Free
I feel
Deep inside
As my being
Awakens with wants
Cruising in molten flames
All the scars are victories
Stamped, marked and flagged umpteen times
Let me breathe in the taste of freedom.
Participating in : The Sunday Muse
Free
I feel
Deep inside
As my being
Awakens with wants
Cruising in molten flames
All the scars are victories
Stamped, marked and flagged umpteen times
Let me breathe in the taste of freedom.
NaPoWriMo-2024 Day-30 Prompt: Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem in which the speaker is identified with, or compared to, a ...
Love the way you turn the scars into the stamps moving the speaker forward and put all that potential into motion.
ReplyDeleteI feel this pandemic has heightened the senses to our surrounding and this prompt worked very well to work on that :)
Delete"All the scars are victories" What a warrior!!
ReplyDeleteNice one
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Thank you, Gillena. We all are warriors in our sphere :)
DeleteA beautiful freedom poem Sunita! Scars are victories indeed!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Carrie :)
DeleteIs this an inverted nonet? Whatever it is, it reads beautifully.
ReplyDeleteYes, that is what I attempted...an inverted nonet, don't know how far I succeeded. Thank you, Marion for passing by :)
DeleteWonderful line ... "all the scars are victories". Love it!
ReplyDeleteThank you, indybev :)
DeleteBev is right ~~ scars as victories is profound. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Helen :)
DeleteWhy Not! :-)
ReplyDeleteIndeed, why not,Shay :)
Delete"All the scars are victories" and I agree, as each one was survived, showing resilience, strength, and endurance. "Breathing in freedom" links freedom with life, and without freedom life becomes laborious. Great poem and the form works well with it.
ReplyDeleteVery much appreciate your amazing analysis of the poem, Lisa. Thank you very much :)
Delete"all the scars are victories" - What a great line!
ReplyDeleteThank you :)
DeleteI feel freedom reading this poem. Love this line, "All the scars are victories" Yes, they are.
ReplyDeleteI am glad you felt that, Susie. Thank you :)
DeleteI love "all the scars are victories" YES, I can now breathe! Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Phoenix :)
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