 Poetry: August 18, 2021 Issue [#10934] |
This week: Pushing Boundaries of Mass Thought Edited by: Warped Sanity  
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Many poets, historical and modern, who have dared to crossover boundaries of thought set by the masses tend to be the most memorable. Many of them were rebels in thought for their time who dared to share the truths as they viewed it. They're rawness of their words become etched in our minds when we read them, making them difficult to forget.
As amateur poets, we may not be at the level of those greats, but when we censor ourselves for fear of how we perceive we might offend someone, we are a lot farther from being at their level. That is my opinion on writing poetry anyway.
Just imagine if Wilfred Own censored himself in his antiwar poetry? Or if civil rights poets chose to hold their tongue for sake of the racial status quo? Of course, their poetry would most likely be sitting somewhere collecting dust rather than still being read by millions of people.
Rebels in the poetry world, who serve an emotional punch in the gut to their readers with their honesty, have always been my favorite. They change perceptions of those who read them, making people think outside of their own little circle of reality.
Recently I've been obsessed with the poetry by Maram al-Massri, who was a native to Syria, but was exiled to France in 1994. Her book Liberty Walks Naked is a poetry collection which pays homage to all the victims of the Syrian war. As an American, I watch what the news here chooses to report, and like most Americans, if I don't have family there, it doesn't become personal to me. I care because I'm not a bad human, but I'm still far removed. That is where poetry changes us. It makes us care and become emotionally connected, rather than distant observers.
Excerpt for Liberty Walks Naked
Daily life:
A long line in front of the bakery,
sounds of explosions.
Everything flees.
The very trees
pull up their roots and run.
Except hunger.
Hunger doesn’t care
and continues waiting
to buy
bread.
Maram al-Massri doesn't just write of war, her writing expands to subjects such as lust. This in a way makes her a rebel to me because daring to write of such passions as she does would be considered haram in the Islamism which dominates her native country of Syria.
Do you have a favorite poet who is or was a rebel in their time? Like them, do you dare to share your truth, or do you hold back for fear of offending the masses?
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