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On to adventure!

You are invited! Bottled Freedom is a book of adventure, imagination, love, unbridled joy, despair, tears, determination, insights and wonder. And you are the guest of honor! Join us in a journey of poems that range from at home simplicity to the impossibly absurd, and everywhere in-between! Meet people and places both real, and those that could only live in your wildest dreams. Explore the world and the human psyche in a whole new way. But most of all, find freedom in the confines of imagination! As the last few lines of our first poem state, “By imagination the ship was tossed...For, the bottled confinement made him free!”

Bottled Freedom   Up high on a dusty shelf In the old forgotten room, Lay a forsaken bottle all by itself, In a place where adventures used to bloom.   Placed in this tiny round abode, Is a little wooden ship. A toy to help minds unload, And send them on a long sea trip.   Sailing across the vast and deep… The bottle is full of winds and waves. Full of memories for him to keep; The sea being a place full of graves.   By imagination the ship was tossed. In mind he always will be With the brave companions that he lost. For, the bottled confinement made him free.