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A Fellow Poet’s Opinions Need Not To Be Censored
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A Fellow Poet’s Opinions Need Not To Be Censored |
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D.Lester Young Senior Member
since 2001-12-08
Posts 1219Austin, Tx |
(Controversial satire) Since when has it become anti Semitic To challenge Israel’s policies As an American, I can blast Democrats Into Republican teachings, God forbid Having Enron headaches with Tyco relief Can you tell me what party they are from? I have my suspicions But that might be anti American Should my words fall silent? While Wall Street collapses And my retirement is now a dream Maybe I should becomes a Democrat In sheep’s clothing, hiding in pack money Counting the money while Republicans have BUSHes Sorry, a slip of the poetic tongue I meant embarrassing blushes As a fellow poet, I respect Amiri Baraka’s opinion Not to say that he is always right For poets are thinkers in sometimes abstract ways But I can do him justice by listening Within uncensored rules of freedom Maybe disagreeing at the end But leaving the decision for me And not the Anti Defamation League Read this carefully before sending me to the league I am anti Jew, anti Black, anti White, anti Protestant Anti Catholic, Anti American … Anti everything that says they are better than someone else I am a human being in love With all the races, creeds and nationalities Am I prejudiced? I am so human that it is one of my fallacies That I try to shed in God’s light In understanding the human bonding In this great countries diversity I am controversial so that is why some will seek to silence me And other poets whose verse open the wounds of society For someone has to reach in and questions things When everyone is passing the blame And the media is blinded by creative accounting Not in monetary terms but by controlling dissent In biased reporting, ask reporters in Houston and Texas If they where leaked info of any wrong doings But do not ask a politician there For they were paid by some real creative accounting So let my words open wounds that need attended to Curse my name into book burnings Put me to a level lower than life and bury me But words that question always break ground At first in weeds of discomfort Soon overtaking the toil of lies Finally blossoming in the drizzle of pure static truth So that leads me to the “Anti Defamation League” I am not all the time pro Israel I question things as an uncensored American This does not however make me anti Jewish For Jewish convictions gain my self respect But in the zealots of any religion Which dictate to me certain commitments Of total devotional obedience I claim ignorance in that faith Within America’s religious freedoms I thought the league was for all of humanity Now I see you just as a controlled puppet Afraid of the words coming from poets I bless you in your faith that you can see the light That censorship here will not be tolerated And as Americans we can dissect the truth Even coming from the politicians here Who can not be taken for their word In any religions light Thought: Politicians do all right until they feel their power go to their head and pocket books. Reason of this poem: Amiri Baraka, who became the poet laureate of New Jersey, was asked by Gov. James E. McGreevey to step down for a poem he read on his views. Pressure from certain groups caused the governor discomfort. Before the poet was given the honorary post he warned he might be controversial. The governor said he could take the heat (NOT). In the poem the poet stated, he thought Israel had prior knowledge of the September 11 attack. While he might have to provide a disclaimer that his opinions do not dictate New Jersey politics. He has a right to express himself as poet. As a poet I think it is important we express ourselves as artists not imprisoned by politics. Will this mean in New Jersey what you say away from your job will cost you your state job, even if it is mostly honorary? The Japanese government for years denied any knowledge of North Korean kidnapping even while the proof sat before them. Finally the truth came out to their embarrassment. If they had poets and others questioning from the beginning, would things have been put under carpets to build up resentment on how things were handled. A free press unhindered by any power machine, in the beauty of words uncensored, living in God’s special light of inspired teachings. D.Lester Young 9/29/2002 Tuscaloosa, AL Copyright © D.Lester Young (White Eagle poetry) |
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ThisDiamond Member Rara Avis
since 2002-02-22
Posts 9353Michigan, USA |
Life's poetry is not always painted rose... Courage in your work poet...soft words carry a powerful and far felt wave.  ThisDiamond |
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