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Open Poetry #37

Breaking the Ice

WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2006-05-11 11:14 PM

People think of their earth
as a living world, full of life and wonders,
yet unaware that their thoughts in time
have frozen the landscape of their life
like a river in deep winter.

What does it take to break this ice
of frozen core beliefs and ideas
locked in the snows of old times past?
The love, the daring, the willing sacrifice
of those who long for the sun;
who long for the winding river’s shores
of sun-drenched sands
and the call of shore birds
running to and fro.
And how, you ask, are they to show
this love? this daring? this sacrifice?

There is but one way ever known to man:
to break all of man’s age old taboos;
to break all the rules made of theology,
philosophy or science once bold, now old!
To return to the common sense of the Spirit
the freedom expressed in the heart
and shown in the body under the sun.

Let me say: the freedom to be who we really are,
creatively, wonderfully, sexually... free
as we were in so-called pre-Eden days
and must be again when all the old clothes
have finally rotted away
and been thankfully discarded for freedom
with the smile of love.

BROTHER JOHN
Member

since 2006-04-06

Posts 386

1 posted 2006-05-11 11:27 PM

Dear WindWalker,

Thanks and well stated. Erik Fromm wrote beautifully of the fear of freedom. He showed how this fear has shaped the history of mankind.

I guess it comes down to the fear of responsibility for ones actions. When things go wrong, there is always someone else to blame.

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2006-05-12 03:22 AM

WindWalker - You seem to be walking the same path I trod many moons ago and this:

"To return to the common sense of the Spirit
the freedom expressed in the heart
and shown in the body under the sun."

I have experienced but life, you know, doesn't yet allow for it. We return, for surival, into the present ways of the world and of man - seemingly so because under the surface we know.

Enjoyed as usual!

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