Short Protests Poems

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Premium Member 86 47

May day we protest
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           execrate unrest








MAY DAY protests
5/1/26
© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu


Premium Member Yes Dear

I’m trying to write like a bard
She asked me to go dig the yard
Though protests were made
I picked up a spade
I grinned when the ground was too hard
Form: Limerick

Honoring Liberty

There is no debate,
what we celebrate.
Formation of the state,
never racial hate.

Former colony,
freed from monarchy.
Honoring liberty,
not inhumanity.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member It's Not Whether You Win or Lose - O, Dang, Yes It Is

         Pony-up, you owe the money
           Your protests, not even funny

         When you win, we pay up fast
           The about-face ~ What a contrast
Form: Couplet

Premium Member It's Love


Love joins
Two hearts.

Swiftly
It starts.

Not found
In marts.

True love
Builds nests.

Endures
All tests.

Cares not 
Protests.



8th place
Form: Footle


Life Has No Whys

The wind asks,
rainfalls,
mouth shuts,
leg walks,
sole prints,
age perishes,
the skin remain asides,
destiny fight protests,
life has no whys,
but remain with who's.
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member Footle Miscellany

TWEETED LOVE NOTE:
Sweet
Tweet

COMEDIC SPOUSE:
Funny
Honey

UNRULY PROTESTS:
Rabble
Babble

SMART-ALEC FLOOZY:
Lippy
Chippy

HEMATOLOGY:
Bloody
Study

WATERFALL:
Mountain
Fountain

2/26/13
Form: Footle

Premium Member The Lady Protests

The lady doth protest too much, methinks‘
(Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2)

By Shakespeare


cold snowy day
Clint Eastwood marathon on the tube
honey-do list not done
my wife complains all day

Premium Member A Howling Wind

A howling wind
Playing castanet leaves
Rattles the trash cans
Ruffles the squirrel’s tail
Limits avian air traffic
Spins fallen leaves
Into street corner protests
Under the riffle of an unseen flag

Am Confused and Confessed

Am Confused and Confessed

Are confused and things must be confessed;
Trump had refused to do what we did request;
Dissension in ranks;
Uncertain in banks;
End result was a long period of many protests.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Work Smarter Not Harder

It is ridiculous to think that being peaceful implies weakness.

If you want your peace, you must be willing to fight for it.

As in protests.

If you want to lead a war, you must be a pacifist.

As in manipulation.

Premium Member Blackbird Jungle

pink,pink
persistent
protests proclaim
pussy purrs content with
his game-
on his
veranda
with much disdain-
I'll siesta here 'til
it rains

Note: We are vacation-sitting our daughter's cat this past fortnight or so
Form: Cinqku

Premium Member Give Them a Little Time

      soft and spoiled
         devices well-oiled

      spoonfed babble
         in protests, they dabble

      convictions untested
         by reality bested

      today’s mudslingers ~
         tomorrow’s right-wingers
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Seattle Peaceful Protests Intensified

'Peaceful Protests Intensified' --

  So the morrow's headlines certified
  But how'd reporters turn blind eyes
  To fire-bombings that terrorized
  a downtown stunned and traumatized
  Why was ugly violence euphemized
    ~ as 'Peaceful Protests Intensified'
Form: Monorhyme

No Soup For You

Jerry and friends, whose humor never failed,
Ended nine years on air by being jailed.
Left viewers feeling blue
Without "No soup for you!"
Most fans were angry. Their protests emailed.




April 2, 2022
On A Lim Contest
Sponsor: Joseph May
TV sitcom: Seinfeld
Form: Limerick

Premium Member So Stupid and Foolish

   Hamas and Jill Stein
   perpetrate great crimes
     co-promote genocide, these two
     against all Christians and Jews...  

   Jill Stein protests: She’s Jewish!
   Yet she is a Jew so stupid and foolish
     to let herself by Jew-hating terrorists be used
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Tweedle Bee Whines

Tweedle the teensy bee was being hauled along with a bunch of stuff.
He thought he was an afterthought, and said to everyone “sure enough”.
Mama had her grip on bags of junk, and he was the end of the line.
She rolled her eyes at his protests, a bee who knew how to whine.
Form: Rhyme

A Failed Message

Their flags are waving
Ancient thoughts, preserved 
By a tradition 
Of exciting men.
The tales of hate
Are being worn proudly
On the hip, of words
Come protests. Defined
By weapons to boast,
With trinkets and masks
They search for a ghost.
They buy his butter
As he steals their toast.
Form: Rhyme

One Georgians Dream

.                                          
                                            Nobel Prize winner
                                             
                                  heartfelt speech "I have a dream"
                  
                                       peaceful protests worked
Form: Senryu

Bad Losers Remain

Passive protests 
any reason to protest
protesting democracy 
unable to accept

Protest save democracy 
previous reject
protest passive
remain no respect 

No respect for themselves 
no respect for democracy 
And ultimately as well 
no respect for our country 

This is bad losing
sour 
Sad acts
© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Falling

the wind turns my apple tree
into a victim, a lover banging
on a closed door of gnarled wood,

a dance makes this ringing evening
singular, the leaves agree to fall
and turn in the moving faith of air;

they tell us about birth and departure,
about leaving together, stories of
ending as the sun arcs and protests

Premium Member With Social Media As Our Church

Watching the protests grow larger and stronger
     burying hope in the stench of a dumpster

   Hearing speakers extol baby-burners
     they themselves as unhinged as murderers

   What has America come to when human butchery is praised
     with social media as their church, on such values our youth is now raised
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Lets Put that in the Parking Lot

Let’s put that in the parking lot.
It means Mr. Money will postpone a decision.
We drones look at each other.
Anything the boss wants is imperative.

Any suggestion from the minions is delayed.
Put off, shelved, indefinitely suspended.
One of the new employees protests. She is fired.
The rest of us keep quiet, wanting our pay.

Premium Member Split Heart

Home, they say, does quicken beating hearts,
yet mine protests as I prepare to go.
Chambered rooms, stretched endless miles apart,
strain the pump and cause the blood to slow.
Precious thoughts of her upon my chest
stoke the fires and help the embers burn;
Vivian, may thy sweet days be blessed
Till in a month I’m able to return.
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Unquestionable

Unstrung as the brave
Nonviolent in protests  
Questioning moral wrong
Unfavorable of unfairness
Extravagant in ideas
Supporting freedom
Taunted by the ignorant
Irascible over foolishness
Obsessed by cleanliness 
Nameless to the envious
Ambiguous in everything
Bountiful in blessings
Liberal in thoughts
Enthused by laughter
Form: Acrostic

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