His name is a four letter word,
a landslide mandate...
in a joke gone bad,
a frantic eye
blinking
thirty times a minute,
always interrupting,
constipation
stressing on a face
that doesn't exist...
even within itself...
even in the
falling,
fleeting,
moment
of snow.
"look me in the eyes"...
And I will tell you...
Towers of fear
create a victory
for an invisible
enemy
lost in false premise,
burning in its own
oil driven fuel,
screaming for help
and rescuing no one,
comforting no one,
hating everything
we will not understand,
with absolute proof
that we must kill
what we are afraid of
and unable
to love.
Fear for breakfast,
Hate... for lunch,
So just skip dinner
to watch
this bunch
of fork tongued devils
react to numbers falling
falling
down
and sinking into the
soaring price
of leaves.
While some of us
stay hiding...
hiding
in the
Bushes.
part 2....
We have so much to bless our gift
and gratitude is an obsolete idea,
as war is such a way to forget
how Nature's saves us from falling under
a tyranny that preaches fear
so love is left to wilt inside us.
If we just lay down our arms
and come together
as prodigal spirits returning weary
to will our secret into minds that matter
every rifle might be a candle
in hand to pass and light our friendship.
So it is difficult to stop and save our mother,
whose breath is laden with our dirty underwear
as dust to dust we are her fingers
and time in now, for spring to cleanse
our wish inside us to believe she's worth it.
If your thought is gray,
then watch the sun rise,
for every orange drop that fills
this sacred sea of aspiration
is never wasted, but brims the sea
in every hope we had as children,
and when we come to find her meadow,
dancing with a greener shadow,
we will not support her failure
but offer voice to sing in glory.
Author notes
The Truth must be told...
For me the humor in this poem is how terrifying a bad joke has become...and every laugh seems to freeze in the boring answer to presidential rhetoric...and fear is a four letter word.
A contest entry
- Black Mail by zillion.
450 points, ended December 12, 2006, 11 entries
Silver trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - Calling all political poetry. (Any type) by nitefire.
300 points, ended April 23, 2008, 17 entries
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This is hideous and hilarious! I love the lengths to which you went to make your point about Bush being evil! Although you may be giving him too much credit. I think you have to have a brain to be truly evil. I think being a puppet only makes you half evil! hahaha! Nice write! ~Leah
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love the backgrounde and love the piece, good luck in the contest
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I like the begining a lot. It was almost funny. I really liked that part. However, when I got to Part 2, I started to lose interest, because it became too long. I would say to seperate it into two poems. Otherwise, good write and good luck!
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Hey, This is Alisha. I'm the judge of this contest.
I liked this. It was reallt good. You're right it's tunred out to be a bad joke.
Good job
Good luck in my contest
- Lisha Dawn -
Good job
A brilliant piece of poetry, while also political! Who thought if possible? lol. Bush had a lot of ideas that were good IN THEORY. They just kinda snow balled and left him in the mess that is the world today. And then he had some bad ideas (like the anti-gay thing). He's only human. Anyways, I really like the flow of this poem. The momentum was great and didn't fade at the end. Overall, great job! Write on Poet!
God Bless
Krazy.K.
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Wow
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I liked this alot, thank you for reccomaending it. Oh well, how much more damage can he do with the rest of his presidency...don't answer that...
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Since I am in Canada, I don't have to be so politically correct lol... My only question is "Why the arms thrown out wide, and the clucking like a turkey?" Is there some inbreeding going on here, or what.... lmao... your poem was masterfully written, with just enough reality to make it a bit scary for us average folks lol
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Well, I love the message and I do think he is a bad President, a crooked person, and not a bright man That is my opinion, and I have tried to listen to his views on things, but frankly, I cannot make heads nor tails out of them, and I do not believe that he can either
(I am sure that "Daddy Bush" writes his speeches. The problem is that when Junior writes them on his hand, he runs out of room )
Thank God, here in this country, we have freedom of speech and the right to have our own opinion I think your poem is wonderful, Rich, and I applaud you!!!!
Lynda
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I don't like your message, picture or background, but I did love the words you chose and the way to arranged them on the page. Great stuff, except that the best way to go about hating someone would be to attack their actions and not their name. Just because he shares the same name as a house plant doesn't mean that he's a bad president. The fact that he cuts education like a madman is something people should be concerned about, not whether he likes gay people or not, or whether he looks like a monkey or not. People just get so hung up on vanity issues that it makes them completely oblivious to the real facts like education. Good luck.
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great job...AND THE TEXXT EFFECTS WERE COOL!!! GOOD LUCK MY FRIEND!!!
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Okay!
I like this write, I really do.
I got a little confused at first but I got it toward the middle and end.
Thank you for your entry!
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