Despotism Poems

Life is like Reality TV

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Hyperbole hubris

Venal penal

Avarice abyss

Bucolic tonic?

Ironic…sardonic

Or

Vitriolic bliss mate!

Mendacious salacious

Algorithm schism

Audacious outrageous

Vicario...
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Categories: despotism, life,
Form: Rhyme

Worldly Wise

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If the world is going to hell in a handbasket,
'Who's holding the handle?'
is the real question, and I have to ask it.
Also, I wonder how well the world would function
if all corruption...
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Categories: despotism, appreciation, humanity, psychological, word
Form: Rhyme


Eternal Verge

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ravens croak
      applauding twilight	
larks churr
    saluting sunrise
		
a last dance over
an inverted verge.

a perpetual encounter
    the last mesh of murk
         against gleams...
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Categories: despotism, death, life,
Form: Suzette Prime

Premium MemberStalingrad I

...As gods go forth to set the world a fire
‘tis ego that consumes the despot mind.
While domination seeks its epic spire,
the raging wars from east to west align.
‘Tis mere despite that veils a wai...
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Categories: despotism, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Premium MemberStalingrad III

...Your doggedness left arrogance denied
when dominance put ego on display.
Oh Stalingrad, your heart was fortified
as confidence kept Satan’s corps at bay.
Not one step back was touted by command
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Categories: despotism, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets


Premium MemberAutocracy

...Autocracy

Yes, I mean a special one. The psychological autocracy
Like despotism, this is the opposite of independence
Who created the soul? The Creator, not the psychology

I want to follow my...
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Categories: despotism, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIn the twilight of thoughts, where shadows whisper the secrets of ideologies

...In the twilight of thoughts, where shadows whisper the secrets of ideologies,
I stand, a prism refracting the multitude of hues of the "isms,"
Each beam a story of belief, a spectrum of convictions...
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Categories: despotism, fantasy, , hinduism,
Form: Free verse

Move on over ole Joe

...Move on over ole Joe...

and let the youngbloods take the reins
infusing our promised land with hope.

You done good for America,
serving as laudatory President
from 2020 to the present
Vice ...
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Categories: despotism, america, anger, anxiety, care,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Battle of Britain III

...A dogged stance had made the beast retire
as disappointment filled the devil’s veins.
Though Brit resolve repulsed his hellish fire 
this demon’s air of pompousness remains.
His raging storm had ...
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Categories: despotism, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Premium MemberWhen Night Feeds Day

...When frights are most appealing than sunshine.
That puts a stop to any remaining hope to shine.
Hell's dogs will wait with their terrifying teeth.
while a deadly famine swallowed them ...
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Categories: despotism, analogy, angst, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme

Global Fighter

...Here i am again fighting that unfair army
Where demons of evil
Plan and conspire
To rule humans as slaves
I am still alive and fighting forward
Across all the continents
Against these giants of...
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Categories: despotism, character, courage, encouraging, hero,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe 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: despotism, appreciation, eulogy, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberUpheaval Nations

...Public protracts a meg night of sorrow.
My forebears' screaming intimidates me. 
I'm on high alert; catch my spirit growl.
Upheaval nations were met with fury. 

Whiners pelted wi...
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Categories: despotism, analogy, angst, bereavement, change,
Form: Dizain

Premium MemberStand With Texas

...Proud brothers and sisters once 
again having to defend The USA, 
at its Southern Border. But, today, 
unlike threats of the past, the invading 
army are sick, hungry, destitute bands 
of migran...
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Categories: despotism, evil, introspection, judgement, patriotic,
Form: Free verse

Religiously Spiritual

...There’s no spirituality in religion
as there’s no religion in spirituality,
One is religiously unspiritual
The other, spiritually unreligious!

The gods of man’s many religions
are not...
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Categories: despotism, religion, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

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