Sunday, June 10, 2012

From The Lynne Stewart Defense Committee- A Poem

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Poem from Prisoner
May 13th, 2012

(From Carole Seligman)

Lynne sent this poem, which was sent by a prisoner at ADX Florence “as a reflection on the ‘exercise’ yard and other things!”

From the Paris Zoo — The Panther

By Rainer Maria Rilke (German)

His vision from the constantly passing bars,

has grown so weary that it cannot hold

anything else. It seems to him there are

a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world.

As he paces in cramped circles over and over,

the movement of his powerful strides

is like a ritual dance around a center

in which a mighty will stands paralyzed.

Only at Times, the curtain of the pupils

lifts, quietly — , an image enters in,

Rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles,

plunges into the heart and is gone.

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