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Best Election Day Poems

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Premium Member Election Day
Today is voting day, I must make it a goal
            I'd rather take up...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: election day, humor,
Form: Limerick



On Election Day
Whither those songs of patriotism 
Of which they so freely spoke?
They new-breeds have been fully clad
In old and worn-out costumes
The rickety customs are on the...

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© Canny Amah  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: election day, satireold, old,
Form: I do not know?
Awaiting Election Day
I long for Tuesday.
Politics invade through calls
each hour, begging votes....

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Categories: election day, peace, political,
Form: Haiku
What If - An Election Day Riddle
If doctrine and dogma
held a conference with reality 
and an agreement was reached  
on a common philosophy and set of tenants
Would that be a...

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© Ann Roske  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: election day, parody, satire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Election Day
Day to choose between 
Multiple alternatives
Picking the less worst...

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Categories: election day, humor,
Form: Senryu



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: election day, political,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Straw Man, the 2012 Presidential Campaign
......a strange color, green

   Become better informed, listen to your teachers,
educate yourself....which branch will the bluejay
survey from? 
The hawk, circling, choose his best...

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Categories: election day, political,
Form: Free verse
Yearning To Breathe
We are the workers of this nation,
making less than it takes to survive.
We are the farmer in the cornfield,
the cowboy out on a cattle drive.

Factory...

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Categories: election day, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Congress is in Session
When I’m watching the news these days,
I just can’t help but wonder why.
When all of the stories I see,
just makes me want to scream and...

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Categories: election day, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Someone Who Believes
If someone disbelieves you, it’s his will
Your choice matters more than anyone
Follow your desire like wind over the hill
When you get there, catch a glimpse...

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Categories: election day, character, community, desire, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Special Days
Special Days
Written: by Tom Wright
4/13/2006

It seems that for almost everything
We’ve set aside a special day.
We recognize others for their work 
And sometimes for their play;

There’s...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: election day, day, humor, satire, new
Form: Rhyme
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: election day, celebration, freedom,
Form: Alliteration
Holidays With a Change In the Weather
Holidays with a change in the weather

      It starts with a chill in the air.  January the first day...

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Categories: election day, holiday, labor day, cinco
Form: Rhyme
Rice Slam New Democracy African Election Rallies Nairobi, Kenya
RICE SLAM
Nairobi, Kenya  Nov 2012 (election rallies held Sept 2012 until March 2013 election day)

hey hey
voting day
go on strike
take a hike
smash a bike
wave a...

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Categories: election day, life, places, political, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member At Doubt's Door
(I wrote this PRIOR to the election, but many of the same questions remain)

I cannot tell you where I stand,
I don't know what to think,
Our...

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Categories: election day, america, people, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things