Political Epitaph Poems

I
Madiba, you inspired this world  like never before
An African George Washington & Lumumba
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela of South Africa
Yet crossing borders, bashing down walls
Smiling, beaming,...

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The iconic Desmond Tutu died, impish humor, feisty Archbishop, so revered,
As we lay him to rest, may angels embrace him, a great loss, much endeared,
A...

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    There sat in opulent xanadu, the 
 demagogue of empirical hedonism, 
his granary once fuelled regal reign of epicureanism:

gregarious, restive, much-awaited...

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Love is the ultimate and only real revolution....

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I
I tried not to mention the crime
Siblings, it is high time
America stopped self-flagellation,
Self-hate, self-abnegation

II
I feel for him, brother George ("of the earth")
I came close, but...

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When I go
please
do not drape me over
with some piece of tarnished cloth
some flag of esteem 
who’s dignity has been lost
and long forgot

Please
do not weep for...

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Obituary of DAVID FRED JONES-

Here we gather today to pay homage of a lost brother whom lived and died
We honor him with are presents as...

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Corruption is embed in America soul
Mo  money mo money the goal

The rich extract benefit from the code
IRS deduction they em bode

The court system is...

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Here lies that warrior for justice, Ted Kennedy, a purebred
   He fought for the poor and neglected, the pundits all said...

Except the little...

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Here lies that cleverest of politicians, Dick Nixon
   Who was crafty and devious and full of tricks an'

About whom it was said: Vote...

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Yo chickens coming home to roost bitches
While you went south stealing their riches

One hundred years you plundered 
While putting South America asunder

Copper Silver and Gold
Polluting...

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ROAD TO DAMASCUS

Granite faith exfoliated by superguns and sanctions whirls,
on this earth succumbing into dry spell of peace,
War-crats and confidantes skinning freedom from its people
Kofi...

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that day*

two score and ten
business men in leisure suits,
grandmothers with grey handkerchiefed hair 
and adolescents in gaudy glasses,
girls wearing bouffants and sweaters, 
the boys maybe...

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 John F. Kennedy
1917-1963
The great 35th president of US
It wasn't really a success

He tried to stop the missile bases
There were lot of angry faces

When there...

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Dear Steve,

My vigor is exhausted as a revolutionary with a cause
My spirit is trapped in a dwindling dream 
By capitalist creams
Enticing my mental stream

A forgotten...

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