchemy

I’m an alchemist

counting while bounding calendars
mountains and boundaries

discerning prophecy and fallacy

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Phenomenologist

May 3, 2022 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

phenomenon
is only the reaction
or interruption
of what already is
I am what you see
though I am not
what you yet get
this makes me
phenomenal
but only in signature
direction impression from expression
not relative emotion
to which trivial discernment originates
although everything has an emotional signature
and that’s a matter of phenomenology

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Blind Ambition

May 3, 2022 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

recognition,
identification unlocks the mind
if one continues over-peering in the mirror
they’ll lose sight of themselves
for the lost seek reflections for their identity
the very thing which alludes unfocused eyes

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Rebounded

May 3, 2022 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

there is no title
nor genre
for awakening
like creation, it just Is
what is not
needs trivial tools for identification
losing the essence

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One-ity

May 3, 2022 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

for I am but a memory of We
embodied as Me
which my eyes call I
that which All can See

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My Style

May 3, 2022 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

it’s more than music
it’s memory and message

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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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