Political Hope Poems

The deed is done, much needed        ___a changed mind
         ...

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My candle burns at both ends.
It will not last the night.
But, ah my foes, and oh, my friends,    
it sheds a lovely...

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Children will come
again asking “why?”
What will we say?
Should we even try?
I’m betting most people
won’t get too far
I’m just not okay with
“That’s just who we are.”

Especially...

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The Conundrums of Today and the Promise of Tomorrow

A tear of genuine sorrow forming in the eye of an innocent child 
The fear of what...

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Homer in his prime knew what was divine he sets out to woo the earth but his ambition was crumbed in the dirt, the Trojan...

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   I look around and frown 
     to see eighty-plus-year-old clowns
   stuttering and stumbling around
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Oh, say can you see,
  All the dead by the sea?
  What so proudly we hailed,
  Now we put them in jail!
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O Glorious and Wise Empire of the East 
Slaughtered by cold winter’s wrath and the azure dragon 
For this world had no place to lay...

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A Child at Tornillo

Telling my story makes it real
Brings it into existence
What I thought I knew
What I know now
Wasn’t real
No matter how 

Well intentioned
Well thought...

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My flag is not black n white with a blue streak 
My flag is not a field of white stars n scars of machine guns
My...

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The Crash

f minor


Crash the last 
It is so reprehensible
Jake the fake
Pass out the indispensable
Crash the last 
It is incomprehensible
Just to spot
The need to be sensible

Snake...

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Title: New Hope
Author: John King Ayanfe ©
Date: 29/05/2023

From the fist of democracy we seek joyous feast
Our feast of independence has been thwarted by greed's fist
To...

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War drums beat with patriotic zeal, 
Heroic soldiers stand to defend and heal. 
International aid flows to the scene, 
As gruesome media images paint a...

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Christians once sacrificed their own, 
To the God of Love, like pagans known, 
Burning heretics, they claimed divine, 
Killing their own in a holy shrine.

Those...

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Today the bomb went off in the city, 
Shattering my peace and bringing pity, 
The neighboring building, now a ruin, 
Burning possessions, a heartbreaking tune.

Roofs...

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