Where Are They Now?
...In this country
Politicians line their pockets from back-door deals
Sports figures kneel with raised fist, and protest our flag
Hollywood celebrities exclaim they will leave our country
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Categories:
marchers, corruption, humanity, march, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Watchers in the Gloom
...To that shadowed city round
Come those that are sorrow bound
In their multitudes alas
Through a Terminus so vast
For a city grim enabling
Their eternal laboring
From the parapets looking down
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Categories:
marchers, death, humanity, judgement, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
They didn't march
...You say you care about people black and brown,
And victims of war in every Gazan town.
But I doubt your heart, here’s why I think it a trend,
For so many downtrodden you're no friend.
Slavery i...
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Categories:
marchers, horror, racism, war,
Form: Lyric
Migrating Culture Change
...Perhaps immigration is our big US national anxiety
because we don't know how to unilaterally abort
cancerous growth of matricide.
Too much to even think about
at a merely nationalistic level
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Categories:
marchers, earth, earth day, health,
Form: Political Verse
A Day at the Jewelry Exhibit
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Another day, another protest; who can count them all
This one in Vicenza, Italy, near a jewelry mall
Where Israeli exhibitors dared to show their faces
Trying to attract buyers in ...
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Categories:
marchers, appreciation, art, political, violence,
Form: Couplet
About Those Youthful Marchers You See --
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Over 50% of high school marchers
cannot identify the 'river'
and think it's the 'Carribean Sea'
Why pay the kids to march, Mr. Soros
their meaningless chants bore us
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Categories:
marchers, education, high school, money,
Form: Couplet
Tale of The Night Marchers
...It was a time of change for the islanders
a time of letting go
a time of ending things
a time of confusion
a time of saying no
a time when love died
It was a time of change for th...
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Categories:
marchers, abuse, allusion, america, analogy,
Form: Narrative
No Time For Talk
...The marchers are 'useful idiots'
chanting 'Palestine, from sea to shining sea'
Their apologists say they don't support Hamas
but the words in their chants betray them en masse
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Categories:
marchers, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
For Zoila On Her 80th Birthday
...For Zoila
on Her 80th Birthday
What a Special Day for Birthdays
They are like mile stones in flight,
Marchers along the highways of life.
Baby, child, teenager, young adult
Never statio...
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Categories:
marchers, birthday,
Form: Rhyme
Coronation Day
...A Cinderella chariot,
Eight horses in the lead;
Two heavy looking crowns that seemed
Uncomfortable, indeed.
A scepter and an ermine robe,
An orchestra and choir,
With all that pomp and herald...
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Categories:
marchers, london, today,
Form: Rhyme
Secret Heart
...True colors saturate the undeserving sky
Coloring the four corners of the earth with
Transcendence light and a glittering message of hope
Propelling the marchers as they walk by in the ninety
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Categories:
marchers, care, community, confidence, freedom,
Form: Narrative
Peaceful Violence Protest March
...Funny how
Eco-warrior's , marchers and so
called peaceful protestors
Love nothing more than when
one of their marches descends
Into fighting mindless thuggery and
random violence
So th...
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Categories:
marchers, slam,
Form: Free verse
Degradation
...Try to imagine being owned;
purchased and sold as property.
Ravaged by dogs for amusement;
and denied all your human rights.
Before banning racial protests,
try to imagine being owned....
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Categories:
marchers, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Quatern
The Pettus Bridge
...My friend and I walked across the Pettus
Unthreatened like marchers decades ago,
The peaceful river below hummed for us
A freedom song; we aren't free, although
The span is shorter than it use...
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Categories:
marchers, freedom, racism, river, water,
Form: Free verse
Crab Brigade
...crickle crackle stamp stamp stamp
tiny corpulent marchers track up the sand
crickle crackle wow wow wow
I stand back, watching them come
pincher alert...
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Categories:
marchers, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Free verse
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