POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE! Submit up to 3 poems about today's world in flux totaling no more than 150 lines each by emailing donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm, May 30th. Culmination reading will be held on Saturday, May 31st, 3 to 5 pm ON ZOOM ONLY (link to reading will be provided to every published poet).

Monday, May 19, 2025

Antoinette Vella Payne

Contagious Courage


Prehistoric people built sound

Soaring singing communities

In the age of dinosaurs


Shrieks &  slaps

Warnings to crescendo

Falling into unknown realms


Dangerous beautiful giants

Walked along side

All of them stepped into eternity


Grunt Growl Grow

Into a new colony of

Imagined dangers


To extinction to civilization

Prompting re-creation to

Unimagined human evolution


We stand at a new precipice

Brought about by fear

Illusions of dangerous freedoms


Controlled authoritarianism says

The People can’t handle love 

Inclusion  and  self determination


But we can

We will

We shall overcome their control


Brothers and sisters

Evolution of human 

Consciousness springs from this chaos


Together we resist

Together we change the course

We the people can




Some Woolley History    


Our woven wills taken by trillions

We the great care

Together we wear

Democracy


Our historical garment

Now a torn commitment

Mended in seventeen eight eight

Persevering more than a hundred years


Of freedom

A broken test by our own will

Raining authoritarian reign

Human of no being


Ruthless and stained

Signaled to a collective destiny

Mended by another will

That is and is not of choice


Washed through a steady optimism

That keeps taking sunny dreams

Tested torn and interwoven

As we remember history


Happening to that good hope

That right and important care 

Alternating from our own mothers

And the silencing of our forefathers




Sanity Calling


We are our own saviour

Mergers of cultural eth-ni-cities

America’s diversity and inclusion is real


Retreat from this American cartel

Take what matters most to you

Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid


For the first time in my life

I have a stable income

What a joy to work


In real property sales

Without commission as my goal

Just do a good job because I can


Take back what matters most to you

Broken and thrashed public agencies

Detained immigrants shouting S.O.S.


Defied constitution & courts

Help was on its way to Gaza when

We supported humanitarian aide


American complicity in starving

Two million people found guilty

In war crimes, Palestinian children die


Stop dumbing down America

Leave public radio

And free press alone


Laws to curb climate upheaval

Scientists & lifesaving research

Unfunded


Stifled law firms

Far right religious christianity

Sexual singularity


LGBTQ my people’s freedom

International tariffed turmoil

USA leaders gain from inside trading


What’s your biggest heart ache

In the midst of this corruption?

Silence or intelligent action will prevail


Let us take a radical stance against

power, domination & meanness

Poetry’s portal to truth & kindness


Can shed abundant light 

on fascist states of affairs everywhere

Poets prerequisites for reason


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