Forgiveness Prison Poems

Thoughts of my abuse courageously spirals out of control

No drug in this world can conquer this raw resilience…..

Its ability to conivingly creep up with silence...

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Forgive me father. For I know not of what I’ve done. The chalice from a goat’s horn forged in fire, does not adhere to the...

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The Underworld 

There is a path
that leads to the bridge. 
Well, not exactly. 
It leads under it. 
Why would anyone want to go that way?...

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My name is Paul Carter and I want to tell you my tragic story
About the wrong path I chose in life, that wasn't one of...

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The Earth needs total deliverance!
The Earth needs true fast and prayer;
Where are the righteous and prayer warriors?
We need to hold hands and ask God for...

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As a young girl, my innocence was
taken away from me.
I was defiled by someone who was
supposed to love me.
It went on for years until I...

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His hands felt tougher than the bones
That cracked beneath his blows
He didn’t always throw these stones
At times, he brought me a rose

Suffering from the lack...

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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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I Received Bad News Today, Reckoning

I received bad news today,
	Rather, the bad news I sought.
Thirty years ago, we played.
Attention turned; you walked away.
	Divorce ended, so...

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I do not no longer want to be bound
And found behind prison walls

My mind wrap up, I'm all caught up
Intertwined inside those prison walls

Like Paul...

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Spiritual Prison

Tough and hard physical bars may
choose to remain
but it is the spiritual bars
that definitely cause us more pain.

Some prisoners are here
because wrong roads they...

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MY POEM ABOUT DEPRESSION 
A dark place, A wet slimy wall and a damp cold floor, A refusal to surrender or to be seen as...

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I m p r i s o n e d.
   C o n f i n e d.
     ...

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There is a prison inside everyone,
Where unforgiveness hides.
There are no bars on the windows,
No locks on the doors,
No guards and no wardens,
But unhappiness and loneliness...

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The drafting on of renaissance curtail
earmarks of goodly fortune, so avail
the breeding of contentment, this rest's hail
imbibes my soul's delivery with assail!

To caulk the artworks...

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