Short Democracies Poems

He authors
Reverse democracies.
...

Read More

Members of the legion, warming up
Cold weather of the region, blowing up
Advocacies permeated and rolled with dice
Democracies under water, frozen like ice...

Read More

Overrun, overcome, overthrow
Victory is living out the day
Ethnic cleansing the result as
Reign of terror is the product of

Terrorism that spawns within dictatorship
Human annihilation by rebel armies in control
Extreme measures employed to halt third-world
Regimes acquiring a foothold in democracies, the
Enemy is looking in from over there my fellow
                   Countrymen, the enemy is at our gates....

Read More

2008

A year full of Wonderful dreams
Where there is a clarion call to answer
How many times called and answered
A year of successive democracies?
How successive?
A transition?
Where everything speaks freedom
From a time long ago in the mid millennium century
The year was 2008 where we were reborn
And we were levitated to another level of development and thought
The year was 2008
 
By Asangalisah Akantere Isaiah...

Read More

~ January 6, 2021 ~ 


What good can come
  from the malevolence of today
Our jaws dropped to the floor
  as insurrectionists held sway

Our faith in our institutions shattered
  and, yes, in ourselves too
To handle the transition of power
  like democracies do

Staying angry won't help
  Instead we can learn a couple of lessons
To run 'by the book,' tightly-supervised elections
  ~ and never to let anyone with our capitol be messin'...

Read More