Best Autocracy Poems

When oppositional cognitive dissonance 
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading...

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Democracy is what we do
and breathe together
to empower ourselves.

Some would say the same of prayer
and holy communion
and secular communication
and healthy relationships.

Democracy seems like an empowering...

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*Image of Julius Caesar by QDT.

The Ides of March

Spun spells pummel our Earth ... as a Sun scanned absence swallow,
vacuumed blues taxes light once deemed...

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China's might is people based
Why are they being so abased?
Free expression under a ban
The locked in souls; woman and man
A nations tapestry; world known
Where are...

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A new world we came from across the sea
Seeking independence and opportunity 

The plan for families would be tough
With hard work it would be enough

Our...

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I'm in bondage, is this a dream
I'm governed by extremes
Let's leave this land of tyranny
Oh, let us run away
Escape on to a new land of...

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Africa, can rise.
But that is only if we are ready to fight.
And to end our plight,
Our weakness should come to light. 
But Africans think is...

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passing the city limits you can see how 
others (the poor) live and die; their scrabbling 
for rotten turnip, disturbs the fresh earth,  their...

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Governments

In ancient Greece, their world was a democracy.
Modern times have changed its face by hypocrisy,
occurring when man desired an autocracy,
and the power of a rich...

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He who seeks pain for pleasure is a real aboriginal,
Runs slowly yet leads subservient to international.
He who has a mental condition stable aberrational
And is clearly...

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William Spencer Montague Sprat
(why on earth they called him that)
lived a life of luxury
suited to autocracy.

T'was true that Lady Sprat his mum
with a true Lord...

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African rape of democracy 
She is citadel of beauty,
Crown in all nature bulden 
Nature made her, her blessing of 
duty
Atlantic, Equator, desert are beauty 
then


They...

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Weak, cold, drenched and dehydrated beyond recognition,
Welcome to the big hostile jungle where clemency has no rendition,
Away from my cubs, away from my pride, all...

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The way you lied to me
If it would be the last day,
I shall be amiable forever;

The way you betrayed me
If it would be the last...

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Dear Neighbors,
community co-investors,
sharing an outdoor green riverside Commons
and an indoor
historical CommonSpace

Both, and all, sacred
to panentheistic me
and probably more mundanely secular
to monoculturing LeftBrain dominant
verbally rationalistic
you

And yet,...

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