Political Heartbreak Poems

I wish I could put pen to paper and stop the fight,
put mankind on a different plight.
To make people understand, 
that we as humans must...

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There he sits that monstrous hypocrite. There he dwells as I wash these dishes, his dishes. There he slouches, watching his games, his news, his...

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Floating above waves wept his child
Her arms flailing to sustain life
As fierce currents engulfed and smiled
Tormenting the souls fleeing strife

Frenzied escape from plunged nonlife
On that...

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...Now somehow she went to college,
though admittedly just a state school,
she was quite right from programming,
and like most she came out a fool.
Started talking of...

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My name is Harold and I wed
the greatest woman in the world,
the problem here is not my wife,
rather her sister’s little girl.
My niece had hippie...

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Pinch

Rarity often governs price, 
and availability 
more so, than the need,
and acceptance of what is on hand.

Pinch...

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Hay now, now sing this corrosion
Of winter wastes and Red stars white nights

And waring tribes a bully on the block 
To kick you when your...

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Kyiv, cultural hub of Eastern Europe
         ancestral home of ancient Slavs
      ...

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Vladimir Putin itching
to loose nuclear bomb
end of the world scenario ofttimes
iterated throughout history
though an atheist (actually Unitarian),
no doubt this, that or another psalm
countless times the...

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Real men fight,
hand to hand, sword to sword~
ten paces and shoot...Putin, a little
man, missing a backbone, uses boot 
after boot: a larger army, a bigger...

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as the Towers die away 
alone on a beach where thunderheads Roll 
where I stood far from
shards of glass fire, horror, disaster
they televised only elemental...

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I need you to sing
the straight white male lead
in Phantom of Our Opera
as a Catch-22 steed.

I don't sing with wit
and I won't dance without it.

If...

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who would have ever thought
that simple red baseball cap 
made in the USA
could become 
a worldwide symbol
of hate and greed...

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She tore it up
for the whole world to see
Two separate pieces
right in front of me

Her face showed her hate
her actions the same
I’m sure she will...

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Washing Instructions

Put the clothes in the washer. 
not quickly, but slowly. 
There was a day, 
this would all be done, 
by hand. 

Four or five...

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