Best Debaters Poems
My feelings use to be bottled in
so I didn't know where to begin.
I picked up a pen and let my story begin.
Do I write because I'm right
or for others delight .
Do I write out of fright
or do I write because there is enough light.
If my beats aren't tight
Lord let my words still take flight.
I'm not a fighter I'm a writer.
That's why I will only fight you on paper
where it's much safer.
I will always fight for what I believe in.
So to all my haters,complainers,
intimidators,and all debaters.
This will never stop me
because God's spirit is within me.
May the words I now utter
melt hearts like butter.
I don't know where this might go,
but I'll keep writing
and watch it grow.
We can go for dinner and have a discussion,
a bit of mass debating when we're done masticating.
If you come and eject fluid situations,
give it hard with the exact impact you lay shown,
stand perfectly straight and strong when projecting,
you'll feel you can handle the hard times alone,
and spray the floor in awe and arouse.
Fire at will, keep comments coming,
come with them from different angles,
keep it coming together, back and forth,
give each other a hand to fluctuate a juicy content with flow,
always announce, "I'm gona command"
to one another before you fire away.
Start slow,
upping the beat and beating out the debate at a faster rate.
Go through the motions to get to fun fast pacing blast debating.
You will feel a great relief at the end of this intense group activity,
with powerful ejections, one or two oral pleasurers no doubt,
but mostly it's hands on,
so make sure your pen is in your hand,
your pen is out, and the pen is in the hands at all times.
If your pen is leaking in vain thus messy, we'll stop,
tissues are on tables, bins are behind you, clean up, put it in,
and when a new pen is handled in both hands,
showing you're ready, we'll whack on.
Keep your eye on the ball, good luck in this test to all,
give those judging the winner, a tough test to call,
because the headmasters mass debaters
go fast as a team mass debating.
Commit to the debate and show class of a master,
have a massive class debate.
Remember the pen is in your hand from start to finish,
don't lose grip, be on the ball,
enjoy your mass debating.
Work hard and mass debate as you play,
have fun.
Good luck.
Mass debate away.
A passionate Gemini fought brutal rule of dictators
There was a clash with the false debaters
Rarely expressed her true expression in house arrest
Because she never wanted to show she was stressed
Twenty years passed by with perseverance
She could not jeopardize everyone’s assurance
Separated from her husband and children
She misses them dearly and accepts the life given
The courageous Aung San Suu Kyi wins glory
This makes the world rejoice writing a new story
Debaters may boast who talks the most, but the most votes, ladies and gents,
are won with the most common sense, and a dollop of dollars and cents.
Submitted Friday the 13th of May 2022, for the “Killing with an Epigram Poetry Contest” sponsored by Margarita Lillico
I’m faffing about on Facebook
Been avoiding it for years
What began as curiosity will
Doubtless end in tears
Hear no speak no see no
Evil learned in conversation
All that knowledge lost in
Two dimensional translation
Like me, share me, follow
All my kittens, quips and poops
See the same old tired threads
Go round and round in loops
Hang out on my home page
Scroll me up and down
Watch my ego on the prowl
Go trolling round the town
Some nights I sit upon my hands
All mischievous and itchy
In order to prevent myself
From posting stuff that’s bitchy
Big Brother sure is watching you
As are the crass and haters
Dark agent provocateurs
And dodgy mass debaters
What price anonymity when
You join the cyber race
Check out your reflection
Mirrored in this interface
Be careful what you wish for
For you may regret you’ve said it
Words that carry on the wind
Can go too far to edit
More human than divine is this
Our need for validation
Best to drink this heady wine
With cautious moderation
Pictures paint a thousand words
In galleries of minions
Words spoken once may be twice shy
Put thought before opinions
Don’t forget the Golden Mean
Steer clear of lie and rumour
And when your birds come home to roost
Accept them with good humour
I’ve been faffing about with Facebook
And I know that I’ll regret it
Nuclear power, for good or ill
... I guess I kind of get it
by Gail
The 1AC is a shot in the dark.
When we use interrogative strategies
we create zones of visibility and possibility.
The potentiality for deliberation
towards a new politic.
The study of bare life signals
radical transformations;
The constitutive ambiguity of theory
is never clear-- is always double
Thinking of thinking;
A reflection that interrogates
the link between life and politics.
The relation between power
is complicated to consider.
The most authentic paradigm:
Sovereignty corresponds to ability
And ability not to be: a state of exception.
An act is sovereign when it realizes itself.
Bodies are made intelligible
through visibility and value.
When these components
are removed, what is left?
Operating in the shadows,
the truth often stays hidden
Fights break out like
“walking on minefields.”
Silently governed interests
implement policy which
silently neglect populations
further into the margins.
The bodies of the victims
emphasize this state of
exception making it more difficult
to identify, articulate and critique.
There are rare but significant attempts
to conceive the indistinguishably
between law and life.
Debate helps curtail individual power:
to shape behaviors and attitudes,
to be made visible and speak to the
systemic character of American injustice.
The possibility to fill the void
and mitigate impact of fighting.
Education can have a
dramatic impact. Mental
stimulation and meaningful
human interaction cause
social connection,
Zones of indistinction
regain the meaning they lost.
The key is to create alternative
conceptualizations of self
in relationship to others.
With broad political and social
movements standing behind,
uniting the call on the part of
democratic transformations.
Any radical change will be
more than cosmetic.
Young people now carry the banner
of struggle. Of democratic life.
A variety of discourses developed
to avert stemming the flow--
reverting to secrets we do not know.
Claiming that debaters can “solve”
by repeatedly rejecting and interrogating
the tradition is a key strategy in creating
new modes of being the secret to every exception.
How it unfolds remains to be seen.
Do electricians ever become DElighted?
Did Mozart ever DEcompose?
Are politicians sometimes DEvoted?
Can students become DEtestable?
Are Egyptians sometimes in DEnial?
Can nursery workers become DEflowered?
Once chosen can someone be DEpicted?
Pictures of animals can be very DEtailed!
Can an engine receive a DEmotion?
Shoe salesmen are sometimes DEfeated!
Are tennis players ever DEserved?
Do former journalists become DEscribers?
Do exterminators ever get DEbugged?
Are fishermen great DEbaters?
I've heard carpet layers can suffer DElays!
© Jack Ellison 2013
Tera” The Game of Life
We all play major roles in this set-up called the game of life.
Us trying to get rid of certain gamers is only causing us strife.
We should be thinking about the purpose of each and all.
Start referring to those others as “We” instead of “Y'all”.
This Game is not our strategy, so why sacrifice our dignity?
Giving thought to these facts, I will take the liberty…
There is due diligence of the hoodlums, so fine worth in the hood.
Need for the vigilance of gangsters, so let them form gangs.
Unfair Rules that must be ignored, so bring forth the ignorant.
Acknowledge the acts of the haters. Progress is made from the efforts of debaters.
Everything we need is present and accounted for and found in this sphere.
If this is not so, then, why else are they on the playing field? Why are they here?
And if you do not think these strategies are in active play… then wherein The “F”antasy have you been!
………07142020
Watching the Debaters
Addendum 2 – The Varsity
By Franklin Price
8/7/2015
This round a media fiasco
For me to write in verse
Presentation of the top ten
Was much different than the first
As always the moderators
Slanted the show their way
Immediately quite evident
That they had come to play
The stating of the questions
And to whom they were addressed
A water boarding process
But only few confessed
Candidates mostly held their own
Whether liking it or not
I think they showed us who they were
And what it is they've got
If they got together
Yes that's all the seventeen
Without the help of media
To see which way to lean
And honestly discussed
What this country really needs
Without all of the TV talk
And the hyber spacing feeds
Would find it's not about them
Mirrored fairest in the land
It's about this country's people
The real players in the band
So this is my opinion
There was not a victor's fist to pump
Only one who looked quite foolish
And that was Mister Trump
Eight: The sinning
show-offs who love
to brag -
They’re sinners as
they have bad
intentions.
They post updates
and photos of their
wins,
And loads of albums
of their vacation.
Their bad motive is
to show to their
friends
That they have so
much wealth and
so-called feats -
They seek people’s
love, not Allah’s
pleasure -
They love to hurt
others to hide
they’re weak.
Nine: The
politicians… the
debaters…
Who go on FaceBook
to challenge others,
To fight for their
beliefs, to flaunt
their speech -
They oft log out
feeling proud yet
bothered.
Some of them indeed
have excellent
speech
And at the same
excel in sitting…
Hiding behind their
screens while they
complain
About lack of peace
while they do
nothing.
Ten: The ‘teachers’,
who enjoin what is
right;
They command good
deeds and forbid
what’s wrong -
They do so to
impress no one but
God
And so that Heaven
is where they’ll
belong.
Eleven: The
‘learners’, who seek
and share,
Who apply whatever
good thing they
learn.
They ensure that
what they do is but
good.
Great rewards from
Allah they live to
earn.
Advice from me now:
Always remember
That all deeds are
judged by their
intentions.
Even while on
FaceBook say your
du’as -
When it’s time to
pray, go do
ablution.
And when you are
greeted with the
salaam,
Always respond to
them for It’s their
right.
Apply good Muslim
manners wherever
You are – in real
life and even
online.
Don’t bully –in real
life, in FaceBook
too -
Treat all with
fairness, justice
and wisdom.
Know that life is a
gateway to Heaven
Or Hell. And God
tests each and
everyone.
May Allah Almighty
forgive us all
And guide us in our
lives each night and
day.
May Allah bless
those who share this
poem
And make Heaven
where they’ll
eternally stay.
Ameen.
The Moderators
(Republican debate 10/28)
By Franklin Price
10/29/2015
The moderators were not debaters
They were not supposed to be
Should have controlled and asked the questions
Not to agree or disagree
Should have taken answers given
And moved on to the next
Why they chose there to participate
Has me really very vexed
The evidence was plenty
Moderators there to stir the pot
Directly Bait debaters
To develop their own plot
Debaters stood up to them
Tried to keep things pertinent
Tried to address this country's issues
Those they would face as president
Moderators tried to cut them off
Did not want to hear their views
Strife among the candidates
Raises ratings makes better news
To me control and questioning
Was a joke that was not fun
I'm sure the debaters were sick of it
Long before the night was done
If candidates are serious
About a win election day
The next debate get moderators
Who will keep out of the way
Watching the Debaters
Addendum 1 – The JV
By Franklin Price
8/6/2015
I was not disappointed
In the first round that I saw
Most evasive in their answers
They're still sticking in my craw
Answer Deviation
Happened almost every time
Could have put the cuffs on
If it only was a crime
Maybe when the Varsity
Comes later on tonight
We'll see some honest answers
Put straight forward in the fight
Don't be disappointed
If we see more of the same
For honesty in politics
Is only just a name
How shall I deal with this wandering mind?
Meandering through a meadow of ideas,
Seeking truth among noxious weeds I find
Since early childhood I have been curious
Always sifting through my brain’s cogitations
Accepting new concepts; discarding previous,
Tossing thoughts like a machine’s agitations
Chewing on choices of words, so indecisive,
Practicing precise grammar with conjugations.
Fending off debaters who are often derisive
Debunking theories that sound far-fetched,
While trying not to be obnoxiously divisive.
How far should an agile mind be stretched?
Let it go unchallenged and it becomes static
Drifts into rumor, relishes meaningless kvetch.
I choose to allow my mind access to the attic,
Considering all the randomness that intrudes
To avoid, as much as I can, becoming dogmatic!
Do electricians ever become DElighted?
Did Mozart ever DEcompose?
Are politicians sometimes DEvoted?
Can students become DEtestable?
Are Egyptians sometimes in DEnial?
Can garden workers become DEflowered?
Once chosen can someone be DEspickable?
Do animals ever get DEtailed!
Can an engine receive a DEmotion?
Shoe salesmen are sometimes DEfeated!
Are tennis players ever DEserved?
Do former journalists become DEscribers?
Do exterminators ever get DEbugged?
Are fishermen great DEbaters?
Have you heard carpet layers can suffer DElays!
The Democrats Debate
By Franklin Price
10/14/2015
Last night I stayed up kind of late
To watch the Democrats debate
About the issues of this land
And where on each of them would stand
Televised on CNN
And hosted by the hotel Wynn
Debaters trying to connect
Had not a clue what to expect
Five of them there to discuss
Important things to all of us
Beginning only two I knew
Knew more of them when it was through
Beginning questions pertinent
Not much dodging as on it went
Most practiced some civility
Surprising both my wife and me
Were these politicians in our view?
That got along that's something new
Supposed to poke and finger point
And raise some hell to shake the joint
Was not to be at least not much
Seemed all of them were quite in touch
No verbal punching to the chin
Did not make worse this mess we're in
I hope the elephants watched this show
A lesson to learn was there you know
Answers direct at least for most
Was a debate and not a roast