Challenge
Challenge of the Week LXXXII
Here in the USA, it is Independence Day. What does it mean to be free? Do we need to feel free to be free? Are we free? Write about freedom. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
Wild and Free
She grasps ribbons from air
and weaves them into life.
Spirit exhales nomadic echo
like a thousand birds on a wire
taking shameless flight at her will.
Wild gypsy woman whizzes past
unforeseen curves in the road,
speeding so fast, leaving only
remnants of her shadow.
Tucks sun in her bosom
to light life’s adventures,
sets the moon askance
on head as mock halo.
Quaffs freedom
in the cup of her hand,
running barefoot
untamed and wild.
Dances in savage abandon
in raindrops of passion
answering only to herself
as she rounds
the endless loops
of tomorrow,
feral and free.
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