Poetry - Please List You Poem Here

[TovarishAlexandrov]

Hey, in another thread some people listed their poems. I just thought I'd create one for the poems. Please list your own poems, your favourite poems, or just something that sounds cool. Lets try not to stray to far from leftist litterature though.

[Supermodel]

THIS POEM'S ON THE LEFT

This poem's on the left
This poem's on the right
This poem takes my capital
This one increases its might

This one is fond of poetry
This one likes Britney Spears
This poem feels your pain
This one ignores your tears

This one likes theories, although they're growing dated
This one likes making money, intellect is overrated

They meet in a strange new middle
Let's call it post-materialism's mother
Where everyone gets sick of the shopping mall
and just stops to help each other.

[AgustoSandino]

funny, thanks...

[munkey soup]

i've posted it before in the Quotes topic, but I love this poem

"'But where can we draw water,'
Said Pearse to Connolly,
'When all the wells are parched away?
O plain as plain can be
There's nothing but our own red blood
Can make a right Rose Tree.'"
-W.B. Yeats

[Revolution Hero]

I would like to, but those , which I do wright are in Russian, so nobody would understand....What a pity!!!!

[TovarishAlexandrov]

Great poem supermodel! Did you write that? Hey, I read a little Russian... fire on up!

[Revolution Hero]

I am afraid U wouldn't understand.
U would be able to understand it , only if it has been Ur native language.

[peaccenicked]

my fav poem
A MAN'S A MAN FOR A' THAT
A man's A Man For A' That
Is there, for honest poverty,
That hangs his head an' a' that?
The coward slave, we pass him by,
We dare be poor for a' that!
For a' that an' a' that,
Our toils obscure, an' a' that;
The rank is but the guinea's stamp;
The man's the gowd for a' that (gowd=gold)

What thought on hamley fare we dine'
Wear hodden-gray an' a' that;
Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine,
A man's a man for a' that.
For a' that an' a' that
Their tinsel how an' a' that,
The honest man, though e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a' that.

Ye saeyon birki, ca'd a lord, (birkie= fellow)
Wha struts, an'stares, an' a' that
Though hundreds worship at his word,
He's but a coof for a' that (coof=fool)
His riband, star an' a' that,
Tha man o' independent mind,
He looks and laughs at a' that

A prince can mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke an' a' that,
But an honest man's aboon his might, (aboon=above)
Guid faith, he mauna fa' that! ( fa'=attempt)
For a' that an' a' that,
Their dignities an' a' that,
The path o' sense, an' pride o' worth,
Are higher rank than a' that.

Then let us pray that come it may,
As come it will for a' that,
That sense and worth o'er a' the earth,
May bear the gree, an' a' that, (gree=victory)
For a' that an' a' that,
It's coming yet, for a' that,
That man to man the warld o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that.
~Robert Burns

[Supermodel]

Thanks agusto adn Tovarish, I wrote that on the fly, I always state where any quote comes from if I post someone else's work. The poem was inspired by Tovarish's original comment about keeping the poetry leftist!! LOL!!

Do you guys notice how the poem on the left and the poem on the right are complete poems on their own until you get to the last line which only makes sense if you put them together?

(Edited by Supermodel at 5:03 pm on Mar. 6, 2002)

[Xvall]

You know the fascist pigs stole this native land,
But it's all part of the Yankee Neo-Nazi Plan..

They take the undesirables, and throw them into jail,
And leave boot boys marching shouting "Heil! Heil! Heil!"

They say “Drugs are bad!”,
But they trade em’ for guns.
They say “No more war!”
But they always sound the drums.

Bush and Chaney,
Wana fight the war on drugs,
So they deploy their elite army,
Of weapon bearing thugs.

- Drake Dracoli

(I'll work on more later..)

[TovarishAlexandrov]

Brilliant everyone... I'm kissing my hands now like an Italian.

They say it's time to stop
and end all the old regimes
But all I know for sure is Bush
must have psychadelic dreams.

Out with the old, in with the new
but who can tell the diffrence
Between old blood money
and new inheritence

Mugabe says of white men
"deep down he remains a racist"
but shows as much racism
to his people and journalists

Who remembers MLK's dream
after the civil rights?
The poor man's advocate
for black and white fights

And what is the diffrence
between the old and the new?
New dreams are had by Presidents,
but there's still much work to do.

- Tovarish Alexandrov