The Freedom of Poetry

"Take Me Up"  by Lauren Withrow

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“I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.”  ~ Pablo Neruda

You are the true poetry that my heart harbors yet shall also set free

All the love you did not give

Is every seed that planted my lovely garden

Every sad word that slipped through your lips

Like a long kiss goodbye

Became the song I did not sing

Instead I learned to listen

Not to the melancholy of wind instruments

Nor to promises that die where they lay

But to the sound of wings in flight

the uplifting sound of freedom

was the voice of reason that carried me forward

where there was loss and flowers never planted

I carried something more

A hope that can see the horizon’s true beauty

To raise my voice high

Like a flying flag

The freedom of poetry

For you

For me

For everyone.