Freedom
Freedom
What is freedom?
Is it the capability
To do what one wants
Without fear of punishment?
Or the responsibility of wisdom?
What is wisdom?
Is it the gift of knowledge?
Or the gift of knowledge
For knowing how to apply knowledge?
What is knowledge?
Is it a collective database
Of endless facts?
Or is it understanding?
What is understanding?
Is it acceptance? Yes.
Acceptance is responsibility,
And so is freedom.
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.
| Title | Comments | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| Title | Comments | Submitted |
| A Gentle Breeze | 1 | 04/25/2011 |
| The Sun: Tyrannt or Saint | 1 | 04/25/2011 |
| Lessons of the Stream | 0 | 04/25/2011 |
| Freedom | 0 | 04/25/2011 |
| Ode to the Future | 1 | 04/25/2011 |
| Elegy to the Past | 1 | 04/25/2011 |
| The Web | 1 | 04/25/2011 |
| Blindness | 3 | 04/22/2011 |
| The Infinite Mind | 1 | 04/22/2011 |
| Why Argue | 0 | 04/21/2011 |
| My Quiet Abode | 0 | 04/21/2011 |
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