Demonstrations Poems - Poems about Demonstrations

You say you care about people black and brown, And victims of war in every Gazan town. But I doubt your heart, here’s why I think it a trend, For so many downtrodden you're no friend. Slavery in the U.S., no one denies, But 50 million slaves worldwide, can you help them rise? Black kids shot in Sudan, en-masse. Are you setting...

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Waiting around in our lockdown Keeping busy without a frown Suddenly what did I see on TV Something that I thought I’d never see Surely not they aren’t that dumb A demonstration in lockdown for fun They abused everyone but mostly it was the police And they demanded a quick lockdown release There was a fire eater there as well For entertainment they thought...

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quatrain with chain rhyme The edge of the sunset dissolves into the horizon. The day's candle dies, yet fires light the sky once more; once more, as rioters take patrol. Dog days rattle with restless resolve - darkness hinders the search for a handle on the violence the rest of us abhor. Some abhor the absence of control. She hums lullabies to right...

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a fourstitch (quatrain), chain-rhymed in response to global warming and climate change Environmental agendas of the left see such solutions left far behind in the demonstrations of today. The political climate is shifting. “Peaceful” protests have left us bereft. they are scarcely more than a blind for annihilation’s holiday. There are few signs of the smoke lifting. Violence, fires, murder and theft are the accepted answer...

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Let us go, hahaa! Let us resist, hahaa! Let them go, hahaa! They must quilt, hahaa! In the streets of Kisumu, uuwii! In the corridors of the Capital,uuwii! In Bungoma and Kisii, Uuwii! Mombasa in the city, uuwii!...

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