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    Romance & Revolution: The Writings of Michael Serna
    Romance & Revolution: The Writings of Michael Serna
    Romance & Revolution: The Writings of Michael Serna
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    Romance & Revolution: The Writings of Michael Serna

    By Michael Serna

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    Romance & Revolution is a compilation of poetry and prose that attempts to give a voice to the aspirations of liberating the human soul from the chains of poverty, prejudice and anything else that might inhibit it from achieving it's fullest potential of happiness. From political poetry that can be vitriolic and incendiary to patriotic and heartfelt, to romantic verses that express an intense love for women, to philosophical poems about religion, evolution, joy and sports, Romance & Revolution is a poetic expression of the author's worldview that is expansive and inclusive of a wide myriad of concepts and ideas found within the human experience. The prose section of this tome features a few essays which intend to spark intelligent and reflective thought and dialogue amidst the reader and the people she/or he comes in contact with. Not everyone will agree with everything that is written here, but it is sure to provoke a strong response in the reader's mind.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJul 8, 2011
    ISBN9781463418908
    Romance & Revolution: The Writings of Michael Serna
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    Michael Serna

    Michael Serna is a poet/artist/activist living in New York City. He is a writer/poet/artist who seeks to foster creative and practical philosophical discourse and dialogue through written, spoken word and visual art. His love of poetry awakened with the first tome of Pablo Neruda's love sonnets he picked up as a teenager. Since then he has tried to emulate Neruda's work in his, by writing poetry that combines the political with the romantic. In addition to being a poet and writer, Michael Serna is a painter of Neo-constructivist works and has been engaged in numerous political campaigns and demonstrations throughout the years.

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      Romance & Revolution - Michael Serna

      AuthorHouse™

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      Phone: 1-800-839-8640

      © 2011 by Michael Serna. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Author can be contacted at mserna23@yahoo.com

      First published by AuthorHouse 06/15/2011

      ISBN: 978-1-4634-1892-2 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4634-1891-5 (dj)

      ISBN: 978-1-4634-1890-8 (ebk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011909591

      Printed in the United States of America

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Contents

      Artistic Statement

      A Poem of an Unrequited, Illogical and Utterly Romantic Ilk

      The Sorrows of a Young Revolutionary

      Colombian Mountain Rose

      Eirann go Brach

      A Lover’s Farewell

      Surrender

      The Land Where My Soul Was a Gypsy No More

      For the Aging Diva

      Song to an Ex-Lover

      Had Baudelaire Met Helen of Troy

      When She is Away

      Gigi

      My Kingdom For a Klondike Bar

      The Animation of Love as Drawn by the Brush of Passion

      The Month of Melanie

      In Search of Dorothy Parker

      For The Older Woman

      Love as an Inappropriate Existence

      Your Hands

      A Song or Ann

      To Hell With Convention!

      Spring Poem For Julie

      A Temple of Verse Constructed For a Reticent Goddess

      Gilgamesh as Romantic

      Epilogue

      A Brief Glimpse Into American History (Past & Present)

      Ode to Wall Street

      War

      Proletariat Rebuttal to the State of the Union Address

      9/11

      New York City Blues

      Stroll Down Fifth Avenue

      Dog-Day Afternoons

      Snowy Day in February

      A Child is Born

      The Day Bin Laden Died

      My New York City

      My Homeland

      Ode to the March

      Ode to the American Soldier

      A Modest Proposal

      By Redefining the Parameters of Reality We Make Utopia A Palpable Reality

      The Evolution of Humanity Will Be Televised

      A Poem for the Soviet People

      Ode to Paul Robeson

      You Are Your Own Savior

      Ode to Globalvision

      The Blossoming of Humanity

      The Garden of Eden Reconstructed

      Paradise on Earth

      Portrait of the Young Revolutionary as a Poet

      Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

      Metaphysical Mularkey

      A Lament of the Soul

      A Rendezvous with the Muse

      Evolution Bless Charles Darwin

      Eulogy From a Funeral For Archaic Ideas

      A Brief Atheistic Prayer

      If I Were god . . .

      Thought

      Life

      To Be Read With a Glass of Wine in Tribute to G.I. Gurdjieff

      Happiness

      Happiness II

      A Letter From a Drunk Gary Larson to Charles Schulz

      Ode to Absinthe

      The Glorious Fate of Humanity

      Rainy June Day in Kew Gardens

      Reveling in the Arms of Atheistic Rapture

      The 1996 New York Yankees

      The 2001 Los Angles Lakers

      Heaven is . . .

      For You, The Reader

      If I Could Love One More Day

      Say Hello to Heaven

      Trickle-Up Economics

      On Palestine-Israel

      Reveling in Atheistic Rapture

      A Quote on Life

      Toward Objectivity and Truth in Politics

      The Defiant American

      The Importance of Games

      Dedicated to my love, Julie. Dedicated to the ideals of our revolution and to those Americans who continue to make our country the greatest nation on Earth.

      A manifesto of poetry and prose

      In art, one has to liberate one’s soul, in order for greater works of liberation to take place for humanity.

      -Harry Belafonte

      I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am.

      -Henry Miller

      Artistic Statement

      L’existence est perdue dans les tenebres de la morte eternelle.

      What are we? We are nothing.

      The insignificance of being empowers us to break the paradigms of social reality. We are capable of constructing a world where joy and creativity can flow freely without the omnipresence of greed and power struggles to impede our attainment of pleasure. What is needed, on the part of everyone, is a radical subjectivity that rejects the one-sided dialogue of power that revolves around the hyper-consumption of things that are unnecessary for our existence. It is only through the poetry of action and the action of poetry, through the art of organized resistance and the organized resistance of art, through the canto of spontaneous creation and the spontaneous creation of the canto, that the mechanized servility imposed upon the individual in this culture of corporate images is overcome.

      I draw you close to me, you women. I cannot let you go. I would do you good, I am for you, and you are for me, not only for our own sake, but for others’ sakes. Enveloped in you sleep greater heroes and bards. They refuse to awake at the touch of any man but me.

      -Walt Whitman

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