To All the Current and Future Revolutionaries
To all the current and future Revolutionaries: You must get in front of the curve and begin building the infrastructure for the change you want to see today. The people you are fighting with, have already prepared for your reactions and protests. They have already calculated the damage you will do, and have determined they can withstand your response and still move forward with their plans. They’ve wronged you, but they already know what your next move is. In fact, they already know what concessions they will make before you even provide your list of demands.
To be successful in your efforts you need a change in strategy. Redirect yourselves from the short term emotional response of rallies, sit-ins, marches, and vigils. Focus on long term objectives. Become less predictable and do a better job of anticipating their moves the way they anticipate yours. Whether we’re talking war, politics, cage fighting, or chess; your strategy is one of if not the most important key to achieving the change you seek. Your long term strategy is the thing that has to be mastered if you are to win. I’m not telling you to stop all the things you’re doing; I’m saying for maximum impact those rallies, sit-ins, marches, and vigils must be incorporated into the bigger strategy and planned well before it’s needed.
Right now, in the middle of whatever war you’re in, you should be preparing yourself for the next battle. The person you’re fighting with already is.
Love – A Tetractys for National Poetry Month
Love
Lifts me
Beyond clouds
Brightens my soul
With you, possibilities are endless
Tetractys, a poetic form invented by Ray Stebbing, consists of at least 5 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 syllables (total of 20).
“Euclid, the mathematician of classical times, considered the number series 1, 2, 3, 4 to have mystical significance because its sum is 10, so he dignified it with a name of its own – Tetractys. The tetractys could be Britain’s answer to the haiku. Its challenge is to express a complete thought, profound or comic, witty or wise, within the narrow compass of twenty syllables.” – Ray Stebbing.
Freedom – A Diamante for Poetry Month
Freedom
resolute, chainless
evolving, liberating, emancipating
innate, generous, restricted, controlled
regressing, falling, dying
hopeless, broken
Prisoner
Diamante
A Diamante is a seven-lined contrast poem set up in a diamond shape.
The first line begins with a noun/subject, and second line contains
two adjectives that describe the beginning noun. The third line
contains three words ending in -ing relating to the noun/subject.
The forth line contains two words that describe the noun/subject
and two that describe the closing synonym/antonym. In the fifth
line are three more -ing words describing the ending antonym/synonym
and the sixth are two more adjectives describing the ending
antonym/synonym. The last line ends with the first noun's antonym
or synonym.
To make it a bit simpler, here is a diagram.
Line 1: Noun or subject
Line 2: Two Adjectives describing the first noun/subject
Line 3: Three -ing words describing the first noun/subject
Line 4: Four words: two about the first noun/subject, two about
the antonym/synonym
Line 5: Three -ing words about the antonym/synonym
Line 6: Two adjectives describing the antonym/synonym
Line 7: Antonym/synonym for the subject
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