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Poetry and Prose by Russell Wardlow

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Whose Mind is it Anyway

June 30, 2022

the way the personality comes about being expressed static, concrete and remote and the way…

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Soul Transference

June 30, 2022

and I am your vessel to express your power in this world and my body…

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New Wings

June 27, 2022

I dropped out the sky I first learned to fly fore I learned to walk…

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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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Be Water

June 7, 2022

I’ve inhabited my own personal reality and I can create my own personal reality I…

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Soul Responsibility

June 6, 2022

Change is timeless

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The Question

June 4, 2022

here, is a choice now hear the choice. “this, or, that?” but there is no…

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Obtuse

May 5, 2022

I have something to say! my crass ass, cracked the glass! I’m not feeling your…

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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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Misguided Astronautical Musings

May 5, 2022

unsuccessfully I chased you to Moon and back traversing zero gravity exploring parts unknown rationalizing…

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Real Views

May 5, 2022

it was my projection which made me wise wise enough to know that the mirror…

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All Grapes Whine

May 5, 2022

gripped by grappling gripes grappling gripes gripped gripes grappling my grip there’s no grapes worth…

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Of One Accord

May 5, 2022

how long before my listeners, listen? before my believers, believe? before my circle encloses and…

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But I Choose to Live There

May 5, 2022

I found belief easiest in the aftermath of dearest hopes reap but I as well,…

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What Good is Advice Nowadays?

May 5, 2022

be it not my words too empty but defiled hearts too full and plenty to…

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Two Pictures Make a Whole

May 5, 2022

I am an adult and child a man and boy gentleman and ghetto distinguished and…

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And on this Hill, I shall Build My Temple

May 5, 2022

I am a temple, within a temple my temple, within my temple, within a temple…

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Wise Crisis

May 5, 2022

troubled by all that I know overwhelmed by all there is and still left unknown…

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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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Nature/Natural/Neutral

May 3, 2022

life already has a philosophy we don’t need yours!

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Talking to Me

May 3, 2022

knowledge seeks company understanding has its dark alleys and wisdom is all but alone I…

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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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The Things We Tell Ourselves We Feel

May 3, 2022

can you ever fall out if you never truly grasped the concept to fall in?

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Stolen Identity

May 3, 2022

darkness is misunderstood it was the first light that which only knew unity. and the…

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Model Set Forth

May 3, 2022

what I know is based on the example which I live how I live is…

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Say Less

May 3, 2022

a whole bunch of words to say nothing in all reality, I speak and say…

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Heart Leadership

May 3, 2022

one must follow to learn lessons of the followers so when one leads they understand…

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How?

May 3, 2022

how can I walk on a path and foresee the traffic how can I be…

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Perception, Location, Identification

May 3, 2022

life is not solely perception but as well location and identification what use is perception…

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Mental Clockwork

May 3, 2022

time has a mind of its own or the mind has a time of its…

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Free Flower

May 3, 2022

rising from challenges like the sky where the falcon is reception as high as Verizon…

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Phenomenologist

May 3, 2022

phenomenon is only the reaction or interruption of what already is I am what you…

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Blind Ambition

May 3, 2022

recognition, identification unlocks the mind if one continues over-peering in the mirror they’ll lose sight…

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Rebounded

May 3, 2022

there is no title nor genre for awakening like creation, it just Is what is…

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One-ity

May 3, 2022

for I am but a memory of We embodied as Me which my eyes call…

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My Style

May 3, 2022

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

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Field of Dreams

May 3, 2022

dream it’s truer than your reality

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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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The Crux of Knowing and Not Knowing What to Do- (we’ll eat, be merry, and just Be, in the dark)

May 3, 2022

if we lose our minds in this metaphor a home is my clothes and going…

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Statements

May 3, 2022

so many titles for so many things said just so separation creates identity now ain’t…

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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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Becoming, Returning

April 29, 2022

I am but the reflection of a moment the projection of eternal cause and cycle…

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Surroundings Sounding

April 28, 2022

my insanity are the walls! my imprisonment is my vision! for I have two ears…

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Words that Rhyme and Make Sense

April 26, 2022

I am a psycho I am a psycho I am a psycho I am a…

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Poor Choice, Poor Condition

April 25, 2022

to all who have ears to listen and eyes to bear witness sometimes poor is…

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Seba

April 24, 2022

Life is but a moral teacher to the student each day full of lessons so…

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Question of Methodology

April 23, 2022

Can the Answer Be the Method Or the Method, The Answer? Are they distinguished separately…

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Note to Self

April 22, 2022

And I look to the Sun- Magnificent Manifestor- for it is You whom unconditionally gives…

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Acceptance

April 21, 2022

Do not bemoan that you’ve asked instead, reap All which is gained so that you…

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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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Angles of Understanding

April 11, 2022

sometimes you have to lie… down, so you can understand the forces above and below…

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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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Kingdoms

April 11, 2022

animal, that I am ignorantly I once feared this yet I understand now, you were…

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Compelling You to Life

April 11, 2022

and death is impossible it isn’t real neither the devil nor hell but what seems…

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Time and Space

April 11, 2022

and how does one silence the noises and contemplate on that which always was and…

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Life Philosophy

April 11, 2022

life without a methodology is not life nor is any life philosophy which comes from…

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“A” is for Abstractions- Synonym for Detachment

April 10, 2022

this world this blessed world is a chaotic and neurotic world is full of distractions!…

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And This They Called Magic

April 9, 2022

methodology of a prodigy observe- consciously, then reflect contemplate discern then discern discernment results: insight…

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Freedom to Be

April 9, 2022

in a world swiftly taking more than it is giving back I can at least…

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Reflect on This

April 8, 2022

distractions… hmm, what are they distracting you from?

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Unfolding Awareness

April 7, 2022

I’m possible I’m probable I’m mobile I’m mortal? I’m I’m I’m I Am. selfish. self-like.…

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Rebuilding

April 7, 2022

learning to unlearn learned lessons I’ve learned well is a learned lesson I’ve learned well

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All ‘Things’ Decay

April 6, 2022

temper, temper, temporal temporal, temporal, temporary temporary, temporary, tempting tempting, tempting, temple temple, temple, timber!

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Fluidity must be the Way

April 6, 2022

to solely be subjective, with objects and objective with subjects misses the mark if the…

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Phenomenons of Thought

April 5, 2022

there is no phenomena in cause and effect it is mere natural law a phenomenon…

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Relativity Speaking

April 5, 2022

being a bigger person, is absolutely irrelevant being a better person is absolutely relative to…

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The Despiritualization of Solutions

April 4, 2022

where can one find justice if not found in the place which the cost is…

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Only Divine Powers Accompany Me

April 3, 2022

can you even be as lonely as I am? elevate thyself and you will see…

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Something to get up for

April 1, 2022

that which you crawl to or crawl from is the power you draw from for…

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A Time Such As…

April 1, 2022

and there comes a time for a voice to be heard and a ground to…

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Animism Anthropomorphizing My Mind

April 1, 2022

I envy the frog on the lily padso I meditate hovering the waters and when…

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Innate Harmony in Giving

March 30, 2022

if the hummingbird was ever offbeat would the flower withhold its treat?

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Hope You’re Listening

March 26, 2022

a whole bunch of words said nothing essence of the substance spoken abandoned and although…

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Illusions as Good as Reality

March 23, 2022

my lower god said, I got this! my higher God said, I got that! my…

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My Words to You, Gift-Wrapped

March 22, 2022

I got you a God-given gift it’s my God-given gifts because God gives and gets…

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Mid-Air

March 20, 2022

hovering between world’s I pondered the depths of sky and as the sun shown heating…

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Erect Your Spine

March 18, 2022

the flood came last lo, foundation lost the backbone bent a temple’s collapsed pillars shocks…

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and Still

March 16, 2022

that which I thought I was I am unbecoming my thoughts exactly I am unbecoming…

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Born in Sin

March 13, 2022

a dual nature of man an indivisible duality not realizing awakening then accepting the GodInMe…

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What a Mirror we Behold

March 12, 2022

if I choose to not be little than you can not belittle one who knows…

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What A Sight

March 9, 2022

appeal is such a task a veil is but a mask and as paint peels…

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Idealism. Divine Kingship. Worldviews.

March 8, 2022

I am the ruler of worlds to which this body belongs for the world is…

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A Lot Written to Still Never Know

March 7, 2022

with all that I am coming to know there’s much to understand and that which…

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Mundane Reflections, Still Learning

March 6, 2022

a black man walks into a stall in prison to urinate, he closes his eyes…

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Wary of WayOfLife Look-alikes

March 5, 2022

Frantz Fanon posed a question, am I all I say I am, am I all…

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WAYOFLIFE

March 4, 2022

IS ONE WORD, IT IS IMPROPER ENGLISH AND GRAMMAR CULTURALLY AND LINGUISTICALLY SUBVERSIVE IT IS…

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Always in You

March 3, 2022

anything that inspires us is already 3 levels deep inside of us incited, and now…

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Tricks Don’t Treat

March 3, 2022

simply knowing truth, isn’t enough… what you gunna do wit it, when it comes time…

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Sojourners Way

March 3, 2022

survived the savagery and salvaged my sanity by satiating my spirit in the silence fore…

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This Thing of Thr33’s

March 3, 2022

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

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Detached Reflections

February 20, 2022

I looked into the mirror saw a shadow I looked out into society saw shadows…

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A Will Freed to Be

February 19, 2022

who are you going to be? that isn’t as much a question, as it is…

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Lost Religion

February 16, 2022

religion used to be a process of self-initiation now it has converted to mass assimilation…

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Prison, is a Place for Ghosts?!

February 15, 2022

pt. 1 prison is a place I go to often in my mind jogged in…

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Calling out all Demons

February 3, 2022

I call on my ancestors, so that I may have faith in them, to speak…

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Audaciousness

January 29, 2022

tenacity voracity as opposed to veracity audacity! you can NOT, be timid you must be…

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Beget

January 17, 2022

Dreaming Big isn’t really Big dreaming it is you, expressing You what does size have…

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The Conjuring

January 17, 2022

there is a conjuring from a summoning I wish to answer- a call beyond my…

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Subjects of Subjugating Subjectives and Sublimation

January 17, 2022

how selfish would it be if I were to admit a blasphemous thing those two…

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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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  • Objects June 30, 2022
  • Same Thang, Different Name June 30, 2022
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