Freedom Rictameter Poems

Stillness 
ever present 
in void of cessation,
when polarities interchange;
waking to sleeping, dreaming to waking,
during the pause of each half breath,
divine entwined, thus in
ever present 
stillness.

25-April-2022...

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Unmasked,

her smile summons
 
hope held hostage by fear.

It feels good to feel free again,

assign yesterday's woes to memory
 
and once more, indulge in a hug

received...

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birthday...
she’s all grown up,
with the weight of the world,
now on her shoulders — like Atlas.
stupendous the thought, of freedom to do,
everything you wanted to do.
sun...

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Sun
was bright
shining in the sky
i wandered in the 
lands of distant unknowingly
the scenery had a bucolic setting
the clouds harbinger-ed the arrival of rain
i could feel...

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ESCAPE

break away from
the tableau that holds me
triggered by impulses that blind
more than usual corruptible beasts
clicking rosaries with their claws
impulse slowly subsides
aversion to

ESCAPE



© Kim van Breda—23...

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twenty
souls deep within 
freedom stolen from them 
shackled and chained, so inhumane 
no English to speak, no one understands 
their only wish to go back...

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Bell rings,
                       ...

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