One Poem by Concetta Pipia

 

The Unfenced Voice

Liberty lives in lines we choose to keep.

Where borders stand as lines of mutual regard,

Not walls of fear but marks of dignity,

We honor what divides and what we share—

The right to be, the right to let others be.

 

Liberty lives in lines we choose to keep.

Freedom rings in newsprint and in voice,

In gatherings where voices rise as one,

Where truth may speak without a jailor’s chain,

Where assembly blooms beneath an open sun.

 

Liberty lives in lines we choose to keep.

Freedom is not the absence of the line,

But knowing when to cross and when to stay,

Respecting bounds while breaking bonds of silence,

Where borders guard but do not bar the way.

 

Liberty lives in lines we choose to keep.

The press prints what power would prefer unprinted,

The people gather where they will to speak,

And freedom lives in this: that we may differ,

That borders need not make our spirits weak.

 

Liberty lives in lines we choose to keep.

Where assembly meets and voices vary,

Where borders stand but do not seal us in,

Where news flows free from palace to the people,

Where liberty and limits both begin. 

Concetta Pipia is a writer, poet,  and editor raised and living in New York City.

Her work has been published in international anthologies and literary magazines including "The Raven's Perch," (2023) and "The Wise Owl" (November, 2023) and "The Suffolk County Poetry Review," (2024). She is an Administrator of several online writing groups and a Moderator as well.

Ms. Pipia attended Parsons School of Design (BFA), Touro University School of Law (J.D.), and the University of Phoenix (MBA/HRM).