Poetry as Action
Burma Poetry Protest (Photo credit: englishpen)
Over the past month, I have been writing poems to prompts on Poetic Asides. I realized half way through the month, that some of the poems were speaking of things that I have been holding deep inside. I guess you could say they are my protest poems.
Funny, it wasn't until I read them back that I realized I had several that really hit on issues in education that have been bothering me for a long time. This, of course, is the beauty of poetry!
Poetry is a means to teach, to heal, to romance, to instruct, to relate and to protest. In fact, some of the greatest poems are poems of protest - some made into songs or some immortalized in great documents.
For example:
Declaration of Independence
by Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826]
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain inalienable rights;
that among these are life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness.
We Shall …
Over the past month, I have been writing poems to prompts on Poetic Asides. I realized half way through the month, that some of the poems were speaking of things that I have been holding deep inside. I guess you could say they are my protest poems.
Funny, it wasn't until I read them back that I realized I had several that really hit on issues in education that have been bothering me for a long time. This, of course, is the beauty of poetry!
Poetry is a means to teach, to heal, to romance, to instruct, to relate and to protest. In fact, some of the greatest poems are poems of protest - some made into songs or some immortalized in great documents.
For example:
Declaration of Independence
by Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826]
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain inalienable rights;
that among these are life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness.
We Shall …
