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TAX AFFAIRSThey question him about his tax.
Wrongdoing he denied.
They take a close look at the facts.
Some curious features hide.
For this man who sits in high place,
Let’s say he made mistake
And this way he avoids disgrace.
No further...
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Categories:
political,
Form: Rhyme
Hey Mr PoliticianHey, Mr. Politician, look,
Just look, what you’ve done
Stuck me back in combats
And carrying a gun,
Bayonet, spare mag,
Primed stun grenade
Sent to sort out the mess
You bastards have made.
I ain’t a fly boy
Whistling overhead
Not ever...
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Categories:
anger, betrayal, conflict, political,
Form: Rhyme
Government 101
In a democracy, the leader aligns himself with the people
In a theocracy, the leader aligns himself with God
In a bureaucracy, the people fall in line behind the...
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Categories:
leadership, people, political, satire,
Form: Rhyme
The ugliest american president
Views rather point to Nixon,
By far handsomer Jackson!
Nixon’s swollen cheeks did grieve
But views should this to me leave…
If Nixon owned ugly face,
Did the rest of him show trace?
A Beauty Judge would face praise
But owner ‘Not...
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Categories:
america, celebrity, people, political,
Form: Rhyme
Reagan and Hinckleys bullets
Some forty years back, in Time Magazine,
Saw I a narrow missing of bald head
By the bullets from Hinckley’s magazine
He had reserved for Ronald Reagan’s head,
Save that they had agreed about his ribs:
If Cowboy still...
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Categories:
america, fate, political, violence,
Form: Rhyme
The American WaySocial Commentary
Injustices in the land
Spreading like wildfire
Burning, burning down the wires
Of discrimination and bias at hand
While quick fixes are a way to go---
All this and more in the American...
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Categories:
america, discrimination, political, society,
Form: Free verse
Transition Town TimeIt was E. B. White
who famously lamented
Waking each morning
feeling prevented
from improving
his worldview experience
Or waking each morning
feeling joy
for improvements made
during views of Earth
sacred smack in Her
other wise dead head
inexperience
Or something
probably not so involved
but with the...
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Categories:
political, community, health, humanity, passion,
Form: Political Verse
Cry, AmericaIn the confusion
so confounding, A Confliction, everyone’s conviction - to voice, to reason,
and
nothing
changes.
A man was murdered today in the streets,
Tomorrow, next week,
next month a shooting-
a school, a grocery shop, holiday parade.
Why...
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Categories:
political, 11th grade, america, corruption,
Form: Free verse
The Kill List ConundrumA list of death, a roster of fear
In Ukraine, it's said to exist
But is it true, or just a smear
A tale of government twist
The names upon the list
Are they just teens and journalists
International citizens too
Their...
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Categories:
future, political, scary, society,
Form: Free verse
Begin transmissionIt’s a joke to be woke
You silly bloke
You’re listening to vile folk
Blinding you with political smoke
Dousing your brain
In a putrid soak
Of the evil, daft and deranged
Feeding you lunacy
Of the mundane
Its quite comical
And really insane
To believe...
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Categories:
political, america, corruption, culture, how
Form: Rhyme
Whipped InHe was a professor of difficult sums,
Thought in quadratic equations
And from the works of Lobachevsky
He could spew forth quotations.
But, he had a hidden secret,
Not a creature of the light,
Dressed in Robin Hood suit
He prowled through...
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Categories:
irony, political,
Form: Rhyme
Black White Yellow RedBlack, white, yellow, red, to the Fed we are just sheep for herding, those defiant put to sleep – know governments with evil have got into bed, knee-cap the rule of law, resulting in crime...
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Categories:
political, corruption, evil, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Daily BreadIs this the land fit for heroes
Promised by the Great War,
Or, just one where those with
Take ever more and more.
I’m just a working man
Brought up to accept
My lowly role in life
To treat with...
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Categories:
anger, betrayal, class, political,
Form: Rhyme
Empire Down
Sing this song of immortality
This rhythm of life and neuro fire
Feel the tone of deep oscillations
Taste of the song on tongues divided
The rise of empire building of the divine
The godhood of man at...
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Categories:
political, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,
Form: Free verse
defaultPoliticians ready to bet
Will play with the national debt
They think they control
How the dice will roll
But may cause a gambler’s regret
Authors note: Last time this happened, the Federal Government shut down and stopped making payments...
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Categories:
money, political,
Form: Limerick
Specific Types of Political Poems
Definition | What is Political in Poetry?