Below are recent poems by our Poet Laureate, Rodney Coates:
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Making Freedom a Verb
By Rodney Coates
Prostituted dreams pimped
within the circle of destitution.
Freedom delayed is freedom denied,
freedom's noun limps on.
Faded hopes drawn on
the screen where screams go unheard.
Seductive illusions released
into the void of hopelessness.
Freedom played on stolen
dreams refuses to be a tune.
Secrets publicly viewed
while insanity sits enshrined
within cathedrals lined with guilt.
Excuses tolerated as expediency,
as reality mimics media distortions
created to mimic reality.
Freedom silenced by
drums of hate continues
to waffle in the belfry.
Ring the bell,
sound the trumpet,
marshal in the new dawn of the night.
Ask a question, read a book,
think new dreams, flip the switch,
change the script, own a new reality.
Only change produces change,
only dreams produce new realities,
only choice makes freedom a verb.
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For more poems from Rodney, click on the the links below
Post modern confessions Making freedom a verb A Moment of Silence
