On Inauguration Day, 2009, I promised I’d write a poem a day. Today was the first day I’ve ever dared to see where I am with that promise.
I’ve never counted/
to see if my poem-a-day/
vow was kept. And more.
Footnote: I should, as of today, have at least 556 poems or postings. I have more than 630 postings, many with multiple poems.
Thanks to several friends — old AND new — and thanks to the belief that today (Inauguration Day, 2009) IS a new day, I’ve decided to start writing, and posting my writings, along with my experiences as both a Romantic Poet and a Revolutionary Writer. Maybe it’s not right that I self-proclaim that I’m either — or both — of those things.
But who is to say that I am, or I’m not?
Within my blog I will attempt to have two main thought process categories.
Revolutionary: Poems, stories, thoughts that are “Revolutionary” in nature. That is, they will be thoughts about anything topical and worthy of discussion, including self-discovery, OUTSIDE of my romantic writings.
Romantic: Poems, stories, thoughts that are “Romantic” in nature. That is, they will tend to focus on writing toward a woman or women, discussing romantic relationships. They will probably be divided into:
*”IMbic Poems 4an IMprov Age” (typically poems created “on the fly” while Instant Messaging (IMing) friends),
*”ConTEXTual Poems” (typically poems created on the fly, but within the confines of sending cellphone text messages), and
*Other poems and writings, either created within emails directed to someone, or as random thoughts. (Note: Some of these may deal with mature themes. I won’t publish them as posts, but will create a working page of “Mature Poetry” that I’ll add to on occassion.)
It’s my hope to eventually publish these into a book (or several). I only hope that the formatting of the pages on WordPress allows me to put them into the various categories!
Dave Kuhns 20 January, 2009
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(The words stare out from the page,
although I’ve seen them in my mind before.
Have I?
I’m not sure!)
I’ve ridden – and ride — the bus
Not when it was dangerous
But when it is obnoxious.
Not for Civil Rights.
But for Earth’s Rights.
I am a revolutionary.
I’ve dug my hands deep
Not into plantations’ soil
Nor sharecropper’s clay,
But into the teaming,
Steaming,
Still hot, though winter’s day
at minus 20 degrees,
Compost heap,
That I first learned to keep
At ten,
And again,
At thirty,
To get my hands dirty.
And now
I know how
To show younger folk,
That they may pick up
That revolutionary yoke.
I am a revolutionary.
Though not the great-great grandson
Of anyone
Who history would honor
Nor remember.
Mine came across the water as well,
To seek a new life
in a promised land.
A land of opportunity they sought out
Of their own choice.
I follow that dream
Because I am the son of a father
Who has been to many mountaintops,
And rivers and marshes and forests and lakes
And said: “Make no mistake:
This is ours to preserve …
Or to eradicate.”
I am a revolutionary.
As the son of women who
Gave a hand up
When that’s all they could do.
Who, when others saw opportunity,
In times of greed,
Looked through with clarity,
And saw need,
And gave with charity.
Even now,
within my soul, I guess,
There is an inner vow:
“I can do no less!”
I am a revolutionary.
Lest there be any confusion
The earth,
and its people,
Are the roots of my revolution.
— Written after the Inauguration of President Obama, on my mother’s birthday, January 20, 2009
I read this poem at a committee meeting of the Seattle City Council in August, 2010. If you go to this link: YouTube copy of Inauguration Day Revolution Revelation at Seattle City Council sub-committee, “Words Worth”, 2010
Cyrano Writer: Musings of a Revolutionary Romantic Poet 