Writing Political Verse Poems

Written by Michael Nichol Kamara
Title #'Salonfos'
My names are Maada Samura Wilson Bio
I was born in a small country in the sub Sahara Africa
I have been...

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I read Eisenstein's sacred economics
a year or two ago,
and it is one of the few I still remember
and often think about 
and long for.

This ecological
theological
economic...

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I was a highly competitive,
and chronically frustrated,
public and private sector grant writer
before I turned to this prose-poetry research format,
inspired by reading Buckminster Fuller's universal Left...

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America better fight back
We will be right back
And on the right track
America is under attack
This administration
Has shut down the nation
Over a wall
Time to stand up...

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When I was sixteen
I wanted Robert Kennedy's life,
although I didn't know about his time squandered
in staffing McCarthyism's
Make America as Grotesque as Possible campaign,

Which would have...

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oft times brutal not so short, 
but nasty acknowledgement, 
(this anonymous, conscientious, efficacious...
frivolous gent writhes at bloody history), 
yet mindful premeditated how to be worthy,...

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I'm musing with Jill Lepore,
historian (Harvard feminist, but definitely within brackets of general interest),
through eight hundred pages of These Truths
telling an other U.S. herstory.

She starkly...

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My LeftBrain is busy reading a book
on what Systems Theory
and thinking
and experience find encouraging
for WinWin social change,
where no losers are allowed to fail
at thriving away...

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Dear Sue,

I am remembering our strong negative responses
to the young woman who surreptitiously read
her aunt's very private diary,
filled with vulnerable statements
of the most intimate nature
and...

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I wish to fully live
then richly die
non-violently communing with AllSouls
in cooperative team resonance,
resilient restoring green justice residence
eco-governing NewLondon's energy democracy,
WinWin co-arising loss
of LoseLose Ego PrisoNest,
plutocracy...

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Producing large quantities of words
cleverly without considered substance,

Unveiling my needy novel entertaining intentions
yet not revealing news or even pretensions
about who I today am
becoming
or tragically have...

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I remember
as a grade school child
an outside voice greeting me
into each morning's reweaving.

The Heckler was school morning alarming.
The Seducer waited to deliver daylight vacation greetings.

The...

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It has been said
by Shakespearean wit
All the world's a stage.

And so it is, I actively and fluidly suppose,
One Great Transitioning Stage
of diverse seasons
and eons of...

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Some healers counsel us not to count the cost
of healing deficits

But
successful greenest healers
win by counting costs
yet not worrying too conflicted much
about how we will cooperatively...

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My longer life
reads like a ransacked,
formerly almost democratic constitution,
Whether well read in organic silence
or not so screaming fascist tumored
rumor bad-humored
much.

Some days present easy milestone messages
to...

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When asked what skill sets
I hoped to bring
Her local ecology of justice
for nurturing,
I was not prepared.

But,
one of two internal wisdom projects,
still in process,
I'm ego-working on,
eco-role...

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Earth offers outdoor organic classes
in Cooperative Health Proposal Design
and Revolutionary WinWin Research Writing
for restoring WinLeft/WinRight nutritional justice
and co-empowering bilateral peace.

Earth rises and sets permaculture designers
for...

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I was interviewing our Food Justice Coordinator
for Edible Landscape Projects
nurturing democratic peaceful outcome
projections
and trend analysis,
none of which would competitively sell papers.

She asked most of my...

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Cooperative researchers and restorers
often experience Wins for nature
as Winning Spirit
of ego-eco-centering healthy lives.

CoInvesting in cooperatively-owned
and co-managed Earth,
Inside/Outside Future Searchers
eco-facilitating
outdoor nutritional management 
tasks
and issues

CoInvesting
in small nuclear-ballistic...

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He thought they could build
a healthier multinational corporation.

She felt we could grow
a wealthier multicultural
sacred cooperative network.

He led a hierarchical Council
for World Class Communities.

She bled and...

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