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Zywa Sep 2024
I was trying to

pull my hand loose, but my will --


then got stuck somewhere.
Comical novel "The Black Prince" (1973, Iris Murdoch), A Celebration of Love, part Two

Collection "Unspoken"
Shofi Ahmed Sep 2024
The thorns may have cut my hands off  
but not my will.  
It's mine whether to take the rose—  
yes or no!
nick armbrister Aug 2024
It all happens there/work in a call centre job/go do what you want
Zywa Aug 2024
I am motionless,

my will is like a goshawk --


exalted and still.
Play "The Three Arrows" (1972, Iris Murdoch), Act Two, scene Two

Collection "Unspoken"
Ylzm Aug 2024
Picking one from many fools who ran for a small price
Tempted with morsels, contemptible as the beasts
Gullibly proud of unshakeable beliefs pleasing the ears
Snared they shall to slave that my free will shall be
Ylzm Jul 2024
a thousand options or two
are all but irrelevant
I need no choices but One:
of my arbitrary will
created perfectly, in
wisdom and potent power
that if not shall be and is
thus truth for it is thereof;
gladly I enslaved myself
to my very own then be
enticed and just as enslaved
to choices purportedly
for my good—or make my foes
cry—if believed piously
but unseen its that same One
of strange self serving powers
and their arbitrary wills
and truths in a post truth world;
alas we totally lack
knowledge, fed and believed lies
of freedom, choosing by will
to be proud and gladly slaved.
Zywa Jul 2024
I'm afraid, free will

is rare, it's a luxury --


for the happy few.
Novel "Frankissstein: a love story" (2019, Jeanette Winterson), Methinks, wrote Byron

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in 10s"
Zywa Jul 2024
The speaker pauses,

he is impatient, but can --


force himself to wait.
Novel "Frankissstein: a love story" (2019, Jeanette Winterson), The mind is the matrix

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in 10s"
My Dear Poet Jun 2024
I only weep
when my tears say so

I only bleed
when my heart says “flow”

I only think
when my mind says “know”

I only die
when my life says “go”.
The irony of free will
Amanda Kay Burke Apr 2024
Will heart be in love?
Next time you meet somebody
Just never know when
The next person you are introduced to could be 'the one'
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