How free am I
if to continue to be
I must eat and breathe?
How free can I be,
though able to swim,
I must rise for air
and continue to propel...
all just to breathe?
How true is the cliche:
'Only the dead are free'?
How free am I
if in order to fly
I must borrow steel wings
that take time
and stop me from being
everywhere at once?
--Uncle Greg
Author notes
Are Imagination & Desire integral to our quest to rise above nature...and civilize? And How Free would we be in...a Jungle?:)
Written April 27th, 2002
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Love this poem...very good...
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Wow got a lot of comments on this one, It was realy good, and one of those that people have to think about to get it, realy good poem
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UNcle Greg, you have an amazing way of stating the obvious and then twisting it to form true poetic thoughts.
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I loved this poem. I felt it while I was reading it, And I hope to see some more like it, I have one on my page that is kinda close to it, it is close to the same topic as yours
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Very Nice. I like this a Lot.
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Very profound. You bring up insightful truths about the plight of humanity here. We are all bound by human nature and certain laws of science; but, these constraints can breed unimaginable creativity. If complete freedom was really ours, would possibility hold the same lure for us... would our hearts contain as much passion? These are interesting questions to ponder. You question accepted paradigms here--"safe" and "easy" beliefs of our freedom that are possbily only shallow ideals (?) Great write! I enjoyed this tremendously.
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Hey,
Really good poem, i liked it alot.. it made me think a lot. And your right, how free are we.. BUt really good write i enjoyed it alot.
Dark Acolyte -
freedom is anything you wish it to be. great poem keep writing
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good
Yes everything has its limitations in this duality of existence. Freedom to be yourself as long as it does not hurt others is also a conditional freedom which good. rethinking took place. -
Interesting perceptions.
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that make one think...
yet if one soars within one heart....
does it matter?
I did enjoy!
Keep making people think!
Keep penning on!
Bill -
I agree it is difficult to feel free, you made me think
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How free am I
"if in order to fly
I must borrow steel wings
that take time
and stop me from being
everywhere at once?"
This is the coolest line! Good job! -
very good i loved it
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excellent
Wonderful write. Puts pictures in my head.
Aislinn* -
excellent
very nice read. quite insightful -
excellent
You're soul if free if you have a spiritual belief in something..Nicely done
~Tiffany~ -
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interesting...i liked this...i like poems that i actually think about after i read them...very interesting -
excellent
very insightful & thought provoking
truly enjoyed -
My point here was simply to encourage questioning. Too often, we tend to view freedom as an abstraction, and more often it's not 'freedom' we're really referring to, but rather 'liberty,' which is not quite the same thing:) G-man767
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excellent
How many would wish to have the opportunity to pose the question? The hungry, the homeless, the incarcerated and I’m sure many more.
But of course you a right – then again could absolute freedom exist?
A very thought provoking idea. -
excellent
interesting read
well done
~*~adriana~*~ -
don't touch it!
Yes i must agree ferg, freedom is a state of Mind. Those who are spitual guided can be completly free from all physical life, they can fly the skies without the metal wings, swim the sees and need not breath, walk through fire and shalt not burn, for their spirits, our spirits can take us anywhere it's just the task of allowing our minds to dismantel the physical barriers that we have created and allowing our imaginations to sour with our souls.
Good write
Friendly neighbourhood spiderman -
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Hey G-Man, I like this. I think freedom is really a state of mind. And perhaps when we get to the other side all of this will be confirmed (or denied) but while we're here we do as the saying goes, chop wood and carry water.
I like the way you think.
namaste -
excellent
think we could be free in the jungle if we let ourselves merge with the surroundings. i like the way you wrote this. -
excellent
great write -
don't touch it!
Well said!! So very true, that only the dead are free... But then can the dead truly feel the pains and joys that the living do? Freedom or emotional feelings... a deep question....
Excellent -
don't touch it!
awaiting yet to be born, with a free soul you have no time,dimesion or context
for floating freely is all we can be....
Nice write -
excellent
Indeed - excellent write.. -
don't touch it!
you are never free but always free. Life and in it:death. -
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great write. i like it -
excellent
Our souls should always remain free. A very nice write. -
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well if true, then death should be around the corner
for us all.
a nice write.
insightful.
:0)
Nam
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