Breathing Fire ~ OpenLinkNight
Breathing Fire
Okay Poets! Having a bit of fun in honor of OpenLinkNight!!! Claudia is setting the stage, and the mic will be yours starting at 3pm EST. Word benders unite...and remember you are ALWAYS welcome at dVersePoets
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Hit the street
Still time to meet
This pile of words
Spit at my feet
Time to learn
Time to burn
Time to rise
Time to defeat
These prison chains
Won’t hold me down
Won’t make me silent
Here chained to ground
I won’t stay quiet
No need to riot
This word weaver’s on
Auto-pilot
Spread the words, spread the thoughts
Original or maybe not
Don’t let them win
Don’t let them wave
Up in the sky
That burning flag
Rat-tat tat
Like old skol scat
Ella and Charlie
And even Fats
No one had the nerve
To control their words
To tame the rhythms
Or wrangle the herds
Be the speaker, be the one
To speak the words despite the gun
Fear not loss you will go down
In history you’ll wear your crown
It’s not always easy
It could be real hard
But them’s the breaks
When you live by your heart
Don’t let them beat you
Don’t quite your mind
Freedom of speech
Can be too hard to find
So spit your words
And speak them loud
Become your you
And shout it proud
We are here to hear you know
Speak them fast or speak them slow
Speak them soft and whisper light
Become word bender
Prove you’re write.
Comments
Great verse you spun
I just flew on through
With all the rhyming that was due
Just tickled the senses with each chime
Was such a fun time
Kellie
@BackyardPonders
http://magicinthebackyard.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/in-the-silence-of-make-believe/
"They come, they come to build a wall between us... don't let them win"
If anybody, I'll bet you know what two songs those
lyrics are from..
Very inspiring poem, Tash...I'm ready to hit the streets with you!
Cheers,
Mark Butkus
so this week you just went for it eh?
this feels free and fast
as it beats out and pops
on the boombastic affirmation
love that closing couplet
Peace
~alaurilee
Audrey
@AudreyHowitt
The rhythm is excellent and the way it builds, and builds and just keeps building is aces.
Really reminded me of jazz and beat style poetry.
Excellent work.
There's somethin' happpening here...What a great anthem to suit the times. Writers need to take on the world and you do. Nice to visit tonight.
Bravo!
First we had pretzel benders, then taco benders, now "word benders." Gotta love it!
Typo Alert: "Don’t quite your mind" probably was intended to be "Don’t quiet your mind" Jes tryin' to help...
To speak the words despite the gun -- indeed. xxxj
:) ~deb
"No need to riot
This word weaver’s on
Auto-pilot
Spread the words, spread the thoughts
Original or maybe not
Don’t let them win"
iamthat-shawna.blogspot.com
what a fast paced, fun to read piece here ..
you say so much and leave us wanting more..
this was great!!!