Short Suffrage Poems

Booth. How you hated the Union.
The end of suffrage you so despised.
One in the brain of the great orator.
Death in the theatre.
Sic Semper Tyrannis....

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Chapter Four of Mecham's Soul of America is about
racial equality, white supremacy and women's suffrage. 
These have been the primary issues of our times. 
Will have to put this in Poetry Soup. Am receiving 
resistance when I express my thoughts and feelings
on Facebook. Sad but true. 

Jim Horn...

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Confetti dreams floating away
An innocence again is crushed
Under the weight of the fall 
Countdowns to unconsciousness
Filled in flutes of sorrow
As the masses mimic cheer

Confessions secretly stored
Under wraps of indesgression
Carried out the door
Self inflicted suffrage
Abandons another war

Anxious the path's unearthed 
Repentant intemperance subverts...

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Teddy P. Roosevelt in 1912 feeling sassy, hale and hearty,
Promptly formed a wonderful new impressive political party.
Women suffrage was on the agenda along with primary direct,
Many educated women jumped onboard, his agenda to inspect.
Yet would not get the vote for decades, no matter how clever and arty,
It was called by many supporters and friends the happy Bull Moose Party....

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Brutalising rights
The delinquent youth,
Turns opportune,
Moral disgrace
Knows no precincts,
Beyond all tolerance !

How much can
One allow leeway,
Racial bigotry
Blot on humanism,
Indifference or tolerance,
Never right on !

Enmity and hatred
Eat up like cancer,
Have no cure,
Yet must not endure,
Suffrage the prerogative,
Embrace compos mentis !


Written on 15/6/14
Contest- tolerance
Sponsor- Freddie vee...

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For years I drank
     laughter wine, aged on fears and depression;
(it seems that no one likes a pessimist).

Laughter wine served with plastic jokes
	and drunk from society's suffrage glass.

Sour laughter wine sours the spirit; 	
	sweet laughter wine is a better drink.

It is aged on the hope;
	The faith that social sufferings will end.

It is proper to drink Sweet laughter wine
	from your soul-glass....

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Ever so peaceful you appear,
Disguising your eternal suffrage.
Silent is your noted fear;
For to humans, you take umbrage.

Yet you try to smile, 
As the crimson stains your body.
You chant “Peace!” in denial,
To your own folly.

Bear witness to carnage;
Bear witness to despair.
For you are the stage,
In which they all appear!

Stagnant are we in turning peace to war,
Leaving your sorrowful mind with a silent scar....

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“What’s One?”

Guru of algebra: One is One.
Suffrage agitator: One is vote.
Labour party leader: “Claps” is ONE.
Conservative party leader: ONE is “claps”. 
Egalitarian: One is ANY.
Sociologist: One is many.
Psychiatrist: One is hidden.
Philosopher: One is what.
Brother polygamist: One is a quarter.
Dictator: 1 is I.
Home Office Minister: ONE is who.
Poet: two are halves of one.

						Tunis, March 2010
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I guess most times I was a soother for most,

Not that I complain about it,

But it is a sad fact to kno,

No one is around for my part,

Iss always me in the role,

Me at the crossroads,

No empathy or feelings,

Dude an outburst like who cares,

Comes to mind,

But factually I havent been raised as such,

I kno the other way is ignorant,

So sayin I believe I’ll bide my time,

Til suffrage is possible,

Then fly away,

Like a bird of age!...

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Woman Suffrage  
Horn Haiku 

women cried out loud
had been part of a big crowd
were very endowed

woman would suffer
man had zone which was buffer
that made things tougher

had prayed to our Lord
we do want to look toward
things we can afford

Wilson with wimper
always would lose his temper
fidelis semper

see Trump wear his crown
cause trouble all over town
while we had a frown

wherever we went
we would see an immigrant
God to us had sent

Jim Horn...

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