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i W. A. R. We Are Revolution Poets for Humanity inner child press international ii CREDITS Poets for Humanity Editing hülya n. yılmaz, Ph. D. Proem Dave Kenyon Essays Gino Leineweber Shareef Abdur-Rasheed Mutawaf A. Shaheed Kimberly Burnham Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo Kedar Imani Bill Douglas Michael Jewel Uwe Friesel Emerald Stowbridge Cover Design William S. Peters, Sr. Inner Child Press International iii General Information W. A. R. ~ We Are Revolution Poets for Humanity 1st Edition: 2020 This Publishing is protected under Copyright Law as a “Collection”. All rights for all submissions are retained by the individual author and / or artist. No part of this publishing may be reproduced, transferred in any manner without the prior WRITTEN CONSENT of the “Material Owner” or its Representative, Inner Child Press. Any such violation infringes upon the Creative and Intellectual Property of the Owner pursuant to International and Federal Copyright Law. Any queries pertaining to this “Collection” should be addressed to Publisher of Record. Publisher Information: Inner Child Press [email protected] www.innerchildpress.com This Collection is protected under U.S. and International Copyright Laws Copyright © 2020: Inner Child Press ISBN-13: 978-1-952081-30-9 (inner child press, ltd.) $ 24.95 iv v Table of Contents Preface xi Charlie Chaplin : The Great Dictator xiii A Few Words from the Director of Editing . xv Proem xvii Disclaimer xix The Poetry ~ We Are Revolution 1 Samih Masood 3 Anthony Arnold 4 Lana Joseph 5 Christena AV Williams 8 Ashok Kumar 9 Sashibhusan Rath 10 Moulay Cherif Chebihi Hassani 12 June Barefield 16 Akshaya Kumar Das 17 Hong Ngoc Chau 18 Suranjit Gain 19 Rakesh Chandra 20 Ana María Manuel Rosa 21 Ajanta Paul 23 Andrew Scott 25 Debaprasanna Biswas 27 Xavier J. Frazer 28 vi Table of Contents . continued Eden Soriano Trinidad 29 Tyran Prizren Spahiu 31 Louise Hudon 32 Tremell Stevens 34 Kamani Jayasekera 36 Santosh Bakaya 37 Hayim Abramson 39 Gino Leineweber 40 Vandita Dharni 41 Changming Yuan 43 Michael Kwaku Kesse Somuah 44 Varsha Das 47 Neelam Saxena Chandra 48 Solomon C. Jatta 50 Rubab Abdullah 51 Dilip Mohapatra 52 Mahmoud Said Kawash 54 Maria do Sameiro Barroso 56 Anwer Ghani 57 Mourad Faska 58 Eliza Segiet 59 Joanna Svensson 60 David Eberhardt 62 Jyotirmaya Thakur 64 Akash Sagar 65 vii Table of Contents . continued Shareef Abdur-Rasheed 66 Anuradha Bhattacharyya 68 Hema Ravi 69 Basab Mondal 70 Aida G. Roque 71 Pankajam Kottarath 72 Padmaja Iyengar-Paddy 73 Sridevi Selvaraj 74 Riya Hemant 75 Kevin M. Hibshman 76 Ndaba Sibanda 77 Aruna Bose 78 Kamala Wijeratne 79 Padmapriya Karthik 81 Tom Higgins 82 Aneek Chatterjee 83 Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo 84 Gita Bharath 85 Hussein Habasch 86 Lucky Stephen Onyah 88 Brindha Vinodh 89 Alicja Maria Kuberska 91 Bijendra Singh Tyagi 92 Ashok Chakravarthy Tholana 94 Deepti Saxena 95 viii Table of Contents . continued Emerald L. Stowbridge 96 Gopal Lahiri 98 Ranjana Sharan Sinha 99 Mark Fleisher 100 Prahallad Kumar Satapathy 102 Setaluri Padmavathi 103 Brajesh Kumar Gupta 104 Ngozi Olivia Osuoha 105 Annie Pothen 106 Ashok Bhargava 107 Ianni Carina Cecilia 108 Ibrahim Honjo 109 Clelia Volonteri 111 Maryam Abbasi 112 Monsif Beroual 113 Alicia Minjarez Ramírez 114 Sebastián Jorgi 115 Irene Marks 116 Rajashree Mohapatra 118 Kamrul Islam 119 Chijioke Ogbuike 120 Uche Anyanwagu 122 Divya Sinha 124 Lily Swarn 126 Sujata Dash 127 ix Table of Contents . continued Kimberly Burnham 128 Shiv Raj Pradhan 130 Orbindu Ganga 131 Rehanul Hoque 132 Sandra Mooney-Ellerbeck 135 Nassira Nezzar 136 C. S. P. Shrivastava 137 Lovelyn P. Eyo 138 Elvirawati Pasila 140 Priya Unnikrishnan 141 Arti Rai 142 Anamika Bhattacharya 143 S. Pathmanathan 145 Anju Kishore 147 Tara Noesantara 149 Yanz Haryo Darmista 150 Thirupurasundari C. J. 151 Aditi Roy 153 Kamar Sultana Sheik 155 Gayle Howell 157 Kay Salady 158 Nutan Sarawagi 159 Terri L. Johnson 161 Gobinda Biswas 162 Loretta L. Hardrick 163 x Table of Contents . continued Krishna Prasai 166 Jason Adams 167 Kedar Imani 168 hülya n. yılmaz 169 William S. Peters, Sr. 172 Essays, Critiques and Creative Prose 177 Gino Leineweber : German 179 Gino Leineweber : English 194 Shareef Abdur-Rasheed 207 Mutawaf A. Shaheed, aka C. E. Shy 209 Kimberly Burnham 217 Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo 219 Kedar Imani 221 Bill Douglas 239 Michael Jewell 247 Uwe Friesel : German 253 Uwe Friesel : English 258 Emerald Stowbridge 263 Epilogue 267 About Inner Child Press International 269 Other Socially Important Anthologies 271 xi Preface When I consider the title of this anthological offering, W. A. R., We Are Revolution, I strongly believe in the apt consciousness it potentially evokes in those who are a bit tired of the direction humanity has demonstrated as its propensity to maintain a ‘status quo’ of corruption, inequality, divisiveness and the lack of parity across the board. In our ‘world of plenty’, we have people who have not adequate drinking water, people who hunger for basic sustenance, people exposed to overt atrocities in the forms of war and other expressions of authoritarian brutalities, people who are homeless, people who are at risk and continue to be exposed to such risks due to political maneuverings, greed, and other tenants of bias, bigotry, racism and culturalism. Simply put, ‘IT IS TIME FOR CHANGE’ . ergo REVOLUTION! When I speak of revolution, of course many of us envision the bloody type of coup de tat’s that are recorded far too many times in our written history where people en masse will lose their lives and governments are overthrown as humanity is thrust in to another dark age where chaos and a jockeying for power by new players prevail. No, this is not my vision, and though it may be a very real fear for many, I would sincerely hope that collectively we can avert such a time by first changing the way that we think, change our consciousness in how we approach and integrate with life, our world, its resources and each other. I believe it all begins here, the path to change . it begins with thoughts that grow into words that are conveyed and shared amongst each other until a groundswell takes place. We are the wave becoming a tsunami of change thereby altering forever the landscape of perspectives, expectations and governing. xii In the end, I hope that those who have taken the time to read, if but one passage, will be stimulated to consider how they, each of us have a responsibility towards the world we leave behind, for our children and the generations to come. I pray that your conscious awakening will further be enhanced to understand the power we each possess, and that you will pay forward this ‘conscious energy’ to others who will do the same. Thank you Bless Up William S. Peters, Sr. Poet, Writer, Activist, Publisher Inner Child Press International xiii Charlie Chaplin’s Final Speech in The Great Dictator I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone – if possible – Jew, Gentile – black man –white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness – not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aero plane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world – millions of despairing men, women, and little children – victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed – the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Soldiers, don’t give yourselves to brutes – men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder! Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men – machine men with machine minds xiv and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate – the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers, don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” – not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power – the power to create machines.