Dawnland Testimony
...Honorable Members of the Mainiac Judiciary Committee
I hold gratitude for you, and for the Wabanaki Tribe of indigenous wisdom, on whose land we deeply listen for this opportunity to address this ...
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Categories:
campaigning, addiction, america, anti bullying,
Form: Political Verse
In Streets of Solitude
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In streets of solitude...
A societal ghost ambles through
A bustling concrete jungle unnoticed.
A lost soul with sartorial handicap,
Carrying life inside his overstuffed backpack.
His...
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Categories:
campaigning, city, dark, loneliness, poverty,
Form: Free verse
A living hellish nightmare
...A living hellish nightmare...
only just began early today
November 6th, 2024,
when my eyes frightfully espied
glaring headlines bespoke horror
conjured, portended and yielded
worse fate than...
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Categories:
campaigning, america, angst, animal, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Though a Democrat, I play the devil's advocate
...Though a Democrat, I play the devil's advocate...
after reading the article
(published in the July + August 2024
issue of Mother Jones)
titled Raging bull - Donald Trump's
pugilistic spokesman...
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Categories:
campaigning, america, boxing day , celebrity,
Form: Rhyme
Tree Reality-Banksy
...Green spray paint splattering is all I see on the wall
It’s not art that I see, it’s vandalism! they scream to all
They can’t or they won’t let themselves imagine what truly is presage
Beautiful a...
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Categories:
campaigning, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Yankee Doodle
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In 1755 a British army medical surgeon Richard Shuckburgh, while campaigning in
Rensselaer New York, penned the nursery rhyme Yankee Doodle. This was used to mock
the Colonists by the...
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Categories:
campaigning, independence day, military, nursery
Form: Rhyme
La Vie En Rose Et Bleue Sarcelle
...When I became nominated for ’Fabulous Over 40’ for the National Breast Cancer Foundation campaign, I became passionate as I campaigned for votes and donations.
However, I had never lost a loved o...
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Categories:
campaigning, heartbreak, life, loss, mother
Form: Rhyme
I Hear He's a Winner
...WINNING STANCE OF BOLSONARO
Assertively, the winning personal motto
he established in 2016 is John 8:32* of the Bible,
"The truth will set you free."
B
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Categories:
campaigning, character, god, integrity, leadership,
Form: ABC
No Win No Fee Ii
...The sharp suited man
With the Legal Degree
Looks back over years
To pass judgement on me.
While he was getting drunk
In student Uni bars
I was uniformed and fighting
Our country’s various war...
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Categories:
campaigning, anger, anxiety, conflict, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
Willy Brandts Gesture
...Willy Brandt was the German Chancellor
Who mended fences after the Second World War
A journalist during the war who fled
To Norway and Sweden campaigning against the Nazis instead
There were m...
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Categories:
campaigning, angst, remember,
Form: Abecedarian
The Tribute
...Their mere weapon was their forbidden courage, hands barren with no armaments, no ammunitions, marching towards the proud valley of death, dedication born from their sempiternal dreams of a free lan...
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Categories:
campaigning, appreciation, eulogy, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Competitive Campaigning Results Are In
...Joy for me means that
You are here where I once sat
Clutching the reigns
Playing political games
Taking over my tasks
Saying ‘I am not wearing any deceptive masks’
Making...
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Categories:
campaigning, america, england, jobs, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
Spring Break Up
...It is an impressive break up.
The maestro conducts a symphony that
crushes eardrums with locomotive rumbling,
thumping, bumping, and dumping
of large chunks of cracking, crackling
crystalline...
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Categories:
campaigning, animal, break up, environment,
Form: Free verse
Emancipation
...Clippity Cloppity
Emily Davison
confronted race horses
losing her life
dissident suffragette
indiscriminately
committed sabotage
chaos and strife
Hickory D...
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Categories:
campaigning, conflict, death, discrimination, women,
Form: Double Dactyl
The Party of Racism
...There’s a political party
that’s just obsessed with race,
all their power is built on it,
it’s rather a disgrace.
It started centuries ago
defending slavery,
campaigning for long decades to
ke...
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Categories:
campaigning, evil, history, how i
Form: Rhyme
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