Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
Monday, November 22, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Poem: We Are John Brown's Body
We are John Brown’s Body
His firm hand guides our strikes
We grip his sabers and stop production
We slice slaveholders hands and pour blood from mountaintops
We refuse to let go
Until death’s grip drops us from gallows and we dangle, dead…
We are John Brown’s Body
His fiery eyes flow from every picket-line
His fury blows from our every bullhorn
Pouring out like screaming fire
And pounding the oppressor back
Making cowardly cannibals fear, and fall...
We are John Brown’s Body,
When State Militia Bullets fly!
We are John Brown’s Body,
Fuming at injustice, and swearing at funerals!
We are John Brown’s Body,
Stopping Bailiffs at the door!
We are John Brown’s Body,
bleeding in barnyards and gripping rifle butts!
We are John Brown’s Body,
On the lips of the future!
In the songs of our children…
In the forgotten past that never fades away!
Never dies,
Burns on, the eternal fire of revolution!
-Caleb T. Maupin
Sunday, April 12, 2009
A Complicated Phrase
People my age get especially upset when people say "Dialectical Materialism", perhaps this will be useful...
Change is something interesting.
Change is what took the universe from a tiny cluster to the world around us, and the galaxy expanding all the time.
Change is what takes us from childhood to adulthood, from birth till death.
Change is cave wall inscriptions to highway side bill boards.
Change is a stream to the grand canyon.
Change is rivers, bleeding down into oceans.
Change is death inside to life outside.
What is an atom? It is protons, nuetrons, electrons
What are protons, nuetrons, and electrons? Energy
E=MC Squared
Einstein Proved it
Change is all that exists
"Matter" is an illusion
Permanence is an illusion
All that exists is change
If you are not changing, you do not exist
reality is change, change is reality
evolution is an understatement
A cannot ever equal A
ever
This is What they call Dialectical Materialism.
A complicated phrase. Yes, I know.
- Caleb T. Maupin
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