Anarchy Poetry Contest!

That said, the topics should be centric around topics of either environmentalism, anti-consumerism or something of that sort. Don’t be afraid to post, if you think it applies than it just might. Here are a few examples:

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.
~George Carlin

Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time
For ya’ll have knocked her up
I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe
I was not offended,
For I knew I would have to rise above it all
Or drown in my own shit
~Funkadelic in the song titled “Maggot Brain”

When you defile the pleasant streams
And the wild bird's abiding place,
You massacre a million dreams
And cast your spittle in God's face.
~John Drinkwater

You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.
~Gil Scott-Heron, from the song titled “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”
(Full poem:http://www.gilscottheron.com/lyrevol.html )

With laissez-faire and price atomic,
Ecology's Uneconomic,
But with another kind of logic
Economy's Unecologic.
~Kenneth E. Boulding, in Frank F. Darling and John P. Milton, eds., Future Environments of North America, 1966

If one day that trees could speak
They’d say very mean things
If one day that trees could speak
They’d say very mean things
I love you and you love me, but
They’d say very mean things
~The Flashbulb in the song titled “If Trees Could Speak”

Inspiration might be found here: <brhttp://www.quotegarden.com/environment.html<brhttp://www.quotegarden.com/consumerism.html

And if you have no idea what I mean by anarchism, I suggest you skim through this:<brhttp://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Writings/Anarchism/anarchism.html

This is a place where you can go all out. The goal of this contest is to make the most heart touching and inspiring piece of work. That said, it could be very brief and still mean a lot. Make it something that really makes you think. Abstraction is encouraged, but I urge you to stick with your own style!

Feel free to write essays at will though; be real and don't hold anything back! Also, lets keep discussion in this topic centric on the poems (aka giving criticism or praise to a poem is A-Okay as long as it's detailed and not just "i like that") and not "I disagree with the Anarchist mindset" or something.

Thanks, ya'll!

Wal*Mart Nazi's:

All hail the savings!
Lets treat employees like slaves
Women aren’t equals they’re Jews!
Each store a concentration camp
Line up and be gassed by profiteering!

Attention Wal*Mart shoppers:
When you need service ask for genocide!
The aisles are packed with sales!
Seek out an associate for help
They’ll do it or get shot!

High step to the cashiers lane
The lights over the register shine
Brightly like the Star of David
Religious holidays aren’t paid vacations
Better get to work on time!

Gestapo management pounds on lockers
Backs against the walls submit
Pay raises become nonexistent
Pride in workmanship diminishes
Bargains outweigh quality of employment

Sam Walton rots beside Hitler
Free enterprise can burn in hell
The pentacle is part of their symbol
A star means many things
Read into it as Wal*Marts price tag…

What deal did they make with the devil?  

First of all, I would like to thank you for posting in my competition. It's because of people like you that the world might have some hope! But seriously, I appreciate your contributions, and I will show that by complimenting them appropriately;

For Eamon, let me just thank you for bringing the thread to life by posting first. I really enjoyed your poem and it's down-to-earth no mercy style. The fact that you didn't let abstractions hinder the reality of the situation really prompted the powerful essences of what you were saying. Analogy in poem in it's finest. The last few lines were particularly notable, let me quote,

  humanity frothing at its mouth
   followed blindly like cattle

I would be lying if I told you that it doesn't put my thoughts in words perfectly. If you could keep posting, I would really appreciate it. Keep fighting the good fight.

For Cori (whom is ideally a cat), I really enjoyed the complex and intricate style of writing. Your descriptive style and craftmanship of imagery is second to none (in this competition so far) and you've definately hit a soft spot with all that abstraction. I wouldn't be suprised if this would change a lot of minds when regarding the issue of those that are mentally unstable in the streets. Like Eamon, I'd appreciate further contribution from you specifically because of how well done your compositions are.

And last, but not least, that whom reaps thine heart! I can't help but say that you've said so much in that poem that spoke out to me (Especially since I live in Georgia, WALLMARRRTT!). While I think it was a little out there, I also realized that you're a free spirit (like myself) and I properly adjusted to better understand. I too enjoy engulfing my poems in hyperboles (sometimes it's scary how they're not quite exaggerations at all), which really gives your poetry a flare. That radical kind of attitude is one that really pushes people into thinking new ways, and for that I'd really like to see some more of what you've got.

I guess more realistically, I'd like everyone to post as much as possible. If I'm really disatisfied with someones poem, I'll make sure to state it, though. I'm absurdly honest like that.

Anyway, here's a quote to maybe trigger some thoughts;

As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, "They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them." ~U Thant, speech, 1970

Plenty of inspiration to go around! If you don't mind, I will post my own content so this post isn't so irrelevant.

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We look the human spirit in the eye

It hides in fear, innocence stripped bare

Copy it down, line for line

It shivers and shakes, disturbingly scared

Butcher it, sell it, incorporate it

It’s hopeless, the pain is never shared

Redefine it, broadcast it, standardize it

It weeps, begs, “Let me be spared!”

Humiliate it, rape it: PROFIT!

All it can do is stare, stare and stare.

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Feel free to criticize mine like I did yours! /selfish

[quote]Quandry said:
For Cori (whom is ideally a cat), I really enjoyed the complex and intricate style of writing. Your descriptive style and craftmanship of imagery is second to none (in this competition so far) and you've definately hit a soft spot with all that abstraction. I wouldn't be suprised if this would change a lot of minds when regarding the issue of those that are mentally unstable in the streets. Like Eamon, I'd appreciate further contribution from you specifically because of how well done your compositions are.


Why thank you :]. And in the case that we're allowed to post more:
http://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/20044/http://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/21405/

I have my share of poorly written, anarchy-related poems. :]

thanks!

I am dearly flattered that someone understands where I am coming from...this means a lot when an artist hears such dedication to his own words! I am glad we have similar tastes! I hope you enjoy what else I have to offer...(whether its drivel or not) you decide! Thanks again! BTW I PM'd you! "laughs"

go to high school
get good grades
give in
stifle it
follow fashion trends
consume
cry in the mirror
hate your parents
pretend you´re happy
go to college
get a degree
go to parties
get drunk
get laid
smoke pot
get in debt
$80,000 on your back
be afraid
be very afraid
there are terrorists
they want to destroy you
give in
freedom is great
do what you´re told
go to war
be a hero
be a patriot
fight evil
fight for democracy
be afraid
get wounded
get killed
waste away at the VA
go to work
in an office
buy a car
get married
have a kid
buy a house
give in
go in debt
pay the mortgage
5-year plan
10-year plan
15-year plan
consume
get a divorce
have a mid-life crisis
buy a new T.V
be afraid
send your kids to college
consume
go in debt
work work work
until nothing is left
your social security
your pension
your 401K
are all gone
stay on auto-pilot
never cry
never understand
death.

it's societal self shut-down    
by mass force brain drain    
replaced by purely
programmed    
original thought    
while relational standards  
sink obscene--
adaptable    
molding, morphing
into anything    
that makes it    
slip easy, slot right    
notch into place    
   
function one:    
one will perform
if one cannot think    
   
function two:    
one will go on    
if one cannot feel    

wild west-whipped    
next undead in line    
feeding    
thriving
on sugar, salt    
grease    
and patronizing praise    
   
follow in turn    
run the machine    
   
be the machine    

http://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/19447/
http://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/19570/

and just for the hell of it,,,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G295mi0tPk

;)

Those Who Favor Fire
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Standing somewhere new for you
dress nicely for your people
change clothes each morning
conserve water
it's disappearing
look in this direction I stand
it's difficult to pulse individually through separating spaces
we're pursuing goods and the good but
the skyscrapers only scrape sidewalk-dust now
and the suits don't want to jog
but rather hand out receipts with signatures

Croaking toads paint their irises blue
let's believe the way we walk on the treadmill is some progress
these are needs
and someone opposed it once but we dragged them through the street in a cage and the mob threw tomatoes and now no one dares to bother us as we march.

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 < a multinational corporation sold my dog environmental shoes >
       
               he chewed those shoes        
               and his mouth got crossed
               and his tongue got flipped
               now he goes around in two's

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Ah! I wish I had kept this paper I wrote on rules to get out of lunch detention in seventh grade. I got in trouble for a stupid reason, and I got an extended lunch detention where I had an assigned seat for quite some time. It wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't gotten in to a verbal "discussion" with my science and history teacher on the school system. My history teacher at one point said, "School is like a giant machine, the students and staff are knobs and pieces that keep it working, and when some knobs stop working, the machine corrupts and other knobs stop working also." Which didn't help them on one of my previous points on robots. It was actually quite entertaining, and took up the attention of about half of the lunchroom including staff. I really wish I could have remembered some of my main points, I know I did well on my part in the discussion. Anywho, we finally agreed that I would get out of the seating by myself if I wrote a short essay on why rules are enforced. It was on all sides of the spectrum, and my science teacher who I had originally gotten in to the trouble with called it my "Anarchy Statement." I just laughed, and thought to tell him to keep his new iPhone shoved nice and tight up his ass, but alas, did not.

Ah, man. Well, that's my little spat for the day. It related to the topic. I'll see what I can actually do for the competition, looks like there's been a lot good stuff already, but I've had hands on experience with this one even at a young age. ;)