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"autocratic" poems
Human directives, veracities unverified   Bellies belching with anger, murderers Udders dripping hate, foundling banters Hunters striking the hungered, unfortunate Glare sight to seek the truth, hold me lets sink Tear motions and debates of inequality My Dafur, the realm of the fur, demise All armed in Sudan, the arid, a battlefield Emergency alarms sirens from 2003 The indefinite complications and hunger A land of the displaced, starving nomads Hear me out in these non-dissolving conflicts Guantanamo bay detention a prison vicious A base for “war in terrorism”, reciprocal laws Inhumane human interrogations persists A breach, a revolt, the hunger riots devolve Force-feeding, torturous measures applied All undressed, humiliated, genitalia exposed A Rwanda slain in divide and rule Civil clashes, mashes, all trashed Swaying war rapes, tapes, the raves Machetes slashing necks and hands A lust of power, a genocide slaughter The Tutsi slewed and unsewn from a patch Autocratic regime boring divisions Territorial ethnic cleansing, a holocaust The oppression of Jews, Romanis, Poles Homosexuals, the disabled and mentally ill Indifference pooled in pits and camps The institutional social indoctrination The honor and killing to expose shame The violation and dishonor of moral fabric For what is “good”, “bad”, fixated moral values Buried waists and head, awaiting stones to hit Confessional secrets of only what lays within A torment watching witnesses, all dangling Marxists calls ships to stow ashore Masses kidnapped, confused in deceit Invalid contracts awaits signatures The white immigrants to be enslaved All aboard, now abroad to revolve labor Wage packages taken to pay for freedom Humans bought and sold to be owned Slaves yorked and counted as assets Bounded to serve plantations and homes A human, non human, a chattel, a slave A debt ******* offended and ***** Untamed and made to obey a master A falling global strings unturned Tunes strumming hate, war and pain Human trafficking, violence, inequality Child abuse, civil conflicts, capitalists Commercialism, zero hour contracts For if we have no rights, I have none For if we have no peace I have none
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Jan 20, 2016
Jan 20, 2016 at 6:54 AM UTC
Cruel Inhumane Autocracies
Human directives, veracities unverified   Bellies belching with anger, murderers Udders dripping hate, foundling banters Hunters striking the hungered, unfortunate Glare sight to seek the truth, hold me lets sink Tear motions and debates of inequality My Dafur, the realm of the fur, demise All armed in Sudan, the arid, a battlefield Emergency alarms sirens from 2003 The indefinite complications and hunger A land of the displaced, starving nomads Hear me out in these non-dissolving conflicts Guantanamo bay detention a prison vicious A base for “war in terrorism”, reciprocal laws Inhumane human interrogations persists A breach, a revolt, the hunger riots devolve Force-feeding, torturous measures applied All undressed, humiliated, genitalia exposed A Rwanda slain in divide and rule Civil clashes, mashes, all trashed Swaying war rapes, tapes, the raves Machetes slashing necks and hands A lust of power, a genocide slaughter The Tutsi slewed and unsewn from a patch Autocratic regime boring divisions Territorial ethnic cleansing, a holocaust The oppression of Jews, Romanis, Poles Homosexuals, the disabled and mentally ill Indifference pooled in pits and camps The institutional social indoctrination The honor and killing to expose shame The violation and dishonor of moral fabric For what is “good”, “bad”, fixated moral values Buried waists and head, awaiting stones to hit Confessional secrets of only what lays within A torment watching witnesses, all dangling Marxists calls ships to stow ashore Masses kidnapped, confused in deceit Invalid contracts awaits signatures The white immigrants to be enslaved All aboard, now abroad to revolve labor Wage packages taken to pay for freedom Humans bought and sold to be owned Slaves yorked and counted as assets Bounded to serve plantations and homes A human, non human, a chattel, a slave A debt ******* offended and ***** Untamed and made to obey a master A falling global strings unturned Tunes strumming hate, war and pain Human trafficking, violence, inequality Child abuse, civil conflicts, capitalists Commercialism, zero hour contracts For if we have no rights, I have none For if we have no peace I have none
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Dear diabolic debutante / Spawn of the unfathomable abyss of blackness / Daughter of dreadful dead desire / Black-shrouded sinister sister of celestial gloom before whose imperious gaze the heavens fall silent / Whip-lash girl-child of the graves whose pallid visage kindles the myriad infernal fires / Autocratic vampiress of lunar doom whose winding-cloth enfolds the thousand horrors of blood-drenched nightmare / Thou that wanderest the cypress-crested hills of funereal necropolises / Whose icy glance cracks the ungraven tombstones of utter desolation / Empress of night and madness / Who stalks the locked and shadowed hallways of unhallowed thought / Whose burial-boat glides the still waters over Lethe’s silent depths to the unglimpsed isle of eternal mourning / Whose parapets tower above the fiefdoms of quotidian banality / Whose flying buttresses overlook the Stygian waters of the forgotten drowned denizens of damnation / Whose unshackled dungeons open to worlds of regal splendor / Whose spires pierce dark skies where oblivion buries the ruined cities of revelry under the drifting clouds of leaden time / Oh maiden of melancholic alchemy whose petrified passions transmute base metal into pure gold… May the gibbous moon of equinox shine its baleful eye upon you; may you tread in sacramental calm the winding starlit paths of somnolent cemeteries; may my unmixed metaphors unveil in delirium their parabolic mysteries before the smoldering altar of your uninterpretable allegory; may the favor of your scorn forever lay me out, embalmed, undead, on the cold stone of merciless reality. Behold: in cryptic script of spectral apparition, in tracery of coded illumination, amidst the dawning rays of torment I write thine unknown name on the threshold of daylight. And from within the mortared wall of self I speak forth from my sepulcher the Sibylline utterance, unsought, unheard, undreamt: JUST WANTED TO SAY ‘HI’ !
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Sep 10, 2015
Sep 10, 2015 at 9:15 PM UTC
Ω Gothic Postcard Ω
Dear diabolic debutante / Spawn of the unfathomable abyss of blackness / Daughter of dreadful dead desire / Black-shrouded sinister sister of celestial gloom before whose imperious gaze the heavens fall silent / Whip-lash girl-child of the graves whose pallid visage kindles the myriad infernal fires / Autocratic vampiress of lunar doom whose winding-cloth enfolds the thousand horrors of blood-drenched nightmare / Thou that wanderest the cypress-crested hills of funereal necropolises / Whose icy glance cracks the ungraven tombstones of utter desolation / Empress of night and madness / Who stalks the locked and shadowed hallways of unhallowed thought / Whose burial-boat glides the still waters over Lethe’s silent depths to the unglimpsed isle of eternal mourning / Whose parapets tower above the fiefdoms of quotidian banality / Whose flying buttresses overlook the Stygian waters of the forgotten drowned denizens of damnation / Whose unshackled dungeons open to worlds of regal splendor / Whose spires pierce dark skies where oblivion buries the ruined cities of revelry under the drifting clouds of leaden time / Oh maiden of melancholic alchemy whose petrified passions transmute base metal into pure gold… May the gibbous moon of equinox shine its baleful eye upon you; may you tread in sacramental calm the winding starlit paths of somnolent cemeteries; may my unmixed metaphors unveil in delirium their parabolic mysteries before the smoldering altar of your uninterpretable allegory; may the favor of your scorn forever lay me out, embalmed, undead, on the cold stone of merciless reality. Behold: in cryptic script of spectral apparition, in tracery of coded illumination, amidst the dawning rays of torment I write thine unknown name on the threshold of daylight. And from within the mortared wall of self I speak forth from my sepulcher the Sibylline utterance, unsought, unheard, undreamt: JUST WANTED TO SAY ‘HI’ !
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That Chinese box Your wares untasted From whence arose The lunar doom Of my obsession. Some oriental harmony I never heard Auspicious omen of prosperity That passed me by Like cloud shadow across moon On a restless night Long ago. Your pale and autocratic beauty: Moon over wall-gate in frontier Long gone Like life on a distant planet; I am out of your orbit . . . Still you circle Serving others more worthy Of your light. I still love you, Mooncakes Though I shall never taste you.
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Sep 23, 2018
Sep 23, 2018 at 7:33 PM UTC
Autumn Festival: Lotus Seed
Thou metamorphic god! Who mak'st the straight Olympus thy abode, Hermes to subtle laughter moving, Apollo with serener loving, Thou demi-god also! Who dost all the powers of healing know; Thou hero who dost wield The golden sword and shield,-- Shield of a comprehensive mind, And sword to wound the foes of human kind; Thou man of noble mould! Whose metal grows not cold Beneath the hammer of the hurrying years; A fiery breath doth blow Across its fervid glow, And still its resonance delights our ears; Loved of thy brilliant mates, Relinquished to the fates, Whose spirit music used to chime with thine, Transfigured in our sight, Not quenched in death's dark night, They hold thee in companionship divine. O autocratic muse! Soul-rainbow of all hues, Packed full of service are thy bygone years; Thy winged steed doth fly Across the starry sky, Bearing the lowly burthens of thy tears. I try this little leap, Wishing that from the deep, I might some pearl of song adventurous bring. Despairing, here I stop, And my poor offering drop,-- Why stammer I when thou art here to sing?
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Tribute To Oliver Wendell Holmes
Watch out, or you will find that you're On President Trump's Enemies List, For democratic values and Donald Trump cannot coexist. Former CIA Director John Brennan, now has learned That when it comes to silencing critics, Trump will leave no stone unturned. After hearing Brennan's critical Words, the angry Trump was stewing. Bam! He revoked Brennan's security Clearance despite no wrongdoing. The crazed, vindictive leader called John Brennan's behavior "erratic." Muzzling the freedom of speech, Trump's Becoming more autocratic. The office of the presidency Has never, ever been sullied so. This vicious attack on our First Amendment Rights is a terrible blow. Trump accused Brennan of making "Baseless charges." Real translation: Brennan didn't hail Trump With sycophantic adoration. On Trump's list are others who Might lose clearances as well. Here his lack of integrity And pettiness have no parallel. Another motive for Trump's action Is more diabolical yet: He wants to strip the power away From all people who might be a threat Because of their connection to The Russia probe. That makes sense. As more dots are being connected, The situation is growing tense. While servile Republicans in Congress Defend their despotic president, Let Brennan's powerful words Resound: "I will not relent." -by Bob B (8-16-18)
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Aug 16, 2018
Aug 16, 2018 at 10:58 AM UTC
Despotic Measures
306 The Soul’s Superior instants Occur to Her—alone— When friend—and Earth’s occasion Have infinite withdrawn— Or She—Herself—ascended To too remote a Height For lower Recognition Than Her Omnipotent— This Mortal Abolition Is seldom—but as fair As Apparition—subject To Autocratic Air— Eternity’s disclosure To favorites—a few— Of the Colossal substance Of Immortality
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The Soul’s Superior instants
Mao Zedong’s revolution deposed the ancient, 5000 year old rule of Dynastic China. In doing so he espoused the continuous violent struggle by contradictory forces within society to produce a perpetual disequilibrium of revolt against intellectualism and Confucian principle and practice. With the global collapse of Communistic systems, the wily genius of the diminutive, Deng Xiaoping, breathed new life into the faltering rule With a cunning rebranding of “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”, he maintained the stability of Chinese Communist kleptocracy until relatively recent times. But the middle class awakening of Tiananmen Square and the recent Hong Kong massed protest, has brought into focus the demands of an increasingly educated, increasingly affluent, Chinese society’s expectation and demand for increased democratic rights and freedom and a more just system of the Rule of Law. The day of the old, strong arm, autocratic rule is over. China is emerging, quite naturally, into a world of increased information freedom, where the seeking of each individual’s betterment and independence promises a brighter future of personal dignity, increased self-esteem and an emerging sense of high anticipation. President Xi Jinping’s Chinese Communist Party is now presented with the challenge to moderate in order to survive. To endeavour to embrace and meld the old concepts of Confucian harmony to the vaulting expectations of China’s new world beckoning. M. Denmark, Western Australia. 5 October 2014
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Oct 17, 2014
Oct 17, 2014 at 3:57 PM UTC
China Must Change.
Mao Zedong’s revolution deposed the ancient, 5000 year old rule of Dynastic China. In doing so he espoused the continuous violent struggle by contradictory forces within society to produce a perpetual disequilibrium of revolt against intellectualism and Confucian principle and practice. With the global collapse of Communistic systems, the wily genius of the diminutive, Deng Xiaoping, breathed new life into the faltering rule With a cunning rebranding of “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”, he maintained the stability of Chinese Communist kleptocracy until relatively recent times. But the middle class awakening of Tiananmen Square and the recent Hong Kong massed protest, has brought into focus the demands of an increasingly educated, increasingly affluent, Chinese society’s expectation and demand for increased democratic rights and freedom and a more just system of the Rule of Law. The day of the old, strong arm, autocratic rule is over. China is emerging, quite naturally, into a world of increased information freedom, where the seeking of each individual’s betterment and independence promises a brighter future of personal dignity, increased self-esteem and an emerging sense of high anticipation. President Xi Jinping’s Chinese Communist Party is now presented with the challenge to moderate in order to survive. To endeavour to embrace and meld the old concepts of Confucian harmony to the vaulting expectations of China’s new world beckoning. M. Denmark, Western Australia. 5 October 2014
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"They admire us" a bucktoothed pirate stinking liquor and wearing clothes unwashed straight for an year at least, beams with such ill founded pride; pirates are called other names that sound ironically like accolades! Protective Gods wielding punitive powers too, on the other hand, did you notice, are feared like autocratic patriarchs, and hated secretly for their temper, a long standing problem, this! a clear case of warped  human imagination, I'd  guess why not God almighty, find some time to set right this one problem vexing us for so long!
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Mar 23, 2015
Mar 23, 2015 at 9:21 AM UTC
If you are looking for a perfect irony
Chaotic systems Disabled stems Controlled streams Dash in seams Work ain't progress It's a misused regress Full of regrets The greatest dissolution No vision, just revisions The mission of bureaucracy Hypocrisy and autocratic casts Top cats bumper weighty bonuses Outclassed in beer bellies Slashed in pompous waistcoats *What a waste on the coast? **I am not afraid to tell you, "I ain't a ******* robot"** I am not a machine of production and rotations **I am not afraid to tell you, "Go **** your ***** Give me time to be creative, innovative and autonomous Chaotic systems Disabled stems Controlled streams Dash in seams Be an example, model the sample Let the leader lead the leaders Let the leader be the servant An active weaver of the basket To hold with the strongest straws In rows and crows, clinging to all A negotiator of the common people A facilitator in times of conflict Let the worker be dedicated Passionate, triumphant and trial-led But the case is, all are in it for the money I am not afraid to tell capitalists, "Give workers their rights" **I am not a ******* charity mate! Share the faked matte!** **I am not afraid to tell you, "Stick it up on your *** Give me time to be creative, innovative and autonomous
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Sep 1, 2016
Sep 1, 2016 at 4:16 AM UTC
Work Systems are ****
He hits the **** switch and lets automated ****** begin, an autocratic order of sin activated. Multiple acts of hatred; trapped and baited out to break our faith in humanity. He holds a chalice of malice and a sceptre set to insanity. Can it be that he keeps an absent mind hidden in his rage? Caged. His vanity leaves him blind to atrocity, a kingdom of states united by authority. Live by the button, **** by the gun of another man, who die for the oil pumped through his black heart. Call his wars; the dark art of offence, the dark heart of profit. What is a life worth to a man with nothing but people skills. The skills to play the people, who **** to pay the bills. Power unchecked. Retrospect allows the backbenchers nothing but regret. Power unchecked. First past the post never holds the most votes but they hold the host and create the ghosts, the martyrs, the heroes of war, the dearly departed, who they never thought of as too dear. Quite the opposite; a small price to pay.
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Aug 8, 2012
Aug 8, 2012 at 4:53 AM UTC
Cheap
just because your problems are bigger than mine, doesn't qualify you as being better than me; but sure, we need apes, like we might encourage buying stake at the butchers and a quasi-Narcissus reflection in Darwin... that's what happens when presupposing someone's supposed idiocy, it happens that way in democracy, without a autocratic godhead of authority, many more are prone to being prescribed madness, because being sadistic with dementia patients and those disabled is all that more rewarding than when a "patient" can punch you back, bloody-nose your face... and this is how Christianity makes sense? might as well call the adherents of Christianity children wetting their beds and fuelled by a desire to maim their fellow examples of the species... Darwinism will not do... it's a farce... the animals involved to a categorical grouping would not do what humans do to each other... so we evolved from monkey to escape the tiger and the snake? i hardly think tigers or snakes killed with sadism involved... for pleasure... but if the sadistic impulse was always ours... we evolved for no good reason... i'd rather experience the hunger of the tiger or the snake than experience the sadism of a fellow human being... and that's a humanism, it doesn't invoke a god or morality that should be kept... i'd rather a tiger **** me for sustenance than some trivial bog-standard thief from the London estate knifing me for a ******* bike... i'd rather end up in a tiger's digestive system than in the "evolved" court-of-law debating bicycle theft - animal-cohesiveness knows no sadism, human-overpowering of animals knows everything but humanism, hence the need for humanism per se, poetry and a novel... we write poetry but at the same time perform holocausts... if we are evolutionary products, we are by evolutionary standards a successful paradox... we contradict the pluses with the negatives we produce subsequently... we have evolved / transcended the original parameters... but we did so paradoxically; i'd still rather die from a tiger easing my death by the vampire-bite of my neck that the exfoliation abiding with the electric chair or the iron maiden... the author of the Bonfire of Vanities got it wrong... we really did use our imagination... we used imagination for the expression of torture... Disney can do **** all than quack like a duck to quiet simply approve the endemic continuance of the practice... because most people will simply apply for t.v. and come dine with me spectaculars.
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Aug 20, 2016
Aug 20, 2016 at 9:10 PM UTC
metric system
just because your problems are bigger than mine, doesn't qualify you as being better than me; but sure, we need apes, like we might encourage buying stake at the butchers and a quasi-Narcissus reflection in Darwin... that's what happens when presupposing someone's supposed idiocy, it happens that way in democracy, without a autocratic godhead of authority, many more are prone to being prescribed madness, because being sadistic with dementia patients and those disabled is all that more rewarding than when a "patient" can punch you back, bloody-nose your face... and this is how Christianity makes sense? might as well call the adherents of Christianity children wetting their beds and fuelled by a desire to maim their fellow examples of the species... Darwinism will not do... it's a farce... the animals involved to a categorical grouping would not do what humans do to each other... so we evolved from monkey to escape the tiger and the snake? i hardly think tigers or snakes killed with sadism involved... for pleasure... but if the sadistic impulse was always ours... we evolved for no good reason... i'd rather experience the hunger of the tiger or the snake than experience the sadism of a fellow human being... and that's a humanism, it doesn't invoke a god or morality that should be kept... i'd rather a tiger **** me for sustenance than some trivial bog-standard thief from the London estate knifing me for a ******* bike... i'd rather end up in a tiger's digestive system than in the "evolved" court-of-law debating bicycle theft - animal-cohesiveness knows no sadism, human-overpowering of animals knows everything but humanism, hence the need for humanism per se, poetry and a novel... we write poetry but at the same time perform holocausts... if we are evolutionary products, we are by evolutionary standards a successful paradox... we contradict the pluses with the negatives we produce subsequently... we have evolved / transcended the original parameters... but we did so paradoxically; i'd still rather die from a tiger easing my death by the vampire-bite of my neck that the exfoliation abiding with the electric chair or the iron maiden... the author of the Bonfire of Vanities got it wrong... we really did use our imagination... we used imagination for the expression of torture... Disney can do **** all than quack like a duck to quiet simply approve the endemic continuance of the practice... because most people will simply apply for t.v. and come dine with me spectaculars.
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The president loves to carry on About his gut and how it guides him. How can anybody believe A word of all of his nonsense besides him? His gut encourages him to lie And do it while he keeps a straight face. It helps him create far-fetched stories To dupe and galvanize his base. His gut is great at seeking out The shiftiest autocrats around, So he can make America His autocratic proving ground. It's also very good at distracting The country from what is REALLY going on-- At how to attract his servile lackeys While he plays the role of the don. It helps him to be great at knowing How to pander to various groups Such as evangelicals Who kiss his you-know-what. Oops! His gut tells him that scientists Are full of baloney when they proclaim That global warming is a threat And humankind is largely to blame. His gut says illegal voting Is rampant. Doesn't he find it odd That experts have found no proof at all Of widespread voter fraud? His gut says he hires the best people. That makes him SO excited. But how many have left their jobs? How many have been indicted? His gut said that he could pay money To silence affairs and get away with it. Did his gut let him know Whether his wife would be okay with it? His gut tells him that as the leader He can do what he desires, Which must include collusion, obstruction Of justice, and calling dissenters liars. Yes, I agree: gut feeling Can be useful at times, BUT Why can't the president Start using reason and NOT his gut? -by Bob B (11-30-18)
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Nov 30, 2018
Nov 30, 2018 at 1:15 PM UTC
Gut Feeling
The president loves to carry on About his gut and how it guides him. How can anybody believe A word of all of his nonsense besides him? His gut encourages him to lie And do it while he keeps a straight face. It helps him create far-fetched stories To dupe and galvanize his base. His gut is great at seeking out The shiftiest autocrats around, So he can make America His autocratic proving ground. It's also very good at distracting The country from what is REALLY going on-- At how to attract his servile lackeys While he plays the role of the don. It helps him to be great at knowing How to pander to various groups Such as evangelicals Who kiss his you-know-what. Oops! His gut tells him that scientists Are full of baloney when they proclaim That global warming is a threat And humankind is largely to blame. His gut says illegal voting Is rampant. Doesn't he find it odd That experts have found no proof at all Of widespread voter fraud? His gut says he hires the best people. That makes him SO excited. But how many have left their jobs? How many have been indicted? His gut said that he could pay money To silence affairs and get away with it. Did his gut let him know Whether his wife would be okay with it? His gut tells him that as the leader He can do what he desires, Which must include collusion, obstruction Of justice, and calling dissenters liars. Yes, I agree: gut feeling Can be useful at times, BUT Why can't the president Start using reason and NOT his gut? -by Bob B (11-30-18)
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a new blue tie, a freshly ironed smile. a political ****** expression, a polished pair of leather dress shoes. the democracy's corruption police, becomes a system of spoils. they chose their heirs, before the election, even begins. talents lost in initiatives hands. respect changes them, leaving justice behind in the process. trying to make sense of nothing, is what this free land has become. an oligarchic form of life, and an autocratic vision of the future.
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Aug 27, 2015
Aug 27, 2015 at 10:40 AM UTC
autocratic visions
Putin signed a bill into law-- Another bill that will surely curtail Freedom of speech, for violators Could very likely end up in jail. This is the most recent attempt To stifle the freedom of thought and expression. For years, such autocratic Control has been Putin's obsession. They say that it's an effort to make Fake news disappear, Although "fake news" is anything that The government doesn't want to hear. This is what it basically means: Russia will not tolerate Criticism of Vladimir Putin Or "disrespect" of the Russian state. Of course, that's just attacks on Russia. Everything else remains the same. Russian attempts to tamper with Elections here will be fair game. So American democracy And institutions remain under threat While Russian troll farms and Russian bots Keep on flooding the Internet. Will Trump speak out, or will he stay silent? We hear how often he defends Autocrats, and to hear him speak, Putin and he are the best of friends. -by Bob B (3-20-19)
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Mar 20, 2019
Mar 20, 2019 at 11:30 AM UTC
Crackdown
It's a New World Cars fly in the atmosphere Like kites being flown by carefree kids Homes crumble down to shreds Like mud castles being hit by the rain Life gets washed away into the seas Like soft sand grains from the sea shore Earnest elite men and women in white coats Will name as tornado, tsunami, earthquakes Scary names they are Imaging dragons and Dracula But it is a natural disaster It is the universe's fault That no man can be blamed for Some people live with their loses Find solace in the life they at least have left Though, sadly, most never do They wish they were never spared For they are nothing with the nothingness spared It's a new world Now welcome the insensible fault of nature Pssshhh! A silver vessel flies to the North Zssshhh! A furious retaliative one trajects Bzshhhh! They both hit on either sides And the rest becomes history Secure in their protected fortresses Safe in company of their families Content with their actions Two men from either sides Too full of their selfish and narcissistic egos And yet voted by the perishing masses into power They watch their doings From their fancy televisions Like it were an ugly action movie scene Or a space Sci-fi video game While everything burns down And life turns to death Toils taken to graves Children screaming Parents crying Dreams shattering Blood spilling Sirens wailing Doctors yelling Pulses feebling Breaths fading It is selfish world Where survival is only for the egocentric And the innocent civilians live every day In fear it were their last As the media discuss the looming of a war Now tyrants are bigger than their voters And men's suits are too expensive To sit down for negotiations Rulers' hands too sterile to shake in peace But their autocratic mouths so easy At declaring and perpetrating war Oh, how presidential! Mongi C. Nkabindze
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Jan 29, 2018
Jan 29, 2018 at 10:41 AM UTC
It's a New World
It's a New World Cars fly in the atmosphere Like kites being flown by carefree kids Homes crumble down to shreds Like mud castles being hit by the rain Life gets washed away into the seas Like soft sand grains from the sea shore Earnest elite men and women in white coats Will name as tornado, tsunami, earthquakes Scary names they are Imaging dragons and Dracula But it is a natural disaster It is the universe's fault That no man can be blamed for Some people live with their loses Find solace in the life they at least have left Though, sadly, most never do They wish they were never spared For they are nothing with the nothingness spared It's a new world Now welcome the insensible fault of nature Pssshhh! A silver vessel flies to the North Zssshhh! A furious retaliative one trajects Bzshhhh! They both hit on either sides And the rest becomes history Secure in their protected fortresses Safe in company of their families Content with their actions Two men from either sides Too full of their selfish and narcissistic egos And yet voted by the perishing masses into power They watch their doings From their fancy televisions Like it were an ugly action movie scene Or a space Sci-fi video game While everything burns down And life turns to death Toils taken to graves Children screaming Parents crying Dreams shattering Blood spilling Sirens wailing Doctors yelling Pulses feebling Breaths fading It is selfish world Where survival is only for the egocentric And the innocent civilians live every day In fear it were their last As the media discuss the looming of a war Now tyrants are bigger than their voters And men's suits are too expensive To sit down for negotiations Rulers' hands too sterile to shake in peace But their autocratic mouths so easy At declaring and perpetrating war Oh, how presidential! Mongi C. Nkabindze
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You can't catch me 22  I'm miles dead ahead of you   Runnin' circles round' you squares With lion shares and grizzly bares Livin' on a cobra's prayer With taboo turpitude'n tongue Conundrums that I'm summon'un The meta-Orpheus has come Since 21, the chosen one I'm neo-hippy rebel **** So ante-uppers, get you some Eleven seven slurpee sun Super-soaking supernovas With a matrix water gun From vats of hydrochloric Spillin' Joker on the masses Turnin' Gotham allegoric Into clown prince rhymes of passion Of a blood of Christ fanatic Jimmy Jones'n as I'm cashin' In the semi-theocratic Weapon cache'n checks imbalanced Chemically unstable attic   Bat **** crazy poison gases Spewin' power-trippin' fascist Cataclysmic autocratic Devolution clash of classes Resolution's prehistoric Meteoric democratic   So I'm risin' from the ashes From dismayin' to conveyin' How I'm goin' super Saiyan When the treasure hordes of Mordor lords Corrupt the men of Numenor For Bard the Bowman heroes Are the roles that I am playin' In shadows of the Arkenstone When I go dragon slayin'
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Apr 1, 2017
Apr 1, 2017 at 1:05 AM UTC
Dragon Slayin'
I write to spite A world enthralled with the massacre of solitude A world born crude And through the back door it grew into this monster This anarchic regime of the intimidation of an individualistic code So your abode Your humble palace Watch it burn in a rich mans chalice The drug of choice For an autocratic voice High on power and rushing on the blood of those who suffer Their kicks kick in as we turn against each other No longer can their atrocities Be forced upon us as our responsibilities As consciousness  grows and insecurities fail The reality of the indignation, is all you can inhale So all those thoughts of prosperity ,wealth, appearance and social acceptance May they perish and persuade us no more It will end the way it started The chaos of when destiny has departed The illegitimate ways That have blighted our days Lost amidst the thrill of the unknown Forever forgotten as we who are left to reap the rewards of the seeds we have sown
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Jan 30, 2017
Jan 30, 2017 at 11:47 AM UTC
destiny has departed
Come, paint me by the fruit bowl, power me with cheap coal, keep me running for as long as I could care to stand. Come, walk along the mountain, we'll meet beside the fountain, I'll give you back that hour you gave to me back then. Come, talk to me over coffee, in the softness of the city, in the sweetest desperation of a tune. Come, listen to my sadness, and preferential madness, come listen to me play my autocratic flute. Come, indulge all my sorrow, all the poetry I borrow, from the poets with the sense to avoid the 'I love you's'. Come, meet me in the canopy, high atop the balcony, be the one to make all my lucid dreams come true. Come, hide under the bedsheets, we'll play criminals and junkies, we'll play until the birds begin to sing over our *** Come, relax in my eyesight, born upon the morning light, come, kiss me in my new self, on lands where only love, is ever considered wealth.
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Feb 21, 2014
Feb 21, 2014 at 10:55 PM UTC
Far-Off Places
What has happened to America? How did democracy get so diluted? How could its people sit by and watch Repeated attacks go undisputed? The nation has had its ups and downs Since it began--no denying. We strove to work out the kinks in our system With dreams and efforts that were undying. Autocratic leaders were once Looked at with both disdain and suspicion. Currently, world dictators are Receiving our leader's recognition. White supremacists used to spread Their vile hatred from out on the fringes. The mainstream door--now open for them-- Has even been taken off its hinges. Struggles for rights have gone on for years, And yet they continue. The clock is ticking. Though many thought he was dead and buried, Jim Crow is alive and kicking. At times in the past, we would protect Our people through almost any means. Now our children in schools are being Massacred by AR-15s. Knowledge and wisdom once were praised, And facts used to be highly respected. Critical thinking is dying while The art of lying is being perfected. The free press used to be valued-- A sign that our freedom was thriving. Misinformed voices, calling it fake, Now accuse it of being conniving. Through the years we've heard talk Of formulating built-in protections. Now--completely out of control-- ***** money determines elections. Immigrants used to be welcome here. They've made us strong--without a doubt. Lately, people keep looking for More excuses to kick them out. No system's invincible; Any system will face attacks. Democracy can be vulnerable-- Especially if it has cracks. -by Bob B (3-8-18)
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Mar 8, 2018
Mar 8, 2018 at 11:09 AM UTC
What Has Happened to America?
What has happened to America? How did democracy get so diluted? How could its people sit by and watch Repeated attacks go undisputed? The nation has had its ups and downs Since it began--no denying. We strove to work out the kinks in our system With dreams and efforts that were undying. Autocratic leaders were once Looked at with both disdain and suspicion. Currently, world dictators are Receiving our leader's recognition. White supremacists used to spread Their vile hatred from out on the fringes. The mainstream door--now open for them-- Has even been taken off its hinges. Struggles for rights have gone on for years, And yet they continue. The clock is ticking. Though many thought he was dead and buried, Jim Crow is alive and kicking. At times in the past, we would protect Our people through almost any means. Now our children in schools are being Massacred by AR-15s. Knowledge and wisdom once were praised, And facts used to be highly respected. Critical thinking is dying while The art of lying is being perfected. The free press used to be valued-- A sign that our freedom was thriving. Misinformed voices, calling it fake, Now accuse it of being conniving. Through the years we've heard talk Of formulating built-in protections. Now--completely out of control-- ***** money determines elections. Immigrants used to be welcome here. They've made us strong--without a doubt. Lately, people keep looking for More excuses to kick them out. No system's invincible; Any system will face attacks. Democracy can be vulnerable-- Especially if it has cracks. -by Bob B (3-8-18)
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Dear Patty, I have never met a child or a poem ***born to live a free verse life, willingly submit to patrician powdered **** cheek horror at the unconformity of escapading, river rafting verbal tumulting, never awoken needy to be yoked by syllabic laws of brutalists, jailed by autocratic diktats of meter, or the iron confines of lines formatted, imprisoned, once set free, they then opine-id prithee prithee, prithee please sir on my license plating, can I whine, write free or die*** ***bind me not by the rigid sharpies of executed orders, or count the numbered breaths tween my freedom riders, escaping with grinning faces shouting seen-u-around, and don't forget to say bye bye to the tortuous pretense of them haiku hi hi hooliganisms, and the amoebic pentameter of a speare chuckere who was foolishly glad to trade the kingdom of freedom for a besaddled horse led around by the reign of ruthless rules*** is this crystal-a-line clear my dear?
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Jan 29, 2025
Jan 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM UTC
I have never met a child or a poem
*** no autocratic leadership can survive for a longer time. in a democratic setup every citizen is having equal rights and responsibilities. autocratic behaviour of individuals is not acceptable, whether he is elected or selected or a common civilian. *** ©deovrat 17.09.2019
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Sep 16, 2019
Sep 16, 2019 at 11:44 PM UTC
Acceptance
I have no liking for politicians It doesn’t matter what they represent Or believe in or stand for I don’t care if they’re the Right or Left Or in the ****** Middle Or up high or so **** low That you can’t trust them They are all the same From the smug smiles of Putin and Trump To the elitism of top Tory’s like Cameron and May There are the spineless Labour saps Like Corbyn a Red terror supporting anti nuke coward None of them are fit to lead any nation Each supports his own selfish interests Closely followed by their party I’d rather take to the hills or woods And live alone amongst nature Or with a trusted ‘group’ allied to no one There are totalitarian autocratic dictators And democratically elected leaders All can lie and behave like the best For they are the best The best at lying killing And saying whatever they like Some people believe them They silence their enemies and opponents By a variety of means This is the politician All are the same Low life **** whom I oppose
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Jan 17, 2019
Jan 17, 2019 at 12:51 AM UTC
Yonder
By: Cedric McClester Is this the America That the founders had in mind? When America was founded What was their design? Did they mean for us To become resigned, To the internecine warfare, That today we find? Is this the America That the founders had in mind? When they came together So they could redefine The autocratic government That had them in a bind From which they did their best To unravel and unwind Is this the America That the founders had in mind? And did they foresee, Our present day decline? And if they did, Would they be benign? Or would they insist That we get back in line Is this the America That the founders had in mind? When a despotic president , Chose to cross the line? By casting false aspersions On opponents thus defined And giving the red meat To those similarly inclined Cedric McClester, Copyright © 2019.  All rights reserved.
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Jul 22, 2019
Jul 22, 2019 at 7:06 PM UTC
IS THIS THE AMERICA...?
By autocrat I mean a domineering bossy pseudo-dictator of a basically free country. No, I say, and he's doing a good job, but he has thing kinda harsh peopled following that probably wouldn't exist if it wasn't for certain pink lazy young people infiltrating the power structures of this country. That sounds far-fetched, I know, and the babbling of a jealous old man, but that's my hunch - there are too many young people in high school who come home and plop themselves down on the couch to a bunch of inane TV with a whole bag of Lay's potato chips at their fingertips, irritating their right-winged father, cheating afterward, and getting educated in a technical field and offending dangerous psychotics off the street. If Trump would just correct that and not take his hang ups out on us Latinos (I'm partially Mexican, Puerto Rican, South American, and Spanish, so far as I know) and Muslims like me, this country wouldn't disintegrate with mass murderers and such, who might have delusions that Trump is their der fuhrer. He's kind of a know-it0all and becoming autocratic as it would seem. He could prevent this from coming to full fruition by just minding the liberal media a little bit.
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Aug 1, 2017
Aug 1, 2017 at 11:23 AM UTC
Donald Trump - Is He a Thriving Autocrat Already