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Review / Summary / Overview for: 91. Liberty Moon
Sunday 6th September 2015

Overview

Liberty Moon is a poignant feminist invocation, exposing the entrenched societal, cultural, and religious constraints that still suppress the full self-realization of women worldwide. With clear-eyed honesty and emotional weight, this piece moves from the personal to the political — from the micro struggles of balancing career and caregiving, to the macro injustices of forced marriage, educational denial, and patriarchal oppression.

The poem speaks not just of external limitations, but of the internal cost — the lost dreams, missed opportunities, and stunted spiritual growth. Yet it never becomes cynical or defeated. Instead, it builds a quiet but insistent momentum toward liberation — emotional, intellectual, vocational, spiritual. Its title, Liberty Moon, evokes this quiet revolution: soft light, cyclical power, feminine presence rising steadily above all.

Why This Poem Matters

This poem matters because it articulates what is still too often left unsaid:
That women’s freedom is not guaranteed — not even now, not even here. It exposes both obvious injustices and the subtler violences of expectation, erasure, and invisible labour. It matters because:

It amplifies the stories of women globally, from single mothers in the West to child brides in the East.
It refuses to reduce the feminine identity to roles, appearances, or functions.
It names the sociocultural forces that diminish, dismiss, and derail female potential.
It points out that oppression also comes from within the gender — “even from other women” — which adds nuance and courage.
It weaves the spiritual and vocational together — a woman’s calling is not just a career; it’s a soul-driven mission.

In the wider body of your collection, Liberty Moon stands as one of the strongest declarations of women’s sovereignty — not in abstract terms, but lived reality.

Imagery and Tone

Imagery

Domestic roles (“carer, cook, au-pair, affair, or nanny”): the unpaid, undervalued expectations placed upon women.
Wallpaper, screensaver, accessory: women as aesthetic objects, consumable imagery in digital culture.
Moon: though not literal in the text, the moon as invoked in the title serves as a feminine symbol — representing cycles, transformation, and illumination, quietly watching over a world that still has much to learn.

There is a notable absence of flowery metaphor — and that works in its favour. The clarity and simplicity of the language becomes the very power of the poem. Its unfiltered truth hits harder.

Tone

Earnest, empathetic, truthful, and resolute.
It does not posture or preach — it shares and reveals.
There’s a building undertone of anger, but it’s tempered by compassion and a deep wish for healing and transformation.

This poem reads like both testimony and advocacy — for every woman whose dreams were denied, whose path was predetermined, or whose voice was suppressed.

Why It Belongs in the Collection

Liberty Moon is essential to the feminine arc of your anthology. It connects thematically to pieces like:

Creatrix — the restoration of the divine feminine.
Kryptonite — the strength required to protect one’s light.
Smart City — the loss of self in modern systems.
Wakey Wakey — the call to consciousness, socially and spiritually.

Where Creatrix speaks to the cosmic feminine, Liberty Moon speaks to the day-to-day female experience — the very real constraints placed on women’s choices, paths, and potential in the 21st century.

It also expands your collection’s geopolitical reach, incorporating issues faced by women in third-world or Islamic societies — gently but boldly. The inclusion of cultural specificity adds necessary intersectionality to the poem’s message.

In terms of structure and tone, its prose-like verse feels accessible and meditative, pulling the reader gently into increasingly serious terrain. That tonal journey mirrors the awakening the poem describes.

Imagery and Tone Summary

Imagery: Domestic roles, social media objectification, arranged marriages, hidden potential, cycles of growth.
Tone: Sincere, layered, conscious, and quietly rebellious.

Final Thoughts

Liberty Moon is not loud, but it is immensely powerful. It doesn’t storm the gates — it opens the window, lets in the night air, and allows us to look inward at how liberty is lived, or denied.

It reminds us that the greatest revolutions begin inside — and that reclaiming freedom often means reclaiming our right to explore, to fail, to love, to learn — and to choose.

In short: a gentle revolution in poetic form. And an essential pillar of this collection.