Political Simile Poems
These Political Simile poems are examples of Simile poems about Political. These are the best examples of Simile Political poems written by international poets.
Tell Your Dog All Your SecretsNo ones ever even been in an empty room
And now's as good a time as any to tell you this:
I don’t feel regret if it...
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simile, abuse, america, corruption, perspective,
Obama's My Weapon - In Biden's Own WordsFolks say I'm struggling
That I'm old and confused,
They don't see all the haggling
Which leaves them bemused.
My colleagues are wordy
My enemies too,
But my willpower is sturdy
As...
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simile, analogy, humor, political, satire,
The Something In the Airmiasmic,
alighting the foul bourgeois powers that be
bounce like carrion crows
on the prone corpse
of the bled world....
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peace, political, power, simile,
Goodbye Maya AngelouClinton's Inauguration 1993
You were so beautiful, Maya
Standing in front of the
President and the First Lady
I didn’t really understand
Your Pulse Of Morning
Presidential inauguration poem
I kind...
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simile, angel, courage, emotions, poetry,
Old Red Barncrumbling foundation
leaning precariously
blue norther blowing...
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simile, allegory, imagery,
Broken GlassSome recalled Kristallnacht,
the white mob’s facial fever,
once the same fever of a night,
now the fever of a day-mare.
Some recalled Charlottesville,
the white mob’s lust for blood,
once...
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simile, allusion, hate, horror, political,
WarningSlaves of wages for generations
long forgotten in history’s screenplay.
Each hand for a moment has held
the torch.
The people are waiting in lines.
All toilers have resisted.
All skins...
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simile, america, class, poverty, rights,
Working ClassI. Daybreak
what glint of morning
is this where the rusty bloom of chain link fences
cuts the turf of rowhouses
the weeds still talk with the legs
of crickets as...
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simile, allusion, class, culture, freedom,
Baltimore HeatIn heat
the pulse of your streets.
I've heard the crack
of hard political whips
that pinch the air.
Cores of human topography,
your aging neighborhoods.
Your people kick cans
counting gravel like...
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simile, community, corruption, extended metaphor,
Pittsburgh RainWorking ethic.
steel ethnic.
Pittsburgh in the rain
like metal canisters.
The grain of the Alleghenies.
Old labor's hand sings...
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simile, city, eulogy, history, image,
In This Land of HopeWeaving the labyrinth of the tyranny of time,
let not the chartered task waiting ashore
become a victim of the rising tides of apathy
between our...
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simile, america, conflict, metaphor, patriotic,
A Nation In CrisisA NATION IN CRISIS…FALLING APART
It has been said that America
is an experiment in democracy.
If that is so—and it seems to be—
this country is in deep...
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simile, america, conflict, discrimination, imagery,
On the Evolution of JusticeIf only old justice could be as death
in the daily lives we live.
Pity, her evolution remains
a punctuated checkmate delusion
and her close kin, liberty,
a symbiotic partner—both...
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simile, allegory, analogy, black african
The Love Birds - In Trump's Own WordsChuck and Nancy quite the couple
They work in tandem and speak as one,
Like two fly’s buzzing in unison
Into my space have they now come.
A New...
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simile, america, happy, humor, leadership,
Of Sinking Ships and Political DebaucheryToday captured souls sail on a Titanic-like ship
over a new Middle Passage journey on a turbulent sea,
whose waves undulate and froth with viciousness;
The captain...
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simile, america, analogy, betrayal, imagery,