Current Events Poems - Poems about Current Events

The 2nd Trump Presidency Begins To express my own Whitmanesque "barbaric yawp", constrained by internal (and external) barriers, mentally constipated, I merely mutter, feel pressures steadily mounting. Hesitant, I expel grunts and breaths -- disinhibit streams of consciousness, encourage verbal fluidity, ease the heaviness I feel, the weight upon my chest. I breathe deeply. Physiological processes require tiring conscious effort. I decide to be calm, to...

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Ashes, Ashes, Flames all around And remnants of our lives are scattered Upon the crackling, smoking ground. Our hopes and dreams buried in the rumble, Lost are the things that we thought measured our lives. Nothing left but our memories. It cuts like a knife. We trusted our treasure, our futures, our dreams Into the hands of a criminal who is...

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Fascists today are those who label others fascists. As Hayek said long ago, “Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.” And there are certainly a lot of commies, at least the wannabe idealistic kind, today that are upset, in denial or clueless that their cause is a failure. Mao and Stalin spent years taking turns calling...

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While we were sleeping Snug in our beds Lost in our dreams A black spirit stole across the land And by dawn had merged with every shadow When we awoke We took for granted the lingering critical sensibility - as if awaking with a hangover from the spectacular successes and excesses of our civilization – And before our morning cup Could clear our heads Had embraced this...

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Warsaw 1940 certain inhabitants designated A health risk were ordered to strip naked Had to shower to become clean this ploy Caused public humiliation, and showed Dominence there was also mass quarrantine Also to your own house that was Useless in its 'so called mission' And in fact caused a rise in infection As the immune systems of people Lowered due to length...

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** Current Events Knelling ** Ignorance and evil remain — it’s easy to tell — Around the world, still alive and well No matter how much we pray, scream and yell, “Please! Learn something from history, not pell-mell, Before those ego’s ideas devour us all cell by cell. ———————————————————————————————————————— (c) sally young eslinger 12/18/2022 with Thanks for the promises of God...

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Percolating, who we, I’m just relating Relaying the conveying of alarming apex Son’s getting hotter, sending flares, scorching heirs The roof is on fire, but folks serving gas in meme Unleaded or maybe I’m just fed up in ...

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This isn't the middle the beginning or the end This is the middle of the beginning of the end acting like children Don't try to pretend you can't see   The hidden agenda within They're telling us lies and feeding us sin Structurally damaged you're letting them win Unite we must Divided we bend In God we trust Despite our skin Freedom and Just we will...

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Putin They started it let the cat out of the bag It's in a ferocious mood after being confined Imagine how you'd feel kept in a tied-up sack Now the feral cat wants revenge and gets it Rampaging this way and that killing eating Quenching its blood lust till spent Not stopping till the job is done And the cat is at peace No...

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*** Truly? *** As Trump continues trying to explain, And science will truly someday Get it right to prove: That life is a matter of enchantment, That mirrors do know Who is the fairest of them all; That any “Save the Earth” green Movement is voiced by the devil, Because it’s his realm afterall And the Earth is here to...

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Fire raged through heavy wooded terrain, Blizzard hit the panhandle hard, Bad windstorm slammed the western plains, Mudslides hid hundreds of backyards. Brutal sandstorm swept through arid plains, Fierce hurricane aimed at the Keys, Havoc descended on tornado lane,...

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On Sunday mornings I like to relax and read the new newspaper....

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One day an evil man came to them in sheep’s clothing, To lead them into his evil ways he was hoping. So treacherous and evil was this ravenous wolf, Feeding off of their ignorance while he played golf. So fine he was in the art of deception, So ignorant were they with their perception. This wolf led them towards hate, anger,...

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Ol’ Biden wins south! They come rally to his side, Bernie Bros goodnight!...

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My Latest Current Events Poetry Trump like Pinocchio lied and nose did protrude, And many people it appeared he would delude; Even we knew, Scheme up brew; With jaundiced eye witnesses and rivals viewed. We wonder who next by Trump would be fired; He desired another nitwit that should be hired; Would you believe, Again did deceive; Of hearing him, we have become very tired. With...

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