Best Capitol Poems

The differences betwen us 
are less than is commonly imagined
   We all need food, family, and love
     Meeting people from differnet cultures 
   has emphasized this to me 
The true capitol of the world 
  ...

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The White House is on a great lot
It's Washington's drive to it spot
But guards only train
That terror's to contain
So mentally ill there get shot


Author's note:  The new treatment for postpartum depression is now a firing squad....

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Birds on Capitol Hill
July 2010
Shoshana Vegh

Birds on Capitol Hill
Range from arid and dry grass
Sirens security forces
 Fourth of July tomorrow
 And converge for birthday
 Moving from north to south wind
 East to west
Do not hear the earthquake
Do not cry bitterly
Right in own way

 Just want...

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The democrat’s in quite a fight -
an umbrella could not end plight.
     The needles are fine,
     so rabies won’t shine.
It’s capital when a fox serves a bite.

On April 5th Representative Ami Bera was bitten by a fox
on...

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Gleaming Capitol.
Alabaster stones shining bright.
Peoples history and hope.

Dark place of power.
Filled up with greed, lust and lies,
Destroyers of liberty.



Christopher Bunton

Sedoka contest....

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A muddle of voices
    all crying foul
  Cacophony's in now
    budding diplomats howl

  Scowls on their faces
    deceit in their hearts
  tourists buy scorecards
    to tell them apart...

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I am a captive
   and a prisoner of your affections
    draw me with robes of purple
      wrapped with cords of silver  
            ...

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We watched in horror, fury, shock
As everything we knew
Was ravaged right before our eyes
And all was left askew.

Sedition! Insurrection! Coup!
Those words were tossed about
As Trump-incited chaos
Left democracy in doubt.

To see the U.S. Capitol
Invaded, stormed, defiled,
With law enforcement lacking,
Finally got some people riled.

But what did Trump...

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I'm Sitting Here on Capitol Hill
By Franklin Price
7/15/2015

I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill,
this job was heaven sent.
Have passed no laws in quite awhile,
think I'll run for president

Haven't done my job it's way too tough,
at the public's beck and call
They don't know what they're asking,
we on...

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LOVE ON CAPITOL HILL
Love can make you goofey in the mornin,                     
make you babble like a fool, And bark at the moon.   ...

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Violence on the United States Capitol 
January 6, 2021

History has taken a turn without silence. 
Morality disappeared showing violence. 
How do we explain to our children the evidence
That our leader stirred the bad from the bad? 
They all need to be accountable  and ...

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If there was just one thing I could change
I would request an odd divinity to ferment in an Elixir
Which never intoxicate, nor take the state beyond rationality
No one is an aftermath of coping, coping in understanding , way upstream.
As fallen shadows on a puddle of...

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Proud boys were observed breaking glass
Confirming that Trump has no class 
As seen on TV
Like the GOP
Trump just doesn't give a rat sass!...

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The dome rises above D.C.
tonight,
shining in its free liberty reign,
Columns of ivory,
lift the justice towards the
heavens,
above the country,
into the flag,
And as the city flickers in a silver
mist,
a steady glow can be seen from the
hill,
a nation so bright in its glory,
so strong in its pride,
We the...

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(This dark poem was written on the anniversary and in memory of the events of January 6, 2021.)

Gallows at the Capitol

By Mark D. Stucky
“Hang Mike Pence”
was the chilling chant
the day democracy died
on a gallows at the Capitol,
when citizens began rejecting
election outcomes they didn’t like,
and, to...

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