Protesting The Moment

P🔥 Thematic Power and Urgency
At its core, Protesting The Moment is a poetic manifesto against oppression, apathy, and complicity. Moroz takes on systemic inequality, government betrayal, and the numbing effect of modern politics with sharp diction and a searing rhythm. Each stanza is a strike-measured, deliberate, and unrelenting. There is no passivity here; the poem moves and demands to be moved by.
"Abdicating all your rights as they burn your life upon the pyre"
"Mortification at the living standards of the new elite
These are lines of pure indictment, but they are also deeply human. Moroz gives voice to both rage and despair-emotions often sanitized or overlooked in institutional discourse.

🌍 Place in Contemporary and Global
The poem's focus on visibility-"Procession of a line for food that western lives refuse to see"-also points to the asymmetries of privilege and ignorance in a globalized world. This is poetry that calls out willful blindness, demanding both awareness and accountability.
Additionally, Moroz dares to blur the lines between poetry and political discourse. She invites us to consider whether aesthetic form can hold ethical content, and her answer is an emphatic yes.

🏛️ Place Among Contemporary Poetry
This poem contributes to the revival of political poetry in the 21st century, standing alongside the works of contemporary voices such as Claudia Rankine, Warsan Shire, and Jericho Brown. Yet Moroz brings a distinctive tonal blend-fusing righteous indignation with meditative sorrow and a classical poetic
On the world stage, Protesting The Moment resonates as a transnational cry-a verse that could be shouted in streets from Gaza to London, from Lagos to New York. It gives shape and structure to grief, resistance, and hope in a time when all three are deeply entangled.

A vital, incendiary poem for a world in crisis. This is poetry with a pulse and a purpose.