30 Poems for National Poetry Month: Day 6
April 6, 2013
Here is my poem for Day 6 (or morning six, as it were…):
“Freedom’s just another word
For nothing left to lose,”
As it goes in that old
Kris Kristofferson song.
But we lose something
Every day, free or chained–
Cells, skin, hair, memories.
Time goes too, the sparrows
Mark it outside our window,
The mourning doves coo
And whisper, their throats
Parted by the morning mist.
We rise slowly on mornings
We’re alone together; infrequent
As those days may be.
Our bed loosing its grip
Ever so reluctantly.
“I ache to be in your hold,”
You wrote in a dream.
My poetess of sleep.
–Scott Edward Anderson
Scott Edward Anderson
Scott Edward Anderson's Poetry Blog 
April 6, 2013 at 12:42 pm
Find myself rereading your poems…..experiencing your talents and your love of my Sammi….. Xoxo
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April 7, 2013 at 10:19 pm
Alone is a word and a concept and a world to be explored…thank you for your poem…xod
April 7, 2013 at 11:29 pm
but this poem does confuse..for freedom is not in losing but getting and its in togetherness ,,not loneliness..so I like the poetry..but it went over my head..
April 11, 2013 at 11:01 am
Yes, it is a conundrum. There is a certain freedom in togetherness and togetherness in freedom. When two are free to be together and also, as in this case, allow each other to freely be who we are — alone and together — then there is nothing left to lose, because it will always be with us.