July 15, 2016
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. This week’s theme is revolution, in honor of Bastille Day, which falls on
July 14.
Today’s poem is about how revolutions so often lead to
dictatorships.
I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
The world might well be remedied,
The revolution won,
Eyes turned back towards paradise
And memories to stone.
Power might indeed devolve
To those who now have none,
Saints upon the barricades
Whose time has come and gone.
For in the act of overthrow
There sits a golden throne,
Empty till the tide returns
To those who rule alone.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/thewo3.html.
For more political poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/politicalpoems.html
.
This week’s theme: Revolution.
July 13: Those Who Have Power and No Pity
July 14: Beware of Inequalities Too Wide
July 15: The World Might Well Be Remedied
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