276/365 Scraps

You think about a good Revolutionary poem. The structure of it, the feeling the audience gets, how it was crafted, what it accomplishes. You think about the poems that evoke the most change and you’ll find an unbreakable thread that stretches through all of them. They start the personal. The author speaks from the heart, from experience is
When I put my poems side-by-side--evaluate the structure, how it was crafted, what it is meant to accomplish, –I see a bond between them, an unbreakable thread, what makes them part of the genre I would like to call Revolutionary.
The structure is unmistakable. They start with the personal. I speak from the heart, from experience, bear my soul and through vulnerability, find the innocence of a child. The innocence of trust.
The poem can not deal in revolution if it not does introduce a problem. A painful problem; inhumane, unjust. A problem that someone or several some ones are enduring. Consider, without this problem, the poem would not exist. Now as must would not wish that the problem existed, we cannot deny that a small part of us celebrates in the fact that it does because without it, the poem, the emotions stirred in us and the community formed to eradicate said problem would never have formed. And if it had not, the intuitive beings that we are would have surely missed it, even if we were unsure what we were missing.
These poems create an

Now forgive