Poetry With A Purpose - Blogithttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/activist_poetry/Read activist and politically minded poetry here. Remember, though, that the personal is also political!hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00Another Brotherhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/activist_poetry/636146(for Jason Mattison, Jr, murdered this week and many other martyrs ) Your friends didn't believe you died until they entered homeroom and found your chair empty. One Mor Matthew Shepard, younger, darker, more flamboyant You hated the pedestrian sound of your your name, vowed to change into Jaysen...The Flesh in Violationhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/activist_poetry/636100inspired Qwo-Li Driskill's awesome comment WBAI today) This body transgresses accidentally- in grocery stores, at bus stops, on corners of street hailing cab. This body transgresses purposefully hold girl's hand in park dancing in autumn's first fallen leaves stealing public kisses. Tape...A Child's Wisdomhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/activist_poetry/634443Author's Note: My latest 30 poems in 30 days effort. I'm now 1/6 done. Investigators confiscate snakes, turtles, iguanas, and solitary scorpion- all illegal to own in Detroit- from owner under arrest for other issues. Scorpion finds new home with Animal Cruelty Officer and son. Boy tells camera...The Dog Wrongedhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/activist_poetry/634440Author's Note: The 6th 100 day poem. The theme for today was to write about a social injustice. Case of embedded collar angers me creating raised, garnet welts that range from neck to midsection. Rendering pretty, yellow dog fearful, nippy, and unfit for re-homing.Organizer Haikuhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/activist_poetry/632486Survive... organize to fight injustice... All else iimmaterial.Emergencehttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/activist_poetry/631050Author's Note; A National Coming Out Day Poem My mother blamed women studies coursework, badly behaved men, and the self-loathing she assumed existed within my personal psyche for the bisexuality I confessed that summer evening on Sasha's borrowed cell in Jana's house a baker's dozen summers' ago....Thoughts of Lovestruck Bibliophile...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/activist_poetry/628450n imaginary conversation between myself and Clare DeTamble, the heroine of the Time Traveler’s Wife. The writing group theme for tonight was "intention". I’m not sure how I feel about it. Is it worth revising? <a...Recollectionhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/activist_poetry/611846I fall on knee during first full day of latest activist journey, and assume I’m fine- a little sore but fine. I expect pain to dissipate and be barely noticeable by tomorrow. But when I try to stand hours later sudden, searing pain in knee that rendered me immobile and in need of another bathroom...Report Back in Sestina Format: for my fellow arrestees at the ADAPT Actionhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/activist_poetry/611446Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;...New poem untitled as of yethttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/activist_poetry/597122Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;...