Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Freedom Angel Comments

Rating: 5.0

The Path to Freedom

A daring thought slips through the cracks of a mind closed
Its twisted and strange, like a lighthouse in the fog
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Daniel Brick 29 November 2015

This title FREEDOM ANGEL is characteristic of your poetry, almost a signature, and the subtitle THE WAY TO FREEDOM identifies your essential theme. At the very end, you tell the other person the final step on this path, that is, to step into the unknown with insufficient knowledge but fully empowered with confidence. This demands a special kind of courage which has nothing to do with bravado. Joseph CAMPBELL said we get the adventures we're ready for, and I see your poem as an extended declaration of your readiness. That's how I read the CHILDHOOD GHOST metaphor: It symbolizes the core of one's being which in some mysterious way embodies all of our future, if we have the courage to realize it.

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Joshua Terpening 27 September 2014

i like the truth of there being only answers and no more questions, a peaceful thought for a would-be philosopher as myself. two thumbs up, way up! peace and love.

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Tyrone Gayle 18 September 2014

I am free! Splendid, this poem is mind-opening. As a young learner I am humbled by this piece.

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