History is where tensions were.
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -henceforth?- the subject to which you are condemned.