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Best Candidates Poems

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Premium Member Characterization
Our two party system isn’t working
Plastic figures, disaster lurking
Conservative or liberal isn’t the call
It’s the ultra rich against us all
For the people is what it’s...

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Categories: candidates, political
Form: Couplet



Without a Doubt
Without a doubt the sun will rise.
The gym rats all will exercise.
The candidates will tell their lies
‘Cause that’s what life’s about.

Without a doubt the dawn...

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Categories: candidates, life, on writing and
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Enjoy the Ride
Some days are diamonds, some are stone

To quote an old John Denver hit

Truer words were never spoken

The “stone days” (not stoned days!)

Are only sent to...

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Categories: candidates, happy, life,
Form: Narrative
Elections
Elections are less than a week away
  And all the candidates have something to say.

  With nervy tenure the ads were on the...

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Categories: candidates, political,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Ode To Occupy Wall Street
The middle class here can't be saved
When 0.001% act so depraved
Their wealth without end
These royals* still pretend
Did not come from us—their 
enslaved**


*The Royals: CEOs, Banksters,...

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Categories: candidates, happiness, life, peace,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Dragon For President
Oh By Gosh… and By Darn… It’s another political year.
Dragon wants in on it as a political candidate My Dear.
President Dragon is a lot… to...

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Categories: candidates, adventure, fantasy, funny, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Ann Romney's Blouse
Mitt Romney’s wife was criticized
(Though she was not defensive)
Because she chose to wear a blouse
Considered quite expensive.

She wore it on a TV show
So she would...

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Categories: candidates, people, political,
Form: Rhyme
Election Year
The election year, it's upon us again,
We must decide once again who will win. 

The media is misleading, and often quite crude,
The candidates themselves are...

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Categories: candidates, political, power,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stumps
Close to election time, we have the chance
to hear the candidates for office speak,
or “stump,” in nearby towns, to give their stance
on issues and improvements...

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Categories: candidates, political,
Form: Quintain (English)
Political
The votes counted
More ballots were founded
Voters in record numbers
Political sites, lots of funders

Plenty of unrest
Opposing sides, candidates at their best
Can we work together 
Solutions instead...

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© Lynn D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: candidates, political,
Form: Rhyme
Change Scamming
Drowning in ignorance, in streets of blood,
My people have religion but no God.

In every election voters are blind,
They hope on promises, they've lost their mind.

They...

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Categories: candidates, corruption, people,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Africa Saves Her Daughter
Africa Kills Her Sun in Ken Saro-Wiwa short story
So far the greatest short story  i've ever read
Where the blackest pen lives
With the blackest ink...

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Categories: candidates, africa, strength, woman, women,
Form: Epic
Nigerian Independence Celebration
As October 1 approaches, HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY……………………
I have enormous tracts of land and vast volumes of water, but cannot feed myself.
So I spend $1 billion...

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Categories: candidates, celebration, freedom,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Sublime Terror
Let's say I am an anthropocentric terrorist.

What would we be saying? 
And isn't that redundant somehow?
If terrorists are ethnocentric,
does that not also require you to...

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Categories: candidates, earth, earth day, fear,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member This Is Feminist Us
It's peaceful here in my backyard.
The crows sound happy
with warm October sunlight.

I just read about a deadly gathering in Las Vegas.
Absence of sun-drenched peace.
Inconvenient this...

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Categories: candidates, anger, fear, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things