Bond wages war against environmental degradation and the plight of native Americans he writes loves poems and he struggles to make sense of contemporary life.Īnd here, in a poem simply structured, he combines several thematic elements.
The poems of The Drum That Beats Within Us aren’t about a warrior poet as much as they’re written by a warrior poet. He is a man who fights to the death and has the tender, feeling soul of a poet. He can lead other warriors into battle and be a ferocious opponent, giving no quarter, and return to the campfire after battle and recite both epic poems and love poems. A warrior poet is simultaneously tough and tender. They fought like warrior poets they fought like Scotsmen and won their freedom.” Like others, it cites words at the ending of the 1995 movie Braveheart, which told the story of Scottish nationalist and hero William Wallace: “In the Year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland - starving and outnumbered - charged the fields of Bannockburn. I found a definition at Urban Dictionary. Reading the poetry collection The Drum That Beats Within Us by Mike Bond brings to mind the concept of “warrior poet.” The phrase came to my mind unbidden, and then I had to go searching around for why it did and what the common understanding might be.
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