Democracy Poems - Poems about Democracy

No Kings Day Everyday The fear I felt last November Has Swollen Like a Hindenberg blimp dirently Overhead Seconds from exploding Time and space back to 1775. How Now sent troops’ marching feet Bear a din, underscoring beat, Compelling Alarm Urgently To ask, to answer the question: How might we align our democracy...

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"Democracy is the way" perhaps the greatest lie ever told or so it seems through my African eyes that have watched hope grow old. They say elections bring freedom that ballots are keys to chains but I’ve seen the vote become a veil while poverty still remains. What fills the screens are polished lies campaigns drenched in foreign languages while behind the stage are...

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Peacefully they had marched on Voices raised, not fists Pleading for freedom, For a chance to breathe without fear. But what truly is freedom? Is it worth twelve million displaced souls Cities leveled into dust And dreams buried beneath rubble? What began as peaceful Became a wound the world blinked past Sores etched into memory Scars broadcast, then forgotten. The headlines have moved on But the grief remains Mothers...

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Gates once locked with poverty's rust now swing on golden hinges Every child a key-holder: the girl whose fingers paint light from darkness, the boy who dreams in mother tongues and thinks in mathematics, wheels spinning stories across threshold stones. Breakfast arrives with sunrise and hope, satellites whisper knowledge to mountaintops, libraries gallop on horseback to forgotten villages. Schools are changing. Democracy breathes in corridors where...

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We think too much of the silence of things, Indian classrooms where my student's voice breaks free. Bright minds cascade up like golden ink lifting our nation's hope, lotus blooms on learning shores. Beautiful voices float along, empowering folks in crowded hallways. They invite people to the center where wise policies make an amazing symphony of collaborative dreams. "They've earned their voices,"...

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They came with books and broken laws, With poison veiled in noble cause, Whispers of "freedom" in their breath, But all they brought was silent death. "Athens," they claimed, "birthed this design"— Yet nowhere did the ancients sign A pact to force this frame on all, To raise some up, to make most crawl. When they arrived on Africa’s shore, They found no beggars...

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They called it progress But the last time I checked Progress can't exist without justice Especially when we still can't breathe even in the afterlife But we will always scream No justice, no peace We can't be silenced Even if we have to use violence You see the politicians using our graves To boost their campaigns 'Forgetting' to mention our names Then Simultaneously putting the blame On...

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Shock! unreal, unshaken disbelief. Choice! the people spoke, democracy breathes. What was promised— a mirage, a lie. False hopes built to divide, now shattered, leaving many wide-eyed, denied, unrecognized, lost in the wreckage of the unexpected. Post 2-0-2-4 A reckoning. A trauma. A truth too sharp to ignore. ...

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MAGA folks, with Trump are mostly delighted Democrats up in arms, yet affrighted Is Trump dealing democracy a ‘death blow’ or just...

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Democracy in a Coffin” They wrapped the flag around his mouth, called it freedom, then shot him for speaking. The ballot box bleeds ink and oil, votes drowned in rivers of silence. Statues stand on broken backs, names carved in stone— not to honor, but to forget. Children chant anthems in empty classrooms, their futures auctioned for one more war, one more lie. This isn't a nation— it's a graveyard with borders....

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If time of bad desire Sits its rejection then, It has crossed the limit. When government gets err, People suffer with rage. If their rights neglect Electing leaders by money Tampered, pre-meditated Betrayed by ill digital, What democracy we expect What progress we proceed Sooner it invite violence. The good is being assailed For good men done nothing. What do evil will do here But to steal, to kill Eventually, to...

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Freedom is somewhat limited In a so-called democratic society At times, people cannot truly tell it like it is People cannot vote freely Without some restrictions or some stupidities In order to weaken the disadvantaged Even though the US first amendment guarantees Freedom of speech, freedom of expression To assemble peacefully, freedom of religion Freedom is not what it is It is not how it...

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When you're afraid to speak, you sell your rights for nothing You sell your conscience, your soul and country for nothing When you're afraid to express yourself, you don't subsist You're no longer alive, you're dead, and you no longer exist. Writers, poets, professors, professionals, teachers and students Be not afraid to say something, to tell the truth, to tell...

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democracy is best not defined but seems to point to an equality beyond all knowing and in the story of relationships may seem as enlightenment...

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Severing of ties with our allies. Court orders blatantly defied. Plans to privatize, those federal agencies now downsized.. Green card holders traumatized.. A thousand cuts. A thousand bleeds. Our wounded democracy falls to it's knees,, Lawyers and judges receive death threats. Freedom of speech being suppressed. Deportation with out due process. Defunding colleges and PBS.. A thousand cuts. A thousand bleeds. Our democracy hemorrhages. Our rights recede, as we sleep walk into...

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