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Despots Poems - Poems about Despots

Founders Ink

...Defense of freedom
takes a courage
rare and dearly won

Through wars endured
with tyrants scourged
and despots on the run

The words in place
by Founders Ink
on parchment
closely held

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Categories: despots, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberProve It America!

...To be the greatest nation on Earth 

One must have a dream people can follow 
The land must be free like the freedom the previous inhabitants intended 
Not taxed, refinanced and incarcerated 
On...
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Categories: despots, america, dream,
Form: Dramatic Verse



A Sob For Truth

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The world is dying, yet the quietness develops,
As shadows shroud the cries underneath the stone.
Where when we discussed harmony, presently nobody knows,
The reverberations suffocated by voices...
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Categories: despots, cry, future, world,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberIf

...If it be lunatics rule half this world
And power mad despots tread where they please 
If tyrant’s fists raised, leave no toe uncurled
And civilised nations fail to appease

If Reds share handsha...
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Categories: despots, conflict, destiny, war,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberShes a Liar and a Fraud

...Ms Flip-Flop, busted for plagiarism in her co-authored book in 2008 stealing texts almost verbatim from Wikipedia and other sources.

But the media still run cover for her.

Also plagiarised ...
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Categories: despots, america, political, truth,
Form: Political Verse



Premium MemberDemocracy's Pillars

...In marble halls where laws are etched in stone,
Where freedom's song should echo, full and grown,
A silence creeps, insidious and slow,
As arts and letters wither, they are forced to go.

For wh...
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Categories: despots, education, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIn The New Utopia

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Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety? ~Thomas More

She won't let caretakers cut do...
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Categories: despots, evil,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBarbarossa I

...When giants hide their heads beneath the sand,
the body lies unshielded from the Sun.
‘Tis but a hedge to seemingly withstand
the winds of war that nothing will out run.
‘Tis opportune for those ...
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Categories: despots, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

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: despots, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Premium MemberThe Life of 'AE'

...On a mild Spring’s night
In the heartlands of Ulster 
A prodigious child was born 
For Ireland, to save her

A man of modest means 
Yet formidable wit
The mystics he joined 
A cause to commit...
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Categories: despots, ireland,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBattle for the Atlantic III

...His restless wolves still taunt each dauntless ship,
though sly attrition neutralized their hunt,
for subterfuge let not a whisper slip
as vantage shifted on the battlefront.
A riddle solved unve...
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Categories: despots, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Premium MemberWar - a Dead Loss

...How many soldiers lie silent and dead
How many mothers and wives live in dread
How many daughters and sons cry in bed
How many fathers have tears they can’t shed

Despots, dictators and terroris...
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Categories: despots, war,
Form: Sonnet

Ashes In Shame

...Bus drivers and plumbers
don’t start the wars
The nurse or school teacher
too busy inured
What’s common among us
with tasks to withstand
The elected entitled
our blood on their hands
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Categories: despots, corruption,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThis Is a Song

...This is a song for a man, it’s a song for a boy
for a woman or girl
This is a song for the straight and the gay
It’s a song for the whole of the world

This is a song for the cheerful, the fearf...
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Categories: despots, peace,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberPeace and Brotherhood

...Since the very beginning of God's Creation,

Hate and strife has occurred between nation and nation.

Why can't people abide by the Golden Rule and do good;

Why can't people shun evil and dwel...
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Categories: despots, love, peace,
Form: Rhyme

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