TOPICUS POESIS
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© Günter Grass; 2012
This poem has caused political reverberations but as a non party political site we offer you no critique or clever journalistic mind sway, just a link to the poem for you to make up your own mind.
© @thePoetGeo 2012
Parts 1 and 2 of ten sonnets titled, 'Web on a Greek Urn'
Poem 1 first published on Poetry 24 
a web site that delivers contemporary news items in poetic form
Noah Gauthier delivers the most moving poem I have heard at #occupydenver
Be wary you say
of its claims
lest you waive art
to us millions unworthy
of taste and manner
lest you be christened
peddler of images
alien in form
pagan in content
lest your license
be forfeited
your ear for resonance
your feel for the sublime.
© Ericson L. Acosta 1995
While conducting human rights research in the Philippines, poet, songwriter, and journalist Ericson Acosta was arrested tortured and detained without trial.
“A year ago today, the state took from me the following:
1. A CELLULAR PHONE – the make and features of which, my wife once described to be impossibly antediluvian;
2. A COMPUTER NOTEBOOK – blamelessly Chinese and functioning;
3. AND ONE PARTICULAR NON-GADGET – belongling in fact to the category of the non-object, yet whose loss can be so dreadfully concrete you'd swear never again to spell it in small letters - FREEDOM”