Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.
jonathan perez
21 years old
student, and recipient of the Poetry Prize in College.
War Fair: A Semi-Political Piece
This is no political poetry I write because my lungs can no longer breathe the stifled air, I write for fooled children struggling to stay alive everywhere; I write against the oppression that controls our lives, I write to clear the fog which too long has stung my eyes,
And we attacked Iraq, against the wishes of the world, And “somebody blew up America” ’s poet was hurled Into New Jersey streets corrupt and laden with drugs, A subject of different conspiracy, mass produced by t.v.-marketed thugs,
West Nile Virus flew down under an apocalypse That bred in stagnant pools of our own ignorance, As the rush hour 6 train grows more and more tense By the feigned bio-terrorism of our own nonsense.
A militia builds in the North Dakota hills Of back-wash military men thrilled To make a pipe-bomb or home video Of someone or something about to be killed.
More soldiers lose their lives, and peace may never thrive. Oil and water do not mix, but our own corruption must be fixed We must call to arms and break loose from these few family-run farms. A revolution one day will lead, to stop the poisons now handed out as feed,
And the sun will rise over the white house lawn newly littered with the broken shackles of a community by then far gone.
