by Robert Allen |
Categories:
patriotic, political,
Encased in inch-thick glass, Assange displayed;
The plaque upon his cage reads "DISSIDENT;"
The withered man in court is laid;
Imprisoned corpse announcing precedent.
To those "who hold these truths self-evident,"
Behold the Press awaiting punishment;
To be delivered to your government,
The Law so torn in wreckless brandishment.
Abuse! And ursurpation! Tyrant! Swine!
One Nation under God? Or under You?
Your boot does stamp upon that dream of mine
Believing "We the People" to be true.
Reclaim Your soul! For God's sake free this man!
Redeem the meaning of American.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-annihilation-of-julian-assange/
by Warren Doll |
Categories:
identity, meaningful, people, together,
Layers
Strip away the superficial.
Place political correctness aside.
Forgive hurts of the past.
Erase all tension and harsh feelings.
Seek thoughts of love and understanding.
This is what you’ll find.
I’m you. You’re me.
We are the same
In truth, there isn't a divide.
by Andrea Dietrich |
Categories:
political,
My small way of showing anger for this year's circus of an election process:
I recall when George Bush had to duck
a thrown shoe, or he may have got struck.
What I'd love now to see
is some dog take a pee
on that dump of a Trump. What a schmuck!
for the the Political Ordeal Poetry Contest of CT
by Rico Leffanta |
Categories:
discrimination, history, humanity, immigration, political, racism
"Make America White Again"
Will never make any sense
Despite the tweets of "GENIUS" Trump
Or Republicans like Pence
Brown-skinned people filled this land
From one end to the other
And though they had their differences
"Eve" is everyone's mother
Though some are prone to cast a stone
Or ridicule their brother
What makes a nation great again
Is love for one another.
by Deborah Burch |
Categories:
allegory, love, people, philosophy, political, prejudice
The Colour of Love
Kaleidoscope of spectrums
On the outside... looking in
There’s only one colour—Love—
Bound by prejudice.
Archaic transmutations
Bequeath this cancerous blight
Upon each generation
For mass genocide.
Rose-coloured glasses can not
Tint the mind of the insane…
Only the revelation
Of true love unveils.
deborahburch©
07/24/2012
by Gareth Heslop |
Categories:
philosophy, political
This misty sky
a reflection of our misty life
in its sucked up, clouded vision
without any sense of perception,
its hopes, its desperation, its life,
clinging, slipping, dropping away
from view, from all of us,
droids and prefects alike,
too numerous
to see through the mess,
too brain dead to think aloud,
to escape from this sick world
of profits in money not in hope
or dreams or love or life,
created by our bosses to protect
and huddle us from the harsh
realities of unknown centuries
and create our own 'civil'isation,
our life our hopes hanging on their walls
The misty sky is all in our sight
I want to be on the star shining bright
by Tom Quigley |
Categories:
america, political,
Slipperier than a Greased Eel In a Vat of Astroglide
That Hillary’s sociopathic streak is a mile wide
In case you haven’t noticed, the fix is in
But her followers love her even if she’s guilty as sin
We all think she should be a woman of greater convictions
Both moral and criminal, given her total lack of friction
She’s got a layer of Teflon thicker than Gotti
And to the Secret Service, a mouth full of potty
She looks crookeder than even a barrel of snakes will
Phonier than A William Jefferson Clinton three dollar bill
7/24/16
© By Author
For Contest: Create An Idiom
Sponsor: Jesse Day
by Jslambert Mister Roboto |
Categories:
hope, life, loss, lost love, people, sad
War
in the street
faces
marred by defeat
crying, fighting
kicking, biting
where is the truth they’re refusing?
can’t you see humanity is losing?
sapphires
seeking retribution
victims
of senseless persecution
amnesty
road blocked by political futility
stubborn leaders
breeding this brutality
martyrs
paving ways brave and proud
but signs say, ”NO PROTESTING ALLOWED!"
people
risking their lives
to benefit future generations
placing themselves on shelves
for the sake of their children's salvation
for now, they fall
bludgeoned in defeat
with hopes of a brighter tomorrow
for this bloodshed today in the street
~JSLambert
© 2011 JSLambert
by Liam Mcdaid |
Categories:
8th grade, conflict, emotions, faith, family, heart
A sad state our government has become today
in this awful news that just pushes the boat out further
As our democracy for one protecting our children
Why it is even under attack beats me up inside moral grounds
this should not even be considered under the harshest circumstances
because it's a humane act to love our little ones bless them with life
not kill them shows savages craving suffering judgemental fools
Tells me all that I need to know about corrupt politics
under an non democratically elected leadership
by Jessica Holter |
Categories:
poets, political,
we are not grateful for truth
it is not in our nature to be free
we need for our lives to be witnessed
we need
a team
a group
a clan
a posse
an audience
a lover
a husband
a wife
children
to prove we were here
And
those who are free
are hated
are envied
those who are free are like wild dogs
who need to learn obedience and submission
those who love the world are sinners
who need to look to heaven
and pray for chains
by Geoffrey Brewer |
Categories:
language, political,
Oh! THOU art lost and gone perhaps forever
By equi-vocal pronoun now replaced
Where once were I and THOU in shared endeavour
Abandoned and neglected left to waste
Since THOU departed there’s a missing piece
Within the language where we speak of love
A vacuum in syntax of our caprice
Where once we two combined as hand in glove
For it’s surmised that each communication
Must be between two single souls that be
Though there be multitude of iteration
I only speak to thee and thou to me
So come THOU back in thy pellucid essence
Enhance truth and grace in language with thy presence
by Hilo Poet |
Categories:
allegory, analogy, image, love, political, power
Cleopatra, The-Deo-Swagger
I swagger on up, up onto the top,
yet it wasn't my style, being Queen of the Nile,
they saw me a leader, who filled up their jigger,
for the praises they sound, I need to keep them around,
being a swag I was high, being tagged a nice guy
for the love they bestow, I just had to know,
was all this too much, or just a nice touch,
was it good or bad, was it sweet or sad,
but you know what they say, hands together and pray,
for the swag world she love, was her anointing dove.
2019 September 01
*4th Place*
SWAGGER
~~Line Gauthier
by Trittya Yelane |
Categories:
planet, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, political
like you
But you don't,
reverse action of me from you
that's only i want...
You're not my beloved
But i am your friend of course,
You're not mine at all
But i am totally of yours...
You're my love
But you don't understand,
Can we get into relationship?
Or stay just like friends...
It is one sided
But i'll make you mine,
We'll wash ourselves in rain together
And bath together in sunshine...
by Gershon Wolf |
Categories:
america, care, change, love, uplifting,
A country where people help one another
Where everyone calls the other his brother
A country with less intrusive government
Where politicians require the people's consent
A country that respects its forests and lakes
Where oil isn't spilled and the earth doesn't quake
A country where light and life are revered
Where killings and murders equal zero each year
A country where progress is measured by love
Where marriages flourish, where soft coos the dove
March 08, 2021 - C
What You Really Want Contest
Sponsor: Richard Lamoureaux
by Mike Gentile |
Categories:
dream, hope, humanity, love, motivation, political
Rolling hills of buttercups align a picnic world
A place where roses can be blue in gardens filled of pink
And where the eyes of strangers meet in gaze of tolerance
A place beholding sympathy and empathy and love
Perhaps, a mere illusion, such a world could ever be
Yet, these are the advanced daydreams of Daisy
by John Loving Iii |
Categories:
parody,
blank
nothing
nothing beautiful, nothing sad
nothing useful for this pad
no ideas for me to write
with pen and paper
gathered with light
no great hope, no great fear
nothing to give cause for tears
no loud cry for justice denied
no high praise for made up eye's
nothing to set hearts on fire
no hidden wit for political satire
none of the sweetness love begets
and the acts of hero's we often forget
the memories have faded
the times i've made love
and nothing beacons from heaven above
but i dare not abandon
this art i love
tis my existence
my gift from God
perhaps tomorrow
i'll know what to say
but for today all i'll have
is this empty blank page
by Joe Dimino |
Categories:
christian, humanity, inspirational, love, political, truth
Jonah refused to speak out
against evil...so, he was
swallowed by a whale;
inside the big tummy, for
not speaking Judgment
he thought again of scripture
while growing quite pale:
not judging with the sense
God gives one, is to hence
repeat and fail – we are
all donkeys – pinning truth,
as our hearts perceive it, always
not perfect, but perhaps, for now
a necessary tail/tale....
by Joe Dimino |
Categories:
evil, introspection, leadership, philosophy, political, wisdom
What we create we have tendency
to love – even our failures – nurturing
children representing a nation's moral decline –
Too often binding ourselves to the lesser
characteristics of human nature – ego
is a two-way street: it is the connective
tissue forming a cooperative society, while
also a path for degradation, presently
being trans-versed to divide and conquer
for Totalitarian Rule –
by Rio Jansen |
Categories:
america, christian, dark, political, power,
America ain't America anymore, Pa.
Guess what was in a news flash I just saw.
The Supreme Court decided that, for picking anyone off the street, mere suspicion is enough.
And Trump implied that wife beating is an acceptable part of love.
Pa! When are Christians like us gonna stop putting up with this godawful stuff?
by John Decker |
Categories:
history, peace, political, abuse,
Stone Mountain should die today.
Tomorrow would be fine.
But that raft of traitors eulogized, defaced
Would remedy an abuse of time.
The betrayers that love it still
Are awash from the American current.
The tattoo of turncoats on that hill
Long abuse our country's spirit.
Stone Mountain must die fast and sound
By dynamite, acid, or hammer.
That sad rock knows its whole bestrewn
Will solve shame to God that raised it.
It was granite first, bigoted statement second
An emblem of lawless, unresolved Reconstruction.
The stone cries out: Fuel the worst in men?
Release me now, come fast my full destruction.
by Joe Inka |
Categories:
political
It seems you are not taxed enough
But the government knows what to do
and even though the times are tough
The state needs revenue.
We'll bring to law, a knowledge tax
On each concept that you grasp
And then put forth an oxygen tax
For every breath you gasp
I envision a lucrative walking tax
From jaunt to slow meander
I see a tax on every scent
from garbage to fresh oleander
A blinking tax would open your eyes
and surely allow you to see
That people love paying taxes
Except for taxes on tea.
by Verlena S. Walker |
Categories:
celebration, freedom, july, political, pride, tribute
FREEDOM’S CALL
For every woman, man, and child have the
Right to
Equality and
Equity in this
Democracy stated.
Our lives, as liberated, co-depends on these truths.
Mighty we are as a country.
Strong in protecting our home front.
Crisis we have overcome.
Allegiance to our native people we must continue to know.
Love for the United States of America has been shown.
Longevity forever endured.
****Have a safe and enriched 4th of July!****
____________________________________________________|
Written June 29, 2015!
by Mike Martin |
Categories:
political, racism, slavery,
You’ve heard of eeny meanie
How he died a fitting death
He had more fame, it seems to me
Than Shakespeare or Macbeth
Held accountable he was
After capture and a bounty
For the sins Stephen Duncan
Boss of Issaquena County
Too bad for mister miney mo
He’ll have to pay the price
Out to the Mississippi Bridge
We’d love to hang him twice
Held to dangle by the toe
So that everyone would know
Said the slaven to the hangman
If he hollers let him go
Copyright © Mike Martin 2015
by Cathy Ncube |
Categories:
dedication, family, fantasy, inspirational, people, political
with patriotic
glee, for love of their country,
all Americans
emptied their accounts,
piggy banks and all, to help
pay their nation's debt
by Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen |
Categories:
history, life, love, nostalgia, people, political
Women's liberation
Bras burned
Girls were confused…excited!
Gloria Steinem central figure,
Speaks out.
Women shout.
Politicians doubt.
Equal Rights!
New thinking. New songs. New vocabulary.
Debating: Equal jobs for equal pay.
Strong women.
Many followers.
Surprisingly, numerous men quit opening doors.
Woodstock proclaims, “Make love, not war!”
Many soldiers die; "Vietnam Conflict" rages.
Soldiers come home, their world, changed.
War heroes were ignored.
Women worked untraditional jobs.
Many prayed.
Many died.
© May 25, 2011
Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
Written for Poetry Soup Member Contest: MAGIC OF DECADE'S MOOD
Sponsored by: nette onclaud