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Poetry and Prose by Russell Wardlow

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broken bonds and unbreakable bondage

Generational Curse (spoken word)

June 28, 2022

I am a generational curse I am my generation’s curse cursed, fuck! I am the…

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Some Things Better Kept Between Two or Few…but I’ma Share this Even if it isn’t Alright with You

June 21, 2022

Hey Lauren, Thank you for your concern, your genuine reaction and heartfelt connection are always…

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Lost Senseless, in this World

May 5, 2022

how can I search for what can not see me when I can not see…

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Hear’t’

May 5, 2022

my Mother my Queen my Wife I have yet to submit to my love of…

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Deafened Hearts

May 5, 2022

when will I ever abandon this feeling like I have only ever been engaged in…

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Mental Mishaps

May 5, 2022

for it is that I tell my mind how much it knows and that I…

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Sound of God, or Love

May 5, 2022

first language was silent utterances decrypted by observance responses absorbed in contemplation and answers born…

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Plant Kingdom

May 3, 2022

if seeds spoke, they’d say to earth… open up and offer me room I will…

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Exchange

May 3, 2022

I will teach you life from my eyes and all I ask, is to remember…

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Read Into This

May 3, 2022

where are you at right now? I would like to drop everything and meet you…

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Will and Choice

May 3, 2022

my growth doesn’t mean your growth your growth doesn’t mean I grow but we can…

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It’s More than Sex

May 3, 2022

noticing the whole world has been posturing in a purposeful pose and position of sex…

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Oh Let Me Count the Ways

May 3, 2022

the sun houses the male principle the moon houses the female’s the sun projects upon…

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Umbilical

May 3, 2022

if I let you go it may be too early or right on time yet…

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You’re Amazing

May 3, 2022

the fact is it IS amazing! but that it is amazing, is amazing this should…

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Destitute Diatribes

May 1, 2022

I dare not ask why my turmoil exists for it is I whom questions the…

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Self Known

April 30, 2022

it’s a crazy experience when you realize just who you are WayOfLife… say it twice……

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Sen-Sexualized

April 27, 2022

sex and sexualization, are on in the same to the slumberers the former, the expression…

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Geysers

April 20, 2022

suppress your fire until the place where it can be fully expressed, is presented. and…

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Words of Affirmation

April 11, 2022

though affirmation can only be the plaything of one’s ego when it is the ego…

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Intrinsics

April 11, 2022

you can not give me anything that I do not already have, myself this makes…

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Tempor-alities

April 11, 2022

and I watched you evolve overnight from my grandest desire to my greatest temptation offering…

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A Dad in ’09 and ’12, a Father in ’20, Still Becoming a Man

April 11, 2022

I was a dad before I was a man I’ve been a man for less…

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Prodigal Apology

April 11, 2022

Dear Father I’m sorry for you know my heart where the full extent of this…

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God Made Dirt, and Dirt Don’t Hurt

April 10, 2022

you are as beautiful as dirt dirt is as beautiful as you life is just…

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Hmm, We’re Just a Couple of Lost People Loving

April 4, 2022

there is a beauty and art, as well as a needed and natural lesson in…

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Reflective Rhyme Schemes

March 21, 2022

I used to see tragedies as God’s way of getting back at me maybe because…

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EgoTrips

March 3, 2022

you are the first in a long while to have shown me all dreams don’t…

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Speaking of Serenity

January 17, 2022

what physical harmony is there better than woman’s synchronicity an instrument designed specifically chemically, biologically,…

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It Ain’t a Thing

January 17, 2022

coming to grips I’ve had to let go of things I gripped which really, gripped…

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A King, has Returned

January 9, 2022

do not the poles of the earth bring about the equator just as the poles…

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Thank the Beat You Gave

November 27, 2021

thank you for keeping me on your mind even when your mind is too busy…

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Voiceless, Without All of You

November 27, 2021

it’s easy to have an opinion hard to express it most times more advantageous to…

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How Amazing My People Are

November 27, 2021

this is how amazing my people are despite living because of economic and systemic terrorism…

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God to God

November 8, 2021

I’m going to do you a favor and treat you like a god not just…

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Fought the Love I Fell

November 8, 2021

I’ve fought the love I fell and fell into the spell of fighting smoke screen-I’m…

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Over the Cliff

October 27, 2021

I want you to lead me on, even if it’s off a cliff besides, I…

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Big Picture

October 27, 2021

I won’t love you because your shape although, Love my love will mold you into…

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Don’t Hold my Love Hostage

October 27, 2021

don’t hold my love, hostage I’m not one for, bondage what’s entitlement when accountability has…

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Purpose is You

October 27, 2021

I want you to speak, how you were born to be- Powerful! Son, you can…

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Global Tel-Missing-Link

October 27, 2021

building connections on a payphone when the time is limited tentative and expensive pretending with…

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Confined Romantic

October 27, 2021

romantic fantasies help me sway and fade out it’d be a Cinderella story if I…

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Contagious Connections

October 27, 2021

if you’re sick I’m sick because universal contract tracing says we are all connected therefore,…

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20/20

September 1, 2021

it’s the mistakes which broke us then brought other things, people, places together now bound…

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Aligned

September 1, 2021

as we lied on the gates guarding our breath my nose nestled in the nape…

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Sun, Moon Me

September 1, 2021

the sun stimulates the moon manipulates the sun creates the moon innovates the sun generates…

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Belly of the Bellower

September 1, 2021

Her breath, bellows my flame.

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Love, Freedom, Peace

September 1, 2021

oh! what more could I give? And what would I not give? To give into…

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Inferno

September 1, 2021

if flames flicker I figure our figure will furnace eternity eternally as reality falls into…

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Wandering to Wondering

September 1, 2021

I’ve wandered mind body spirit on soulful quests manifested in flesh and I’ve wondered pondering…

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Living Liars

July 22, 2021

there’s this lie one that you must know about me I wrestle with it more…

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Secret Bliss

July 19, 2021

I made love to her a time or two not in ways I once knew–…

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Wine in My Cup

July 15, 2021

if I were to imply I’d imagine grapevines pumping my heart’s fill of, red wine…

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Movie Bye’s

July 13, 2021

if I told you not to, go would you? life isn’t a movie and yet…

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Back to Reality

July 12, 2021

I elevated my mind stimulants fuelled a cathartic state battling still contemplation the war between…

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Theory of New Growth

July 7, 2021

when you have new growth and you grow in a place outside which you first…

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My Mama Veered Left, but We ALL-RIGHT

July 3, 2021

I just found out… before my mom went back to jail she started using again…

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I am Good

June 30, 2021

remember me because I am good I protect the weak I am as kind as…

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Spiritual Creatures

June 29, 2021

passion has no form preference nor shame it is constant heat an overwhelming inferno embodied…

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Broken for the Broken

June 29, 2021

I don’t want to be healed they need to be felt I need someone to…

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The Better to Lure You With

June 28, 2021

the better I write the more I may draw you in to me you may…

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All We Have, Is

June 28, 2021

you and me tied together, destiny don’t you run from me I’ll run to you…

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Where Will You Be?

June 25, 2021

when I am free where will you be? where will you be, when I am…

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Timing, when Time is Up

June 25, 2021

a lifetime wanting to be seen by the wrong crowd that same time spent looking,…

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3 am

June 24, 2021

I’ve climbed at this late of hour REM’s Everest she stirs little and I venture…

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Take a Hike/Hint

June 23, 2021

and when does diligence, become delusion? and will, wishful thinking? on what rock, called island…

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Transient Speech

June 21, 2021

those words their intention holds me suspended those words though unintended leave me defenseless those…

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Unlivable Creations

June 18, 2021

if only if only she’d allow it if the universe would let, me proceed, in,…

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Genies

June 14, 2021

I wish and I know genies privilege has always sparkled like a magic lamp I’ve…

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One of One

June 13, 2021

fire of my fire passion of my passion purpose of my purpose could you see…

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Off Kilter

June 11, 2021

I miss you or I need you but I’m Independent I think though I depend…

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Room For Error and Aliens

June 10, 2021

can I please have room for error social relations I’ve been alien to oh, and…

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And Then I Rose

June 7, 2021

Josiah I woke up this morning to you smiling at me then I realized it…

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Sun Lessons

June 6, 2021

Part 1: Josiah What’s up JI know I keep calling you something different, I like…

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Sometimes You Gotta Hurt Feelings, to Heal Hearts

June 1, 2021

even in relationships friendships sparked a connective camaraderie forged in the fire of external forces…

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Relayed in Per Diem

May 31, 2021

and I leaned upon your shoulder then laid atop your lap melted by the oven-like…

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The Evolution from a Complex

May 28, 2021

Dear White Woman I think I loved you to a fault a fault of self…

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Displacement

May 27, 2021

I cut the air between us with a blade of grass plucked from the earth…

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A Reach

May 26, 2021

I desired to hold your hand when I reached you didn’t know that I was…

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Know Me Better

May 23, 2021

how can I forsake you was it not your conducting that created me your keen…

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I See You Mama

May 22, 2021

I see you mama don’t be led astray by these deceitful people, nor let the…

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God Process of Creation, Martyrdom, and Matriarchy

May 13, 2021

Russell created Young R.U.S.S. to experience WayOfLife God created human beings to experience God’s self…

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Reflecting to my Son

May 12, 2021

reflecting on where has my life gone remembering everything that I ever did wrong sometimes…

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Believed in a Dream

May 12, 2021

I don’t know which came first was it the dream or the belief, that one…

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Osmosis Immortality

May 9, 2021

the ideas we love the idea of love people they are.. we are, fungible pieces…

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Whose Feelings are These?

May 9, 2021

I don’t know if if if if I have e if I have emo if…

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Peace Born of Yesterday’s Tomorrows

May 7, 2021

coming forth as you gave unto me in the womb of your light amidst the…

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Fallible Makeup

May 6, 2021

Some think the system is perfect We know it isn’t and We will make a…

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Lower Mind

May 6, 2021

I hope you..??… I’m hoping you don’t think me disgusting but right now I’m lusting…

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Not as Crazy as I Once was

May 6, 2021

I know you may think I’m crazy I know this may sound irrational like projected…

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Until They Can, I Will

May 6, 2021

I have to be what I couldn’t be for beings that have been but can’t…

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Ra-Hotep

May 6, 2021

if not grace propelling love to create how would I be love creates peace creation

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Got a Grip

May 6, 2021

you want me to come out a hard worker’s grip- calloused but callouses peel and…

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Twin Flames

April 4, 2021

she travelled the world I couldn’t yet we connected spirits traversing space I journeyed her…

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Special Touch

April 4, 2021

heat’s touch would melt me- both to, and to be- but for now, I exist…

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Carry On

April 4, 2021

her branches, stubborn as rigamortis her foundation, deep as roots her trunk, wide as family…

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Siren-ity

April 4, 2021

as the winds settle the feather lands as the air thickens the lungs expand as…

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Lower’d Self

April 4, 2021

We- could be more. You- just like them meant to be, more are more but…

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Is There, Is She? Then Where, When?

March 28, 2021

is there a sentient being out there coupled for me one named woman designed to…

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If You Saw What I See

March 28, 2021

change is all around us but we refuse it you refuse me you refuse us…

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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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