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Suffrage Poems - Poems about Suffrage


She Wasn't Built to Fold
Inspired by the USPS "19th Amendment: Women vote" forever stamp (2020) They stamped her face– like that could contain her fire. Purple, white, and gold– not colors, but warning, wrapped around a marching soul. She didn't walk, she moved like thunder– every step cracking silence, every breath remembering the women who weren't allowed to speak. They called her too loud. Too much. Too wild. But she was...

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Categories: suffrage, emotions, inspirational, meaningful, poetry,
Form: Ekphrasis
For Those Before
I’ve had the example Of women I love, Being strong and outspoken When push comes to shove. Generations before me Gave me so much My looks and hair colour Tenacity and such. I was taught by the greatest, Who in term was taught, By the greatest to her mind Her mother of course. Sister, mum, grandma All different yet then They have been my...

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Categories: suffrage, rights,
Form: Rhyme



Woman Suffrage Horn Haiku
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...

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Categories: suffrage, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
The Universal Suffrage of the Dark
Nothingness has caught me by the throat Tossed me to the innards of its prayer Joan of Arc unhorsed in a nightmare Burgundy makes offers for her coat When we’re real and know the here and now Do we entertain our thoughts and dare To let perception grow in all its flair Lamenting ...

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Categories: suffrage, allegory, allusion, angst, anxiety,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Special Suffrage
Since our most recent U.S. Presidential non-selection, for one thing a Trumpian could not become is therapeutically presidential, I have become worried about our democratic suffrage. Perhaps only mothers, or maybe also fathers, of kids with special vulnerability needs should be allowed to vote, or perhaps each and all allowed to vote, but only special needs parents to vote twice. With each vote cast, whether...

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Categories: suffrage, community, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse




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