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Short Despots Poems

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


Premium Member Stick Or Twist
two men two despots
in conclusion with a third…
the west over trumped

© Harry J Horsman   2022...

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Categories: despots, power,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member Easy Peasy
two men two despots
butters the western style bread...
the trap lays in wait

© Harry J Horsman   2022...

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Categories: despots, power,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Tyrants, Despots and Dictators
Tyrants, Despots and Dictators

remember it never ends well for tyrants, despots and dictators

4-13-22
Contest: Bite Size Poem No. 42
Sponsor: Line Gauthier...

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Categories: despots, irony, life,
Form: Monoku
To Higher Price To Pay
Keeping the lights on using your children's future as fuel
Give despots destruction on demand
Nuclear wastelands and contaminated land 
Desperate nations damning your descendants to nuclear decay...

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Categories: despots, environment,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member On Earth
There is more than the top music hit list 
Despots armed with a lethal poison twist 
Some say come down to their level 
Disguised, distort as the devil 
Or just do nothing if you get my gist. 

Entered 'Hit List' Contest
Sponsor  Joe Maverick 25/1/2023...

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Categories: despots, angst,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Euphoria
E-dging ever closer to a
u-niversal link between the
p-eople who oppose all
h-ateful despots who encroach
o-n precious freedoms be they
r-ight or left wing motivated spectres
i-n a world that watches daily with abhorrence
a-t the "moderates" who look the other way...

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Categories: despots, care, change, character, courage, deep, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Euphoria
E-dging ever closer to a
u-niversal link between the
p-eople who oppose all
h-ateful despots who encroach
o-n precious freedoms be they
r-ight or left wing motivated spectres
i-n a world that watches daily with abhorrence 
a-t the "moderates" who look the other way!...

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Categories: despots, care, corruption, courage, dedication, destiny, engagement, time,
Form: Acrostic
Founders Ink
Defense of freedom
takes a courage
rare and dearly won

Through wars endured
with tyrants scourged
and despots on the run

The words in place
by Founders Ink
on parchment
closely held

As children roam
the halls of light
with precepts
— deeply felt

(The New Room: February, 2025) 
...

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Categories: despots, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Imagine If No One Turned Up To Fight
Is it really to hard to imagine

It can if we don’t turn up for wars

Let the leaders and despots

Settle their own arguments and scores

Tell them they can no longer use us

We won’t do it like we have done before

Let’s no longer fight but focus on healing

Mankind’s wounds, scars and open sores....

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Categories: despots, deep, encouraging, imagination, peace, uplifting, violence, war,
Form: Free verse
Nelson Mandela
There was once a MAN;
An Iroko in a forest of shrubs,
A dew pond in a desert.
There was once a MAN;
A moral compass in a world
Where power is noble,
And greed a creed.
There was once a MAN;
He silenced the gun,
Shattered prison bars,
Ascended the throne, armed
With love and forgiveness,
And made despots jelly.
There was once a MAN:
NELSON MANDELA!...

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Categories: despots, death of a friend,
Form: Elegy
The Curtain Falls
The tyranny of the majority,
democracy oversold

The power of the people to cut and paste,
 fat cats in control 

‘Oh Ye Of Little Faith’ we are,
like rats inside a maze

Our government serving to best itself,
entitlement ablaze

The curtain rises for one last act,
this play now eons old

As despots steal the final scene
—where freedom’s bought and sold

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: March, 2021)...

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Categories: despots, abuse, political,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things