Climbing the Poet's Tree: Challenges #13 and 14

[alee_grrl]

Congratulations to night_mare for winning Challenge #11, the write a sacred poem challenge. Thanks to all who entered, all the entries were wonderful. Congratulations to primeideal for winning Challenge #12, our readers challenge.

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For Writers:
Challege #13: This week raze shared some fabulous examples of activist poetry. This week's challenge is to write a poem on a cause near and dear to your heart.

For Readers:
Challenge #14: Write a short entry on your blog or in the comments section of this post about your favorite activist poem and if possible provide a link to the poem.

This week's prizes:
Winner of each challenge gets zir choice of 30 dreamwidth points (the equivalent of one month of paid time), or a icon or poem (any format, though some make take more time than others, and on a topic of your choice) by alee_grrl.

The winner for each week’s writing challenge will be chosen by a rotating volunteer from the community. (This week’s volunteer judge is primeideal.) The winner for the reader’s challenge will be chosen randomly among all those who successfully complete the challenge. While anyone is welcome to accept and complete either or both challenges, the following people are not eligible for winning: this week’s judge (ineligible for Challenge #1; eligible for Challenge #2); last week’s winners (ineligible for whichever challenge they won last week); the winner of Challenge #1 (ineligible for winning Challenge #2); and the POETREE admins, jjhunter & alee_grrl (ineligible for both challenges).


Note that you do not have to be a member of POETREE, or even Dreamwidth for that matter, to participate. When you complete one of the challenges, please comment at this post with links to your poem or comments; if you complete both, please comment separately for each challenge. Deadline for challenge is Friday, June 8, 2012 at 11:59 EDT. Winners will be announced that Sunday.

Comments

[primeideal]

Not entering and not sure if songs qualify, but one of my favorite pieces of activist lyric. Still as painfully relevant today as fourish decades ago. :/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgRVNjsuycQ

[alee_grrl]

I <3 John Prine.

Poetree Challenge #14: Favorite Activist Poem

[untonuggan]

Here's my contribution. Note that some workplaces might not approve of some of the words used in the poem, so you may want to read it at home.

[raze]

While writing poetry is far outside of my comfort zone, I decided to give it a whirl. Here's my activist poem.

[alee_grrl]

\o/ So glad you decided to give it a whirl! Your poem is a great example of an activist poem: powerful, heartbreaking, and thought provoking.

[ashestosnow]

I entered for challenge #13: my submission is the first poem of the two found here.

As both are war poems, be aware that they might be triggering, specifically for mention of brainwashing/conditioning and child soldiers.