Paper Poetry

We are living in the digital world, covered in the autonomous aspects & tracked motions of life. Yet, somehow we are losing some critical elements. Keyboards, touchpads, & speech-to-text are there, but we believe that handwritten words on paper is still meaningful to some poets.

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A Manifest Truth — a poem of culture wars

A Quadrilew of consequences

Esther Spurrill-Jones
Paper Poetry
Published in
Feb 4, 2025

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Ai image of a man crouching in a mess of broken stone and dust. He screaming at nothing.
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The truth has come clear,
All the lies brought to light,
And yet they still cheer
For the manifest blight.

All the lies brought to light,
A list of their sins,
All the dross their birthright,
A ruin their wins.

And yet they still cheer
For the harsh destiny;
They sneer and they jeer
At perceived enemy.

For the manifest blight
They opened the door;
Now, they have won the fight,
But they’ve lost the war.

Esther learned to read when she was four years old, and began writing shortly thereafter. She is a Canadian queer Christian poet, crafting with words to create art and music.

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Paper Poetry
Paper Poetry

Published in Paper Poetry

We are living in the digital world, covered in the autonomous aspects & tracked motions of life. Yet, somehow we are losing some critical elements. Keyboards, touchpads, & speech-to-text are there, but we believe that handwritten words on paper is still meaningful to some poets.

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