Patriotic Change Poems

Title: New Hope
Author: John King Ayanfe ©
Date: 29/05/2023

From the fist of democracy we seek joyous feast
Our feast of independence has been thwarted by greed's fist
To...

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What’s wrong with politicians today?
There is no will for political gain
All they seek is celebrity and fame
Their mantras so boring and vain

Devolution causes division
We need...

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If Not Us, Who?


Some leader will come and save us!
The political lie of the day.
We just don’t want to cause any fuss.
Just relax and get...

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Born in the last decade of the old regime
Born a twain year before our unity to bear
All the flourishing devoid credos and pro-
phecies that foresaw...

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Climate change
does nearly
but not neatly cover up
discomforting complexities
of losing polyculturally rich ecosystems
like transportive air and water
and sacred communion
of sovereign feasting nations

Not really dealing with unresolved...

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Not so dear DT:

Many voices have avoided asking you
obviously challenging questions,

Like, "Why?"

I have a different
but related choice question:

Ten years from 2020 revision,
would you rather be...

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as the Towers die away 
alone on a beach where thunderheads Roll 
where I stood far from
shards of glass fire, horror, disaster
they televised only elemental...

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It's not my choices
I regret,

But,
sometimes what I didn't choose
to do
or join
or say
or at least not forget

About not hatching up
or mashing down
some healthier choices
in a wealthier...

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I shall sing the songs of yesteryear
When word and phrase were understood, 
And harmonies were pleasant to the ear
And social norms were ever good.

I shall...

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Living
is our shared regenerative tradition
as Earthlings,

And dying
is our autonomously
separating
fading degenerative position
as former organic life systems
living ego-identified upon
and economic-ecologically within
an organic Sun/Earth Revolving HealthSystem
spiraling through Time
revolving...

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A thesis, ascertained through abrasions of
decubitus ulcerations of existences austerity.
   The colluded effect of unbeknownst
certainty.
    Preluding the path of non...

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I am reeling in the years
I have Ringing in my ears 
While you gather up your tears
I have dry eyes, as do my peers

The weekly...

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Have you ever seen the twlight,
Beyond horizon,
Above the reachable eyes,
Having stood same for all
Of all around the world.
For all it's veins longing for the sight.
Have...

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I am struggling
to avoid that "I told you so"
mean
and self-congratulatory voice.

I do feel under-appreciated
but I don't feel any happiness
about the Virus
as vindicator of my beliefs
about...

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She knows what it means,
and must never not mean,
to work with newborn win/win children
perverted by wounding RightWing patriarchal punishments
overpowering LeftWing ecofeminist invitations
to liberality of loyal...

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