Uplifting Political Poems

He's the one promotes,
He's the one demotes on when,
The affairs of men....

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Divisive, abusive, hollow and torn,
Our politics broken through anger and scorn,
More pointing of fingers, of turning one's back,
Is this the new norm, our thorny new...

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May the *House of Cards* fall 

Crumble, try to catch the ball but fumble

May it trip down the stairs, a clumsy stumble

Tumble down old ways,...

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A country where people help one another
  Where everyone calls the other his brother
A country with less intrusive government
  Where politicians require the...

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It feels surreal- this year that we have faced.
     The start of a new decade should have been
uplifting with fine goals...

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everyone says to go vote
a heavy weight we all tote
forced to choose 
does it even matter who will win
who will lose
do the results mean we...

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UNITED WE STAND

United, We Stand;
One indivisible African nation,
Nurturing, growing, developing, expanding, impacting, uplifting.
We stand, we tower, we rule.

We are Africa;
Nigeria, Liberia, Algeria,
Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, 
Libya,...

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A country divided
Depressing but true
Leadership wanting
By both Red and Blue.

Faction's aplenty
Each shouting loud
The noise overwhelming
Fomenting the crowd.

Cities in uproar
Police under siege
Anarchists aiming
Our culture to breach.

The...

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The main currents of thought
are feelings 
about relationships,
positive
and negative climates,
sometimes obscured
confused
by double-binding negatives
incuriously set aside
as merely bad news
and systemic evils

Like racism
applied to oneself
as victim of...

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Somewhere in Africa, is a land blessed with nature:
Valuable gemstones beneath earth’s crust,
A fertile soil nurtured by divine tears from above,
And a blazing smile of...

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Mine fervent aspiring political activism...

Gunning gusto, (while rosy axles grind)
for Bernie Sanders dagnabbit
nipped in figurative bud triggered zilch
prospects to germinate, 

cultivate, and amalgamate
late blooming spore...

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people standing in a crowd
people very loud
people standing alone
watching brother and sister pigeons
defile the earth
ting on them

moving away cooing
quietly
and quickly
backwards 
being 
pigeons

mucking around
in the 
until...

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Are we guardians of what’s right
Of fairness, integrity and zeal,
On our shoulders does truth rest,
With commitment of pure steel.

Is history not a knowing guide
That lights...

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Republicans and Democrats
Garnet red versus deep blue,
Each locked in daily combat,
No quarter given and none due.

A dysfunctional community,
A family in strife,
This land of opportunity
With anger,...

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It makes me sick to my stomach with the lies we're fed
I've made mistakes and one day I'll lie in my own bed
It's time to...

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