BE AWARE OF ...!

Saudi Arabian authorities will not allow public poetry gatherings
It is censored before seen in public media
Palestinian poets have been assassinated by MOSSAD
and history is littered with the corpses of truth tellers
singers like Victor Jara in Chile
whose hands that played guitar were cut off by the junta
Poetry in North Korea and Cuba is a risky pleasure
Jails in Cuba still full of those who speak truth to power
Dictatorships hate competition
and poetry demands attention from body,heart,soul and mind
Ho Chi Minh was a fine poet
but would not tolerate poet dissidents
Same with Mao-good poet -but ruthless
President Carter remains a mediocre poet-
his best poetry still HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
and those Romantics who bled for love
will not survive these dictatorial days we find
where prosaic hate replaces poetic petition
and gentleness is eaten by the dogs of war
Poets of Iraq! Poets of Afghanistan!Poets of Iran!
History calls your voices to rise from civilian corpses
to sing of freedom in a time of occupation
When will we listen?The blood of poets means less
than the poem songs they are carrying...across borders.