Revisionist Poems | Examples


Premium MemberRevisionist Fairy Tale

She came to a peaceful, shimmering pond
and took out her pearl-handled witches wand.
"Make me beautiful as the swan who slides  
on your calm surface as she smoothly glides."
Since that day, at toll booths she doesn't pay, 
and, at intersections, gets the right of way.
Categories: revisionist, silly,
Form: Rhyme

MAMA AFRICA

Mama Africa; beauty is oneness

So much love she have got to share, pure she's just like gold

Her glowing black skin so unique and alluring;

Attracting, healing, elevating,inspiring and vibrant

She don't wanna be save don't save her

She don't wanna be save because she's the savior herself

Saving and nurturing all she loves without hollering

The awakened one brimming with energy to awaken more

Dark in complexion pure in consciousness, light giver

Mighty and powerful whoever she touches, change is attained

She's fearless and he-artful, showering love and care 

Blesses whoever cross her path, generous deeds all she does

The walk she walks, shows her confidence, cat walk

Walking like a tigress She is, speaks life into the lifeless

Her wrath; enlightenment not punishment, without hesitating

Yelling the greatest inequality is trying to make

What is not equal to be equal, She revisionist

Revising every causes, breaking all chains

Pure and meek; All hail her holiness as she...

Wrestling all evil until the demons pants no more

Leaving every devil breathless.
Categories: revisionist, africa, appreciation, beauty, black
Form: Prose Poetry


Revisionist History

the mob watches on 
as statue is beheaded
…never existed
21 Jul 20
Categories: revisionist, history, judgement,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberJesus Was Jewish

Lately I've seen a poem or two
   claiming that Jesus wasn't born a Jew
but rather a 'Palestinian child'
   a claim inaccurate and really quite wild 

When Jesus was born, there was no 'Palestine'
   That name was created at a later time
by the Romans to wipe away all traces of Jewish Israel
   A tactic unsuccessful, it never worked very well.  

Jesus was born in the Galilee, circa 4 BCE
   and crucified 33 years later, about 30 CE, you see
When the Romans captured the Temple (70 C.E.) 40 years later --
   That's when the revisionist idea of 'Palestine' first gained favor  

Jesus was as Jewish as Moses, the Jews' greatest Rebbe
   Those who don't get that, let them go study history
Categories: revisionist, birth, history, jewish,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRevisionist History

Lines of ancestry
  and musty records
      feature fractured glimpses
of times long gone --
              but we deem that we gain
   some understanding, some insight,
                        some feeling
for our predecessors.
                           Those histories we
   think we know
           are never true.
We choose from many options,
    all skewed by a plethora
                   of factors that suit
a current bias, and we bend
                      and blend and fabricate
                  imaginary
                               pasts.
Categories: revisionist, age, history, memory, mythology,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberHumanity

H istory and the Bible portray the reality, good or bad, of human existence.

U nderstanding the past provides tools for better guidance of mankind's future.

M isinformation and revisionist goals will not alter the past or better our future;

A nd it is futile to chart tomorrow's course by denying yesterday's failures.

N ations and civilizations rise, fall, or become extinct largely due to pride.

I n spite of advise and warnings from prior generations, they self-destruct.

T omorrow is promising if we take off the blinders and remove the wax.

Y esterday's societies built a launching pad from which we must stage and lift.

11132017 PS Contest, Humanity, John Hamilton
Categories: revisionist, destiny, future, history, humanity,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberArt Marcel Duchamp

How to take a leak

Marcel felt quite an urge when he set out to purge understanding of how to when
we view misconceptions of who is taking the piss now never thereafter and then

A fountain trickling urinal porcelain pissoir on display impressed me no doubt in
treacherous confusion of images since relief in museums constitutes phallic sin

When streams of revisionist consciousness meet with surreal ‘truth’ of ablutions
seeming paradoxes cleanse body and mind in contextual and continent solutions

A fragmented human condition does not improve with rigid caged in perceptions
in which mindless dogma clearly resists benefits of antiauthoritarian disinfection

Are glass ceilings real are vessels of thought and flush toilets congested or empty
do ivory towers reveal liberation and freedom achieve status of fully cognoscenti 

Nothing what it seems is Duchamp's message in a showcase of lavatorial pride
colonising minds need disclosure critique confrontation urinating against the tide

When cognition feeling and action with knowledge have reached full critical vision
I reach for a fountain pen so whether this is a poem or not remains your decision

16th May 2017
Categories: revisionist, art,
Form: Couplet

Revisionist

by Michaelw1two

 in the pit, of my abide;
 someone breaks wind,
 burning odour takes over;
 earth's tides switched forever,
 the sun's flares reach further;
 who cares...
 if I were reversible, 
 an awful thought, is this possible;
 notions maw, those hooves that paw,
 you reduced, made by things minuscule;
 by the straits, of your hypocrisy,
 who cares...
 soon, so soon, silver slippery spoons,
 you think, you thought, you brought, you swoon;
 your image, reflected through time’s hourglass,
 contained, within a porcelain thrones surpass;
 you asked, you demanded, oh fool reprimanded,
 who cares...
 beholden to and only hued, of a mindset maimed,
 god damns, those whose houses, cause humans pain;
 will contained, this moment’s spine, unholy trilogy, 
 your image, and a cracked reflections eulogy;
 this shall then divide you, male from other,
 who cares...
 man, from thought, from lover, man from mother;
 we will to meet, exposed flesh, the finished treats, 
 if we speak, you surely will recognize your creator; 
 my voice, the things it’s yearn, oh shite you say,
 want to hear, can you bare, your thoughts this day;
 who cares...

April 2013
Categories: revisionist, dark,
Form: Free verse

One Ancient Measure

One Ancient Measure 

I rise with an effort 
known only to those 
who follow in comfort 
their subjective goals 

using one ancient measure 
the dead piled in rows 
and there lies a treasure 
that only God knows 

the deep roar of thunder 
in riotous rhythm explodes 
from on high lighting under 
the flood of the rain on the roads 

the dead and the living are walking 
together with righteous regard in their eyes 
and their timber-toned talking 
is mixed with their tortueous cries 

war is more than the hell you pass through 
below and above dripping blood after blood 
apocalyptic visions of the darkest new are due 
a septic condition for one's own revisionist flood
Categories: revisionist, war
Form: Lyric
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