Best Populist Poems
Below are the all-time best Populist poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of populist poems written by PoetrySoup members
Populist PoliticsWhen I was sixteen
I wanted Robert Kennedy's life,
although I didn't know about his time squandered
in staffing McCarthyism's
Make America as Grotesque as Possible campaign,
Which would have...
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Categories:
populist, bullying, earth, environment, health,
Form:
Political Verse
To the Rejected, Outcast PoetIf you're weird, a black sheep, a natural outsider,
If you fish in a solitary pond.
If you come from the lonely, the lost and forgotten,
If you're...
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Categories:
populist, poets, social,
Form:
Quatrain
Zinc Adulating
Abominable holiday season greeting to the have-nots me and you
Bombshell tabloid sleigh bells got those ear holes ringing
Cut the tax gift wrap ribbon, only good...
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Categories:
populist, metaphor, parody, slam, word
Form:
ABC
Mine's Bigger Than Yours
My golden ego soars higher than yours
I can hold my breath longer underwater
of course,
because my publican lungs are stronger than yours
I can outshout your taxing...
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Categories:
populist, allusion, corruption, political, power,
Form:
Alliteration
Unquotable Quotes: the How of Democratic Kill - Ixl Part TwoUnquotable quotes: The How of Democratic Kill - IXL, Part Two
No, tell me not my vote now does not count
...
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Categories:
populist, freedom, humanity, international, leadership,
Form:
Sonnet
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots VSpawned from the loins that
Perpetuated the loyal serfs mongrel
Seed:-
These peoples of a conditioned and
"Resigned-To-it-all" breed.
Born into the enveloping tedium
Of interlocking days...Interwoven
With interlocking days -
Victims...
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Categories:
populist, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Before FerlinghettiHe did it before
his voice was trained in song,
singing joyfully.
He did it before
his legs were strong to run,
striding free through waving fields
of golden grass.
He did...
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Categories:
populist, imagination, poets, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Least Popular
Hey, Mr. Least Popular!
Self-proclaimed man of the people you are
Rode on a grassroots movement to the White House,
but who was the man who drove the...
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Categories:
populist, humorous, parody, perspective, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Pesky Poppycock Payback Please PreparePrevarication permits pretend perception, presenting
piquantly piqued, pimply pimping playboy, plucky
pulchritudinous previously pusillanimous, prevalently
puckish, psychic packman, pokemon playing proletarian
puppeteer pygmy, peevishly punky, plummy, plumy,
pompously pushy, pampered,...
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Categories:
populist, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
The Art of the Con
Listen to the chumps,
listen to the rubes,
screaming that democracy
is going down the tubes
But every wise guy knows
when the fix is in
To put all their money...
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Categories:
populist, corruption, parody, political, satire,
Form:
Political Verse
Numbers Do Lie
If you believe in numbers,
then the evidence is in ...
and we all know that numbers don't lie
Mr. Forty-six Percent President,
popular opinion ain't the reason why
you're...
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Categories:
populist, angst, math, political, truth,
Form:
Verse
Energy Democracy V FascismI suppose
cannibalism
is the logical conclusion
of rabidly overpopulated fascism.
Some cannibals,
perhaps all,
ate their human prey
not for typical nutritional reasons
like other forms of digested nature,
but more specifically
because those...
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Categories:
populist, bullying, earth, hate, health,
Form:
Political Verse
If You Pull a Long Face - Part XxxivIF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXXIV
For Mickey COTO and his PTS-ed cohorts
IF you pull a...
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Categories:
populist, leadership, political, power, suicide,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Cultural DiffusionNo citizen has become a politician and no politician was not a citizen
That is Right Of Citizenship which is the fourteen amendment
I think legislature...
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Categories:
populist, art, love,
Form:
Political Verse
Topiary Comes To LifeNon descript hedge rows sculpted into ornamental animal
via botanical artist wielding pruning shears and chain saw
carved, limned and sculpted with wrist wrought voila...
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Categories:
populist, appreciation, art, beauty, creation,
Form:
I do not know?