Solidarity: Wall Street, War Front
Do you see any solidarity across the globe? Do you see any reasons for solidarity across the globe? Do you see any hope for solidarity across the globe?
Can my poems help find it? Can your poems touch my poems? Can they meet and talk?
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(1)
Iraq
(Acknowledgement: Sourav Datta, Durgapur, West Bengal, India)
A Collateral Damage
My home was in Iraq, did you know?
There, by the Baghdad factories
Ma, Dad and with a little sis
We had fun – laughs, songs and stories
First time they bombed our block
We shivered with radio round-the-clock
Dad’s bus got hit ‘n exploded
Sis cried out, “Mother, he’s dead!”
My dear father’s grave, yes I kissed
Whispered in fear — eerie, awful
“Dear Dad, you come out now you can
Gone are those violencing beasts.”
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Again they now hit back my land
Hoping to shove democracy down
Experts on oil addiction
This time more pain, starvation
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Firm resolve, no fear of death
They’ll defeat Babylon empire?
I’ve joined forces millions
How dare that Dubya Dumb and Blair?
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I’m too a son of a great nation
Daddy’s on the Iraq battlefield
Peter, Becca, little Sam and I
We got it in our hearts ‘n eyes
I screamed, “Dad, leave Iraq at once
If you kill but one-o their childs
Consider you killed one us yours
You now no mo’ one-o our heroes.”
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(2)
Bangladesh Border, 1971
Bangladesh Border, 1971
those small men and those small women
with small, tiny hopes and smaller desires
all their lives they weep in vain
and none cares ’bout their futility tears
…tears shed away slowly, lowly
like late-night dew drops, slowly, lowly
d’you ever listen to their subdued cry
o’er late-night wind the cries quiver
d’you hear them, tell me, why
d’you ever hear them, tell me, ever?
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(3)
Occupy Wall Street
(November 15, 2011)
We Are the 99 Percent.
They’re gone now
But they shall be back.
This is the last battle.
They know.
Even New York Times
Can’t stop them.
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Sincerely Writing,
Partha
Brooklyn, New York
Very nice pems, though the third one is short and uncertain.
Yes, poems nd songs that unite hearts that are frustrated and distressed could streghten protests – we have seen this in Benal and India,
But currently there are two essentially different struggles among the distressed and the oppressed.
A. those who are oppressed by political monachs and the dictators and rising in protest with bot armed and peaceful agitations to get liberty and a political State that is fair and democratyic. This is on the same lines as in the case of past revolutions like the American War of Indpendence, French Revolution, Russian Revoution and Freedom struggle in Idia.
B. those who are distressed because of the failure of the State to deliver protection against economic instability and rising against not the olitical State, but against the Financial Sector identified as the one that has allegedly made the political State to fail and a sector that the politician controlled State wants to be mualed for it has exposed the underlying weakness and iresponsibility of the extant political sector. Here the political sector is trying to gather the 99% against unknown, imaginary devil idolised in the 1% so that the political sector to get a freh ease of life. Tey are witing for the 99% to create enough commotion and self-inflicting hurt before tey can reappear as the Great Saviour Robinhood Class.
As for the futre of A, histry says that the revolutions will tranfer power to a political class that may bring new forms of opression that the struggling people will realise much later. As for B, being a new form of revolution to rehabilate the extant irreponsible political class, it is difficult to say how things will shape up, but one is sure that the <0.5% entity, called politicians, will try its best to capture the leadership of the Capture Wall Street Movement in time to re-establish their business of cheating on a firmer footing and the bored campaighers may have to remain contended with the od wine in a new bottle. So far I have not been able to discover any inherent, independent dynamics of the movement that would see it through a change in the national/ internation order to establish sustainable equity and justice. Maybe my abilitity to see the writing on the wall is considerably impaired as my physical eye sight has.
“Here the political sector is trying to gather the 99% against unknown, imaginary devil idolised in the 1% so that the political sector to get a freh ease of life. Tey are witing for the 99% to create enough commotion and self-inflicting hurt before tey can reappear as the Great Saviour Robinhood Class.”
True, indeed! That’s why I have reassurance that these young people on the street do not want either the Democrats or the Republicans to meddle in their affairs. And that’s why they’re being arrested, tortured and kicked out from a peaceful, democratic protest. I hope their gallant movement is not coopted by the political machinery.
It’s really nice..but could you tell me what’s the stiation about poem number(2)? The picture was taken where the third indo-pakistan war took place?
1971 Bangladesh liberal war and refugee crisis along the Indian border.
Poem 2: situation is Bangladesh liberation war 1971 and refugees crossing border into India.