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ISSUE NO. 13

August 2025

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Poetry

Beautiful Souls

By

RM

RM writes from a prison in Queensland.

Kristel Hayes for Unsplash

Why should you suffer for my pain.

Knowledge in this I should try to gain.

Does it feel I have left you alone?

It may feel I have cut you to the bone,

But please believe me, my love is true,

I know in the past I didn’t know what to do,

Because being a father was new to me,

Over the years I was blind, but now I see,

That my responsibility is to be a Dad,

Even me writing this poem, makes me sad,

Thinking of you all from this cell,

You beautiful things, I must have put you all through hell.

So now I have made some new goals,

And that is to save your beautiful souls.

Why should you suffer for my pain.

Knowledge in this I should try to gain.

Does it feel I have left you alone?

It may feel I have cut you to the bone,

But please believe me, my love is true,

I know in the past I didn’t know what to do,

Because being a father was new to me,

Over the years I was blind, but now I see,

That my responsibility is to be a Dad,

Even me writing this poem, makes me sad,

Thinking of you all from this cell,

You beautiful things, I must have put you all through hell.

So now I have made some new goals,

And that is to save your beautiful souls.

‘Love is Rebuilding My Life’

By Phillip

There’s irony, hypocrisy, fallacy, a vast ocean of distance to cross. The “saint”, the “sinner”, it’s lunacy, that the ignorant could save the lost.

Creative

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Methfairytale

By Karie

I’m not belle of the ball, not the very least, but we have something in common, I’m in love with a beast. But the beast is not a person but a drug that I call meth, I’ve been talking to myself for hours, I’m running out of breath.

Creative

ISSUE NO. 22

1 MIN READ

Nostalgia

By Dennis

Nostalgia is a gentle haze, a soft and fading, golden maze, where time itself begins to blur, and memory’s touch is sweet and pure.

Creative

ISSUE NO. 22

1 MIN READ

Art From Inside

By Lanie

Our team was blown away by this beautiful painting.

Creative

ISSUE NO. 21

1 MIN READ