Lalit Kishore

Dec 8, 20202 min read

Farmers' exemplary peaceful protest 2020: Protest poetry and singing by the youth come to fore

The present time is appropriate to write protest poetry and recite it. Some poets, rappers and spoken word-art performers have come up to join hands with the peaceful farmers' protest going on for the last two months.

Three kinds of protest poetry such as narrative poetry, dramatic poetry and lyrical poetry touching the genre of protest songs are being rendered at the protest rallies.

Occasionally, a mix of protest poetry forms is being rendered to keep the spirits high. Popular singers from Punjab are active participants and have committed support to the exemplary peace protest being appreciated across the world.

A protest poem or related spoken word performing art is a rhythmic statement or action narrative expressing disapproval something wrong being done by the dominant class of the society or the powers that be.

Essentially, protest poetry expresses the objection against them topical issues resulting into suffering of common people who have handed over the power and position for safeguarding the citizens' rights and to work for their well-being and dignified life.

Very few teachers of social science and science write protest poetry to express the negative aspects of concepts or to bust myths and misconceptions related to various topics.

Here is my protest non-poem

FARMERS' PROTEST 2020

Strength lies in

The solidarity of

Sons and daughters of the soil

Those who toil

Those who till the land

To serve and feed

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They're the hands that feed us

The hands that believe in

Keerat karo-vand chhako

Heed peasants

Undo wrongs done to them

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Bite not the hands

That serve and feed

Betray not the peasant

That put the crown on your head

To support and safeguard their rights

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Peasant protest of 2020 -

A benchmark of peaceful protest

For second freedom

From tyranny of power and pandemic

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