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Best Governing Poems

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Premium Member Michael Collins
It has often been said that empires come and go
And from the beginning of time that has been so
Empires ruled with terror and an iron...

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Categories: governing, england, ireland, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative



The Unchangeable
The situation in my country is terrifying
I wish I can do something gratifying,
Selfishness and corruption by leaders are annoying,
No job,no food ,no water,in a land...

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Categories: governing, life, people,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member I Say It How It Is In My Eyes
Strange this all falls on deaf ears 
a mockery of justice twist whichever way you wish 
people killed in a hospital act of terror yes...

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Categories: governing, abortion, anti bullying, betrayal,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Prurient Interests
Last evening I noticed another disconcerting Trump headline.
This felt and smelled more like a deadline
for disintegration
than a lifeline,
a bootstrap, if you will,
toward integrity of health...

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Categories: governing, culture, drug, fear, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Beloved Pets- For Comp
(For Beloved Pets competition, submitted June 16th 2015)



Tell-tale marks from your last climb, those claw marks in the paper
removing the wall coverings better than a...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: governing, pets,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Greenearth Patriots
All organic parties
committed to EarthTribe
as My HomeTeam
could become EarthPatriots
experiencing every day EarthDay;
which, of course 
we are revolving through
together,
more resiliently 
than ecopolitically polarizing
AnthroSupremacist Apartheid.

Speaking from our...

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Categories: governing, earth day, education, green,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member I Sought To Touch All the Burning Fires
I Sought To Touch All The Burning Fires

 This moment is not for being lazily idle
 in the distance starting gunshot sounds
 This racehorse needs...

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Categories: governing, conflict, creation, deep, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Wilderness of Grassy Plain
THROUGH A WILDERNESS OF
THROUGH A WILDERNESS OF GRASSY PLAIN,

WHERE WAR HAS TOOK PLACE IN A WORLD OF PAINS.

OUR COUNTRY MEN, OUR FATHERS, SONS & OUR...

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Categories: governing, corruption, grave, memorial day,
Form: Blank verse
God's Rich Garden
God’s Rich Garden


Gorgeous cascade falling blind
On evergreen slopes of pines
Down to silver lake gone quiet
Stealing into a river feeding country wide.


Rich fields of crops and...

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Categories: governing, dedication, inspirational, nature, visionary
Form: Acrostic
Cruelty of War
stand upon a barren ground

Where many dying or dead soldiers are found.

Silent cries can be heard all around

Of many a soldier that lay on battle...

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Categories: governing, abuse, anniversary, corruption, grave,
Form: Free verse
Look Before You Leap
Too many people dont look upon the path that they tread

Too many sins of the government

Is why our soldier's lay in their graves dead.

Each soldier...

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Categories: governing, absence, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Blank verse
A War We Battle
The lonely battlefield of lost causePoem - 09 December 2016, 10:17 Wise words of the world Anna Tate 1 followersFOLLOW I stand upon a barren...

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Categories: governing, courage, death, death of
Form: Blank verse
Barren Fields
I stand upon a barren ground

Where many dying or dead soldiers are found.

Silent cries can be heard all around

Of many a soldier that lay on...

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Categories: governing, anti bullying, bereavement, corruption,
Form: Blank verse
A War Commenced
From the farthest distance of the land
Many soldiers fought in armies 
In wars cruel demands. 

A governing hand that didn't care
The brutal bastards
Committed unjustly crimes...

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Categories: governing, anger, bangla, death, grave,
Form: Free verse
On Barren Ground
I stand upon a barren ground

Where many dying or dead soldiers are found.

Silent cries can be heard all around

Of many a soldier that lay on...

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Categories: governing, courage, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs