Best Revolutionary Poems

{Poet’s Note : I wrote this poem for the passing of my very dear friend & comrade, Cecyl Esau, Umkhonto we Sizwe Commander in 2021, as a contribution to his memorial service. Cecyl was given a full Provincial Military Official Funeral. Though the reading was...

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They called their gang The ReVolutionaries,
my Father Sun and Mother Earth drew time with them,
but they often called themselves Yang and Yin,
respectively and mutually respectful
yet privately erotic,
not so much politically and economically
where Yang could not fit in for rabid competition
and Yin could not alone float
her...

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THE PASSIONLESS REVOLUTIONARY


A ragged impulse – the scrivener’s tetch
truncated our conversation on the working
class.  Your brief was their craft
was their art, which liberation lost
to them: mine was an impounded version
of the waggoner’s instance, the vetch
caught up in the wheel, thus anneal
the war on wills,...

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This poem wants to make a change . . .

To be a strong yet silent raised fist in Mexico, 1968.

To stand at a window w/a shotgun writing the words
“By any means necessary”

To sit in at a lunch counter in Birmingham, Alabama
Until it is read

To start...

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What's the difference between a regenerative-revolutionary outcome
and an evolutionary process of gradual development?

It depends
whether you are looking for the baby
or listening to the new mom.

But,
if you listen and empathize with both 
communing together,
then probably none.

If 2 times 2 is 4
because each 2 is either or
rather...

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Those who get,
get more.
Those who want,
want more.

Evolution is not survival of the fittest species,
but thrival of the greatest fit with least endosymbiotic change required
within,
whether we speak of polycultural enrichment
or meta-paradigmatic revolutions in understanding multicultural enrichment.

Evolution is BusinessAsUsual (BAU) cooperative-dominant nutritional networking
between what were more autonomous,
monocultural,...

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I don’t mean to be rude, but I don’t care what you say about being a man because I know being a man is more than just being male.
Don’t tell my dad ‘cause his mind is narrow minded and bound by 1950’s rule on women...

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We African heads of state must stop behaving 
like puppets who dance every time 
the imperialists pull the strings. 
Glory to our peoples, 
Dignity to our people,
Victory to our people, 
Fatherland or death, 
we shall conquer” - 
Quote by Ibrahim Traore
 (New Burkina Faso President)

"We must...

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Revolutionary  evolutionary
Heartful constitutions
Lovers constructing
Contributions contorts

Contours, all sides a winner
Armies of DREAMERS
WE are redeemers
Consecutive notions

If we begin we are beginners
Heavily measured DEVOTIONS
Affiliated positives
Once SCREAMED 

THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE
and the corners of the WORLD are
Furnished with a song not yet sung
Blessed be the...

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I went from ghetto living
And the ghetto kind of days
To being up out of it
And to seeing better days.
Now the truth stays 
And my mind plays,
in a blessed way
defying the lie defining me 
in my early days.
I keep my goal within my gaze 
Cause these...

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Revolutionary Road is where I lay. In my mind I had a perfect life.
Dreams of living the unknown
I’m supposed to be more then a simple wife;
Revolutionary Road is where I lay. In my mind I had a perfect life.
Insanity cutting straight through like a sharp...

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It was a week before Christmas
He knew many kids were about to receive presents
Didn’t care too much for Sing-Alongs 
Rather obsessed about Mr. Benjamin,
And his flock of Dead Presidents,
Living among the outcasts
Most couldn’t grasp how his daily went,
He was only 15 years old,
Already prepping for...

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A third world city with a revolutionary aspect

The poor crouched among the estates;

for the poor, the SUN crashes to the ground!

The hum of the city,
  cacophony of people,
  the deafening sound of
  empty stomachs;
every day the media,
  paints the sinister,
 ...

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a revolutionary
God made man 
man made civilisation
civilisation from man 
brought money 
and that is the machine 
of the world today 
this machine is broken
it need a mechanic
that mechanic is 
a revolutionary...

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Back in seventeen seventy-seven,
British general John Burgoyne faced hard times,
despite winning at Hubbardton, and Fort Anne,
supplies were getting very hard to find.

When word came that General Howe wouldn’t be
marching up the Hudson to meet his forces,
Burgoyne realized he couldn’t take Albany
without foodstuffs, munitions, and horses.

So...

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