Shatter what is sealed
Spirits, loose me from this cage!
No prison bird sings
All images of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cabinet cards, and postcards are from the author’s private collection. Photographs appearing on this writer’s pages on this site are licensed. Influences in these recent poems include Gothic, Romanticism, Elizabethan, Victorian, and Confessional, wrapped in diction and vocabulary common to the eras spanning the early 1600s (17th century) through the late 1800s (19th century).
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Author’s Edit History
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L3 / I’m no prison’d bird
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 | 9:41 PM. Previously,
L1 / Spirits, set me free
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 | 9:48 PM. Previously,
L2 / Do not give me cause to curse
Wednesday, July 23, 2025 | 5:41 PM. Previously,
L1 / Spirits, loose me free
Thursday, July 24, 2025 | 11:01 PM. Previously,
L2 / Let me not be moved to wrath
Sunday, August 10, 2025 – Deleted this one.
Monday, August 11, 2025 | 10:31 PM – Restored
to edit line 3.
Monday, August 11, 2025 | 10:38 PM. Previously,
L3 / No prison bird sings
Wednesday, August 13, 2025 | 11:59 PM. Previously,
L3 / No crimson bird sings
Copyright 2025 Michael Eugene Cantrall
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