April 24th poems
Today’s prompt is to use a photograph to create a poem. You can raid your dusty photo albums, look through your daily newspaper, scour the Internet, etc. But you must use a photograph. Them is the rules, yo!
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REALPOLITIK
I was in China,
April 26th, 2008 at 12:58 amIn Beijing,
In the middle of Tienamen Square,
Where just a short few years ago
The Chinese government
In bloody response,
Crushed a student uprising
Demanding democracy.
I was there.
There were no signs of bullets
Or blood.
I took a picture, and had to laugh
At the image I captured:
A huge portrait of The Great Helmsman,
Hanging on a balcony overlooking
Tienamen Square.
The Great Leader, Mao Tse Tung.
Where the author of the Little Red Book,
The essential communist,
Is smiling benignly
Over a scene where
A yellow and black symbol of capitalism
Occupies a space in the middle of the square -
A kiosk where film is sold -
KODAK.