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The Face of Revolution

revolution has a face with curly black hair and piercing brown eyes so deep that the pupil is almost invisible like the urban walked upon and miserable revolutions nose is sharp with flaring nostrils flaring in anger and indignation with full lips that a tongue flicks in anticipation of true emancipation spouting furious words at the lie of race relations carrying the voice of a rebel nation the revolutions face has brown skin! the revolutions face has brown skin! the revolutions face has brown skin! bathed in sweat holding a beautiful mind unwilling to forget LOOK AT ME!!!! i am revolution

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Simone Segal

Date: 11/17/2009 1:46:00 PM

Absolutely love it! and you said you're not intelligent ? Great write! love Simone

Debbie Guzzi

Date: 7/12/2009 2:41:00 PM

me too and I'm a white woman! Hear me roar! Light & Love

Good Night

Date: 5/1/2009 2:15:00 PM

Hell yea brother you a star just like me, niggas is working for the Government, you might think is crazy but i know who she is...

Yoni Dvorkis

Date: 4/26/2009 5:37:00 PM

I can see where your energy comes from, I even remember you quoted the revolution in one of your comments. The imagery is very palpable. It reminds me a lot of Ellison's Invisible Man, besides the obvious reason it's also the way your subject shows his anger, or fury would be more accurate. If the subject is you, which I have to assume it is, then I do see you, but I don't share the color of your skin so I feel limited in my sight. I hope that's ok. This was very moving for me Brian. -Yoni

Charlene Bird

Date: 4/24/2009 6:38:00 PM

Brian, what a strong voice that will not be ignored, good for you friend, there will always be those ignorant people out there who judge and ridicule someone because of race, so sad it is that we can't just love and accept eachother for what we are. This a very beautiful and moving piece, very effective for the repetition of one verse.

James Marshall Goff

Date: 4/24/2009 6:13:00 PM

Brian, your voice joins many here at the soup who freely express their poetic opinions! me included! good work! love the stanza-repeat method!!! jmg ....if time, see my poem...freedom cries

Carolyn Devonshire

Date: 4/24/2009 4:54:00 PM

What a powerful poem, Brian! Race relations in the US are always glossed over. Even now when we have an African-American president, there are still those who judge us be the color of our skin. (Here in N. FL, a black senator was refused service in a local bar. Caused quite a commotion.) Wish we could just see what is inside of people. God should be our only judge.