Psalm of Life

This is a piece I did for a class unit on poetry. We read a poet's psalm of life and then replicated its structure to fit our own motto on life.

Tell yourself ‘I’m not a puppet’,

Be someone that you control

Cut your strings and be a trumpet;

Freedom of life and freedom of soul.

 

Be not the mirror of your Light

Nor sink down to meet your Shadow

For he who will stand up and fight

Will never find himse'f fallow.

 

The one who owns his freedom of speech

Will own a one man cavalry;

And land of eagles you shall reach

So long as you swear to be free.

Reviews

[SleeplessVolcano]

Ahhhh...I like the extremes in this poem....not wanting to be a puppet, yet even our own control can be limiting sometimes. The irony is that freedom of speech, even though praised as a foundation of modern society, is not really necessarily beneficial for the seeking soul - just because the psalm is mine, and in my mind, it rhymes, does not mean that it is going to work in "real" life. Sometimes the result of our flights of fancy (in the spirit of freedom of expression) lead us down dark roads, yet when we get out of those dark roads, we justify the pain with "Oh well, at least I was free". No, we were stupid. But then again, it is human nature to justify, to recalibrate the scales which measure our souls to be found too light......:) Great writing - keep it coming.

[Jamestown]

Terrific write, I can feel that your brain was working here and it shows!
Unfortunately we are all puppets no matter which way we look at things, so
with that being said, now I believe we must come to an educated
decision on who we will allow to pull our strings, "if you will"
I have no problems being God's puppet and freedom is awesome
when its true freedom. I thank you for this fantastic piece of work, I truly enjoyed reading, thanks for sharing and b-blessed!