Free
What’s the real meaning of the word?
It differs
And the real question
Is life free?
People give their lives daily to be free
But what about those who don’t?
Are they truly free?
Am i?
Are you?
Did you fight for your country for freedom?
Life is filled with times of happiness and grief
So tell me
Tell me, is life truly free?
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The voice of my past I can still hear it
the old myth we’ll all die. I started to fear it
as I saw the end of life and how close I was near it
no nothing in this world can lift my spirit
How can I tell this man that prestige’s a lie
leaders giving orders and we [...]

He rests in a ship
of gold and diamonds
his quarters are painted
with a gold veneer
He rests his sword
near when he sleep
Never losing sight of the enemy
the warrior of the sea
The mast of his ship blew
with the wind
But the ship remains still
he wanders what it would be like
if only he could set sail
and one day be [...]

And a youth said, “Speak to us of Friendship.”
Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the [...]

4 June 1995 Almaty, Kazakhstan
The raising of the bells in the cathedral has my head ringing with ideas. I spent Thursday night trying to write the event into a story. I got bogged down. How do you tell what these bells mean without telling the history of communism here, the collectivization and [...]

I’ve tried the new moon tilted in the air
Above a hazy tree-and-farmhouse cluster
As you might try a jewel in your hair.
I’ve tried it fine with little breadth of luster,
Alone, or in one ornament combining
With one first-water start almost shining.
I put it shining anywhere I please.
By walking slowly on some evening later,
I’ve pulled it from a [...]