Best Politicalheart Poems


Questions In Africa

The sound of 
the wind is 
the
 wind that 
makes the 
sound

what is a 
sound?
What is a wind?
What is the sound?
What is the 
wind?

What is the 
sound of the 
wind?

Censored the 
sound is 
shimmering
to fissure the 
fetter
a locust of 
beigns rigged 
out

If war means 
death why
do people go 
to battle?
war and 
battle are 
they the 
same?
Which one is 
bad?
which one 
incites a bard?

a necessary 
end death is
to Ceasar but 
why come
when the end 
is 
unnecessary?

If hunger that 
has hope kills 
what does 
hopeless 
hunger do?

What defines 
a foreign cow 
and a
local 
cow...the 
milk or the 
colour

Is the 
evidence of 
absense 
same as
absence of 
evidence?

If poverty is 
indeed a 
curse
 what is the 
cause?

why is killing 
someone 
called 
murder but
killing at 
the right time 
called politics?

What is 
murder?
Is it the same 
as mother?
Which one 
annihilates 
and 
which one 
creates?

What is 
politics?
Is it a game
is it a war
is it a battle
is it evil or
is it all?

What is evil? 
Nothing!
The heart 
only makes it 
so
if the heart 
could think 
evil
 is the heart 
not evil?

Since one 
acquires 
one's mother 
tongue
what forbids 
one from 
acquiring the
murder 
tongue too?

If the patient 
dog eats the 
fattest bone
and a 
person
 who 
arrives at the 
well
 first
 draws the 
cleanest water
 
what then is 
the 
equilibrium?

Saying what 
you mean and
meaning 
what you say 
are they the same?
Does the 
constant 
nodding of
 the
 lizard mean 
all is well?

Now the 
sound I know
the wind now 
I know
but the sound 
of the I know 
not

Tell me the 
sound of the 
wind
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Columbus, You Again

Columbus, you again
Your rotten caravels still unforgotten
Silhouette of flitting bats 
And old wives tale of true honor
For at each wheel
The old African seamen
Rana Raraku
And their big nose images of the Ra
Those who mined iron
For Hittite spear points
Sailing by the shadow of the sun
And the juxtaposition of stars
With Stonehenge rocks
Turned into the wet wilderness
Confident that the moai
Of Easter Island
Knew this way to children
Farther east 
And all the while your heart
Was like a wing flapping on the drums
Of a webbed imagination

Let me salute you
For courage
To rob so many nations of their gold
For your cause
The Crusades of intermittent genocide
So much honor
In your hatred of the Hamitic line

And these same colonialists
Who dream their new world order
Celebrate the trauma of days for you
Forgotten grandmothers
And the old fairy comes late to tell
Lies on butterflies, 
The shadow on the stair
Webs us in ignorance 
Your presence haunts us who dwell
At the crossroads of the rim
An Halloween precursor
Where history's tragedy amidst the cotton
And the cane is buried

Deep in the heart 
Talon's of your day's unjust wage
The eagle's egg hatching
Oh, but you did not pay them 
except in germs and death
That was strange, stranger than volcanic fire
When will the sun on this crinkling empire set
And all the fables that famished children drink retire
When will the heart breaks free its shackled rage
And Columbus disdain
The contrived yarn spun upon a screen of horror

Columbus, what makes you
Last against the better knowledge of today
The global mindset of global liberation
Why after king and kingdoms gone you remain
Like a gene scripting the margins subjugation
Like a blueprint for new forms of social pain
Oh Columbus, I am in the vice of tooth decay
And no fairy here to bring
My penny for my deep belief.

Mighty

The revolution is no longer a dream
As we watch it stream
Live on the TV and internet
The sun of tyranny is beginning to set

Get out of your bed
The idea is no longer in your head
Shout out with might
The rising fight

The shackles are squeezing my wrists
As I shuffle the righteous bodies of the deceased
And just four hours later, I join the corpses
And I join my brothers
As the physical reunites with the earth
And the spiritual meets the Lord

But the roaring of the jets
Is not as loud as the resistance they've met
The bullets of fear
Not as powerful as a single tear
As our hearts push, endure, sacrifice, and continue beating

The nation's heart beats with you
As we finally awake from the nightmare we were forced to endure
And the beating heart shakes the lunatic's throne
As he is pushed into the corner of the mess he's thrown

Your time is numbered, it is in writing
As our determination is charged by lightning
We will continue fighting
Awaiting our final rule, so mighty
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The Simple Man

He walked a mile,
and came back empty-handed,
but in his heart was freedom, 
for he was never branded.

He lost battles,
and put the many to rest,
but in his heart was justice
for he fought amongst the best.

He bravely sailed,
amongst the waves was beaten,
but in his heart was meekness,
for he was never taken.

He reigned thus high,
and was always needing more,
but in his heart contentment,
for he walked aside the poor. 

He ran the race,
with a torch, he felt the burn,
but within his heart is love,
for he really lived his turn.

"killer" Or Leader

Man as I see through
My heart 's mirror reveal
Is a faculty of creativity
A compendium of knowledge
A vast sea of boundless ideas

My heart mirror is deceiving
As my eyes could clearly see
That though man is a beauty
He is only but a "killer"
Killer of dreams,visions and goals

Hush!says my heart to me
What a crime to judge without reason
Man is not a killer but leader
One who has conquered the space
He who has overcome seas-who weilds power on land

Man that made the rocket
It is he that made the atomic bomb
Man that made the Titanic
He made the AK-47
Killer or leader it is man to decide

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