Poetry
Ruthie Foster - Maya Angelou/ Phenomenal Woman(live @TivoliVredenburg Utrecht)
Anna B added 13d ago
The End and the Beginning
By Wisława Szymborska
After every war
someone has to clean up.
Things won’t
straighten themselves up, after all.
Someone has to push the rubble
to the side of the road,
so the corpse-filled wagons
can pass.
Someone has to get mired
in scum and ashes,
sofa springs,
splintered glass,
and bloody rags.
Someone has to drag in a girder
to prop
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This is the best poem on war I think I have ever read.
Too Late The Truth
Haki R. Madhubuti
who quieted the fourth estate,
took words, images, and liberating ideas
from the recently comatosed and stole the nation?
why was there not a storm among us
confronting the wealth of ignorance?
what is the price of deceptive and enriched silence?
who compromised the music of truth,
the poetry of deep thought?
what of th
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- Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!from Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes
Anna B added 2mo ago
https://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again
This poem kept me going during the insanity of the Trump years.
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