Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.

Susan Blackwell Ramsey

52 years old
Kalamazoo, MI

Susan Blackwell Ramsey is a bookseller at the only bookstore in Kalamazoo older than she is.

The Sow Bear's Sonnet

After that ballot travesty I swore
a four year moratorium on news.
I waddled into the woods to find a cave,
scuffed leaves into a heap and planned to snore
till next election.  But that crash and roar
hauled me up half-asleep, glass in my hair
and two ugly cubs rolling on the floor,
squalling and spreading wreckage.  Don't you  dare
ignore me.  I am one grumpy mother.
Someone will get hurt -- knock it off, you two.
Two wrongs don't make a right and all those other
mama cliches.  Guess what?  Cliches are true.
Here, have a couple more:  I don't care
who started it.  Stop.  We've been through this before.

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