Rulers Poems

21st Century Emperor's

The emperors have no clothes on!
People are living in a trance
Psychologists like to call it cognitive dissonance
Perhaps even a carefully crafted chance
To see what isn't there, only to praise a hollow show,
While truth and reason disappear, common senses go.
It’s just simply a situation gone sad
I can’t help but wonder, have we been had or merely
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Categories: rulers, confusion, life, parody, peace,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTime 1984

Time is a funny thing,
time does not always seem real.
Governments and their rulers,
come and go.
Some are good to their people and country,
while others only destroy.
Can they be brought to their knees,
maybe ~ sometimes?
When we are living in today,
we have real time.
Can we now see or understand,
the many years that will come?
Then one day we awaken,
to
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Categories: rulers, books, life, time, today,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberPRAISE BE TO GOD WHO IS SOVEREIGN OVER ANY HUMAN RULERS OF GLORIOUS KINGDOMS

May 27 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Esther 1-3

Key Verse – Esther 1:4 When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.

PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO IS SOVEREIGN 
OVER ANY HUMAN RULER OF GLORIOUS KINGDOM	

Praise be to God
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Categories: rulers, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberIndividuals

Crowd is easier to be ruled
Than a bunch of individuals
So the rulers and their fools
Do behave collisional 
Towards anyone who is 
Much too independent 
Rulers flatter and appease
Fools come out resplendent
With their threats and accusations
But the individuals stand
By their own representations 
Truth moves on like shifting sands
On the coastlines where we strolled
When the world was
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Categories: rulers, analogy, character, political,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBig Impression


It isn’t the big celebrations,
Enormous dinners or huge gifts.
Parties never rouse foundations,
Jamborees or festivals.
It isn’t the life-sized creations,
Who impress kings, rulers or monarchs.

It’s the little things, a gentle expression,
When hearts meet in the deserts,
When dreamers discover their profession,
When simple reaches into the heart,
Pulls out a feeling, an impression,
The beautiful that inspires the light.

It isn’t in
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Categories: rulers, appreciation, confidence,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberRulers of Sky

sun
peers down
from sky and
often brightly
it beams until it
slides behind hills
when peeking 
out comes
moon
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Categories: rulers, sun,
Form: Ninette

Message To My Child

Son , keep my wise words for your  bright  future: As a future leader, privilege discipline in everything you will do. 
A ruler has  much power when his people are with him. Learn to understand the voices of the people you rule. A wise leader knows that power does not mean to control and ill
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Categories: rulers, children, encouraging, motivation, my
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAnnointed One

Oh, Annointed Ome, crowned this day, 
Whose beauty lights up the sky; 
Take over please as ruler now 
Before we elders die.  

We leave you all this Planet and 
Dark Universe beyond; 
Your word will travel far and wide, 
Like ripples on a pond.  

Our generation tires now, 
The baton we pass on;
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Categories: rulers, age, community, future, hope,
Form: Rhyme

The Rulers

Following the first thwack
we deduced that distance was
limited primarily
to unpredictable bursts of anger,
arbitrary chastisement factors.

The rule, all of its dozen commandments
plus the extra uncalibrated ends -
a fixed length, extended sufficiently
to bruise well beyond
its mere twelve inch reach.

Wood or Perspex the fractions stung,
minds began to compute escape
in eighths and sixteenths,

we understood that the rod, the yardstick,
probably
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Categories: rulers, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRulers of the World

Alexander the Great, Caesar and Napoleon too
   Through military conquest empires grew

Pulitzer's Fourth Estate ruled the modern world
   ~ 'til Zuckerberg Facebook, then Meta unfurled
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Categories: rulers, leadership, military, technology, world,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberRuler Over Rulers

Only God can see perfectly what is ahead four years up the road.                                          
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Categories: rulers, america,
Form: Political Verse

School Rulers

Rulers 
To be at schools 
Why at these fools?
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Categories: rulers, absence, abuse, character,
Form: Free verse

Pipes For Fortune's Fingers

To say no creature eats carcass
Is but mockery to you vultures and hyenas
I spit before your throne
You whose whips I have always known

Who drowned the fish in my rivers
And made barren the soil of my mothers
You who made my children slaves
And did leave me near my grave

You have broken my hardest coconut
And have cracked my
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Categories: rulers, africa, anger,
Form: Free verse

The Rulers

The rulers

The poor rule the world, live in badly built flats
buy plastic rubbish for the children as toys.
They can`t cook and their diet is fat and disgusting,
but without them, the rich would not be wealthy,
fewer cars on the roads full of potholes as there
would no one to keep the road drivable. 
And their big offices
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Categories: rulers, absence, adventure,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberThe Sixty-Four Rulers of the Yi Jing

The Sixty-Four Rulers of the Yi Jing

When chieftains uncrowned yearn to be enthroned
They either give their daughters to princes
Or invite other chieftains and have them poisoned
Some choose the war-path without hindrances

And lose their lives wives their land masses
In days of yore we call smirk as dark ages
Today’s chieftains also own land masses
Stars with stripes pedigree
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Categories: rulers, age, future, leadership, life,
Form: Quatrain

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