Lawmakers Poems

Premium MemberNow, a Church Attacked

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     Lawlessness comes home to roost
        Israeli settlers’ troubles self-induced

     Fool ‘lawmakers’ look the other way
        for their crimes, settlers never pay

     Yet killing i...
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Categories: lawmakers, america, international, jewish, murder,
Form: Couplet

FOR ALL THAT IT'S WORTH

...FOR ALL THAT IT’S WORTH – BY HAMID SINCLAIR

In God… we find the godless.  
So-called transformers of faith—  
Neo-Decepticons, New Age ravers,  
Ravenous sheep… in wolf’s clothing.  

Hapless...
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Categories: lawmakers, america,
Form: Spoken Word


Florida, How Many New Law's does It Need Each Year

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The sun still spills on the oranges' skin,
Bright as the lies we bury within.
The sea is patient, the palms still sway,
But silence gathers at the edge of the bay.

How many rules must the war...
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Categories: lawmakers, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

The Blood Remembers

...In the shadow of Newark’s bricks and bones,
Where the pavement hums with moans,
Where mothers pray with open eyes,
And sons are born beneath gray skies—
The blood remembers. The land remembers.
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Categories: lawmakers, 12th grade, black african
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGuiding principles

...Laws

Laws, disciplines, norms; God’s laws, man-made social laws
What’s the first, what’s the important, or more important?
Excellent this question.  Priority? Hmm, there are atheists

What or ...
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Categories: lawmakers, fate, life,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberHappy Valley

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It was a strange and unexpected experience.  

Suddenly, I found myself in a place called Happy Valley. A man was on a park bench gazing upon the trees as if listening to a particular bird call. ...
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Categories: lawmakers, humanity, hyperbole, myth, rights,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberNational Day of Prayer

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So far, we have come since our birth.
So much favor and many blessings were tendered.
So many prayers of gratitude are yet to be rendered.
So many battles were lost and fortunately, some wars ...
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Categories: lawmakers, america, prayer,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGun Addicts Despair

...Gun addicts sad and looking glum
                       No lives were lost to guns today -
                       No tallies to add to their sums,
                       No reaper swaths with live...
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Categories: lawmakers, america, death, destiny, holiday,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTotal Unity

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  Whether secular, religious, or 'just-let-me-be'
    Sefardi, Ethiopian, or Ashkenazi

  90% of my fellow Israelis agree
    today in Israel there's 110% unity

  Behind this statistic lies ...
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Categories: lawmakers, history, humor, jewish, war,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberThe Unsupervised Stop Sign

...I remember being ticketed twice for running a stop sign.
The first was for not realizing that there was a stop sign.
The second was willful because I was driving a car with a
bad battery, and was ...
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Categories: lawmakers, people,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTears Are Flowing In My Eyes For Haiti Again

...Haiti is a country that I love dearly
That's where I was born
That's where I took my first healthy breath
That's where I had my first inspiration
That's where I saw the first birds
There I saw t...
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Categories: lawmakers, abuse, corruption, emotions, future,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy Thoughts On Smash and Grab

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My Thoughts On
Smash & Grab
Miracle Man
8-15-2023

Some big cities now enforce a change in their law,
which allows an enclave to freely smash and grab.
What offenders deserve is some...
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Categories: lawmakers, how i feel,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberThe Way of the World

...The once mighty have fallen,
Their ashes fills the air.
The new martyrs have risen,
Bringing tears of despair.

Behold the cold lawmakers,
They cast a shadow of doom.
Perched on lofty towers,
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Categories: lawmakers, world,
Form: Rhyme

Bigots and Racists Will Persist

...truthful and sincere
in right direction steer
honesty appear

a real earth shaker
they expelled two lawmakers
by fools and fakers

when they were expelled
bigots heads had been all swelled
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Categories: lawmakers, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberLegislators Are the New Mill Owners

...JUSTICE

They stare out at us unsmiling
from tintypes of the first photographs,
from the tea-colored pictures 
of thin, ragged immigrants, huddled 
in cold bare rooms in tenements,
children cl...
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Categories: lawmakers, anger, angst, feelings, humanity,
Form: Free verse

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