Best Occupy Poems

The middle class here can't be saved
When 0.001% act so depraved
Their wealth without end
These royals* still pretend
Did not come from us—their 
enslaved**


*The Royals: CEOs, Banksters, Revolving Door Regulators, The FED, Congressmen for sale, Lobbyists, Board Members of Big Corporations, Major Shareholders who vote for these...

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Infuriated by greed
so we Occupy city streets
tired of being lied to 
divided by tyranny 
of the Elites
sickened by offshore banks 
ran by gangs 
known as the Fed
while political infidelity 
shakes the White House bed

What happened to the basic foundations 
for which this nation was built?
maybe...

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How strange this thought alive tonight,
My own recollection, birthed and taken wing;
How beautiful in flight...
How strange, I think:
A broken heart makes no sound
Soft or loud to fill the air...
Sheds not one drop of sweet red blood;
Strange..this hard jawed pain
The most mortal wound inbred
Does not kill...does...

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Student's find their voice 
All the people must be heard 
Time to make a choice
...

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There is a head game
that none of us wants but
it's there anyway.

There is a head game
that interferes with what we are trying
(in all of our fumbling ineptitude) to say.

There is a head game
that distracts us from quality of life
to
the quantity of stuff for which we...

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One crystal goblet cloaked in vintage dust
Stands silent sentinal to nothing
In the middle of a great stone alter
Laid to waste by time, and the memory of Man,
Who ever was a firm believer...
One crystal goblet remains a fruitless legacy.

Ancient tongues and politics hear nothing
But the echo...

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Sometimes I am angry.

Sometimes I wanna scream
'bout the injustice I see
every day.

For example
a Wal-Mart employee
who's only been late to work three times
in seventeen years

wakes up one day
feelin' like ****
calls in late.

Goes to work that day.
Two days later wakes up
in significant pain.

Goes into work anyway
calls doc...

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Open your eyes.
Open your ears.
Try for just tomorrow to set aside
the prejudices you don't believe you have.

99% is a big number
Consensus is a neat process
It takes ALL of us being awake and active
to make a difference....

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occupy wallstreet
protesting from a five grand
laptop computer...

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What makes you think of all the lies laid down
Like pavement bricks in poisoned ground
Cracked and gray like prison dust;
Who makes these rules...
Who do you trust..?

What makes you think in all our Books of Law
Where tiers of privilege rub truth raw
Lost freedoms granted the deepest...

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They look down from their penthouse and turn up their nose.

They see us all as a murder of crows. Bunch of pests and foul nuisances trying to eat of their crops.

Not sons and daughters and mommas and pops.

They don't want to hear of our lower...

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I loose myself - self occupied 
Inside of me - darkness applied 
It spread its wings - has me on strings 
A set of things threaded together

I'm not stupid - I'm really clever 
I'm living now - I'll live forever 
On a thin cord -...

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I don’t live in a tent
But in my heart I too occupy
Part of the everyday 99%
Perturbed, precarious nation
Leaders ambivalent and anti compromise

Poor schoolchildren denied
Welfare women restricted
Diminished services for sick and elderly 
“We can’t afford it!
While those who deny live lofty
Not yet gnawed by hunger, cold...

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Let none say that I did not try,
A tragic bundle here I lie,
Through half-closed eyes I recognize,
Slim shadowy forms flow by.

My scraggy mate lies by my side,
Loyal to a comfort I provide,
A fremdship that in times reminds,
Of yearnings satisfied.

Numb to a putrid, stale estate,
Numb to...

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The more we focus on what shines inside
That has us taking this amazing ride
Living life's highest high's
To the stars, so we can mystify
About our love, we won't let slip by

In a place, we can both occupy
Where we see the beauty eye to eye
Baby, it will...

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