Short Dissent Poems

Dissent and Commentary - what's so funny?...

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Teacher’s malcontent
With Legislators dissent
Ground breaking event

By Robb A. Kopp...

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Sons' (graves) crunch afoot;
my retch (rose) on pale marrow.
Late, this sun's dissent....

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The power of dissent
  —a true measure of our freedom

(Flagstaff Arizona: February, 2019)...

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Eyes gazed upon the truth
That coin so well disguised 
A tongue of dissent whipped
The Poet’s word un-prized...

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The red and black ants were much in dissent
Only with battle would they be content
One ant on a penny
Defeated many
Until he was grabbed and thrown off the cent!...

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a choice without voice
in mental friction
to quell warlord spells
with true conviction
that lies shall disguise
our benediction
as force changes course
towards interdiction....

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Coarse and contrived
Sterilized pride
Deaden

Absent and aloof
Formalized spoof
Leaden

Surly and wry
Hostilities nigh
Redden

Distrust and dissent 
Predestined event
Armageddon...

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Why People Do Dissent

You may be destructive being a dissident;
And you should obtain consent to dissent;
Not hit ceiling;
Be appealing;
Thoroughly understand what they meant.

Jim Horn...

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In the name of God, asphyxiate 
In the name of God, conquer
In the name of God, discriminate
In the name of God, ostracize
In the name of God, obey
In the name of God, suppress dissent...

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Hard Knocks do not 
Make better people.
Hard Knocks only push up
Dissent and heady persons.

Yes! Knock them 
When they are wrong
But then, not too hard
That they will never forget.

@chumammeka (a.k.a. Tchar) August 28, 2015...

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Modern Governance


Vote-bank thoughts and woes of dissent
Leave them lost mumbling  excuses
Making quick bucks their time well-spent
Leaving behind SCAMS in excess.


For  Gwendolen Rix’s  Chastushka form contest,  16th Feb 12...

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we engage in debate awhile
with the fundamentalistic eristic
he seeks to win and we are here for fun
head and heart lines do not intersect
what is truthful is not convenient 
so let the impasse remain
inked with compassion 

17-December-2022...

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Intrepid gadfly;
the voice of dissent.
Multiple times stricken,
multiple times resolved.
Though he bleeds,
still the pen that chides never bleeds,
nor is it obliterated.
For three decades and four,
death he evaded,
still, multiple times stricken,
evasive he remains....

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The ancient times,
Buried the Genesis 
Of today's psyches,
Recycled but deformed,
Stale and stinking- 
Evolutionary idioms?
The visual décor
And the packaging
Of rotten, 
Oh no, The heaven
Ruined with the billowing smokes,
Hiding the power of Sun,
Drumming the catastrophe....

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Slept and slumbered under the quinine stains we wept,
On a poignant bard’s weary nib we slept.
Yearned we to spill  on to paper,
Him caged sore thoughts for later.
Weeping words we lay folded,
On table, heart moulded.
Sorrowed dirge lament,We repent,..................dissent ...

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It’s coming, that time of the year,
to do up my taxes, I fear.
I shake with great fright
and toil through the night.
What’s owed is becoming too clear.

I regret the money I’ve spent
on food and the lights and the rent.
My cat needs a job;
a bank I may rob.
‘Twill do me no good to dissent.

Female - garnet...

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Below the Monument
A ripple stirred in the breeze.
A single wispy hint of discontent.
The whisper of things to come.
Of dissent.
The waters of Democracy moved.
The sleeping giant gathers composure.
Thought and feeling long forgot awaken.
The crack in the old bell strained.
A call to action....
To save our nation....

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Like a cashmere shawl  it envelops me
Stardust shining in my eyes so I cant see

It warms my mind so I can see through
the veil of dissent, letting right show true 

Stardust is sprinkled so love doesn't hide
when the magic makes two worlds collide

So get the net of life ready to catch the fall
of the rosy glow thats emitted to cover us all...

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before barristers
bone-busting brouhahas broached
barbaric bedlam

comely charwomen
cringed contemplating cruel
commonplace cudgelings 

dank dungeons deterred
disorderly drunken dolts
dissuading dissent

(Alliteration)


07/25/2020
Let the Pens Flow - Alliteration Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Jenish Somadas...

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Obama and Palestine  

Vidkun Quisling made 
Treason a name
Will president 
Hussein Barak Obama 
Go down in history 
As a coward
The man who shirked
His historic duty to
Make Palestine a free country?  
He has got it in his power
 If he stops listening to
The voices of dissent that 
Will never willingly give succor 
To the people they made homeless....

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praise the great leader 
eyes opened to nothing but light 
when you starve he still does right 
give your soul and its not enough 
he owns your mind 
dissent sends you to family camp 
fight for food with a rat 
praise the great leader 
have no fears 
mind washed cheers
praise the great leader 
numbing 
escape beyond 
and your families heads are gone...

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Little Troll

a little troll i said to she,
that is your friend, at work she be,
and then the dollars missing went,
and down the shop she went and spent,
ole johnson said it, see,
the nursing home cast her free,
and there was no dissent,
cept the Troll, she  wanted a wee,
beware some Trolls are bent....

Don Johnson

Re: The Trouble With Trolls
Debbie Duncan...

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Your screams have been heard. Attention drawn 
From all corners of earth. But like the parable of 
Christ, it falls on rocky ground. Growth grounded.
The envisaged
Struggle, 
Dissent, 
All - risible. 
Wait for sunlight if the moon doesn't 
Provide enough light to see your path. 
The sisyphean path of forlorn hassle. 
Your seed
Of protest
Will end on
Rocky path....

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INDIA 2014.

Inclusive and internalizing for ages
New-tech-nation of  Nirvana-seeking sages
Democratic but mired in dissent that rages.
Integrity its new ‘mantra’; equality
And liberty , watchwords , along with amity.

Inheriting a great heritage from a hoary past
Grabbing   modernity’s gifts, it is  growing fast.

Form: Acrostic
07 Apr 14.

For Kim Merryman's contest....

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