Art Prison Poems

My perception of the world is illusory art
The darkness is absolute
Women suffering violent abuse
From the one who said, “I do.”
Men and women  pushing dope
To...

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DREAM BIG, NEXT TIME, DREAM BIGGER.
CAPITAL BITTER HILL GURU BEAST.
CAMILLE IS NOW A STATE OF MIND.

MEG, PEG, SLAY IT'S A DIFFERENCE.
DON'T PUNISH THE PRISIONERS, AND
OUR...

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The worse prison in the world has no bars
But all the same leaves them scars
The hurtful word
All too seldom heard
Puts thoughts in your head
Sows the...

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For all that have been written 
Are more than enough for a bulletin 
With which we all take cautions
Masks on faces turn addictions 
As we...

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Trapped in slothfulness
Trapped in spiral labyrinth
Will she leave her shell





Inspired by a mosiac art of snails in Aquileia Basilica. Explained here: https://theomagica.com/blog/visit-to-a-gnostic-sanctum-aquileia

Aquileia's official website explaining...

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Why so serious
Have some fun
Game has begun
Tan tana tan
Tana tana tan
Have some fun
Don't inject me
Don't use gun
Tan tana tan
Tana tana tan
Have some fun..
When nothing goes...

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Colour 

The joy I find in colour
This extraordinary thing
Tiny backstreets shout with vigour
Freeing prison walls to sing 

When the streetlight slowly flickers
On our lifeless habitat...

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A god mended in string and wired corsets, armature. 
The blackened police the striders in the dark… 
a crippled plaything, 
a hymn of the tourniquet...

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I tried to reach out, blink in silence and say my words, but there is a lost syllable and a forgiven diction. I buried my...

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Charles d'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel


Spring
by Charles d’Orleans (c. 1394-1465)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and...

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Deliver me into my hell,
Load up the shotgun shells.

Save the words I will not hear,
I’ve decided to live in fear.

I’ll bury my pain in these...

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Your so pretty and so smart
It's no surprise you stole my heart
It aches and breaks when we're apart
You write me such sweet poems, cuz your...

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locked by tyranny
mocked by the masses
little children
little Jews
silver teeth
take away their shoes
the statue you see
is fake
Trumpets hide not
the fading of liberty


The kindest of souls
is ok
shout


above...

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One thought can be stppoed
Another thought may get through
Many are in a prison of the mind
Once could see but now there blind
Built with four walls...

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(Haiku)

Gold dust rides whirlwind,
softly speckles wet canvas,
Lost Dutchman Mine found

Prose ~

"Maggie save your strength..." words whispered in the corridor of a prestigious art gallery in...

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