Best Boycotted Poems
Ida- “I was the first one not to move on the train
I won a settlement, for my emotional pain”
Rosa- “But I was the one who went down in history
So I’ll say that I have the victory”
Ida- “Miss Parks take a seat for real
I, Ida B. Wells was the real deal
I knocked on the woman’s door
And walked into her house
Told her to tell the truth and shut her mouth”
Rosa- “Martin the King and I the Queen
We changed the history books
The marches, the protests, legislation
Check it out take a look
My living was not in vain”
Ida- “No Rosa it wasn’t
But you played the game
By piggybacking off me
The law worked for me because I had tenacity”
Rosa- “Well Ida, we boycotted the buses we started walking
Then the bus companies started talking
So I hit them in their pocket, leaving the buses with empty seats
I did my part take a look at my feet
Better known as the Montgomery Boycott
By starting that, I started a lot”
Ida- “No one is trying to take your props
I led the anti-lynching crusade in the United States
Because injustice continued to escape
I also called for President William McKinley to make reforms
Because lynching could not be accepted as the norm”
Rosa- “You and I have done a lot for our people”
Ida- “We have done our part to obliterate evil”
Rosa- “Thank you my friend”
Ida- “I thank you my sister, this is not the end”
Categories:
boycotted, books, pain,
Form:
Narrative
A casualty of a personality similarity, apparently,
though it's not apparent to me,
maybe in a parallel reality with unparalleled insanity.
My motto is true individuality breeds pure originality,
I hate monos I do but inconsistency prevents rhyme simplicity.
However, I endeavour to be quite clever,
and mix this rhyme with a talent that only said hello
and let itself be known when I sat all on my own
and met my lowest low and felt all was an unknown.
After I boycotted social events
and my siblings kept a distance
through a transition to clearance
and all was different but for my parents.
When I could of drank and walked around violent
or gone back to cannabis as a daily requirement,
but I vented in silence and sat and wrote a sentence
to then rhyme it in an instant and express a cruel incident,
all done with rational thought and I felt happy with the result.
I found a talent up my sleeve
better than what I ever believed,
assured by my second poem called "Believe",
13 months on there are 400 more to read.
I've covered a whole range of topics,
writes of stupid silly to writes of serious logic,
but lyrical writes enabled
a plastic Eminem wannabe label
as though I'm unable to be a creative individual,
and so slated for not being an original.
It seems that Trim Shady alias will stay with us
and I'll seem ridiculous but the influence
that became the fake appearance will see a disappearance,
I'm Nicholas or Trim I don't initial my title
I'm not trying to be like Marshall whom is unrivalled.
I'll do it my own way with individuality,
knowing that alter ego is the only reason you see a similarity,
but I'll make you see I'm a singularity,
a personality out to become a familiarity.
Though I've balanced my talents over a vast distance using
rhyme to reference these events it makes no difference to opinions,
yet I stay driven because I was influenced by Winston and his words to the wars winning.
Let's be clear Churchill caught my ear like Slim and I listened in awe to him when he said "Never Give In",
so if the world goes silent I'll start to sing,
if you attack me I'll whack you,
if you distract me I'll trap you,
if you perceive me as fake
I'll make you retract that statement with haste.
I'm evolution at play,
changing and adapting,
but I'll always do it my way.
Categories:
boycotted, change, character, courage, desire,
Form:
Rhyme
What a year – Tim was just a little boy of 25 – naïve and
Lost in ‘innocence’ a critical time bomb waiting to happen
Blue-eyed he listened to Nena’s 99 Red Balloons flying high
While Band Aid wondered whether They Know it’s Christmas
Sticking plaster for an ignorant conscience
Plasters cast for broken souls and hunger
Summer Olympics in Los Angeles the world disunited
As the Soviet Union boycotted the Festival of Youth
Hollywood and Universal Studios Footloose competed
With The Killing Fields for consumption and Oscars
Dancing in full view of the Apocalypse
Khmer Rouge and Holding Out for a Hero
Miner’s Strike in Great Britain with Margaret Thatcher’s
Heavy handbag crushing legitimate opposition’s pickets
Reagan became ‘acting’ president and Space Shuttle discovered
That we have only have one lonely planet so we must muck it up
Cold War awaited nuclear freeze and
Hiroshima was declared a minor aberration
Metallica roared Blitzkrieg inferno and Armageddon
Iraq fought Iran and guess who was supporting whom
The US supplied Saddam Hussein with poison gas while
In Afghanistan they supported Taliban and Mujahedeen
‘The enemy of our foe is our good friend’
Coalitions must change freely in axes of evil
George Orwell comes to mind with Eurasia Oceania and
Eastasia altering alliances but then history must be forbidden
It can mislead young minds and wars have to be waged
For the sake of gory glory and self-righteous delight
Who reads books anyway and why and for what
They might seduce us to hail love and compassion
In 1984 Tim longed for flowers in hair scribbled Peace signs
On flare bottom jeans 20 years past The Sound of Silence
Had not mustered the courage yet to challenge the inevitable
Collusion of his inactivity with happy murder for money and oil
Slowly though he finds his belligerent voice and
Concludes that the 80’s offer more than nostalgia
Categories:
boycotted, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
I moved deep into the forests not my home
There lived liberal minded monkeys
They sat me on a heap of banana peelings
And lectured me about flora and fauna life
Young liberal monkeys edged me all over
Others, democrats played pianos
Many boycotted the meeting duty to pride
Conservatives they called themselves
I noted squirrels protesting in trees
As journalists they were denied attendance
Believed they would spread rumors
About the strange guest hosted that day
Liberals, democrats, conservatives were one
For social equilibrium as main focal point
Harmony is natural, not mutual, not negotiated
A fool I was to talk about human conflicts
The elder and leader lectured to me;
“Greenness you see is our flag of life
Bananas cannot breach our unity however sweet
Forest is our home, identity, pride, and heritage
Humans can conflict, and destroy anything
Because their home, identity, pride, heritage
Are expressed in hearts, walls, even nothing
The things that hold life are things worth dying for
In this forest home we freely express opinions
But they are not followed up with bitter hearts.”
Categories:
boycotted, humanity, metaphor,
Form:
Lyric
You ask for my forgiveness,
Saying it was done in grief,
What was it then,
When you boycotted my shower,
My wedding,
My house warming party,
My baby shower,
The birth of my son
(Your first great grandchild)
Snubbed the both of us,
When WE drove an hour one way, to see you
Many weekends in a row.
Grandpa was alive then.
I forgave you for all of that.
I still went to every function.
But Grandpa had just days to live,
I just wanted to tell him I loved him,
To kiss his cheek one last time.
"A soft kiss" he would say.
It was our special thing.
And after driving an hour,
Preparing myself for the scene,
You wouldn't even let us in the house.
You can't blame that all on grief.
Categories:
boycotted, family, grandmother,
Form:
Free verse
Once upon a time in times forgotten
A land saw great conspiracy
nameless deleted scores of people
leaders sabotaged investigations
Journalists boycotted meetings
and refused to pen down issues
judges indefinitely suspended hearings
as clergymen refused to hear confessions
Owls that prophesied the homicide
migrated to the mountain hide-outs
the children that witnessed ugly events
could not find speech in their lips
The land of darkness became darker
As ghosts of victims cried quietly for justice
Categories:
boycotted, leadership, power, satire,
Form:
Elegy
The hair now had bright colors
With music, came a rap craze
The style of dress was so different
Things changed in so many ways
Malls had become the hot spots
As video games made the scene
There was an actor in the White House
And a scandalous beauty queen
There were traders on the inside
With a boycotted Olympics year
The drinking age was changed about
While club drugs became the fear
Categories:
boycotted, history, life
Form:
Quatrain
They taxed us without our consent,
we who though we were Englishmen,
said we had no say in governance,
so we simply boycotted them,
threw their tea into the harbor,
let them know that we’d had enough,
they sent troops to beat our spirits down,
didn’t think we would be all that tough.
But when they marched for Bunker Hill
two times we made the redcoats run,
they crippled themselves for ‘victory,’
come and see what the rabble have done.
And when they arrived in great force,
our militias then tasted defeat,
they forced our forces from New York,
and pressed us down though New Jersey.
Many thought the game was over,
that is was but a matter of time,
then Washington crossed that river
to declare we were still in the fight.
Surprised all the dreaded Hessians,
asleep in their beds at Trenton,
didn’t lose a single soldier,
come and see what the rabble have done.
When Burgoyne started marching south,
determined to split up this land,
citizen soldiers from all around
assembled to challenge the man.
Locked in stalemate at Saratoga,
the British went out probing,
not expecting our forces would stand up,
much less charge forwards attacking.
The great professional army
soon would find itself overrun,
the first big redcoat surrender,
come and see what the rabble have done.
When Britain took Philadelphia,
the rabble went to Valley Forge,
Britain thought they all would freeze,
dwindle away until no more.
But those cold men, no food or shoes,
persisted against winter’s chill,
learned old Europe’s fighting style,
under Von Steuben they would drill.
At Monmouth they gave just what they got,
held their own until the setting sun,
beat the British at their own game,
come and see what the rabble have done.
Again at Cowpens, Stony Point,
King Mountain out in the back woods,
when the royal army struck at us,
we gave it back just as good,
until finally at Yorktown,
a French fleet blocking the escape,
the rabble came for Cornwallis,
who could only yield to his fate.
They played ‘The World Turned Upside Down,’
believed that the peasants had won,
not understanding who they had fought,
come and see what us Free Men have done.
Categories:
boycotted, adventure, america, england, history,
Form:
Rhyme
I boycotted searching for the right persons
I am out to find the right relationship
That If a must I date or fall for
Should be one who gear me towards my life goals
Maybe a poetess yes or a sweet voice that fuse with my poetry
I am looking for a perfect chemistry
one whose reactions are none toxic to the heart
A bond that is made strong by Art
Let us recite and sing the whole night
Dance to the tunes of voice and words
Let us feel light and move along
I will sing along to your chorus
And please recite too with me
I extend my hand and open wide my arms
My world is yours and my words you fit
stay with me
share with me this life.
Let me be the poet
You be the Poem
I the music
You the vocalist, the strings and the chords
sing me I recite You
Dance with me
Be my audience
I be your number one fan
Yes we can
If a life we plan
We become one
Till we have our first son
We will never be done.
none will ever be gone.
None will ever be alone.
Be my colleague in this industry
Let me play your league we make history
we be the best and mentor the rest
I be the Poet, You the Poem
I the music
You the strings and the chords
sing me I recite You
love you Its true
Have you forever do
Feel it too
Its me and you just us two.
YOU ARE THE POEM
I AM THE POET.
Categories:
boycotted, friendship love, i love
Form:
Ballad
Abominable Aborigine
Boycotted Baltimore’s Bakery
Canady Canola’s Cannery
Decoded deceitful debauchery
Endless energetic energy
Forwarded farmyard frolicking for a fee
Geographically greeting in Germany
Hardcopy happiness hee hee hee
Ignoring ignorance illegally
Juicy juggling juggernauts
Kettledrums, Kenya and Kentucky
Livening up our literacy
Maniac madness in a manatee
Nightingale nips so nervously
October’s ocelot obviously….
Paralyzes Petunia Parkway’s parenthesis
Quaking quail quickly qualifies me
Relaying relative radioactivity
Scapegoats and scarecrows so scantily
Treat Tajikistan twice tactfully
Undermining Ukraine’s utter ukulele
Vaporizing various vanities
Wicked Washington warrants wisely
X-rays xylophones ‘xtra-instantly
Yellow jackets yield young yearly
Zippy Zeus’s zesty zoology zings with zeal between you and me.
Categories:
boycotted, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Abecedarian
One after another,
Everyday, 24 hours,
Radios, newspaper and television,
Displaying news.
Most of them are about criminals,
They kill innocents and seeking their revenge,
A political system or against a politician,
But they punished always innocents.
Those are targeting by them,
They are dishonest, smuggler, robber or corrupt,
But not all, few of them are known strong and powerful,
They are professional to kill innocents,
And a prayer was flaming in the corner,
Where worshipper forgives them,
The Mercy was designing a devil,
Where they can pretend to knee down only to excuse.
But nobody having punishment,
We all are encouraged them,
If once we boycotted these criminals,
Perhaps we can alter something,
It isn’t possible,
We always welcoming them to kill another,
Those are behaving as enemies.
I am sad because education allowed them to do it,
They get reward and blessed by us.
A news is same over the centuries,
A person killed or raped by another,
Because he was feeble.
Categories:
boycotted, caregiving, devotion, history, hope,
Form:
Verse
Parent boycotted schools across the USA
And not for one day
They are demanding better gun laws
Eliminating the assault weapon flaw
Military hardware is not for hunting game
Dead children is not an NRA game
Categories:
boycotted, environment, high school, innocence,
Form:
Limerick
the tragedy of 1948
Israel declared statehood the west was happy
the Jews had suffered much and deserved a state
the fact that 700 thousand Palestinians lost
their homeland was overlooked.
We were all pro- Israel back then and thought
the region would usher in peace and prosperity.
It was not to be.
Instead, we see that the land of promise has
turned violent wanting all of Palestine and part of Syria
and Jordan too, they appear unstoppable.
The only group holding them back a little is the Hezbollah
who we call a terrorist, but they are a bulwark
the brutal regime in Israel who has nothing to offer but
a war against anyone opposing their quest for total power.
But the Palestinians are not forgotten the scale fell
from our eyes, we see what is happening.
Israel as a state should be boycotted, we in the west
should treat the country as an abomination it is.
By curtailing Israel, we will, in the long run, help its survival.
Force it back to the agreed borders, declare Palestine
a sovereign state, and send NATO troops to secure the perimeter
of Palestine and give financial help to her malign people.
Categories:
boycotted, anti bullying, arabic, best
Form:
Blank verse
I boycotted the news
many years ago, maybe
thirty, or forty
If other people would
stop talking about it,
I would have no clue
about
politics or
school shootings.
I like being oblivious.
It makes
faerie-watching and
photographing orbs
in my flower gardens
much easier.
I shall continue to keep
the negatives on the other
side of my self-wall, feeling
safe here with my
garden delights
and my
magical ideas.
Categories:
boycotted, magic, peace, self,
Form:
Free verse