Better red than dead?
Tall poppy syndrome?
Another brick in the wall?
More than my job’s worth.
Go on,
be one of the crazy ones.
They’re the ones, that change the world.
poetry | 101 | rehab | revolution
My (late) prompt for this week’s Poetry 101 Rehab is REVOLUTION.
So, this week, how do you feel when you see injustice? Do you burn with desire to fix it? Do you feel powerless to make things different? Is it someone else’s problem? What does revolution mean to you?
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andy townend 
I really like this poem! It says a lot with very little. Here is a link to the one I wrote:
https://noos2mee2.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/revolution/
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Thank you – very much appreciated!
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Endless Revolution: http://wp.me/p5BCD4-rv – Perhaps revolutionary activity might be more widespread than we think. Activities to outshine the revolutions of the people on the planet someday.
Outside of general nonconformity, I pretty much confined my “revolutionary” activities to anti-war protests and civil rights marches in the ’60s and ’70s’.
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Love the poem and sounds like you did your “bit” and of course still do, with your words.
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As an introvert and not emotional, but quietly, privately intense, I don’t do well in massive change agent activities, and so I try to be sensitive to more individual needs and injustices where I can do something to help without being…without making it about me.
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And if we all behaved in that way this lump of rock we live on would be one better place to be.
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http://mumbletymuse.com/2016/02/19/parallel-society/ Here is the link to a poem I wrote recently. This is a topic I am very interested in, and have been for many years…all my life really. 🙂
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Just right for the prompt and a fascinating piece.
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I had two ideas i my head and this is the first one : https://schattenengel.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/going-to-make-a-change/
This one should put a little focus on the determination. At least, that’s what I intended to.
I hope to have the other one ready by tomorrow or the day after 🙂
Great writing Andy 🙂 !
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Thank you and so sorry to take so long to reply…your poems as always are lovely.
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I’ve got a government file or two on my “revolutionary” activities when I was in my 20s and 30s. Taking your lead, my revolutionary piece is audiovisual. The revolution continues ideologically and violently. How to have one without the other. We need a revolution without blood shed.
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Thank you for a great contribution and yes, I agree with your point, bring on the revolution.
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PS: Your poem was an interesting statement on revolution and here’s mine: https://adarkenedhouse.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/revolutionaressrevolutionarette/
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Love it!
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Here is my belated take on this prompt https://oudeis2005.wordpress.com/2016/02/26/cycle/
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Thank you for contributing once again and also sorry for my lateness in responding!
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