As the incoming administration builds its agenda of attack on marginalized people, on freedom of speech, on the earth itself, poetry will continue to be an essential voice of resistance. Poets will speak out in solidarity, united against hatred, systemic oppression, and violence and for justice, beauty, and community.
In this
spirit, Split This Rock is offering its blog as a Virtual Open Mic. For the
rest of this frightening month, January of 2017, we invite you to send us poems
of resistance, power, and resilience.
We will post every poem we receive unless it is offensive (containing language that is derogatory toward marginalized groups, that belittles, uses hurtful stereotypes, etc.). After the Virtual Open Mic closes, we hope to print out and mail all of the poems to the White House.
We will post every poem we receive unless it is offensive (containing language that is derogatory toward marginalized groups, that belittles, uses hurtful stereotypes, etc.). After the Virtual Open Mic closes, we hope to print out and mail all of the poems to the White House.
For
guidelines on how to submit poems for this call, visit the Call for Poems of
Resistance, Power & Resilience blog post.
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Mother
Gets Goosed
by Joshua Weiner
by Joshua Weiner
Trumpty
Dumpty sat on his Wall™
Trumpty
Dumpty had a great fall,
He had a
great winter, had a great spring
Knowing
what foreign powers would bring
To lay at
his feet, to put in his coffer,
While in
return he knew he'd offer
Only his
name to brand their steeple
Wherein
he'd absolve the American people
For lending
him doubt's benefit
When he
hardly needed it
To
increase his massive holdings of shit
With
which he'd fertilize the Constitution
In the
first step of his final solution.
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