I’ve heard some poetry
Poetry of mothers fathers daughters
Poetry of workers students elderly youth
Poetry of the factory the ghetto the suburbs the office
Poetry squealing defiant beat down exposed whimpering in defeat and laughing last
Poetry loud obnoxious lively and rude
Poems that stretch across the tapestries of human imagination
Poems that are music
Poems with no rhythm and no name
Poems read but not spoken
Poems spoken from the heart
Poems that tell the truth of human dreams
Shattered and collected like swept up glass into dusty bins
Poems for a better world
For environmental sustainability
For gender equality
To call out abuse
Exploitation
To throw a life raft
Drowning
in the grinding banality that crushes souls
You matter
I hear you
Poetry
I want to yell out yes
Poetry
Make me cry kind of
Poetry
Doctors office waiting for death kind of
Poetry
Self obsessed poems
Effervescent poems
Pretentious poems
And the simple
And plain
Poems
Poems that scream out a prayer
Hand in hand inhale exhale existence poems
Afraid of death poems
Numb poems that break free to feel
Poems that wander around because they can’t say what’s real
Poems that lash out aimlessly
Poems of desire
Poems of dreams differed
Poems of study effort and degrees
Poems of expectations dashed
Poems of life force energy
Poems of expression in the stultifying silence
A white flag
The final hope before complete surrender
The voice of the muffled
The description of feelings
The song of the broken
The last free thought of the brainwashed and indoctrinated
The hope of a new day
Poetry
Probably none ruder than myLori’s Gas poems. LOL