William Shakespeare Responds to Donald Trump
🖋️ Make America Poetic Again — Poetry fights back.
Speech
O Trump! Thou puffèd lord of empty sound,
Wouldst silence bards and cast their quills aground?
To banish verse is treason most profound—
A knave’s decree, in folly tightly bound.
What’s next? The banning of the moon and tide?
Of lovers’ vows, of dreams the stars confide?
Fie! If thy mind be fortress built of stone,
Then poets’ words shall make that fortress groan.
Deport me hence to frozen Siber’s land?
I’ll plant sonnets like seeds within the sand.
And when they bloom in frost, all red and gold,
The world shall read—thy silence shall be told.
For poets’ souls cannot be locked away—
We slip through cracks of night into the day.
Thy ban on beauty brands thee tyrant-weak—
We speak in meter because truth must speak.
So let him fear the power of the pen—
We shall make poetry dangerous again.
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