I sunder the barriers
Of my confinement
Rise through the debris
Of my former prison
Grow roots in the sands
Which once shifted beneath me
And in the open air of freedom
Stretch beyond capacities
I could not imagine
Tag: freedom
Freed ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #272
In the darkness
An inner light
Dim but ageless
Beyond is daylight
Through a window
Barred
Trapped
Inside
I quell the panic
Mindful
Of the small dim light
Until it grows
Illuminates the darkness
And the latch
To the bars containing me
I am free
Remembering the power
Of even a small dim light
Frozen Home
Curled up
In my armchair
Of ice and snow
Cozy and warm
In a place I adore
In my armchair
Of ice and snow
Cozy and warm
In a place I adore
Gentle current
Beneath the ice
Downstream rumbles
Break the crust
And I am freed
Freedom ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #236
She told me why the caged bird sings
She told me of the rage
That the pain creates
How it colours everything
She told me of the rage
That the pain creates
How it colours everything
I can’t perch where the caged bird sings
But to her fearful trill
Take up harmony
This free bird sings so to keep her wing
Prisoner’s Mantra
Boxed in
And cornered
No way out
But to acknowledge
And cornered
No way out
But to acknowledge
These four walls
Do not a prison make
Nor is the light
Ever extinguished
Beyond the windows
The sun is bright
Inside this cell
My spirit is free
Confined
Imprisoned
Confined
By politics
Extreme and
Everyday
Confined
By politics
Extreme and
Everyday
Barred
Unbarred
No difference
Constricted
Patterns of
Thought and being
Restricted
By others and
Self
Freed
First from
Within
Lead
Only when
Freed
Narrow Channel
A narrow pass
To my release
To my release
Beyond horizons
Uncharted
Possibility
Gleams
Cacophony
In the cacophonous mingling
Of mountain and sky
My eye finds no place to rest
No one object to hold it
Of mountain and sky
My eye finds no place to rest
No one object to hold it
So it is free
To revel in the details
The myriad forms
The endless possibility
Of discovery
Where the Land Meets the Sky
Where the land meets the sky
Between the heavens and the sea
I fly free as a gull
On the shifting breeze
Between the heavens and the sea
I fly free as a gull
On the shifting breeze
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