Politicking Poems - Poems about Politicking

OF FOOD AND WARRING: A TANKA QUINTET

...OF FOOD AND WARRING
(A TANKA QUIENTET)

Juxtaposed bombs fall…
Food’s down, starvation rising…
Death…collateral…
Thus, war’s new reaping of death:
Food uprooted and destroyed:-

Food’s an en...

There Was a Time

...There was a time
in days of yore
perhaps far back
before a cave had
a door – when faith
was everything

Before we thought
we knew, and dreams
and prayers more mattered

There was a primiti...

Panagiota and Nursing School Memories

...
                Panagiota and The Autopsy


An autopsy, I found, educational to the max!
Those sacred, holy,human body parts, being 
removed part by part.
Weighed on a scale, as if in a l...

The Shakahola Massacre

...Be Not Afraid 
When God Says so
everything is  permitted
The genocide on screens 
was sanctioned from heaven 
800 acres 800 graves
In the name of God 
Their Journey was hastened 
The heavens ...

We Are Victims

...We are victims
Tied with  common fetters 
Loosed in thoughts of varied choices and desires
Loosely searching to make ends meet:
The meeting at this spot,
Either to go or stay, is a choice.

We...

Murmuration of Starlings High

...Murmuration of starlings high. I’m high!
Low stars twinkling with wings. The trumpet’s call!
As winds of war, incline, in warm wind sigh,
the flock, a shock, sans enemies appall.

These friends ...

A Never Ending Story

...Besides love and happiness
The world is full of sufferings
Political crisis, economic crisis, epidemics and poverty
Slanders, violations, crimes and trafficking
Politicking,  hegemony, disputes a...

Halt, Listen and Ponder

...Mankind,humanity,the human race
Please don't always listen to your own hearts
Your endless desires
Your greeds
Your ignorance
Please halt and listen to other people and other things
To the natu...

Speechless

...Chaos and riots
Epidemics and wars
Confusion like tornado hurricane
Confinement, speechless, quiet, calm, rest and unspoken words 
However people are drowned in the sounds of nature
Rattle of th...

Politics

...Politics is a mutual confrontation
To gain status, power and influence
Is not that simple
Sometimes out of logics
No sympathy
Only politicking
No discussion
Only debate
No laws
Only conspira...

If Ever I Had To Have a Country Victim of Pedophily:Lxxxiv

...If ever I had to have a country victim of pedophily : LXXXVI

[Note: 216,000 cases of pedophily, perpetrated by the clergy, have been recorded by the Catholic Church in France since 1950.]

If...

Indices of a Loon

...GOODLUCK 

Gutless muffled monarch wooed millions to the poll,
Oozing pathetic speech of poverty (I once had no shoes) 
On congruent grounds we let him, though we hate...

Clocks Ticking To Politicking

...(Read later stanzas for more of the humour part ; parody of politics)

I Can't think well of a democracy
if nepotism and false promises
are part and parcel of its idiosyncrasy
A system of govern...

Killed In Chicago, 8 Years Old

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  ~Who  Was She~


The little girl shot to death?
I hear this and lose my breath.

Didn't you ever think of this?
Her Mother has no child to kiss!

No longer a h...

We Are Graduates

...We have graduated from many prestigious tertiary institutions,
With flying colors,
Competent and resourceful,
But we are roaming around the streets, homeless, penniless and jobless.

We have bee...

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