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
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© 2011 by Michael Serna. All rights reserved.
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First published by AuthorHouse 06/15/2011
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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