New Zealand is more progressive and fair than most nations
in 1893, she was the first country to give women the right to vote.
a right that makes sense in every country except America.
where your vote might never count,
until the electoral college is abolished.
an archaic system that ensures the wealthy get more say
New Zealand looks better than ever these days.
a democracy is so much more appealing than a republic.
Categories:
right to vote, political, usa,
Form: Free verse
To the social media managers, admins and for those of you who post,
Writers, editors, chaplains, parents and educators from coast to coast.
Our freedoms aren't granted by just one faith's might,
But by those who serve and have served for every American’s right.
They fought for the right to vote for the candidate of our choice,
For every American’s right, to have a voice.
No matter the color of their skin, their age or sexual preferences,
Atop each Vets headstone you’ll discover a variety of religious references.
From every religion, every spiritual path,
It’s our Soldiers who continue to face the aftermath.
Not just the Christian, the Hindu, the Jew,
The Muslim, the Buddhist, to name but a few.
Our military's color is not black, white, or tan,
It's the color of FREEDOM, our Vets the Sacrificial Clan.
It’s RACE that disconnected us, RELIGION that separated us,
POLITICS divided us, and our WEALTH has set us apart.
Please remember this truth as you post from afar,
Our unity's strength makes us who we are.
For the military's color is but ONE, it's clear,
It's the color of FREEDOM that we all hold dear.
Categories:
right to vote, discrimination, freedom, veterans day,
Form: Rhyme
Quote by Thomas Paine
“ I prefer peace! But if trouble must come, let it come
in my time, so that my children, can live in peace.”
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It really is up to us, to vote with a very clear mind.
To vote to stop free speech is anything but kind!
To force a nation, to take unsafe vaccinations?
In our Republic, is purely, such mindless ruination.
Every legal citizen has a blessed right to vote.
Sneaking over borders, an illegal is no antidote.
America is a Republic not just a mere democracy.
And, yes, you can become rich, this is no aristocracy!
With guaranteed rights, we don’t live in anarchy
It is up to you to prevent any evil slaveogracy.
Caring citizens do vote to put another in office..
Wrong choices are their fault~so be very cautious!
Every voter should take their own moral inventory!
Before casting excuses, and creating zany stories.
A sad scenario, if you boast that you don’t vote at all.
Don’t you know, you are contributing to the USA’s downfall?
@Panagiota Romios
8/25/2024
Categories:
right to vote, destiny, freedom, inspiration, society,
Form: Rhyme
Our right to vote is a blessing
If not,
To whom to vote is a big question
Categories:
right to vote, corruption, emotions, environment, evil,
Form: Free verse
So we were told, Just like the Song we sang
"Twinkle twinkle little star"
But the stars are dim
So we keep wondering
And now, we are in a wander land
You have right to vote
and to be voted for
But I can't remember the last time
They used the count
While we raise our voices in secret
To speak our minds
The only voice we hear is
"This is Nigeria, get use to it"
I don't believe in this, but we are living in it
They make the rule and break
They take the treasures to hides
They make patrol with it
All we do is to wave at their vans and say
"They are eating our money"
Even the one we thought
would make the Change
Wears his glasses to say
" They are now in chains"
They all come in like youths
With their ages reduced
Only to steal the goods
And forget the youths
Who are the pillars for real
If the pillar is weak
Then the house will fall!
#Bitterbutbetter
Categories:
right to vote, anti bullying, confusion, corruption,
Form: Political Verse
When I mark my ballot
I make certain of the ink...
it is always red to me!
Each stroke, a limb –
each downward pressure
an attempt at stopping
the bleeding, a bullet
having found the torso,
but never the true heart
of a Freedom
loving patriot.
Know what goes into the
right to vote...and leave
that booth shaking with
such honor others sacrificed
their very lives to selflessly
give you....
Categories:
right to vote, freedom, independence day, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Peeping down through
the closed blind,
reflecting moon spy-tease
the created mind;
manipulating the running
of ebony-hued time,
trying to canvas a poem
with lines that rhyme.
Now if you knew how to rap,
this would be a snap
but it’s not so easy
in the wee hours, without a nap.
Yet, when you’ve survived
the trials of another day,
It’s not really that hard to scribe
what you need to say.
Here in the home of the brave
and the land of the free,
we have yet to cave
racism and abject bigotry.
While cold war debates
continue their drum major runs,
sacred lives remain victims of hate
and free-firing lawless guns.
No longer can we let the fearful minority
keep us in such dire calamity.
Like the ancestors dead and gone,
we too must fight against evil and wrong;
rising up and claiming our prized liberty.
Let us not leave coming generations
without worthiness and high hope.
Let us not insult our ancestral patrons
who fought and won the right to vote.
Categories:
right to vote, allegory, hate, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Moon Tuning…
Peeping down through
the closed blind,
reflecting moon spy-tease
the created mind;
manipulating the running
of ebony-hued time,
trying to canvas a poem
with lines that rhyme.
Now if you knew how to rap,
this would be a snap
but it’s not so easy
in the wee hours, without a nap.
Yet, when you’ve survived
the trials of another day,
It’s not really that hard to scribe
what you need to say.
Here in the home of the brave
and the land of the free,
we have yet to cave
racism and abject bigotry.
While cold war debates
continue their drum major runs,
sacred lives remain, victims of hate,
and free-firing lawless guns.
No longer can we let the fearful minority
keep us in such dire calamity.
Like the ancestors dead and gone,
we too must fight against evil and wrong;
rising up and claiming our prized liberty.
Let us not leave coming generations
without worthiness and high hope.
Let us not insult our ancestral patrons
who fought and won the right to vote.
Categories:
right to vote, allegory, america, analogy, inspirational,
Form: Prose Poetry
We are struggling to just
Stay above the water.
It feels like we are
Being led to the slaughter.
Every day we fight our
Inner demons.
Going with the flow and
Changing with the seasons.
From the beginning,
Women have been abused.
Beat-up, broken bones,
Battered, and bruised.
A fundamental right has been
Stripped away.
The republicans, a sleight
Hand of foul play.
There is no room
For religious fanatics.
It does not matter if you are,
White, black, Asian, or, Hispanic.
120 years ago, women
Had no right to vote.
You dictate our bodies,
The same as cutting our throat.
Maybe you should walk away,
Leave this alone.
Caution, pretty women can
Become the old crone.
Brings to mind;
Be careful what you ask for.
We are more than
Prepared for the war.
Maybe it's more like,
Pandora's box.
Remember, we're from the
School of hard knocks.
Turbo1904 ?
Categories:
right to vote, political,
Form: Rhyme
There once lived a lady in Scranton
Named Elizabeth Cady Stanton
She dared to promote
Women’s right to vote,
‘Tis said she threw many a tantrum.
written January 14, 2022
Categories:
right to vote, history, humor, voice, woman,
Form: Limerick
You know that it’s the
Beginning of the end
When the capital of the United States
Was siege by a gang of protestors
Who was willing to do anything
To get their point across
Which we’ve seen happen in
Other countries, not the U.S.A
It’s the beginning of the end
When senators viciously attacked
Each other, Some took an oath
To protect this country, but found
Themselves involved in beginning of a downfall
The violence sending out shock waves out
Around the world
You know it’s the beginning of the end
When people prefer war instead
Of peace, and no one wants to
Follow an order to help save lives
From a virus that seems to be man made
There are laws in this country
And in life, that you have to
Abide by, because everyone has
To answer to a higher up, no exceptions
You know it’s the beginning of the end
When your thoughts and opinions
Even your freedom of speech is challenged
Also your right to vote
With that being said
When another country can try
To dictate what happens in
Your country, is an ending
From all that has happen
This country will never be the same
Let's pray
Categories:
right to vote, environment, feelings, how i
Form: Free verse
Beaten down for centuries
Splattered in newsprint for all to see
It has been that way ever since
they came from Africa on hollowed ships
Enslaved, raped, hanged, broken
Traded for sins unspoken
Successful towns burned to the ground
Wiped from the maps never to be found
Protestors marched as sons and daughters were shot
Police bullets took lives without a mere thought
The unarmed men and women trying to survive
in a country who ruled they had no right to life
Battered and beaten, black lives shattered
Skin color, if Black leads to lives in tatter
Equal Pay? Equal rights? Do Black lives really matter?
Republicans gerrymandering to silence their rights
Statesmen cloaked scheming through dark days and nights
The front of their neck rests the white man’s knee
trying to gasp out the words “save democracy”
Ignoring their foes
they showed up in droves
Standing in line
No concept of time
Wind howls, rain pour
the right to vote has never been yours
Categories:
right to vote, america, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
I’m an “Other”
By George W. Clever-------10 November 2015
I’m an “other” how about you
Are you an “other” too?
Our Congressman asked for my opinion on his officious form
Questions about federal budgets, deficits and ****
What did I think about ISIS and fair taxes?
Would I choose gun control, baby killings or free college classes?
It would only take fifteen minutes he promised
To complete the survey so he could keep Congress honest.
Filling each and every circle
Until my pencil gripping fingers turned shades of purple.
Support a cut in Medicaid?
No more Senior raises in boxes soon they’ll be laid?
Give illegals the right to vote?
Make marijuana a legal tote?
English language must be spoken?
Attacks on Christians are not a joke?
Health care for all?
And who will pay?
At last the political questions were at end
Just fill out the last questions about me and send
Address zip code and age were easy
The next question made me queasy
Could not ask my deceased Father or Mother
White- Black- Hispanic- Asian or Other?
No American Indian I suppose
Categories:
right to vote, abuse, america, bible, family,
Form: Didactic
North
Korea's
Pillsbury doughboy
is at it again whipping up
rhetoric and rockets and mayhem
this time with evil little sister behind him
looking for the wrong kind of attention
maybe its time for the big show down
slap his chubby face with a crowbar
watch the people rip him to shreds
as the dough pours out of his head
after he's laid into the devil's nest
the people can start to living again
a right to vote,freedom of speech
isn't freedom of religion a peach
Martin Luther King had a dream
we pray it'll free North Koreans
light another torch to democracy
commies are blight to world peace
Categories:
right to vote, basketball,
Form: Political Verse
A Statement
When I was young,
my Aunt burned her braw.
She fought for rights,
for me, and my daughter(s),
that I had no idea,
I did not have.
Voting,
equal pay,
the chance to say,
what is important.
A woman's view,
to add a lighter touch,
to partisan screams.
Sadly only human,
not always right,
not always wrong.
Graceful dedication,
to the truth about our land.
We the people,
together we stand.
The right to vote,
and make a difference,
important to one and all.
Citizens that feel the same,
about freedom,
and the lack of it.
Categories:
right to vote, america, angel, corruption, judgement,
Form: Free verse
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