Best Coup Poems


Premium Member Coup

This country United 
one can clearly see 
only blind hide in truth 

Illegally a government seizes power 
against the vote with a clear strike 
Overthrowing moral grounds 

At which point do we say enough 
Their soul aim to enforce ill will
against good standing people 

It's a mutiny against freedom of choice 
using it to kill babies 
Exploiting our democracy fact 

You bloodless hounds without spines 
are only in it for the money 
Crawling vermin hidden underneath the table

Fighting for scraps sick agendas 
I am a son of David from the clans of ulster
As state assets are freely given away 

Without consent their should be a public outcry 
Democratic Republic sits on the right side 
All the left wing who will hang this nation 

Out to dry as they rob ores 
from underneath our feets destroying our land
with your greed creating poverty 

Selling away our basic rights and commodities
sick reality without virtues 
To gain their thirty pieces

We need to stand and defend our constitution 
for our children's sake and their dowry 
As they sign the pact 

One which will weight 
heavy on their souls as we are raped
continuesly of our sovereignty 

Human rights ignored for no good reason 
enough is enough I have a voice 
any laws passed by this circus 

Undemocraticly elected government 
Is not backed or passed by the peoples choice
this needs to be called into order as a state 

Crisis of emergency by the judges 
They who stand for truth to address
Should judge according to the law laid down

Military Coup Erupts In Gabon After the Re-Election of Ali Bongo

Some senior military seized power in Gabon today,
Ali Bongo 's family led the country 
in fifty five years under umbrella 
of French  government as there were protected
The so called French interests to be on power. 
Today  President Ali Bongo is informing
the world about his arrestation by the military.
He does not know where could be his son 
and family as  they are in different places.
The senior  military accused him of stealing votes
for third time so that he could  continue 
to rule like a puppet of some westerners 
While the people continue to suffer here and there. 
Many young African leaders are tired of fake promises 
of some  selfish politicians who care for themselves 
and continue allowing African natural resources 
to cross the seas due to some agreement
 with some western countries
 which could not reach  fifty years 
after so called independence and democracy 
in west and central Africa. 
It is eighth coup d' états in Africa from 2020 to today 
 as many Africans wish some  regimes change. 
It will be wise for French government officials to say
loudly " good bye Africa  as they are no longer welcomed." 

August 30/2023

Forced Retirement of Some African Military Generals After the Coup of Gabon Yesterday

some African presidents  forced  the retirement
of  some military generals and others removed them
 from some key posts  yesterday 
After  the coup d'état of Gabon. 
Some African presidents
who think to own their countries 
and stayed on power for decades 
now they have much fear to lose powers
 like Ali Bongo and others. 
This strategy  won't help them as the young leaders
 who are majority in the army many  African counties 
 need change of some regimes. 
It is difficult to stop those coup d'états 
As the African youths 
understand what  they are doing. 
It is  called "no retreat, no surrender operation." 

August 31/2023


How Tweety Boid Fwew Dad Cooky-Coup

Otay! I’m an alien, toe what?
I used to wive on the pwanet Pwuto
Too told! TOE, I fwew to the moon
BOOOW-ING! (Eveeting too white!)
Toe I fwuttered down to Waw Tageles
Where I betame a BIG movie tar

Dey trew a party for my pwemier
but a bwack fuwwy fewine cwashed it!
Yep, I taw dat puddy-tat teak in too
Den he tunned me wit his tun gun!
Wucky for me, I dot away tumhow 
Now I got dis widdle speech intetiment…

PS: Ewmer Fudd and me have become wather cwose since then because he had a 
similar expewience when Bugs Bunny conked him on the head with an oversized 
cawwot...

Premium Member Bogo Shopping Coup

Written by Gail DeBole
on May 11, 2017

“Buy One, Get One,” said the sign.
I ran to get them first.
Four of them would be mine.
I opened up my purse.

And just some minutes later.
I had paid for only two.
No feeling any greater
Than a BOGO shopping coup.

But later after leaving
I became quite self-amused.
It was hard believing
My coup was four men’s left shoes.

Premium Member Coup D Etat

SILENCE SURROUNDED ME CARRYING ONLY 
DATA FROM SPECIAL FORCES I'D RELEASED 
MY SOUL BEFORE THEE ENTRY MY THOUGHTS 
COVERED IN SURVIVAL SKILL
BECAUSE OF YOUR NAME 

AN YET THERE WAS NO WAY OF SURVIVING 
THEE ULTIMATE ASSASINATION THREAT 
THAT BESTOWED ME UPON THIS DAY
CAREFULLY PLANNED I MUST SAY 
BECAUSE OF YOUR NAME

ASSAULT RIFLES LEANING AGAINST 
THE COMPLEX WALLS FRIENDS AND FOE 
GATHERED FROM BERLIN TO BERUIT  
A SINGLE SHOT MOUNTED
BECAUSE OF YOUR NAME 

OVER MY TEMPORAL LOBE BACK UP 
CLEAVERLY PLANTED ABOVE MY FRONTAL LOBE
AN ANGEL GABRIELLE WEARING A PASTEL ROBE
THE JEST OF DEATH IS WHAT I PROPOSED
BECAUSE OF YOUR NAME 

ON THIS FINE DAY THE SUN BEAMED BRIGHTLY
OF LEFT OVER AUTUMN HINTS OF INDIAN SUMMER 
GREENWICH BESEECHED MY WITHERED SOUL 
CARDINIAL NUNNS RABI'S INSISTED WHITE CLOTH
BECAUSE OF YOUR NAME 

TAMPERED WITHIN AN INFALLIBLE HUSH 
WHEN ALL I EMPLOYED WAS A TANGLIBLE SCREAM 
I SO DESPERATELY COVENANT THOUGH OUT DI VATICAN
A KNIGHTS OWN SPHERE OVER LOOKING MORTALITY
BECAUSE OF YOUR NAME
 
THE HAMPTONS CAMEBRIDGE IN VIEW A SIGHING COO
WE'D MASTERED TRUTH AND FAILED AT LAUGHTER 
CREATING A MELANCHOLY SOLACE WHY CENTERED 
BENEATH A PAIR OF BLOOD SOAKED BAILEY'S
BECAUSE OF YOUR NAME 

EMPTY AN YET OVER FLOWING WITH BITTER FRET
CONFUSION WRATH A SORTED BIAS TO THE NOTION 
THAT FROM NOW ON EVERY SINGLE DAY WOULD BE 
NOVEMBER TWENTY SECOND NINETEEN SIXTY THREE 
BECAUSE OF YOUR NAME

THE DAY SHAMROCKS WELPT OVER ST PATRICKS CATHEDRAL 
THAT FINE DAY CAMELOT SLEPT IN NEVER READING 
THE MORNING PAPER LEFT FOREVER DANGLING UPON
AN UNDIVIDED GRASSY KNOLL HENCE THE SAME
SIMPLY DONE BECAUSE OF YOUR NAME


Ooops, Six Spooks In a Coup, De Grace

Embolden they, marching hand in hand a unison
Determined to bring down his child; Nero, Pharaoh and her
Sparrow trailed closely by their three little pigs ? Baby playing amid love's
Innocent crib unaware these, daemonicia noses pressed unto destiny's forte glass ?
Licking time's panes premogenitor's werewolves her full moon: crimson, begins it's howl
Hunch'back hallways imploding doors splintered eyes the battle cry ~ Charge.... 
                                                                                         ....Bobby, juggling his infant giggling.

Counting Coup

Everything the power does it does in a circle

It's just like when the amphibian carried the arthropod across the river,
the scorpion couldn't help himself when he stung brother frog,
and I can't help myself when I go to the ATM and push two asians out of the way to get to 
my meager wages because 
by god it just feels so good to win no matter how many people I have to sting to do it.

The elders say that when raven took the sun into the sky he ended eternal night,
replacing it with cycles of sol and luna smiling on the people.

Well now the people have better lights, 
pulsing and flashing in epilleptic ecstasy while noises sound from the speakers.

It often seems that I am being counted coup upon, 
mocked in the eleventh hour,
And I don't even have a smallpox blanket on my person.

This bumbling hub of a casino is not where I die, where I am defeated.
But for now I will retreat,
leaving a trail of tears to my car.

-For the Chehalis indians

Coup De Grace

Have you ever met someone in your life?
Whom after a few talks won’t get out of your head?
To the point where you cannot focus,
‘Cause you’re thinking of them instead.

Congratulations and condolences my friend
‘Cause you’ve struck gold,
A rollercoaster ride of your life
Is about to unfold.
It’s a dreadful double edged sword
In which overcommitting, you cannot afford.

Learn when to let go,
‘Cause you’ll be left crashing and burning.
Then you’ll end up wearing a façade,
But deep inside you’re silently dying.

Love doesn’t always have a happy ending,
It’ll make you do things you’ll end up regretting.
Putting effort to where it won’t be appreciated
Is like forcing yourself to someone ‘till you’re hated.
But in the end, when it’s all said and done
You must first love yourself before loving someone.

Don’t be a fool out of love
Just pray to the Man up above,
It is evident around you as you can see
That not everything is meant to be
But there is one thing that I’ve proved from my past,
That good guys, really do finish last.

________________________
Copyright © Ernest Diego Tugaff
09 September 2016

Premium Member The Bloody Coup

We know that it was an inside job, that President Trump incited the mob. Why was home land security sent away to a place of obscurity? Where was the FBI who warned that some thing was going to fly? If heads must roll and some be gone, we must include the Pentagon. They deserted our Capitol police, so out numbered, now several deceased. Those elected officials who played their roles and watched while mayhem did unfold. They all better get their do for inciting this bloody unconstitutional coup.

The Unsung Coup

A warrior by nature as summer grew in sultry heat,
I sweated with desire to count coup on the first foe I beat,
Swear by my breech clout I would grapple in hand to hand assault,
Toss and turn this Ute in mortal combat before I halt;

Or steal his associate to my ultra joy and his dread,
Add another feather to my cap seeking it shows red,
Along the Tipi fire I see a shadow stir the soup,
Keenly attempt to pull off a red color feather coup; 

Enter slyly to put my first feather to the systole,
In the confounded move I flounder to breath down her taught mole,
Duel precipitates in raw battle weary raptures,
Surrenders to roll within my bison hide captures;

Victorious I swell with sensuous pride and forget to scout,
No witness on sight says the chieftain with power he flouts,
Cheats as he sequesters her away from me in his clout
I am left with out my prize and the red feather he touts.
© Jai Garg  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Loves Cliche Coup

It was love at first sight
Thought of you every night
Can’t stop thinking of you
What am I gonna do?
Blinding love at first sight

It was love at first sight
me feeling high as a kite
Ah, but this too shall pass
searching for greener grass
Crazy love at first sight

(Chorus)
Head over heels into the unknown
Doomed to fail before true love’s seed sown
Loss of control by true love’s presidium
Love’s cliché coup (surrounded by idioms)
~ Blinding, crazy love at first sight

It was love at first sight
but not all black and white
If I throw caution to wind
will my life then upend?
Stormy love at first sight

It was love at first sight
Why am I so uptight?
Will i be lumped with fools,
An exception to rules?
Scary love at first sight

(Chorus)
Head over heels into the unknown
Doomed to fail before true love’s seed sown
Loss of control by true love’s presidium
Love's cliché coup (surrounded by idioms)
~ Stormy, scary love at first sight

It was love at first sight
Dizzying passage of rite
Love is blind at what cost?
Best to have loved then lost?
All’s fair in love at first sight

It was love at first sight
Can two wrongs make a right?
One plus one’s never two
when one’s heart isn’t true
Fickle love at first sight

(Chorus)
Head over heels into the unknown
Doomed to fail before true love’s seed sown
Loss of control by true love’s presidium
Love's cliché coup (surrounded by idioms)
~ All‘s fair in fickle love at first sight
© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Staging a Coup

There once was a president who
 decided to stage a coup
 so he gathered a mob
 the election to Rob
 But Pence he could not subdue

 11-28-2022
© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.

Coup D'Etat

You’re the stain that scars the silence
Evidently echoed in everyone’s eyes
The whispers articulate the evidence
That results in my elegant demise.

It is the shadow that tailgates the night
Annihilating every anchor I have in sight
The catalyst that induced instant confusion
Right from the start of your epic intrusion

The remains of your anarchy are engraved
Unrepentant steadfast they remain
So I surrender seeking shelter for my shame
Allowing only my suspicions to be displayed

I will watch as they crown and cloak you King
Audience the occasion and applaud your victory
Watch as they bow down as kiss your ring
But I solemnly swear I will not repeat history

Coup Detat

This country 
These people 
have pushed me to this edge 
The ledge was never that stable 
My people are beat in the head with labels 
I guess that's why my condition is unstable 
Our troops who fight this war 
are battling two foes 
Amerikkka and our brothers & sisters 
who are high off this matrix taking no dose 
They're conditioned to accept 
this condition, brainwashed by this system 
at Amerikkka's front gate it reads 
house negros wanted, free admission 
It's sickening
Yeah we say we tired
but all I see is marching and protesting 
Why abide by the laws & statues 
when they use that as a weapon against us 
We been diagnosed with a sick-nus 
What is it gonna take for us rise up & strap up
I can still hear amerikkka laughing at us 
Our pain our struggle its a joke to them 
they hold up signs March in solidarity 
claim they feel our pain 
but not enough to bang wit us militarily 
they sided wit the beast 
the only reason they're here 
is because this is a state of the police 
I actually hate that chant 
no justice, no peace 
I'm done talking, I've said enough 
anyone who believes violence isn't the answer 
obviously hasn't been patient enough 
The system doesn't hold them accountable 
So we will do what should've 
been done a long time ago 
Coup d'état 
Stand with us or become
the ones who get disposed
© Corey Ross  Create an image from this poem.

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