Short Mussolini Poems

The forties was a frightening decade in World History
thousands of youths  were forced to go to war 
to fight the evil that rose in Germany and Italy;
who was the worst dictator Mussolini or Hitler?...

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Benito Mussolini was known to folks in Italo as Il Duce.

   But they became disenchanted and hanged him with a noosey!

He was strung upside down with Clara Petacci his moll!

   'Twas an ignominious finale for his closing curtain call!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
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Creative souls flourish.

While others try to kill spirit of freedom . 

A fascist dictator cuts off the hair of the beloved Rapunzel. She no longer lets her hair down. 

Hansel & Gretel are locked inside a cage no more days of skim boarding or sunsets by the canyon. 

Walt Whitman is saddened by this oppressive state . 

Children are craving fun & imaginative experiences;  while an iron clad fist relishes in madness ....

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If you’re destined to be famous 
would you take it 
If being distinctly heinous 
Is how you make it 
Not a Sinatra or Monroe 
but a Hitler or Mussolini 
instigate an all time low 
death pain and misery 
Power mad to the bone 
Abusing humanity 
Famous but alone 
For the authority 
What’s fame if you’re evil 
Dangerous mad and lethal 
Admiration of the people 
Mentally weak and feeble 
Hitler was destined 
So was Churchill 
Fame your destination 
Would you still?...

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