Short Democracy Poems

Short Democracy Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Democracy by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Democracy by length and keyword.


FALSE BALLOT



            

          We vote for our lives,
     not for fictional speeches...
            of "democracy"...!
Form: Senryu


Mandela

Tanka 
Our democracy,
Bought by the highest bidder,
Is an empty word 
We do not need elected crooks
We need a new Mandela
Form: Tanka

Premium Member CORRUPT POLITICAL MONEY-STRINGING

Unelected billionaire,
Puppeteering the POTUS...
Money-stringing corruption:
A democratic country,
Lunching its democracy:-

Plastic Democracy

A plastic card melts inside a plastic bin
honoring the architecture of our structure
the gold leaf house we must build, democracy.
Form: Senryu

The Necessity of Jesus Death

The Necessity of Jesus’ Death

He has to die,
To keep the government together, or we will sigh.

I will cry,
Democracy will bye.
Form: Monorhyme


democracy


          


         Democracy is so democratic,
      it allows enemies to speak ill of it,
         even wanting to destroy it.

Premium Member Why Church Not a Democratic Organization

Democracy operates on the principle
That all power comes from people
Church power comes from Father Christ
Church has hierarchical structure
Form: Quatrain

Voting Time

Generations of waiting
needing and wanting a vote
Dictator ousted; long
long polling queues, many thousands
wait nine hours, it matters not.

Premium Member Electoral College Is a Spoof

Electoral College is proof
Many have grown long in the tooth.
Some votes do not count.
Hurt feelings soon mount.
Democracy is our big spoof.

Premium Member Nay, Mister Tangerine Man

Rise up and ignite the freedom fire
Save Democracy before it's gone
Republic about to be Empire 
Orange Julius crossing Rubicon
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member POLITICAL NEPHROLOGY

POLITICAL NEPHROLOGY  

Today’s politics,
In need of dialysis:
Filtering out bigotry:-
Otherwise, democracy 
Will soon be totally gone:-
Form: Tanka

Extraordinary Arrogance

when someone comes 
to you with so called democracy 
and racism, 
it is extraordinary 
arrogance to never 
accept in life.  

August 31/2023

Premium Member TODAY'S POTUS' RED LAVA

TODAY’S POTUS’ RED LARVA  

Making The Nation
Great Again, he’s erupting
Our democracy:
Oppressive lava flowing
Hot power-mongering blood:-
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Afraid for Democracy

     Some of afraid for democracy
        Others, afraid of it

     What with today’s 24/7 hypocrisy 
        My advice is ~ Just shove it
Form: Rhyme

Et Tu Democracy

Stimulus check… 
blood diamond
from a failed November, 
Payment
to a dark tomorrow,
Bribery 
—for a future stole

(Dreamsleep November, 2020)

Test

I
One test of the heart of democracy: test Trump's respect for rules

II
If we want power at any cost, we seek company with Saddam, Amin, Jackson.
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Voting and Democracy

Deadlier than bullets ballots become if the interests of the few and not of the many serve!






(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
        25 October 2016
Form: Monoku

Premium Member TODAY'S POLITICAL BIRTH CONTROL

TODAY’S POLITICAL BIRTH CONTROL

They aborted love,
Defertilizing justice:
Birthing injustice:-
Oppression pregnant again:
Democracy miscarried:-
Form: Tanka

Baroque Catechism of Betrayed Democracy

Wills with broken wings
Manufactured poverty
Statistical facts of truth
Strategic lies of promises

All are carried by the Owl
On its back to the masses

Premium Member Checks and Balances

A system of checks and balances
  Is the fulcrum of democracy

Governments write many checks
  But their budgets never balance

   ~ So how about plutocracy
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member IN THE PILLARING OF LIFE

IN THE PILLARING OF LIFE   

Be a pillar
Of peace and love;
Supporting justice 
And equity:
Foundations 
Of democracy;
And it’s roofing 
From above:-

Premium Member Insurrection

There once was a king who told lies, 
like a moth chasing gaslight they rise, 
ever drawn to the flame, 
unaffected by shame, 
true democracy labors and sighs.
© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member democracy

democracy

is best not defined

but seems to point

to an equality

beyond all knowing

and in the story

of relationships 

may seem as

enlightenment

Irony: Your Manifest Destiny

A democracy, tainted unto it's very core....
Hypocrites standing atop Christianity's podium waving
Fist in the face of, Heaven's Messiah: brazenly mocking, love's light ?
Form:

Unknown - Cloned

if my opinions 

are your views

and your views 

are my opinions

then what’s the point of me...? 

a symbiotic clone 

ripe for the picking

in a bi-partisan democracy.

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