Gerrymandering Poems

Premium MemberTrump Delivers!

...US President Donald Trump delivers! 

Disappearing people, 
people aren’t illegal
The inefficiency of DOGE
Nothing makes sense, it’s all a mirage
Ignoring the Supreme Court,
immigrant prisoner...
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Categories: gerrymandering, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

Lines of Erasure

...They split the land, but not the pulse. 
Roots remember what maps forget. 
Every severed line still hums 
with breath, with blood, with return.

They drew the map with ash and absence— 
not to ...
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Categories: gerrymandering, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberFascist America

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If you think this is just temporary
and tomorrow all things will be good
That Republicans will become loyal
do the things Representatives should
You are likely to be disappointed 
because fasc...
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Categories: gerrymandering, political, violence,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAnimals, lyrics

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It was a party of fleas who dropped some tea into the sea,
Created a baby that left its mommy,
Now there is an elephant and donkey in the room,
So, lets ask, who’s the bigger a--? 

A spark, a...
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Categories: gerrymandering, animal, november, satire,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberGerrymandering

...Gather the maps, divide the lines with care,
Every decade brings new charts to trace,
Remember how the shifting votes displace,
Right to select who governs, free and fa...
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Categories: gerrymandering, political,
Form: Acrostic


Matthew O Harris Ease A FAKE Irishman

...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman

Saint Patrick's Day, or
Feast of Saint Patrick
Lá Fhéile Pádraig
invoke even non Irish to proclaim
Éirinn go Brách
translated as "Ireland Forever."

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Categories: gerrymandering, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGerrymandering

...I went to school with Gerry Mandering, it changed everything.

John G. Lawless
©6/25/2023...
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Categories: gerrymandering, funny, word play,
Form: Monoku

I Ask Myself a Rhetorical Question Regarding

...I ask myself a rhetorical question regarding...
the durability, longevity, and tenacity of *****sapiens,
after screaming headlines report one after another atrocity.

How did the human species ma...
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Categories: gerrymandering, africa, america, anger, april,
Form: Free verse

Matthew O' Harris Ease a Fake Irishman

...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman

Since adopting the guise
of Norwegian bachelor farmer,
I may as well fabricate genetic stock
lock, and barrel linkedin to Celtic legend.

Sentimentali...
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Categories: gerrymandering, adventure, america, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

Valentines Day Always Found Me Quiver and Bowed Over

...Valentines Day always found me quiver and bowed over

Ring with no feather in my cap only envy
at handsome man drakes with bucks,
who could bank on "hot chicks" willingly
aligned in arrow emitti...
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Categories: gerrymandering, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberConsistent Congress

...Contemptibly craven 
Oratory obfuscates
Never nuanced
Gerrymandering guile
Readily reacts to roaring rabble
Egregiously expects economic encouragement 
Smug, self-righteous and self- serving
S...
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Categories: gerrymandering, perspective,
Form: Acrostic

Extra Extra Trumpasaurus Extinction

...Extra...extra...Trumpasaurus Extinction...
iz only wishful thinking

Political polls whether advisory still consider 
forty fifth president 
dangerous, hazardous, lymphomatous...
known to wield...
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Categories: gerrymandering, abuse, age, america, angst,
Form: Rhyme

Valentine's Day Always Found Me Aquiver 2nd Heartfelt Hug

...at the growing flock
including male friends relatives,
minus yours truly, whose presence,
would merely generate a yawn,
though even a distinct black swan
received royal carpet treatment
particu...
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Categories: gerrymandering, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWilling To Cheat

...Why would you candidly care who you beat?
Let them sigh and squirm, no need to retreat.
Are you one of the ones willing to cheat?
It makes the elitist's pain more replete.
The Founders thought fa...
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Categories: gerrymandering, allusion, betrayal, lost, passion,
Form: Monorhyme

Matthew O Harris Ease a Fake Irishman

...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman

Saint Patrick's Day, or
Feast of Saint Patrick
Lá Fhéile Pádraig
invoke even non Irish to proclaim
Éirinn go Brách
translated as "Ireland Forever."

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Categories: gerrymandering, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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