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Poet deVine
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0 posted 2000-06-25 10:07 AM




In a little over a week, we here in the U.S. we will celebrate Independence Day.

Here's the challenge: Write a poem about freedom and post it in any forum you choose but the Holiday Cheer Forum is open now!!. It doesn't have to be about our country's fight for freedom. I can be about any kind of freedom!

I look forward to reading them!    




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Poet deVine
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1 posted 2000-06-25 10:11 AM


Here's a quick example:

I am a child of the sixties
we marched for civil rights
we loved to chant about freedom
never backed down from freedom fights.

Now, I gaze out from my prison bars
wondering why this was done to me
Marching for what I believe is right
chanting to allow men to be free.

You can imprison my body
but my mind is mine to control
you can never bind my heart
nor ever seize my soul.

Freedom to love, to breath, to live
freedom from other’s scorn
freedom, not given, but
just from being born.



Esmeralda Ponsonby
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2 posted 2000-06-25 11:17 AM


I've posted mine in the Corner Pub.
brian madden
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3 posted 2000-06-25 11:38 AM


Great challenge idea. I shall start work ASAP. I will post it here as I already have 3 posts in the pub corner. Don't want anyone to OD on my poetry. lol  

"An abyss that lasted creation A circus complete with all fools
Foundations that lasted the ages Then ripped apart at their roots"
joy division

kaile
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4 posted 2000-06-25 08:46 PM


posted mine in Open#8...hope you like

lovely sentiments from your poem....wonderful tribute to pioneers fighting for their country's independence...I liked

Dennis L. White
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5 posted 2000-06-26 12:19 PM


Poet DV,
  Thanks for the challenge, I posted mine in Holiday Cheer!
Dennis :^)

Lost Dreamer
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6 posted 2000-06-27 07:08 AM


Sharon, I reposted one I did last year for this holiday, I also utilized the holiday forum.
Lighthousebob
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7 posted 2000-06-27 02:01 PM


Challenge met in the Corner Pub.

Bob <><

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8 posted 2000-06-27 07:53 PM


Brian Madden's post is now in the Corner Pub, one can never OD on Brian's poetry.  

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kaile
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9 posted 2000-06-29 06:25 PM


posted mine as Freedom In Ten Words in Open#8...
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