<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521571" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Political Poem</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don't want to write political poetry, <br>but conflict washes over my native land<br>like a Katrina surge.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A tempest in a teapot<br>doesn't mean much<br>compared to the<br>relentless fury<br>of the tsunami.<br>This year's leaves, floating<br>gently to my lawn <br>glowing orange and gold<br>through the afternoon sun, <br>signify more than any inept<br>congressional <br>super-committee; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but when I see a policeman, <br>a man I want to call <br>protector, hero, friend, <br>spray orange pain <br>on crouching kids; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">when protesters become enemies<br>of the state, and plans to smash<br>hope are made<br>on great, glistening tables <br>in bank boardrooms <br>gleaming<br>with the tears <br>of the foreclosed, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">then must I write political poetry.<br>I'll fire a simile<br>into the executive suite, <br>I'll make strong the barricades<br>with my fierce metaphor.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Steven+Federle">Steven Federle</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521571" data-title="Political Poem de Steven Federle" data-description="I don't want to write political poetry, but conflict washes over my native land like a Katrina surge. A tempest in a teapot doesn't mean much compared to the relentless fury of the tsunami. This year's leaves, floating gently to my lawn glowing..."></div> </div> </div>

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