A poem I wrote was featured in “Old City Life” - a lovely local magazine - back in 2014. I was asked to write on the theme of "independence."
Enjoy!
independence
a word of heft
perhaps evoking images of governmental documents
which further
emerging democracies
freedom from repression
self governance
all marvelous associations
regarding that relative expression of
independence
but for this one
it is about Moksha
sanskrit word describing the transcendent
inner freedom
that can come to maturity
even behind prison walls
it is an emancipation from
inner repression
a return to Nisarga the natural state
wherein our primary identity resides
in pure awareness
in that great inner freedom
independence
indeed a word
of heft
Annie Kiyonaga
2014
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