Frontiers that Mother Nature laid
No longer maintain a barricade
The pathless barriers of the Seven Seas
Now traveled, due to buoyancy
Impassable deserts, dry barren regions
Long conquered despite their afflictions
Man mastered the summit of Everest
Mountains confines ever since repressed
The challenge of nature, seemingly insufficient,
Man made his own limits, civil defense efficient.
Hadrian’s, the Romans, the Great China wall
Fortifications were built to protect from pitfall
Trading and wars, race and religion
Frontiers continue to grow with contagion
With Windows and Gates, vertual technology
A world has been made that is frontier free
I like to imagine how free we would be
If man had not marked his own boundary
2009
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Another very interesting and well-written poem, Patricia. Do you know this one: WALLS “Man is a great wall builder The Berlin Wall The Wailing Wall of Jerusalem But the wall most impregnable Has a moat flowing with fright around his heart A wall without windows for the spirit to breeze through without a door for love to walk in.” – OSWALD MTSHALI, Soweto (South African) poet