Poetry
• Breathes a Venetian numbed so dead - Meri
Albright
• Dawn Over Venice - John
Haag
• Causa Belli - Andrew
Motion
• Set Free the Slaves! - Peggy
Lee Kennedy
•
Breathes a Venetian numbed so
dead
Who never, in a rage, has
said
This situation’s pretty
stark,
My kingdom for a place to
park!
-Meri
Albright
*************
Dawn
Over Venice
By John
Haag
The sun, like
henna,
bleaching the night
away,
orange-gold
glancing
off back
windows
Making the chrome
shine
on passing
cars
then filling the sky
with its golden
copper
Fire-ball, the
people
half-asleep, walking
to Winchell’s for
do-nuts
and coffee,
starting
The good morning
with
hesitant
conversations.
*************
Causa
Belli
“They read good
books, and
quote, but never
learn
a language other than
the
scream of
rocket-burn
Our straighter talk
is
drowned but
ironclad:
Elections, money, empire,
oil
and
Dad.”
- Andrew
Motion
British Poet
Laureate
***********
Set
Free the Slaves!
By Peggy Lee
Kennedy
“Be Free,” I said
to a spirit
and the wind took your dead
ashes
Again I say, “Be
Free!”
Maybe they heard my
words
but did they feel their
meaning?
It’s a Message -
Man
words are
Words
actions are
Actions
And is it different?
Racism from
Sexism
Reverse from Sub
Verse
The Record of History was
Chosen
for us, not about
us
Oppression of Woman is even
Older
than those Mesopotamian
words.
The actions are norms,
burned-in,
embedded
acutely
A disgusting festering
sore
that just Feels Natural –
NO!
Feel My
Passion!
History’s Chains:
the bondage of My
Mothers!
the thoughts and actions of
All
Feel My
Heart!
Present
Reality:
the creation of a
“third-space” world
the actions
of a New Mind!
Free My
Daughters!
Free My
Spirit!
Set Free the
Slaves!
Be Free!
Posted: Sat
- February 1, 2003 at 08:21 PM