Poetry about Politics
#politics
A view of politics, from all corners of the world, expressed through poetry. Here you'll find poems about politics, power and government. This includes poems about support or criticism for particular political parties or leaders. Also, poetry about issues like poverty, law and discrimination and shining a light on how state corruption affects societies.
cloventongue89
Poem Published
Today 5:36am
Today 5:36am
Hospice Hostage
Speaking honestly behind closed doors
Nothing's quite as hazy at it may seem
Keeping up appearances
Making whispers of a forbidden dream
Building digital borders
Have we found our hearts after compromise?
Some we love and others we endure
Save face as we put an extra coat of paint over our eyes
Constructs of our isolation
Customizing a prison cell
Quarantined in paradise
Making ourselves at home in hell...
Nothing's quite as hazy at it may seem
Keeping up appearances
Making whispers of a forbidden dream
Building digital borders
Have we found our hearts after compromise?
Some we love and others we endure
Save face as we put an extra coat of paint over our eyes
Constructs of our isolation
Customizing a prison cell
Quarantined in paradise
Making ourselves at home in hell...
#anxiety
#depression
#lust
#dark
#politics
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wallyroo92
Poem Published
Today 2:06am
Today 2:06am
The Slaughter at the Water's Edge
The drought had dried up most of the lakes and rivers,
Fire, it seemed, had consumed most of the vegetation,
The animals made the arduous journey across the plains,
In search for water and food, or else face starvation.
The masses followed the donkeys at first to the mountains,
But the animals didn’t like the difficult and dangerous path,
So, they followed the giant elephants through the desert,
But then felt the unforgiving heat and the wilderness’ wrath.
And every time they came to a watering hole they’d find hope,
But the elephants...
Fire, it seemed, had consumed most of the vegetation,
The animals made the arduous journey across the plains,
In search for water and food, or else face starvation.
The masses followed the donkeys at first to the mountains,
But the animals didn’t like the difficult and dangerous path,
So, they followed the giant elephants through the desert,
But then felt the unforgiving heat and the wilderness’ wrath.
And every time they came to a watering hole they’d find hope,
But the elephants...
#corruption
#politics
21 reads
2 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
Today 00:35am
Today 00:35am
Straight Talk Live (Food For Thought-Mental Clothing You)
I closed my eyes and rested my mind on top of the moon
As I looked up into the darkness of the skies
A place where you are one within the universe devoid of mental gloom
I realized I was not alone
Traces of my past and my present footsteps embedded
Oh God, I continue to pray for an answer, where are we headed
I ask the Lord how strife continues to exist when we are here to spiritual atone
How could this uncertainty of life perplex us to ask where we truly belong
A figment of the imagination, yet to our eyes, the birds sing its morning songs ...
As I looked up into the darkness of the skies
A place where you are one within the universe devoid of mental gloom
I realized I was not alone
Traces of my past and my present footsteps embedded
Oh God, I continue to pray for an answer, where are we headed
I ask the Lord how strife continues to exist when we are here to spiritual atone
How could this uncertainty of life perplex us to ask where we truly belong
A figment of the imagination, yet to our eyes, the birds sing its morning songs ...
#politics
#TruthOfLife
#honesty
#LifeCycle
#philosophical
33 reads
7 Comments
SatInUGal
Kumar
Kumar
Poem Published
Yesterday 8:14pm
Yesterday 8:14pm
10/26/20
No matter what happens
I’ll lay my head in your lap
And you’ll stroke my hair
OKAY?
I’ll lay my head in your lap
And you’ll stroke my hair
OKAY?
#anxiety
#politics
#America #senryu
#America #senryu
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3 Comments
Kementic1
Poem Published
25th Oct 2020 10:27pm
25th Oct 2020 10:27pm
KAMALA
Her name is not Pamela or Cam-a-la
it is pronounced Comma-la
She is the blooming Lotus flower of our fair state
and for me that fact is not up for debate
A woman with a winning million-dollar smile
who wears pearls as an homage to classic female style
As fierce as any Lioness at defending her Pride
and the reason why Kavanaugh cried
Her grilling Barr proved he is unfit
and after 11/3 his office will be forced to quit
The first woman, Black and South Asian, to be a heartbeat away from being President
and I can't wait for her victory in the...
it is pronounced Comma-la
She is the blooming Lotus flower of our fair state
and for me that fact is not up for debate
A woman with a winning million-dollar smile
who wears pearls as an homage to classic female style
As fierce as any Lioness at defending her Pride
and the reason why Kavanaugh cried
Her grilling Barr proved he is unfit
and after 11/3 his office will be forced to quit
The first woman, Black and South Asian, to be a heartbeat away from being President
and I can't wait for her victory in the...
#identity
#beauty
#politics
#freedom
#culture
36 reads
2 Comments
Bluevelvete
Poem Published
25th Oct 2020 2:45pm
25th Oct 2020 2:45pm
the problem with certainty.
I early voted yesterday,
had a sense of relief
until I remembered....
..... that I felt similar
in 2016
had a sense of relief
until I remembered....
..... that I felt similar
in 2016
#politics
#freedom
#escape
#responsibility
#rebellion
74 reads
35 Comments
EdibleWords
Poem Published
24th Oct 2020 8:51pm
24th Oct 2020 8:51pm
Baby, Cancel it for Me
Kissing his lips
her eyes pleading
up to his
I saw the third
debate today
his stifling suit
she loosens...
and realizing
my mistake
I need your help...
you normally
...never go to the polls
my apolitical...
she squeezed
his muscled arms
But I love
America
enough to
realize
I must undue
my voting harm
The slavery
...imprisonments
of victimless
non-violent
offenders
and meaningless ...
her eyes pleading
up to his
I saw the third
debate today
his stifling suit
she loosens...
and realizing
my mistake
I need your help...
you normally
...never go to the polls
my apolitical...
she squeezed
his muscled arms
But I love
America
enough to
realize
I must undue
my voting harm
The slavery
...imprisonments
of victimless
non-violent
offenders
and meaningless ...
#politics
#redemption
35 reads
5 Comments
slipalong
Poem Published
24th Oct 2020 1:23pm
24th Oct 2020 1:23pm
Putting it to the vote
All to know that great ideal, standing in the bear pit
the hot air of oratory
the put-down of the sarcastic quip
all the parties the majority and minority
Duplicity the speed turned on its heel
self serving rats that just exploit
backhanders slipped, to oil the wheels
complicity that's never joint
Economy of truth a wayward quoit
no fairness deemed to fight the cause
the spinning ring that missed the point
in aimlessness without a pause
Spin and wind of misdirection ...
the hot air of oratory
the put-down of the sarcastic quip
all the parties the majority and minority
Duplicity the speed turned on its heel
self serving rats that just exploit
backhanders slipped, to oil the wheels
complicity that's never joint
Economy of truth a wayward quoit
no fairness deemed to fight the cause
the spinning ring that missed the point
in aimlessness without a pause
Spin and wind of misdirection ...
#politics
26 reads
3 Comments
prometheus5290
Poem Published
23rd Oct 2020 11:49pm
23rd Oct 2020 11:49pm
murals for morals
You call it grafiti
but I call it art
you say it's pollution
but I say it is the heart
of the community themselves
muralizing the walls
to visualize the intention
to moralize the halls
of the governor
the government
the senators
and establishment.
(unfinished?)
but I call it art
you say it's pollution
but I say it is the heart
of the community themselves
muralizing the walls
to visualize the intention
to moralize the halls
of the governor
the government
the senators
and establishment.
(unfinished?)
#corruption
#politics
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3 Comments
Kementic1
Poem Published
23rd Oct 2020 6:51pm
23rd Oct 2020 6:51pm
Promises Promises
Last Tonight Mr. President Sir you made us Promises Promises
Why should we believe all of your Promises?
I can't get out of my head
the 20K lies that you said
You want a 2nd term
but what about the 220K you let die from the Covid-19 germ
You say the next time
everything will be fine
But how do we know that the second time around
you don't be an even bigger clown
Because for almost 4 years I laughed like a kid
at all the silly things that you did
You made us Promises Promises
why should we believe all of your Promises
Why...
Why should we believe all of your Promises?
I can't get out of my head
the 20K lies that you said
You want a 2nd term
but what about the 220K you let die from the Covid-19 germ
You say the next time
everything will be fine
But how do we know that the second time around
you don't be an even bigger clown
Because for almost 4 years I laughed like a kid
at all the silly things that you did
You made us Promises Promises
why should we believe all of your Promises
Why...
#politics
#freedom
#inequality
#deception
#pandemic
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2 Comments
randyjohnson
Poem Published
22nd Oct 2020 11:17pm
22nd Oct 2020 11:17pm
Women For Trump
Certain women are going to vote for Donald Trump and this picture proves it. If no women were going to vote for Trump, they wouldn't be making and selling these stickers. A woman bus driver told me that she voted early and she voted for Trump.
Tomorrow I'm going to vote early and I'm going to vote for Trump. I commend each and every woman who plans to vote for Trump. I also commend the men who vote for Trump.
Some people may intimidate people who are going to vote for Trump and that's wrong. Certain people have been persecuting Billy Graham's daughter because she...
Tomorrow I'm going to vote early and I'm going to vote for Trump. I commend each and every woman who plans to vote for Trump. I also commend the men who vote for Trump.
Some people may intimidate people who are going to vote for Trump and that's wrong. Certain people have been persecuting Billy Graham's daughter because she...
#politics
#nonfiction
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oskar
Poem Published
22nd Oct 2020 8:05am
22nd Oct 2020 8:05am
a swan and a duck
A swan and ducks
In the garden of a hotel, we could afford
a black, beautiful swan in a fenced-in lake
to protect from entering.
It was a murderous bird; it dragged dogs
underwater and drowned them.
It was noticed the swan liked to kill dogs
with German names, swans do not speak
so, whether it was contra or pro political
was for humans to find out.
The swan go more and more aggressive
and no one thought of the obvious reason
it needed a mate.
When the penny dropped, the swan had
been sent to a zoo, found a mate...
In the garden of a hotel, we could afford
a black, beautiful swan in a fenced-in lake
to protect from entering.
It was a murderous bird; it dragged dogs
underwater and drowned them.
It was noticed the swan liked to kill dogs
with German names, swans do not speak
so, whether it was contra or pro political
was for humans to find out.
The swan go more and more aggressive
and no one thought of the obvious reason
it needed a mate.
When the penny dropped, the swan had
been sent to a zoo, found a mate...
#politics
#freedom
#consumerism
#morality
#responsibility
30 reads
2 Comments
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