Poems of Resistance, Power & Resilience – Kim M. Baker

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.

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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Our Murmuration Never Cease
by Kim M. Baker

In Celebration and Honor of the Women’s March on Washington, January 21, 2017

Sometimes rage must be shout    

must be why

must be out

must be sigh

must be art

must be fierce and fearless heart

Always love must be others

must be boundless

must be mother

must be Muslim

must be queer

must be thunder in our ears

               

Now change must be march

must be voice

must be charge

must be choice

must be human

must be universal movement

The rage the love the change is us

one million women strong

our murmuration never cease

until the hate is wrong

until the hate is gone

©2017 (Previously posted on the Women’s March on Washington – RI Chapter Facebook page)