Request: Poems of Resistance

[duathir]

If We Must DieIf we must die-let it not be like hogs

Comments

[orange_fell]

If I'm not mistaken, McKay's poem is specifically about institutional racism. Which doesn't contradict anything you wrote, I just thought it should be noted.

[browngirl]

I do love that poem.

Some of my favorite poems are also songs: "Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee" by Buffy St. Marie, "Eyes on the Prize" by Alice Wine...

[wynterglass]

Strange that you should assume everyone following this comm lives in "this country."

How about some Ferlinghetti?

first stanze of "I Am Waiting"

I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting
for a rebirth of wonder
and I am waiting for someone
to really discover America
and wail
and I am waiting
for the discovery
of a new symbolic western frontier
and I am waiting
for the American Eagle
to really spread its wings
and straighten up and fly right
and I am waiting
for the Age of Anxiety
to drop dead
and I am waiting
for the war to be fought
which will make the world safe
for anarchy
and I am waiting
for the final withering away
of all governments
and I am perpetually awaiting
a rebirth of wonder

[bohemiabythesea]

Strange that you should assume everyone following this comm lives in "this country."
This.

[mariashes]

Holla.

[duathir]

Strange that you should assume that I assume this, since I did not say it.

[androidlustre]

Martin Espada's Imagine The Angels of Bread. Mark Doty's Homo Will Not Inherit.