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Mother Jones Poems - Poems about Mother Jones


Move on over ole Joe

...Move on over ole Joe...

and let the youngbloods take the reins
infusing our promised land with hope.

You done good for America,
serving as laudatory President
from 2020 to the present
Vice ...
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Categories: mother jones, america, anger, anxiety, care,
Form: Free verse

Though a Democrat, I play the devil's advocate

...Though a Democrat, I play the devil's advocate...

after reading the article
(published in the July + August 2024
issue of Mother Jones)
titled Raging bull - Donald Trump's
pugilistic spokesman...
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Categories: mother jones, america, boxing day , celebrity,
Form: Rhyme



Omnipresent lurch toward authoritarianism

...The views and opinions herewith extemporized to spur discourse with me, or to be mindful when exercising the right to vote in the country of your existence, which expressed intimation predicated upon...
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Categories: mother jones, abortion, abuse, america, anger,
Form: Free verse

The Finis Sing Touches Touche

...The finis sing touches touché

Knead dull brows knitted; 
belief system I cogitate 
gearing thee ordinary bipedal hominid 
acquiesces to deck the halls 
of the mountain (dew) king with boughs 
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Categories: mother jones, 12th grade, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

Trifolium Pollinated Courtesy Bombus

...Trifolium pollinated courtesy bombus

Before landscapers mow swaths
across undulating waves of clover
(the father/daughter team
usually cut grass every Tuesday)
bumblebees alight from one to an...
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Categories: mother jones, 12th grade, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme



Disseminated Information

...Disseminated information...
(perhaps theme broached before, yes)?
(alternate title:The hunger for knowledge)

Whither hearing, vis (ideally,
liberal commentators I adore),
asper "NON FAKE") new...
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Categories: mother jones, addiction, america, desire, first
Form: Political Verse

I Seek the Uncensored Inside Scoop

...Akin to a journalist (hoofing
NOT huffing on the beat)
heedful, mindful, and pain fully aware, bleat
me, asper caveats help me set sights
tacking within parameters of lawfulness,

when questing...
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Categories: mother jones, addiction, adventure, anger, care,
Form: Free verse

Ii. Father Jones

...The passage was dark and damp
over a month locked inside a cell under the sea somewhere
but when Father Jones planted his feet back on solid ground
and saw the Statue of Liberty rising like a gree...
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Categories: mother jones, family, father, hope, life,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberNoonday Sun

...Noonday Sun

Suffering, so much suffering astounds,
Suffering brings us to our very knees,
And cries out to us in sleepless nights,
In the morning, fatigued and wrenched,
Begging for a reprieve...
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Categories: mother jones, faith, happiness, sadrain, rain,
Form: Ballad

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