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FREEDOM HAIKU

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A collective grief

has settled over the land.

Only time can heal.

We  may never know

nor fully understand why

our freedom must go.

We must be the heart

of miracles yet to be.

And bring freedom back.

It is ours to seize

from its darkest journey and

bring it back to light.

Courage is our friend.

Struggles are not the end, but

A new beginning.

And just like that, friends,

the weight of grief rises up.

Grief comes to an end.

I yearn to see you

happily and truly free,

breathing liberty.

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POETIC POWER

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Poems are carrots in front of the nose,

meant to stir the desire to go

by horses so attune to the reins

they have forgotten how to trot

down the lane 

on their own.

Poems are a kick in the rump

meant to raise to action

those sitting on the fence

prone to inaction

when what they need

is a sense of dissatisfaction.

Poems are mere words

until they are not

to those who feel their power

and find themselves caught

in new ways of seeing

and thinking

and feeling.

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