LEARNING FROM CHAMELEONS

Shapeshifting creatures resort to disguise
blend in with the prevailing landscapes
Armies copy them in camouflage
shadows merge anonymous
Shake off these bitter moments(embrace the new!
Nothing will do as we want it to
Three score years and ten (parking metered
Even before,we grow thin scimitar moon and disappear
Crowds shuffle with their own wave dynamics
"Swim like a fish in the water
and do not get caught!"(HO CHI MINH

LET 1000 FLOWERS BLOOM!(Mao Tse Tung)
So Stalin and Mao slaughtered their own people
One was dull political prose,the other nature poet
Both ended up with the same results
Was that bad poetry? or poor poet?
Do not blame the flowers for the weeds
What poetry from a gun barrel proceeds.

FIDEL AND CHE
fought alongside to liberate Cuba
Che died in the struggle,Fidel lives on
slowly handing power over to his brother at arms
Journalists and poets languish in prison
Is this the price of a (censored ) Revolution?

MAYAKOVSKY /AKMATOVA/PASTERNAK
Pity the poor poet when politics thrive
Palin/Beck/Gingrich demagogues
True poem argues for you to live-
is banished by the tyrants politics

OVID/NERUDA
One from Rome
Chile another
Banished from homeland
like a lover.