Prison Poetry

Without getting into politics, without endorsing one side over the other; I found this article from the front page of the Wall Street Journal to be very interesting.

Where does one turn to express oneself while imprisoned, isolated, and with little or no hope of ever being released? Poetry, of course!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1182...ys_us_page_one

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Sorry! Thought I was in the General Chat forum when I posted this.....
(I'm sure one of our ever-vigilant mods will correct my mistake sooner rather than later)

Brendan Behan wrote a very good poem when he was in Prison. Its in Irish but if i can find it i'll post it with it's translation. Was in the Movie Borstal Boy(2000)

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Originally Posted by BibliophileTRJ

Without getting into politics....Sorry! Thought I was in the General Chat forum when I posted this.

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It will stay open as long as peeps don't venture into the, ahem, current political issues discussed in the article, as per forum rule #6 :)