Haiku: Ode to Tom Steyer

[Tanner]

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil,
but because of the people who don't do anything. - Albert Einstein

Man of conviction
With courage to root out a
Wayward President


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[Tanner]

RZ Poets, "If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world", it is high time to show our patriotism and take back the country and restore sanity to the USA.

[lunar glide]

I agree with the statement, but it's incomplete. Poets who seek to be legislators stop being poets.

[Johntee]

Where does that leave
Shelley's tirade in
"Mask of Anarchy"

"I met Murder on the way -
He had a mask like Castlereagh -
Very smooth he looked, yet grim;
Seven blood-hounds followed him:"

[lunar glide]

Published after his lifetime. "Unacknowledged" is important.

[Johntee]

How soon after he wrote it, did he drown?

[lunar glide]

That's a great question. I never thought to check. I remember reading that he did want to publish it.. I'm overly romantic about the subject. I see the business of publishing, recognizing and awarding, at real odds with the creative process. I know there are fine first rates poets who can do both. I'm jealous of such intellects.