Best Mayors Poems
The sun, drab green
The moon too quiet
Earth's cities wept
Looting and riots
Mayors postured, spoke
Their message 'woke'
The sun raced away
Moon's light gone gray
Categories:
mayors, city, earth, moon, sun,
Form:
Rhyme
The content of "The Character of "The Two Greatest Mayors of Louisville Kentucky: Gregory Fischer,and Jerry E. Abramson. Here is "The Content of there combined "Character"! They both realize the "Truth".Here it is!! The pleasure of Love is in Loving. They realize that all are "Happier" in "The passion we feel than in what they or we inspire,and they know that we all would like to continue to inspire,so that we all can remain in the real pleasure of loving and love as our desired passion with inspiration.Love is a many splendored thing!We realize "The Content of The Character of any of our leaders.We will not be fooled or tricked.No cord or cable can draw so forcibly,or bind so fast,as love can do with only a single thread! When all else fails love saves.Love is the fulfilling of "The Law". It is the human summum bonum. As we embody its spirit we incarnate and express divinity.It is an all surrounding atmosphere in which we live,even though unconsciously. In proportion as we send out love we receive it.We are blessed to send and receive love! Let us start transmitting and receiving "LOVE"! In Jesus name we pray! Amen. So be it and so it is.
Categories:
mayors, 11th grade, 1st grade,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Do you know how many lives you have changed,
how many lives you’ve completely rearranged?
You two are miracle workers,
Without you, we would be berserkers.
You are lifesavers,
Come on now, you could be mayors.
Categories:
mayors, family, hero, mentor,
Form:
Couplet
As we look back through History
Records will attest
Some famous quotes by famous folks
But I’ll tell you whose are best.
He’s a very famous player
From Baseballs Hall of Fame
Everybody knows him
Yogi Berra is his name.
His quotes - and there are many
Are really quite profound
And are used so very often
By baseball fans around.
When he spoke his “words of wisdom”
Humor was not the intent
Yogi said just what he thought
And knew exactly what he meant!
To give you some idea
Of quotes that Yogi spoke
I’ll tell you just a few of them
Remember - they're not jokes!
“You can observe a lot by watching”
Is one that comes to mind
“We made too many wrong mistakes”
Is another that I find.
“You look real cool” said a Mayors wife
When she saw Yogi’s brand new suit.
“You don’t look so hot yourself”
He replied looking quite astute.
"I didn't really say everything I said"
"Never answer an anonymous letter"
"It ain't over till it's over"
Good examples and they don't get any better.
Those are things that Yogi said
He has his own mystique.
Although there's other famous quotes
His are quite unique.
Categories:
mayors, funny
Form:
Rhyme
he released the long-form
of his birth certificate
toured the tornado-stricken south
with mayors and governors
flew to NASA to watch the
final liftoff of a U. S. space shuttle
gave U.S. Navy Seals permission
to conduct a secret national security mission
spoke at a dinner for the
white house correpondents
watched U.S. special forces
execute their assignment
informed U.S. citizens that
the mission was accomplished
sparked patriotic celebrations outside of
the white house and at a national baseball game
caused U.S. citizens to chant with pride
at times square and ground zero
a leading U.S. citizen,
with a legal birth certificate--the president of the U.S.A.--
touched so many lives
within a week
Categories:
mayors, dedication, history, inspirational, on
Form:
Free verse
Kick rocks with socks
Only to rip through your epidermal layers
Say your prayers before you're laid to rest
Like the nay-sayers disguised as
Mayors & representatives
Mainstream media sedatives turning your relatives
Into brain-dead gelatin
With an empty skeleton
At the gates of sleep,
Demanding to let us in
Our souls are reaped
As the strings are manipulated by
The elongated
Lives of the Elohim
Striking down like the beam
From a ray gun
Reflecting away from the sun
To delay the sun from the doomsday pun
Intended to run for office
With a strangled orifice
Greedy lungs don't breathe in bliss
Because their needy daughters & sons
Suck them dry of any wealth applied
To the one-percent that defied us all
& lied to protect their hide
In order to decide whether to preside
In luxurious homes or dwell in the catacombs
Of hell
Up to their necks in the wishing well only wishing
they were well & rested
Yet, they remain hollow-chested
& detested as the rest of us protested
Like the oppressed did, as we're molested...
Categories:
mayors, introspection
Form:
Rhyme
The world speaks of tragedy and questions
was it hate, terrorism or less tempered aggressions,
those are the words news makers use so competitively
but history is sadly, inconsolably repetitive.
there it is again, another bomber exploding
to entice the world into imploding.
Deep in the quiet tears of our revealed hearts
weeps silently the saddened fears of how or why it starts.
Because you look a little different,
because your faith makes you more belligerent;
because your country is not like mine
and immigrants flock to leave their lives behind.
A country and its philosophies grew far too liberal
much the same as these not quite so new but visceral.
Peace is too somber, to boring to live forever
war, hate and death satisfy a more greedy pleasure.
Land and hubbles torn apart and laws put asunder
so that masked warriors can more easily kill and plunder.
Building stones and beams, blood and bodies lie in rubble
guilt and innocents, the count increased and then redoubled.
Police, firefighters, mayors, senators, premiers and presidents
conversate, condemn and censure with grandiose dissent.
and
Still the evil lives burning forever images into our eyes,
two towers falling from the sky.
Categories:
mayors, evil, freedom, hate, image,
Form:
Rhyme
In Chicago, Mayor RICHARD J ruled the roost DALEY for 21 years,
Til he breathed his last, giving way to the 'next sir:'
A pol named MICHAEL, who was dull and B'LAND-ICk!
When a snowstorm paved the way for a female successor.
'Hurricane JANE'S' reign BYRNEd hot and cold alternatively,
Til along came a black-vs.-white race that EPTON made BERN (I)Even hotter;
In neighborhoods from Sauganash to Lawndale to Beverly,
HAROLD's whiteWASHING of his opposiT'ON caused the Machine to totter.
But then he died, and neithORR DAVID nor another pol SAW YER discomfort
At EU(r) Mayor GENE's toppling of storied Chicago traditions,
Til came the inevitable, a RICHAR(d) DALEY, JUNIOR landslide election:
Which 22 years later left the "City that Works' in near-bankrupt condition..
..Setting the stage foR RAHM, E-MAN-U'EL love to hate,
The man whom some call "Tiny Dancer."
Who's next after him it's a bit early to tell,
But I say it's PAUL VALLAS, unless he gets cancer.
Chicago's Mayors:
1955-1976 - Richard J. Daley
1976-1979 - Michael Bilandic
1979-1983 - Jane Byre
1983-1987 - Harold Washington**
1987 (8 days) - David Orr (Interim Mayor)
1987-1989 - Eugene Sawyer
1989-2011 - Richard M. Daley, Junior
2011-Now - Rahm Emmanuel
2019 - ? - Paul Vallas ?
**Harold Washington defeated Republican mayoral candidate, Bernie Epton, in a bitterly contested, divisive campaign, one which focused largely on race. Epton's campaign slogan, for example, was: "Vote for Bernie, before it's too late." The racism was pretty blatant.
Categories:
mayors, city, gender, political, race,
Form:
Rhyme
And when it ends suddenly, unexpectedly,
You start to count.
First on the days, then the hours - then
Just counting until 100
Then
Beginning again.
The dead find their faces
The living count faces
Then most forget
Unless the face has your DNA in it,
But you remember the body bags
Being moved around in the night,
The nurses crying,
The lies being spread,
The excuses,
The obfuscation,
The blundering incompetence
Of bureaucracy and officialdom.
The elderly kept in deathcamps
that used to be nursing homes.
The grinning mayors
And governors.
It’s going away now.
Less and less each day.
It’s going away now
It’s going to a place
Where the living cannot find it
It’s going away now.
And suddenly you are very angry
About the stupid shut-ins and the shut-downs,
The politicization of tragedy.
The muddled and slanted statistics
The ridiculous projections,
The false data.
The contradictions and bluster.
The draconian regulatory and government
Sponsored power grabs.
The gagging and intimidation
Of workers.
The trashing of basic freedoms
People
Jailed,
Fined,
Harassed.
The banning's.
The right to collectively worship denied,
Peaceful protest denied.
Businesses forced into bankruptcy.
The unemployment
The waste.
And destruction.
The sundering of families,
The needless school closures,
The suffering that led
To clinical depression and drug overdoses,
The disdain of those
Who rejected commonsense remedies.
The manipulations
And machinations,
All the willing useful fools
Chorusing together to tread down
Democracy.
The grinning talking heads
Who doctored the news.
The attacks and the cancelling
Of those who begged to differ.
Dissenters labeled conspiracy theorists.
The cover-ups:
Gain of function.
GAIN OF FUNCTION.
The dumb mantra of the ignorant
Demanding we 'follow the science'
But the science was wrong
The scientists lied
They lied.
They all knew
AND THEY LIED!
And I am still counting
In case it returns
And I have a lot more things to count,
Lots more to tally and be made
ACCOUNTABLE.
Categories:
mayors, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Rondelet: Democracy
"I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens." Emir (Nemanja) Kusturica, director and scriptwriter (with David Atkins) of the masterpiece: Arizona Dream (1993).
Democracy
One vote cast is carte blanche cast out
Democracy
Feeds small men constituency
The one-vote majority clout
Enough to send tough troops all out
Democracy
(c) T. Wignesan - Paris, 2012
Categories:
mayors, education, freedom,
Form:
Burlesque
Unwritten actions, seen by eyes , heard
by ears but missed ink to write down. "
Quote by poet.
My pen writes this
Unwritten truth to you
Men and women of this planet.
How hardly ,
Ridiculously seems
A women to start saying
," I love you "
To a man she loves
But easily to sing loudly
,"I miss you" to a man
She does not love ?
How easily is it for a man
To say," I love you"
To any woman on the street
"I miss you my everything"
To a woman in relationship with,
But so hadly to stop
His feelings for other Women?
Unwritten truth ,
It is joyful for majority of women to stick
To one partner in relationship
Or husband in marriage.
It is painful when majority of men try to stick
To one partner in relationship
Or wife in marriage.
It is so hard for majority of men
To avoid temptations of women.
Unwritten actions,
How many married top leaders
Slept with their women assistants
In secret places?
Like some:
Kings,Pastors,
Chiefs , Mayors
Juges, Magistrates,
Bishops, Governors,
Advocates, Presidents,
Ministers , Parlementarians...
Unwritten reality,
Majority of men like polygamy
To avoid cheating..."adultery."
Majority of women hate polygamy
To avoid sharing
Who is better between a cheater and polygamist?
" It is kindness to marry more wives
According to your capacity "
Majority of men daily says...
Because women
Are fastest
Growing
And longest
Living
Than men.
Unwritten sentiments,
How painful is it when your ten
Daughters don't find men to marry them?
As parents , how painful is it when majority
Of your daughters fallen in love with some
Neighbours ' girls due to shortage of men,
some useless principles
And imaginary rules?
Organic foods were made to fight hunger
And they are not healthy like natural.
Meeting of a girl and other girl is like eating
Organic foods which destroy someone slowly.
To close,
there is no bible verse which speaks about a mob justice or other punishement of any polygamist.
April 16 2023
Written for poetry contest sponsored by
Constance la France
Theme chosen: UNWRITTEN
Categories:
mayors, 12th grade, bible, boyfriend,
Form:
Free verse
Lame sunrises and midday sunsets
Fangs in words and perils in laughters
Sweet archs of smiling fires and silky shouts in talking forests
I come from the bitter of cobstones paved down the coalfield
Broken lutes and snoring cork oaks
Freckles of lipstick and suckles of martinis
A bosom of pounds, a pavilion of dangling beryls and a breech of honeycombs
I come from the lust of the chaste lass
White moths and black mushrooms
Coffins of treasures amid covens of night mayors
Whispers of thunders and creaks of ant-steps
I come from the stones in the chicken's gizzard
Shards of fate and vials of morphine
Ponds of rheum and fogs of cold incense
A stew of scimitars, a brandise of stone and the heathenry of whitesmiths
I come from the furs in the abattoir
Sonnets in pools of ink and grace in quills of peacocks
Sequels of black weresheep and bugles of lean shepards
A wit of one accord and a grit of a myriad taut
I come from furnace that boils the molten poetry soup
Categories:
mayors, identity, meaningful, mirror, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Say bye-bye to these:
"Hold, please." (Hold what?)
Typewriter Repairman Ads
"Dial this number..." (What's 'dial?')
Down-time... Offline
Compliments (Complaint Departments have swallowed them up).
"Mail me your resume."
Shame, and its cousin, Guilt
Pay Phones and Phone Booths (Sorry, Superman)
Cash (esp. pennies)
"How do you do?" (How do I what?!)
"Chick," "Piece," "Stacked," "Hot Number"
The Debt Ceiling
Brown Suits
Brown Fedoras
White Bread
White Big-City Mayors (in the USA)
Math Facts
Grammar & Grammar Schools
Heroes
Good Samaritans
Public Drinking Fountains (except for dogs and cats)
All but Mega-Gigantic Hospitals
Modesty
Cash Bail
Drug Busts
'Land Lines'
Gasoline-fueled automobiles
Private Health Insurance
Private Doctors
Free Museums
Disturbing the Peace
Roth IRA's (at least, Roth IRA's whose distributions are tax-free)
Peacetime Economies
Gun Laws (The Wild West roars back)
Non-Mixed Use Zoning Laws
Fair Elections (Did we ever really have them?)
Ideals, Idealists, Idealism
The 'Renaissance Man'
Daily Newspapers, Print AND Digital
The 'Weather Channel'
META
Music Majors, Art Majors, Anthropology & Sociology Majors
Cooperation
Cashiers
Receptionists
Cleaning Services
'Straight People'
Teachers
'The Four Freedoms'
Courts (You'll get a ticket and either pay or go to jail...)
Courtroom Lawyers
'Law and Order' Politicians
Non-TV Ministers
Dentures
Non-union University Personnel
Non-gated upper middle class and upper class housing
Neighborhood Watch Groups
Public Schools
Childhood
Non-government Day Care
Nursery School and Kindergarten
Free Public Libraries (You'll pay for those Drag Shows, lol!)
Free-TV
Non-Tip Services
'The Great American Novel'
The Home of the Brave -- Oops! (I mean, of the 'Guardians!')
'Lesbos' and 'Homos' (Can you believe we used those terms?!)
Marital Sex (What for?)
Foreplay (Now it's just "Fore! Here I cum!")
~ Roger Dodger, Over & Out!
Categories:
mayors, fun, future, goodbye, history,
Form:
List
It was a still quiet night ,children were a bed
Lost in dreamland amid clouds and unicorns
The elders sat around the dying embers
Drinking and laughing about the days events.
They too were soon overtaken by sleep
Eyelids grew weary, soon snores were heard.
Stars looked down from a cloudless sky
And the moon glinted like a silver scythe.
Silence fell over the village time stood still
Cattle quietly chewed in the byre
A dog awoke and sniffed the air
Before yawning ,licking lips and going back to sleep
Shadows strangely and silently moved
Pouring like treacle over the village wall
From out of the darkness of the forest
Fiendish folk slithered in
With thought malicious and evil intent.
Within a heartbeat the village was taken
Elders groggily thrown in jail
Children screamed and dogs growled
Too late they were taken unawares.
The dark lord laughed to see
His men take over this easily.
His control was total no resistance offered
So he thought ill marry the mayors daughter
She was dragged screaming to the meeting place
Which was also used for matrimonial joining
The friar was called and brought forth to preside
The fiendish lord now had his bride.
The people wept and moaned and groaned
Where is there a hero to deliver us?
Then a stranger appeared from whence he came
No one saw and no one really knows
With his bow and warriors bold
Fought with the fiendish one and won the day
The children cheered and threw rotten fruit
At the dark one as he was placed in stocks
He lost his leather boots and stood in his socks
His men they fled as the day was lost
Chased by the children into the wild
Never to be seen in this strath again.
Categories:
mayors, conflict, dark, fantasy,
Form:
Blank verse
violence
p l a g u e s
cities
mayors
a p p o i n t
committees
October 28, 2020
In a Few Words Contest
Sponsor: Joseph May
Categories:
mayors, city, violence,
Form:
Verse