Best Nominees Poems
CharacterizationOur two party system isn’t working
Plastic figures, disaster lurking
Conservative or liberal isn’t the call
It’s the ultra rich against us all
For the people is what it’s not
All candidates have already been bought
Platforms built on promises and lies
Hear the people, ignore their cries
Wave that flag as if...
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Categories:
nominees, political
Form:
Couplet
Question Number EightWith spring approaching quickly and milk is upon the rise,
our factory employs seasonal workers to resize,
the employee pool to accommodate the milk intake,
which means twenty-four by seven with such a lot at stake.
The milk dryer needed packers and more cleaners on the floor.
There’s a need...
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Categories:
nominees, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
A Witch-Hunting We Will GoPuritans gather in Congress' hallowed halls, faces glum
Trampling truth, blowing horns, banging drums
Of blazing envy, wrath, and sloe-eyed sleaze
Pelosi-Schumer's moralizing minions on their knees
Digging up dirt on disapproved-of nominees
...
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Categories:
nominees, america, judgement, leadership, leaving,
Form:
Rhyme
Mayon VolcanoWhile kiss by the clouds
Perfect cone remains sober
Fury hides beneath
The subject is one of the active volcanoes
in my homeland, Philippines. Proud to be
one of the nominees in...
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Categories:
nominees, nature
Form:
Haiku
CommonSense Political WorkPartyEcoMinisters of Earth Rights
CoArise!
EcoLogicians of resilient encircling might
CoArise!
EcoLegislators of bicameral balancing disposition
CoArise!
What is our highest and best CommonSense
of currently elected policy-choosers?
Where are our optimal health outcomes
of proactive CommonSense?
What does vast emptiness of positive results
suggest about the CommonSense
of our bipolarizing electorate?
If we consistently choose the...
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Categories:
nominees, addiction, community, creation, culture,
Form:
Political Verse
Seeking 2020 VisionMy son, nearly twenty,
living at home while attending community college,
without prospects of healthier, more robust, alternatives,
believes it is now past time
for pollsters to cast aside their neutral professional agendas
and play a more positive role
in educating this co-invested international polity.
So, ask not just Who are you...
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Categories:
nominees, earth, health, parents, patriotic,
Form:
Political Verse
Getting Into ItWhere have you been?
We stopped taxing investments in worker-owned cooperatives
decades ago.
They all have missions to do one or two of two possible things,
To recycle matter to highest use
with least carbon-based effort/loss of reinvestment values,
And to repurpose creatures, great and small,
to highest and deepest multiculturally healthy...
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Categories:
nominees, earth, environment, health, humor,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Bangalore-My Dream DestinationSprawling green gardens super
Brilliant, breezy cool weather
Bustling busy night life
Clubbing culture that does strike
Thriving tech talent pool
With culture uniquely cool
Fastest growing tech hub
City of many clubs and pub
Millennial-friendly city rocks
A magnificent megacity just laughs
City of...
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Categories:
nominees, angel, appreciation, art,
Form:
Couplet
The Leadership ConventionWhen potable water nearly disappeared,
good faith communities
for healthy living
water,
Earth,
people,
plants,
soil,
air,
Fire-breathing resistance churches
and calmer rapture temples,
synagogues,
mosques,
green post-millennial sanctuaries,
Gaian ecofeminist fire-circles
gathered their members and neighboring allies,
republican nationalists,
green democrats,
ecosystemic libertarian zeroists,
To discuss and discern
which potential Presidential
and Vice-Presidential candidates to nominate
for next year's Master Facilitator
and EcoFeminist WiseElder duo
for local...
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Categories:
nominees, conflict, health, integrity, love,
Form:
Political Verse
Liberty LandI was freed today the birth of a regent a new colony
I was created in Freedom birth of land from Liberty
Free from Injustice persecution and religious domination
Resurrected Liberty's captivating setting us free
Oh how I long to be born in the land of liberty
Oh how...
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Categories:
nominees, analogy, anniversary, birthday, dedication,
Form:
Free verse
ContestCollect the word stones
That match up on the beach
Launch each skipping
Against the waves
Literate the words
From the sandy walls
Roll them through your finger
Put them into the water
They will splash your face
Visit with the judges
Match up the sea stars
Dress up the nominees
Listen to the seashells
Touch the sunset
That's...
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Categories:
nominees, america, art, city, class,
Form:
Classicism
A Witch-Hunting We Will GoPuritans gather in Congress' hallowed halls, faces glum
Trampling truth, blowing horns, banging the drum
Of blazing envy, wrath and sloe-eyed sleaze
Committee member, moralizing minions, on their knees
Digging up dirt on disapproved-of nominees
Judgment fled to...
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Categories:
nominees, america, judgement, leadership, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
Another Racism ForumOur Black Lives Matter team was hosting
another monthly forum on racism,
as regularly scheduled,
anti-patriarchal business as usual.
The facilitator opened with a question,
asking for a show of hands.
"If you had to choose
between two nominees for public office,
or any form of executive leadership,
one promising multicultural compassion
and the other...
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Categories:
nominees, anti bullying, culture, green,
Form:
Political Verse
Jealousy ForeverSeeing his rival celebrity on the screen,
He is with envy green;
By him thought a fortunate being,
Of all nominees their Faculty’s Dean;
Only thirty years ago did his mother him wean.
A reason to be starving and be forever lean;
For facial expression keep wearing “The Mean”
No occasional...
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Categories:
nominees, anger, character, grief, heartbreak,
Form:
Rhyme
Night Guard DogsHark!
It’s getting dark!
Long gone to nest, the lark…
But for the mongrels
Good nominees for Satan’s laurels,
Just for their vicious teeth that spark,
Time to interminably bark
And liberties take
With canines; uncanny mark
That resilient flesh break,
On their victims in amusement parks
Producing un-amusing facsimile of shark’s.
Night guard dogs,
Forever, I have...
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Categories:
nominees, anger, animal, anxiety, death,
Form:
Rhyme