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A Different Kind of View
I have asked myself what we’re fighting for,
And have acted at times as if I knew,
But now I understand what really counts:
The right to take a different kind of view.
If you wish all opinions the same,
The enemy’s arrangements are for you,
But some of us will battle to preserve
The right to take a different kind of view.
The free flow of exchanges and ideas
Co...
Wednesday 27th March 2024 8:28 am
FLAMETHROWER
FLAMETHROWER
_____________
My internal spirit of rebellion
Is far from calm--
Incendiary
Anger builds
Single spark ignites
Observing injustice
From figures of authority,
Power moves, prejudice--
Inferno in the making
Refusing to be
The next victim, the next pawn,
I know these sensations well--
Long ago, I marched on California's streets
...Thursday 29th February 2024 3:23 am
Poem in Progress E
Sometimes you just have to
throw your cards
against the wind
and watch where they land
six plus five is eleven
shows me where to dive
how to jump
blind
deep inside
the mirror behind
the future a wall
blank
white
tall.
©JM. Cole
Sunday 22nd October 2017 7:07 am
A poem for Ashraf Fayadh
Saudi courts, your rule of fear is finished
- the sentence on this poet negates your faith.
Your hollow incantation "God Is Great"
is plainly false if God can be diminished
by lines of verse. Should murder be admonished
to Ashraf Fayadh, forevermore his fate
will hold as evidence that you're afraid
of poetry. Frankly I'm astonished:
astonished that a land so steeped in culture,
in li...
Friday 15th January 2016 5:57 pm
PoLieTics - NaPoWriMo Day 2
We're all in this together,
we're here to represent you.
We will protect the NHS,
pensions, public services, free speech,
the right to protest, journalistic independence
and repair the economy.
But we must keep money
we NEED money.
Generators will not work without capital,
the magnetic pulse of the world will cease
and the crust shall become ...
Tuesday 2nd April 2013 4:38 pm
President's Speech
2012. A new president of the United States
addressing to Congress:
You, morons with wood brain!
Sawdust your heads contain!
Listen to me, you fools!
Lift your asses from the stools!
Go! Toddle or hobble to do good deeds!
Grow fruitful seeds!
Moderate your own greed!
Find out what people need!
©Larisa Rzhepishevska (Odessa, Ukraine)
T...
Wednesday 14th September 2011 2:35 pm
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