Long Ballot box Poems

If I ruled the whole wide world there's so much that I would change
I wouldn't be Mr Popular and they'd think me somewhat strange
First thing to go would be nuclear arms they would all be...

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I have counted to ten a hundred times but I cannot get this thing off my mind, it has consumed my space and has taken over every aspect of the human race. It started out...

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Having and holding onto a Godly nuclear family today is becoming increasingly difficult to do so! If you can home school your children. Find a good Christ-centered Christian school either on-line or in person. What...

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America had a Godly foundation, which is why thus far. That Jesus Christ has only been allowing remedial judgement upon our beloved nation. Our nations' enemies are the bully nations of the world. They know...

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And so I ponder my frailities as give giveness to the/they that are in response to my/your parental misgivings, the way windward wade their roughened cinder complexities confided to an annotated disgfiured desire-repost postured, annotized...

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Electorate on tenterhooks until...
outcome of 2020 presidential election announced

Polling places slated to open seven o'clock
in the morning November third two thousand twenty
heightened tensions will strain patience
to breaking point concerning
extreme anticipation common joe experiences
(biden his/her time)
regarding...

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I turned 18 in 1967 at a time when I could not vote because the required age was 21. The age requirement was lowered to 18 on July 5, 1971. I turned 22 in September...

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Red power mode
White digital
Blue logo

My, oh my ...
sweet apple pie!
Patriotic American cheese is turning sour Kraut commie
Democracy is Wisconsin curdling ... penicillin shot
needed between the ailing ballot box,
sho’ ain’t Louisiana Purchase forthcoming

Lady Liberty is bowing...

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If you were to find an old 
calendar, strap it to a hospital 
bed,
tie it down by its weak ends, 
and then sea section the belly 
of it's pages, you'd find the 
winding roads of...

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(Part 5 of 5)

And no more your kids will get a chance above mine 
Because at my work I’ve never even met the bosses

You see we were able to hold our own before 
And keep...

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O yes.  They still knock on my door during the election season.
They are rather bold, especially when they ask, “For whom are you voting?”
I do not mind sharing my opinions and views, but please...

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My dad's large hand would swallow mine
as together we would walk to the voting line
See neighbors and friends from everywhere
waiting patiently in line with a duty to share
Young man are you going to vote today
more...

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Watching through the 
screen, 
A large-mouthed god 
flutters flag for the 
defeat in the ballot box 
And ordered the dove 
whose glory was stolen 
To seek haven in the 
external palms. 
What is constitutional 
council...

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Well, so they tell us-
the political gladiators and
heavy weights. That in permanent
servitude we must remain.

They create a void in our stomachs,
which they momentarily fill with
what they carted away from us.
Just for their self will and...

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“These are the times that try men’s souls.  The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves...

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In a land where kings once ruled, a new voice emerges at dawn. It's a quiet call, but clear, a reminder of a duty reborn.

A young person hears the echo on sacred ground, whispering stories....

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It's hard to live in
A world where
People, en masse
Accept this mandated schedule... 
An indoctrinated philosophy
From birth until death
Abiding by beliefs
Of ancient times!
Tell me, where's the upheaval
The unrest for revival
A rebirth of progressive thinking.

I cry inside,...

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BRITISH POLITICS



I did well not to get involved with politics;
I saw through local councillors
With their holiday homes in the Highlands.
I gave New Labour the slip and went canvassing
For the Love Spirit.
Like Big Ben, I looked...

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The Road to the Ballot Box – In Memory of the 1989 June Fourth Movement in Tiananmen 
Square, Beijing

Up high, the portrait of Chairman Mao looms
Over the ballot box, wrapped in chains of doom
Beautiful as...

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Thought Police

Be careful what you say, 
be careful who you say it to. 
It might be heard... 
by someone that does not like it!

They will come to your door, 
and even the score, 
even if...

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keep up the momentum! 

for those that are finally in the streets
keep up the momentum!
for those that have come to the conclusion that something must be done to stop the greed that is strangling the...

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(sung to the tune of Dolly Parton's “Jolene”) lyrics by: Medgar Fallon Roe

Obscene! Obscene! Obscene! Obscene!
Trump Administration is obscene!

Obscene! Obscene! Obscene! Obscene!
Trump’s words are all obscene!

Late in January oh so cold
A pandemic was foretold
Trump ignored...

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...iii.
What would the ballot box say, if the ballot box spoke? 
What would the ballot box relay if the ballot box wrote?

Would it, scream blue murder, and expunge the air from its lungs.
In honor of all of the injustices, and all of the wrongs.
Would it collapse weak, and weep?
Then release details of murders it had had to secretly keep.
The murders at the ballot box.
Or would it be a witness that's been silenced, with signs of bruises and knocks.
Or maybe a freedom fighter fearlessly exposing the lies,
Fighting with such fire in its belly, and just truth in its eyes. 
Shining light in the dark places of electoral fraud,
Where the electorate is owed a deficit when an election is flawed.
Where against an orchestral background of human progress, you can hear the odd struck dissonant notes of dissent and discord.

What would the ballot box say; would the ballot box bawl?
Would any of this be any different if this could even happen at all?
But because the ballot box is silent, even when democracy stalls.
The ballot box, same as ever will continue to take the fall. 

*Extract from poem - Murder at the Ballot Box

Mike Concise © 2015
www.mikeconcise.com...

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"THREAT TO DEMOCRACY"

Democracy has a different meaning 
It depends on where you are leaning 
There's always a cost for freedom 
Your price is based on what you want to pay 

People generally take life for...

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A speaker stands upon a hill, he talks of change and hope
And while you're at the ballot box he's knotting up a rope.

A general kills another man whose children scream and cry
And while you watch...

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