Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.
christie scott
28 years old
venice, california, united states
just
...you don’t notice that it stays with you gave you pause, lingered perhaps then mentioned in conversation later that day, and you wonder
if other people feel that way too and you ask someone else they find out it is the same for them
these are just average people of the everyday not politicians versed or money made but people who work and live and die in the name of this glorious glorious glorious
all us other people not the ‘zero point however too few percent’ actually own and run this world but those people who people her bounds we
we the people of l’etats unis por ejemplo who rest proud upon colossal laurels (and thank our lucky stars) are sitting in an empire and need some time in front of the mirror but who am i to talk?
i mean, don’t you wonder though? what goes on in the backrooms trickle drip down to the backalleys… but perhaps that’s too much political for a poem
poems are supposed to be wrought finely painted eggshells you don’t walk on you just tiptoe around
no, poems are the aroma of the family's food the blood of a heartbreak from a great height the chant of a people who care for truth poems are not up for grabs
the fact that you are reading this right now is a slight change in everything
