Short Revolutionaries Poems

Whatever happened to 60's revolutionaries
  I asked my wife in earnest

B. Sanders stayed the course, she said
  And it's now his turn to 'Bern us'...

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Madame Déficit


Marie Antoinette
Convicted corrupt coquette
"Let them eat cake" she allegedly said
Revolutionaries roared "off with her head!"...

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With regardless grace,
The dawn succeeds.
We, the midnight revolutionaries,
Are as loud as empires
In the calling black.

The day comes. Our words refuse her....

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Tear gas canisters and rubber bullets
are hurled at their direction,
yet they rise again and again,
like anthills cropping out from earth.
The rains normally beat them, but keep
on rising and rising from the ground…...

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Land of honor 
Land of dignity
In Africa a giant 
Nigeria, a cherished home

Land of great heroes
Land of revolutionaries
Nigeria or liberty
Home of black

Beautiful spellbound nation
Pride of Africa
Emblem of blackness
Great black picture

Nigeria the marvelous 
Races beauty of earth
Home for blacks
Home of harmony....

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COPLA CINCUENTA Y CUATRO: This Bad Guy World


Today’s revolutionaries
Cheer tomorrow’s diehard tyrants:
New wealth old pose

Bad fruit engender not sturdy trees
Good Guys tend to slither down hot pants:
While world’s gods doze

Bad Guys feel good to be truly bad
Ill-gotten gains worth dying for:
Bad Good Guys lay

Even Good Bad Guys can turn bad
And the Bad Guy world all restore:
Utter dismay

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014...

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Ancient battle 

Beautiful field blood-red poppies 
ringed with delicate dandelions.
Once a battlefield
the righteous, in blue uniforms
shiny golden buttons.
The terrorists of the time 
were farmers and shepherds.
The revolutionaries lost the battle 
and many more.
In the end, the rebels won
got their land back.
When the field is ploughed
human skull appears
rebel or soldiers, who knows?
Rusty buttons surface too 
 not of gold, after all....

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