Resistance Poetry 2019.11

I Got Nothing

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Resistance Poetry

6 min readDec 1, 2019

I have nothing to say. Nothing.

Maybe that’s a relief. You can just get on with reading all the poetry you may have missed this past month.

Enjoy. Well, maybe that’s not the right word for a lot of these works …

NEW POETS

Revolutionary Make-Up

Post-Diwali Air

World on Fire

Madness

RETURNING POETS

Somewhat Safer

Moment

Shadow Conspiracy

Owning/During

Truth Is

Verdant Place

Writing to Heal

Postscript:2119

Old Scarlet.

No Barking.

weight of the world, balanced on weekend’s shoulders

Quid Pro Bro

The Real Thanks

I Don’t Know. You Be The Judge!

Joseph the Industrialised Enthusiast

Reserve

The Last Chapter

The Solitude Jottings

Sacrifice …

Wild Times

Crumbling In[ner Strength Grows]

State of Alarm.

Immortalized Storytellers

If It Were Just This Simple

A List of Wounds

A Holiday Gift For A Wonderful Life

Did You Hear the 2019 Emissions Gap Report?

I AM

Ritualism

Lifeline

My Desire

Purse Strings

Pay Check

a poem for the poets

nailed.

Trumpkin: Crackpot

It all adds up

Instant Runoff Voting: A Ballot Ballad

“You Can’t Let That Happen To Me”…Again

Poem: 1:36 AM

Empty.

Sea of Anomaly

Is it that time, already?

Desperate

Pax

Not All Deloreans

Mere Words

At Last, Night (in memoriam to Atatiana Koquice Jefferson*)

A Cooler Climate

A Cooler Climate, II

Boiling Point: A Haiku

Protest : A Haiku

It’s Time Stupid People Stood Up

Call Me Introvert

Sometimes It’s Hard To See

Sometimes I Hate

Sent My Lawyer To Ukraine

We Cannot Make Up Our Mind

Like A Rolling (Roger) Stone

Let us pray … to the God of Greed

SEPTEMBER 28, 1973

Attention

Sarajevo

My Son at Three

Division

Reportage

Autumn Distractions

Mount Kailash

Tibet

We Are Not Racists

Palestine

Not One Tongue

the Luckless Samson

the magician

piety… an afterthought

used to be…

ruined fragrances

giving thanksgiving thanks

death to moby dick!!!

confounding philosophies

git yuoawh aahce to Maahz–governor svatzenschnitzel

welcome to my vortex

sacred days

the helping hand

My Castles Made of Sand

the Babbling Book

Resistance Poetry 2019.11

I Got Nothing

NEW POETS

Revolutionary Make-Up

We were born in the grip of militant fists clenched.

Post-Diwali Air

(The below poem conveys the air quality in my city Kanpur after a week of Diwali celebrations. I do not blame the…

World on Fire

A Poem

Madness

A Poem

RETURNING POETS

Somewhat Safer

those questions of consent – a #MeToo slam poem (with audio)

Moment

Don’t cry for me in my moment of ______

Shadow Conspiracy

This light, this day with the red cedars and ferns has left me dreaming of ancient roots anchoring my feet to the…

Owning/During

…what is being held,

Truth Is

truth is in freedom from boxes and labels, bind- ing us to blindness

Verdant Place

would we rather relentless days fall ……. raiment ablaze drawn into sheltering arms of evening ash left to roam ……

Writing to Heal

Obituary: Our Truth So Brutally Lost

Postscript:2119

“Look upon my works, ye might and despair! Nothing besides remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless…

Old Scarlet.

Flabbergasted by the power Of your naked truth, My weaknesses lay dumbfounded In the chasms of a treacherous heart;

No Barking.

A pretty good dog, Golden Retriever.

weight of the world, balanced on weekend’s shoulders

sometimes the suffering of the world demands to be held

Quid Pro Bro

Ballad of the Brosigliere

The Real Thanks

a poem

I Don’t Know. You Be The Judge!

A Resistance Poetry

Joseph the Industrialised Enthusiast

Old Joseph was an industrialist; an industrialised enthusiast.

Reserve

Impeachment, bereft.

The Last Chapter

Every freaking time

The Solitude Jottings

I, my pen, Loneliness There’s no calm, no pain, Just winds of Jitteriness Some clouds inside me, Full of water in my…

Sacrifice …

Generally …

Wild Times

Hoping for a new beginning

Crumbling In[ner Strength Grows]

a poem

State of Alarm.

Checking the fire app (my latest habit), a new icon appears on the map IN MY TOWN! Although the alert level is not…

Immortalized Storytellers

Emotional clay molded within a lifetime sentiment, timeless storytellers, aching witnesses, linking the past to the…

If It Were Just This Simple

A poem

A List of Wounds

We are all broken flowers We have seen the moon smiling The waves crashing The shimmer and thunder of springs The…

A Holiday Gift For A Wonderful Life

When an angel suddenly gets her wings A bell will ring in your brain with a clarity that stings Because that is the day…

Did You Hear the 2019 Emissions Gap Report?

The Emissions Gap Report uses data that describes Coastal hurricanes and loved ones’ deaths are on the rise They have…

I AM

Undoing

Ritualism

Honey dripping expansive gold, fingers slide, exquisite feel of ritualistic behavior, injected like the sun, begotten…

Lifeline

Nothing new you’ll read here, For it’s a story of every household. In happiness we cherish all and In sadness we throw…

My Desire

Is it Humanly?

Purse Strings

I underscore the price of gold. The daily misery index capsulates The urban decay of manna. Inhaling tear gas, the…

Pay Check

Seeming to pray I knelt well into the stairs condensing God to emergency exits.

a poem for the poets

I’m so glad you’re here — please stay.