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Tag Archives: Political
POLITICAL POEM: Trump U Verses Screw U
O pose The establishment Of his style Outside is in Down with up As drive in reveres “I love sow and sow more than anyone” And awe That is Con men Selling Brooklyn bridges To no where That is good … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Business, Change, Chaos, Creativity, Democracy, Donald Trump, government, Hope, Humanity, Labor, Love, Moral, Nationalism, Oligarchy, Partisan, Play, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Privilege, Resistance, Rich, Security, Society, Solidarity, Unity, Women, Xenophobia
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POLITICAL POEM: Unite In The Write
Poets of the world unite Delivering a bill of writes To the regressive elite And overcompensating narcissists May the love of word in deed Translate into a raging river of love Pounding against that professed shore thing Strait from the … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Beautiful, Change, Elite, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Justice, Life, Love, Oligarchy, Patriarchy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Racism, Resistance, Revolution, Revolutionary, Short Poems, Solidarity, Work
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POLITICAL POEM: Heir Conditioning
As things went south South goes north Truly Global warning is real There is an arising From the fires in bellies And home fires burning In efface of doors closed Windows open Those crazy few Committed Those sober many Just … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Capitalism, Climate Change, Crazy, Donald Trump, Farce, Injustice, Justice, Mother Earth, Mourning, Oligarchy, Patriarchy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Racism, Right-Wing, Solidarity, Wisdom
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POLITICAL POEM: In Daze Not To Follow
The plantation had fallen Into this repair As fore many Present Work Over and above The well, known Used Too deep scars And familiar ditches dug Subject to an other privilege However bound Too knew found freedom And worldwide travails … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Chaos, Courage, Cynicism, Donald Trump, Experience, Freedom, Future, Hope, Humanity, Injustice, Justice, Labor, Poems, Poetry, Political, Possibility, Present, Privilege, Questions, Racism, Reality, Solidarity, Stupid, Work
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POLITICAL POEM: You Don’t Say, And Ever Prey
To every American YES The president no’s stuff That wee don’t Real lies Pinocchio without puppeteers Cyrano’s muzzle sow credible Undisclosed pickings of boogie men Obscuring a lode of crop Not too be shared Impolite company Helled as rue’d or … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Capitalism, Celebrity, Civil Rights, Democracy, Donald Trump, Freedom, God, government, Journey, Love, Money, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, President, Propaganda, Public Goods, Rhetoric, Soul, Trust, Truth, Violence, Voting
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POEM: Just Dew It
Round Mid night Countless drops Fall free In to the loving alms Of Mother Earth Making a mud pact With trees, meadow, and flower To dew wet sow ever They thirst for Life has an incredible capacity for renewal. As … Continue reading
POLITICAL POEM: The Bus of Times, The Worst of Times
His political career Hung in the balance Throw a certain number under the bus Or see bus production drop precipitously This short poem recognizes a brutal utilitarianism in politics, which is present at most any level. Using people as means … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Balance, Business, Capitalism, Economic, Economy, Efficiency, Human Rights, Humanity, Impersonal, Meaning, Modern, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Present, Radical, Relationships, Religion, Respect, Sacred, Short Poems, Time
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Friendly Rant: Voting FOR Jill Stein NOT Wielding “Privilege”
Oddly, with the presidential candidates from the two dominant and domineering political parties setting new records for low approval, voting for anyone else is met with bafflingly high contempt. My friend, local activist, and Green Party Jill Stein supporter, Shannon Frye, … Continue reading
Posted in Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Ballot, Children, Classism, Compassion, Crime, Culture, Defense, Democracy, Environmental, Equality, facebook, Family, Fear, Feminism, Feminist, Food, Freedom, Future, Gender, Green Party, Hell, Hillary Clinton, History, Identity, Incarnation, Inequality, Jill Stein, Justice, Labor, Life, Logic, Medicaid, Military, Mind, Modern, Money, Moral, Neoliberalism, Oppression, Police, Political, Power, President, Prison, Privilege, Queer, Racism, Rage, Religious, Revolution, Security, Sex, Sexism, Sexuality, Silence, Slavery, Social Justice, Social Security, State, Time, Truth, Violence, Voting, War, Women, Work
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Managed Democracy And The Illusion Of Politics
This article pretty much sums it up. Managing the air, apparent electorate, and the “for most” illusion of politics. Great contribution from The African American Intellectual History Society, Managed Democracy And The Illusion Of Politics: Now that another sordid election … Continue reading
Posted in Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged African American, America, Business, Capitalism, Change, Control, Crises, Democracy, Elite, Facts, Heart, History, Humanity, Inequality, Integrity, Meaning, Media, Mind, Police, Political, Politics, Power, Questions, Reconciliation, Republican, Revolution, Society, State, Terrorism, Truth, Virtue, War
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER – SUPPORT THE ARTS – Artists Make Lousy Slaves
This free poster takes a relatively apolitical statement, “Support The Arts,” and combines it with a socially and politically provocative assertion that artists make lousy slaves. Slavery is perhaps the penultimate expression of dehumanization, literally selling humanity for simple utility … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Children, Commercial, Control, Crude, Culture, Economy, Experience, free poster, Free Posters, Humanity, Inspiration, Justice, Monetize, Political, Slavery, Social Justice, Truth, Women
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ACTIVIST POEM: Our Ayes Will Have It
She had Enough Of half-baked politicians She kneaded democracy Here and now As the yeast she could do Sounding off To those who might Listen Wee choir not A grand stand To lift every voice and sing Wringing well The … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Blessed, Change, Death, Democracy, Disenfranchised, Faith, Fear, God, Greed, Heart, Heaven, Hope, Justice, Minorities, National, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Poor, Power, Powers that be, Present, Privilege, Reactionary, Work
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Donald Trump: The Dress Rehearsal for Fascism
If you want to make sense of the failure of neoliberalism, as typified by Hillary Clinton, and its vomiting up of proto-fascist leaders like Donald Trump, then author and journalist Chris Hedges nails it again, in this piece, Donald Trump: The Dress Rehearsal … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Advertising, Authoritarian, Bernie Sanders, Capitalism, Children, Christian, Citizens, Commercial, Common Good, Compassion, Control, Conundrum, Cruelty, Culture, Cynical, Democracy, Disenfranchised, Donald Trump, Economic, Elite, Enemies, Failure, Fascism, Heaven, Hillary Clinton, Hope, Hypermasculinity, Hypocritical, Identity, Ideology, Integrity, Justice, Liberal, Misogyny, Mitt Romney, Moral, Narcissism, National, Nazi, Neoliberalism, Police, Political, Politics, Poor, Possibility, Poverty, Power, Rage, Reality, Religious, Republican, Rhetoric, Security, State, Superficial, Trust, Truth, Violence, War, Women
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POLITICAL POEM: Buy Partisan Ship
If you knot for me You agin Me Oh my They would halve US Believe In a New York minute Weather 60 second ads Or master debating in public For ours To won party Or buy partisan ship That teeming … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awareness, Change, Children, Conflict, Consciousness, Conventional Wisdom, Counter-Cultural, Enlightenment, Evolution, Freedom, God, Hubris, Humanity, Identity, Injustice, Intersectionality, Jesus, Job, Justice, Life, Love, Mock, National, Nationalism, Partisan, Partisanship, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Powers that be, Radical, Republican, Solidarity, Spiritual, Status, Status Quo, Trust, Unity, Violence, Wisdom
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THIRD PARTY POEM: A Door Number Three
A Door Number Three Caught a mist The cross Fire Between partisan streams Shooting for number won Too put out In A narrow mined field Wear white is anti-black And black is nonwhite So fanatical about your stripes Yet no … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Authoritarian, Business, Celebrity, Choices, Citizens, Control, Cynicism, Democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, Dreams, Elite, Exceptionalism, Failure, Fear, Hillary Clinton, Hope, Humanity, leadership, National, Oligarchy, Partisan, Plutocracy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Powers that be, President, Privilege, Reality, Republican, Resistance, Revolution, Status, Status Quo, Surreal, Sustainable, Third Party, Time, Wealth, Worship
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PROTEST POEM: Round The Public Square
Theirs Smoked filled plays Behind closed doors Where there is no room In the halls of power Fore the wrest of us Relegated to copping democracy Round the public square This protest poem deals with the reality that lack of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Citizens, Civil Disobedience, Criminal Justice System, Democracy, First Amendment, government, Justice, Law, Law Enforcement, Meaning, Nonviolent, Play, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Protesters, Protests, Reality, Resistance, Top Pun
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FREE EDWARD SNOWDEN POSTER: Pardon Me!
Edward Snowden, the infamous NSA whistleblower, is my candidate for the most heroic American this decade. Is it time for President Obama to grant a presidential pardon to Edward Snowden? YES! The campaign is on, with the release of Oliver … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political Action
Tagged Authoritarian, Change, China, Citizens, Congress, Conspiracy, Culture, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, Experience, Family, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Gift, government, Hillary Clinton, History, Hope, Human Rights, Journalists, Journey, Law, Lawyer, Life, Logic, National, National Security, Obama, Patriot, Perspective, Police, Political, Possibility, Power, President, Progress, Right-Wing, Risk, Russia, Security, State, Time, War, Whistleblower, Work
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Free Election Poster: VOTE FOR
This free election poster makes a profoundly simple assertion: VOTE FOR. This message endorses voting, but takes no position on WHO you vote for. This campaign poster addresses more HOW you vote. This election poster is a simple plea to vote … Continue reading
FREE POLITICAL POSTER: Anti-GOP Pledge of Allegiance — Plague of Leeches on The Flag
With a wave of patriotic protests occurring during the national anthem, I thought that I would add the pledge of allegiance into the mix. Of course, this free poster is an anti-Republican, anti-GOP parody of the pledge of allegiance: Why … Continue reading →