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Best Ballot Poems

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Premium Member Ballot
Politics
Politicians
Definition: (Webster’s dictionary)
To deceive, dismay, confuse or blind 
How perfect !
Simply put 
Misplaced faith by the masses 
But truly not our fault 
Just a little...

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© Eric Nolan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ballot, people, political
Form: Free verse



Playing the Fiddle

Riding off into the Ivory Palace sunset,
in a pitch-black limousine, no less

Hear the heavy metallic chariot roar,
leaving exacerbated fumes echo deplored

Aural palette, enamel pestilent pain...

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Categories: ballot, allegory, future, history, visionary,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member If I Ruled the World
If I ruled the whole wide world there's so much that I would change
I wouldn't be Mr Popular and they'd think me somewhat strange
First thing...

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Categories: ballot, conflict, environment, hate, international,
Form: Narrative
Clocks Ticking To Politicking
(Read later stanzas for more of the humour part ; parody of politics)

I Can't think well of a democracy
if nepotism and false promises
are part and...

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Categories: ballot, international, parody, political,
Form: Rhyme
70 Years Past Midnight - Part II
.. continued 


Flag-lowering is a daily observance at the Wagah Border, open to the public this day.

 On our view of the gate:

  ...

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© Sneha Rv  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ballot, 10th grade, age, august,
Form: Haibun



Smells Like Government

Rancid lemon rope squeeze
around a rotten tomato neck tie,
crooked odor bow hanging out of place 
Acid reflux raisin tax bleed;
dripping spoiled, milquetoast lies
out a sour-twisted,...

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Categories: ballot, corruption, satire, truth, word
Form: Burlesque
Queen of Heaven
Black women in America,
let the sterile tabulating machine 
tally your vociferous views
Loud women pridefully possessing 
the highest voting demographics in the amber land
Have your passions...

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Categories: ballot, spiritual, symbolism, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Thought Police
Thought Police

Be careful what you say, 
be careful who you say it to. 
It might be heard... 
by someone that does not like it!

They will...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ballot, abortion, abuse, addiction, allah,
Form: Free verse
Death Valley of Dissent
The day Democracy died,
I was a little lad, yea, knee high

Papa turned on the telly
to watch the White House news
Curious to hear if the 
whether...

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Categories: ballot, dark, freedom, political, visionary,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Farmer Fred Talks Politics Vol Ii
Let me explain the numbers I see
The first chart illustrates the five states that flipped
Notice how close the totals are
So, when folks dismiss the evidence...

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Categories: ballot, political,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Mr Donald 2
The current President, Donald Trump, launched his 2016 presidential campaign on June 16, 2015. One by one his opponents fell by the wayside, and the...

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Categories: ballot, america, leadership, presidents day,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Vultures Prey On the Innocent
Not even a ballot box can change the word etched 
when God has left man to his own independent council 
Choice of error has crept...

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Categories: ballot, abortion, anti bullying, bible,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bach's Cello
your melody sang in me 
the mystic timing arose
 
night time air sending chills 
beneath me the nightingales
 
danced a mild manner ballot 
as the...

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Categories: ballot, muse, music, symbolism,
Form: Chant Royal
Up In Arms

Another wave of voter vexation
is swamping the shutdown nation

To the left, 
the windpipes are hissing
To the right,
the windbags are dissing

And all of the kitchen cabinet...

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Categories: ballot, cry, howl, people, political,
Form: Ballad
The Nature of Things
The man like a phoenix rose from the smoke
And we with the audicity to hope looked up and heard
The strange cawing of the vulture white...

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Categories: ballot, black-african amerrose,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things