Libertarian Poems
broadly defined
MacDonough’s song (Kipling)
The Old Issue (Kipling)
The Reeds of Runnymede (Kipling)
An Imperial Rescript (Kipling)
A Smuggler’s Song (Kipling)
The Peace of Dives (Kipling)
The Great Day (Yeats)
The Horrible History of Jones (Chesterton)
kumrads die because they're told) (Cummings)
i sing of Olaf glad and big (Cummings)
My poems from The Machinery of Freedom
Part I: A Saint Said
Part II: Paranoia
Part III: Anarchy
Part IV: Don’t write a book
Part V: Hobbes
Part VI: The Poverty of Our Circumstances
Sieg für Kommunisten (also mine)
Why can't you see?
We just want to be free
To have our homes and families
And live our lives as we please.
(Dana Rohrabacher, libertarian troubador, 1960’s)More suggestions are welcome, including song lyrics, a form of poetry I don’t know very much of.
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More than a few songs by Leslie Fish qualify. Firestorm, The Arizona Sword, Rhododendron Honey, The Sun Is Also a Warrior, etc.
A lot of Rush songs have libertarian lyrics. For example: Anthem (Inspired by the Ayn Rand novel), The Trees (a parable about equality of outcome vs opportunity), 2112 (about collectivism), Territories (anti-Nationalist), Heresy (about the fall of communism), Freewill (about individualism)
Some other songs with libertarian lyrics I like:
"Long Haired Country Boy" - The Charlie Daniels Band
"Here come the People in Grey" - The Kinks
"Cult of Personality" - Living Colour
"Civil War" - Guns n' Roses
"Taxman" - The Beatles
"Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" - Public Enemy
"Deer Dance" - System of a Down
"1,000 Eyes" - Death