Poetry as Insurgent Art
I am signalling you through the flames.
The state of the world calls out
for poetry to save it.
If you would be a poet, discover a new
way for mortals to inhabit the earth.
If you would be a poet, invent a new
language anyone can understand.
If you would be a poet, speak new
truths that the world can’t deny.
Through art, create order out of the
chaos of living.
Make it new news.
Write beyond time.
Reinvent the idea of truth.
Reinvent the idea of beauty.
Be a teller of great tales, even the
darkest.
Secretly liberate any being you see
in a cage.
Sow your poems with the salt of the earth.
Be also a rooster, waking up
the world.
And if you have two loaves of bread,
do as the Greeks did — sell one and
with the coin of the realm buy sunflowers.
Wake up, the worlds on fire!
Have a nice day.
[Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poetry as Insurgent Art, 1975]
Esta es sólo una selección de algunos de los versos más poderosos del programa poético propuesto por Ferlinghetti. El improbable lector de estas líneas puede encontrar la versión integra de dicho documento en este enlace. Adentrarse en esas páginas es una secreta aventura.
