Spiritual Prison Poems

We exist in ourselves with multiple connections 
We earthly move as, I, me, mine/ fictional 
pretenses all together as a trio of one. 
We enliven...

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My Freedom is,
  Looking at the world,
  with  child-like wonder,
  compassionate loving and
  Spiritual eyes.
     My...

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Prisoner mortally confined,
plotting your escape like Papillon,
conceiving freedom like a zoo animal.
Then dreaming on, 
you meet a flying child in all your mirrors.
Nearly weightless, pulled...

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The spirit-man within him stood
Persevered the pain.
Determined he would take no food,
until the blessings rained.

Both mind and body were subdued.
The Creator was his claim.
In a...

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Strong

You are my rock, 
the stone I stand upon. 
I married you, 
because you knew the Lord, 
and felt that we, 
were made to be
together....

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Abounding benevolence 
Christ descended 
Elevating For gnosis 
Humanity’s inheritance 
Joyful kiss 
Liberating magnificence 
Numinous 
Opening prison quaking 
Resurrecting Sophia  
Through Universal Voice 
With xenia...

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Imprisoned 

They robbed me of time, 
controlled me by their lenses 
censored my opinions
took my rights away 

mere men speculating

ignorant kings from central casting 
spoke...

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I move;
perception moves;
thoughts move;
feelings move;
this body moves.

I am still;
perception stills;
thoughts still;
feelings still;
this body stills;

These perceptions I thought were me
vanish;
these thoughts I thought were me
vanish;
these feelings...

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Perhat Tursun

Perhat Tursun (1969-) is one of the foremost living Uyghur language poets, if he is still alive. Born and raised in Atush, a city...

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“Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room”
by William Wordsworth

Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room;
And hermits are contented with their cells;
And students with...

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The censer clanks
the smoke rises.
An attempt is made
to hypnotize.
It wafts across
the naive
The priest like
a magician has
a trick he uses
to deceive.
The incense odor,
causes a spiritual
trip.
Chanting in...

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(This is a poem dedicated to the collective group of Jehovah's Witnesses who have been imprisoned simply for their faithful beliefs and their obedience to...

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Locked up behind iron bars 
in retribution of regret. 
Sinner beasts with criminal scars
in isolation of dust and sweat. 

Handcuffed like a bird in cage.
in...

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I find imprisoning parallels
between early Nazi Germany
and early Roaring Trumpian 20s USA,
between fascist and fake propaganda,
between judicial patriarchal-privileged racist stockpiling,
between CEOs living above our democratically...

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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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