Anil Deo Poet Didactic

Patience Worth and Poet's Manifest

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The prose & prosaic lives pursuing career
From apartheid in Africa to US freedoms (1983)
Poets voices muted, too much hunger
The luxury of democracy, enduring systems
Of dispossession, of marginalising, silencing
With vigilante foes of one's own kind - for fame? -
Yet systems of food distribution, & of medicines
Need democracy, too, urgent reform 
Pandemics reinforce the civilized caste sytem 

II
Is there a military-pharma-cyber mafia?
What will my pen say - or my spirit say -
When the prosaic careers go silent 
The itch to write nudges me to poetry
For the likes of Patience Worth (d.1641)
Quaker girl worked fingers to the bone
Yet desired art of writing, exploring ... Now
The unraveling of time: Pearl Curran became her pen
400 years later! There is a colonial captive
A hidden teacher-philosopher from Old Afrik, here
Telling of a tax-technology-robotic civilization
Of new high priests, go-betweens in art, science, family

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Anil Deo February 24, 2023 at 12:00 AM Thank you all so very much. My newest post tells of power & cell network issues in our unravelling democracy so blessed by Nelson Mandela 29 years ( long gone). Amen, shalom shalom. Namasthe all x 3 billion

Lisa Ricci February 23, 2023 at 4:08 AM Hello Anil. Only you could do justice to this situation and Patience Worth through your eyes up close and personal. I think all agree no matter what corner of the world each government does not do the right thing for the people. Although I am in the US where we are blessed beyond measure, our government has many issues too. However, there are no words for what you see know and encounter first hand. Always do you bring awareness with truth. Love and Blessings always with safe travels always.

Harry Horsman February 22, 2023 at 10:41 PM Powerful poetry Anil, far better than a bullet. So many battles being fought in every corner of the planet. Harry

I Am Anaya February 20, 2023 at 5:58 PM I'm here in the US where it is warm and safe, but God loves you more..."Need democracy, too, urgent reform" yes indeed, freedom is the only way. A passionate piece brilliantly penned.