you may try to make us feel inferior
strutting around with head held high and mighty
i wonder
is it for our sake
or just to cover up thy own inadequacy
fumbling your way around the factory floor
the bosses son soon to elevate to greater roles
i remember you
on your first day the rawest of incumbents
silver spoon still protruding
from your mouth
i gave you the strength needed
taught you everything
now I sit across from you
your eyes never to meet mine
no apology
when handing
the redundancy paper that says goodbye.
© Harry J Horsman 2021
Categories:
incumbents, rude, sad,
Form: Suzette Prime
AFTERTASTE OF POWER
Power tastes like food
Intoxicates like spirit
Transient on the tongue
To good and bad incumbents
It's just awhile on the throne .
Aftertaste may be sweet
If not, it'll definitely be bitter
To many past kings
It's bittersweet
It all depends
Now I ring the bell
That to every eater
That's those in power
Aftertaste is sure
The end is real
As eggs is eggs
Ex will be word.
Tunde Dawood-Akerele
18th May, 2020
Categories:
incumbents, change, character, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
The thorns-in-sides are various
which mar incumbents’ slumber.
Could Belgium bear Lumumba?
Would Britain brook Makarios?
There’s Bolsheviks or Mensheviks,
Parnell or De Valera:
Marat had Robespierre, or
the Romans, Vercingetorix.
There’s Che Guevara, Spartakists,
the Mau Mau, Mata Hari,
the Contras, Carbonari,
Hamas, Harmonious Fists.
The song that stops the show?
“It Ain’t Necessarily So”.
Categories:
incumbents, satire,
Form: Sonnet
Hello the House and Senate
By Franklin Price
10/21/2016
Hello the House and Senate
Democrat, Republican
To all of you in Washington
Every elected woman, man
To incumbents in position
I would like to have a word
I believe from We the People
The inconvenient useless herd
You act as if you're royalty
Ascension put you in that place
I hope you see that isn't true
Your hint; the presidential race
Whether we were right or wrong
We the People brought the Trump
If elected he may bring great things
Or take us to the dump
It's something that the people did
For you blocked him every way
Even his own party said
He wasn't qualified to play
I hope that he's elected
Then maybe you will face
That we're tired of the establishment
Believe you are a big disgrace
If he doesn't make it
Because you've slandered him at will
Be advised that we the people
Will work to get you off the hill
We're here to take our country back
It's not only for the rich
Work for us, or we'll vote you out
And show you life can be a *****
Replace your throne with office chair
Put yourself behind the plow
Your welcome to be there for us
Or we'll vote you out, we vow
Categories:
incumbents, freedom, political,
Form: Rhyme
If
By Franklin Price
10/15/2016
If someone told you years ago
We'd be in the state we're in
If they said it would be such a mess
To solve none would dare begin
If All in Washington buried heads
And would no decision make
No chance that they would rock the boat
Are corrupt and on the take
If a crass and far outspoken man
Said he would show the way
To make America great again
Would you invite him in to stay
If not there is the status quo
Involved thirty years or more
Helped put us in the state we're in
Still opening the door
If you throw your hands up high
Refuse to cast your vote
You contribute to the problem
In fact you're a perp of note
If you were never interested
Now's the time you must confess
Time to take a stand right now
To alleviate this mess
If incumbents in the congress
Were voted out this year
Would be a giant step forward
Would help make the cloudy clear
If both houses did their jobs
Rose up and took a stand
Wouldn't matter much who's president
Now wouldn't that be grand
Categories:
incumbents, political,
Form: Rhyme
A Citizen
By Franklin Price
10/1/2016
A citizen who's silent
Who has a horn to toot
Who's words, if said, are meaningful
Unsaid, are always moot
Citizens, without opinion
On the daily things of note
Have no idea of what to do
When it comes time to vote
Flash and flicker, tout and spin
Are the politician's sway
Truth is not the question
It's the vote that's cast their way
Their object is to only win
The how is not so much
As long as they're involved with those
Who have the Midas touch
It;s funny how incumbents
Get much richer as they stay
They strive to be the one percent
Kiss several asses every day
They block most things of substance
For we the people one and all
Except for the richest one percent
Who want to keep them at the ball
Citizens don't vote incumbents
Who have not done a thing
Except to get much richer,
By taking cash and bling
I'm not saying that a new one
Won't do the same damn thing
That's what politicians do
When you let them wear the ring
If we keep on voting out
Until all have served our share
The one percent will be a hundred
What do you think, or do you care?
Categories:
incumbents, political,
Form: Rhyme
Voting in November
By Franklin Price
6/16/2016
Voting in November
Is a very scary thing
Especially for the president
What will either of them bring?
He is quite outspoken
To the point of stupidness
Due to investigations
Her position is a mess
To have belief in either
And what they have to say
Could have us regretting voting
And maybe even rue the day
Both have followed process
As they've risen to the top
The parties are quite ignorant
Is there a way to make this stop?
The House and Senate much to blame
Parties would not cross the aisle
Bound by their establishments
Their actions just a pile
For years have gotten nothing done
Standing in the way the choice
Incumbents choosing nothing
And the public has no voice
This is how we've gotten here
Could be headed for the dump
By voting for the Hillary
Or the far outspoken Trump
Make a choice and hope the best
But don't refuse to poll
Then you have no say at all
Which is the politician's goal
Categories:
incumbents, political,
Form: Rhyme
Bobby Stokes pined to be a politician.
He was bright, idealistic, full of ambition.
But in office he forgot
what he clearly should have not.
Incumbents heed a dirty tricks tradition.
Categories:
incumbents, humor, political,
Form: Limerick
Like ostriches, politicians bury their heads
While homeless, starving families go unfed
Voters see the game, know how it's played
Upheaval awaits on election day
Say what? You're not registered to vote?
Then watch those special interests gloat
They'll gather allies, give 'em poll rides
A sad kiss goodbye, Democracy's demise
With broken links in freedom's chain
Politics will stay the same
Use your brain, don't refrain
Send incumbents down the drain
Socialism's come a knocking
Don't put your freedom up for hocking
Vote with me, brother, set the ship of state rocking
Say, "We're the free world; we'll take no mocking"
*Entry for the "Politically Educated" contest
Categories:
incumbents, political
Form: Rhyme
Washington in flux
Stimulus dollars squandered
Corporate big wigs laugh --
Ignorant approach rebuked
Voters cast out incumbents
Categories:
incumbents, political
Form: Tanka
Political Correctiveness
Republican Vs Democrat
Young man with a mind and a protestation unwinds.
Old man with bald head flying his sign .
There was almost a fight, but it was just summer heat in November.
No one was righter than wrong. Who has won?
There is no mystery to me.
The old mans affiliation was the sign in his hand.
The young man was fussing so obviously a member of the other
correctiveness political party.
He at least IS somebody.
Arguements keep untill elections are over.
Incumbents drink whiskey while losers just weep.
Who Won?
Sign painters paint the letters again on all of the doors of the offices.
After the voting is done.
Who Won?
Categories:
incumbents, confusion, imagination, urban,
Form: Free verse