Star Prison Poems

(Lights dim, a single spotlight illuminates Judy Garland, center stage. She wears a faded housecoat, her eyes holding a lifetime of stories. She speaks directly...

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Submission to the sleeping lion 
Seeing his shadow as a place to lie in 
The darkness of eternal obscurity and sin 
Not unveiling our bright...

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-Nous In Malibu-

What is the most invaluable thing in existence and yet inherently toxic to hold? Knowledge. The more you have, the more you desire....

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~"And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone with the beast and the false prophet are" Revelations 20:10

(Duo...

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The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is...

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Black, black
Born black
Head to toe black
Back black, side black, cock black
Every inch black

Midnight without a star,

Black Friday, black Saturday, every day black male

Black out from...

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Seated in a cell of this prison world
I watched the night sky
Through a window,
A tiny one
Sealed tight by metal bars
Seeming to tell me
That mightier they...

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From sea to shining sea,
‘Merica ain’t never been nothin’ but
a prison for
angry black boys like me

Childish rage moved my hands,
hateful oppression reaction expression
made me feel...

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A liberated star in prison

I lie miserably in the 2nd layer of the three course wall
With chains on my hand and no chance to even...

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Is it more insane
to long to grow away from prisons
than to feel we still belong imprisoned?

Are we already prisoners,
lacking images for liberties
and co-arising responsibilities,
of a...

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I saw the house,
bare bereft
only THAT room left.
Gone are my books
gone is my bed
but the rape stays the same.

All of the cruel games
I, unknowingly, played.
Younger...

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With beating hearts
the young lovers run down the street
afraid of looking back
hearing only their shoes on the concrete.

Running into the night,
following the North Star
and the...

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My heart burns like fire on a blistering night and yet it is still too cold to melt the chains you confined me in.
Eyes closed
Black...

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Ojalá el universo se apiade de mí
Y me convierta en otra estrella;
Porque la última espada caerá
Ante el desvaneciente sol,
Opacando el vitral del alma...

Desaparecerá el vitral
Al...

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Here I sit with my head hanging down
Looking silently at the marveled floor
No one around to make any sound
There are no windows, not even a...

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