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Premium Member Populist Politics
When 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



Premium Member To the Rejected, Outcast Poet
If 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
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: the How of Democratic Kill - Ixl Part Two
Unquotable quotes: The How of Democratic Kill - IXL, Part Two

No, tell me not my vote now does not count
     ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: populist, freedom, humanity, international, leadership,
Form: Sonnet



The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots V
Spawned 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 Ferlinghetti
He 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 Prepare
Prevarication 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
Premium Member Energy Democracy V Fascism
I 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
Premium Member If You Pull a Long Face - Part Xxxiv
IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXXIV

       For Mickey COTO and his PTS-ed cohorts

IF you pull a...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: populist, leadership, political, power, suicide,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Cultural Diffusion
No 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 Life
Non 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?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things