[POET’s NOTE : This is the first of five poems on Revolutionary Poet, Bertolt Brecht, who had a profound impact on South African revolutionaries during the transition into a National Democratic state from an Apartheid one. We often read from his works during mass meetings for change.
Brecht worked in hexameters, rhyming quatrains, sonnets, ballads, unrhyming verse in regular meters, as well as shapes, as occasion demanded. For Brecht, technique & form mattered less than content, except that it held content stable. ]
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Bertolt Brecht, his revolutionary vivid poems are etched into spinal nerves deep
his dramatic language caused awakenings from ignorant sleep
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[POET’s NOTE : This is the second of five poems on Revolutionary Poet, Bertolt Brecht : Spoken Word written in Blank Verse]
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It is not enough to assume safety, question !
audience and readers one with poems
writing is not divided, stories homed
engage, clash one with another find truth
what is writ, read, recited incubates
unaware embracing sagacity, sighted
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[POET’s NOTE : This is the third of five poems on Revolutionary Poet, Bertolt Brecht : Spoken Word written in Blank Verse]
Amnesia is absence of awareness
turning away is abiding by norms
street lamps blink to prospects dim
discretion opens, break illusions with art
let operettas interrupt emotion waves
realist perspectives are one side of coin
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[ 4th of 5 poems on Revolutionary Poet, Bertolt Brecht.]
An epic drama of first degree verity
Brecht, master dramatist-poet weaves
shadows and light of human nature into
tales of distress appallingly stark
we are bereft, naked as ants crawling around open sugar bowl
soldiers marching in time, chaotically dazed
What is Courage but the will to survive
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Dramatist-Poet, genius philosopher
reasoning power a miracle for time
saw art as hammer to shape mind
desired nothing less than to get audience
to act ~ an empath who saw potential of
word as call to action, wanted minds
to witness dual nature of reality
seen, unseen entangled as one
war, alienation his subject matter
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Dramatist-Poet, genius philosopher
reasoning power a miracle for time
saw art as hammer to shape mind
desired nothing less than to get audience
to act ~ an empath who saw potential of
word as call to action, wanted minds
to witness dual nature of reality
seen, unseen entangled as one
war, alienation his subject matter
......
[ 4th of 5 poems on Revolutionary Poet, Bertolt Brecht.]
An epic drama of first degree verity
Brecht, master dramatist-poet weaves
shadows and light of human nature into
tales of distress appallingly stark
we are bereft, naked as ants crawling around open sugar bowl
soldiers marching in time, chaotically dazed
What is Courage but the will to survive
......
[POET’s NOTE : This is the third of five poems on Revolutionary Poet, Bertolt Brecht : Spoken Word written in Blank Verse]
Amnesia is absence of awareness
turning away is abiding by norms
street lamps blink to prospects dim
discretion opens, break illusions with art
let operettas interrupt emotion waves
realist perspectives are one side of coin
......
[POET’s NOTE : This is the second of five poems on Revolutionary Poet, Bertolt Brecht : Spoken Word written in Blank Verse]
___________________________
It is not enough to assume safety, question !
audience and readers one with poems
writing is not divided, stories homed
engage, clash one with another find truth
what is writ, read, recited incubates
unaware embracing sagacity, sighted
......
[POET’s NOTE : This is the first of five poems on Revolutionary Poet, Bertolt Brecht, who had a profound impact on South African revolutionaries during the transition into a National Democratic state from an Apartheid one. We often read from his works during mass meetings for change.
Brecht worked in hexameters, rhyming quatrains, sonnets, ballads, unrhyming verse in regular meters, as well as shapes, as occasion demanded. For Brecht, technique & form mattered less than content, except that it held content stable. ]
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Bertolt Brecht, his revolutionary vivid poems are etched into spinal nerves deep
his dramatic language caused awakenings from ignorant sleep
......