Benjamin Zephaniah (Remove filter)
The Best Poet's Name
William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman have alliterative names
For Norman Nicholson and Stevie Smith you may say the same
Sassoon with his Siegfried and Porter with his Peter
Were destined to have mastery of rhythm, form and meter
Marvell at the metaphysical, let Pope raise you higher
But the best poet’s name is Benjamin Zepheniah
Some poets’ names Onomatopoeically enthr...
Wednesday 27th March 2024 6:23 pm
Zephaniah
Zephaniah
told them to take their Order of the British Empire
and shove it right where the monkey shoves his nuts;
to higher things than that he did aspire,
not for him, life as an elite sucker up;
a man of his word, he, for his entire life
fought against empire, racism and slavery,
against colonial imposition and strife;
he inspired others to personal bravery,
connecti...
Friday 8th December 2023 10:55 am
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