I hope Dopers will contribute poems lamenting or celebrating present political situations. We’ll vote to pick the best one. If you want your submission to be anonymous, send it to me via PM and I will repost it here.
I think this is the right forum; if not I hope the Mods move it appropriately.
As thread-starter I am ineligible for any prize but will submit a few of my own samples to get us started. I hope someone uses one of mine as a starting point to compose one much better.
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Do not accept these politics of hate
Trump bluffs and farts and mocks but mostly lies.
Rise up and fight before it is too late
Children watching children locked behind a gate
For Trump to show how much he can despise
Do not accept these politics of hate
Though Wall Street feasts while profits do inflate
A righteous man, still steadfast, tries
To rise and fight before it is too late
The Christians worshipping God’s glory great
Who strive to see the world with righteous eyes
Do not accept these politics of hate
Women often forced to fight above their weight
By rapists, then told that guys will just be guys
Rise up and fight before it is too late
Gays and Blacks and those who care about their fate
And mourn when Liberty’s great Statue cries
Do not accept these politics of hate
Soldiers risking lives to preserve the state
While Trump’s men sell our Land to Russian spies
Rise up and fight before it is too late
Great land Enlightenment did once create
Now weeps at what may mean its sad demise
Do not accept these politics of hate
Rise up and fight before it is too late
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This sociopathic Trump is Devil’s seed;
He bluffs and farts and mocks but mostly lies.
Do not bow down to this false god of greed.
A sexist who disgusts with word and deed,
Filled with lusts and sins he can’t disguise:
This sociopathic Trump is Devil’s seed.
Let loose the vulture banks again to feed;
No help for us, the rich just want their prize.
Do not bow down to this false god of greed.
Arrest, deport the souls we should have freed;
Heart-broke the Lady Liberty just cries.
This sociopathic Trump is Devil’s seed.
They’ll start a war and let our soldiers bleed,
And sell our country out to Russian spies.
Do not bow down to this false god of greed.
Who could think that this was who we need?
This thug that Russian mobster money buys.
This sociopathic Trump is Devil’s seed.
Do not bow down to this false god of greed.
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Poems need not be Villanelles. Here’s a submission in the Bokonist style:
Bird got to fly
Orphan got to eat
Trump got to squat and grunt and tweet tweet tweet.
Bird got to land
Widow got to cry
Trump better pinch a turd or he gonna die.
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Submissions need not come from SDMB Guests or Members. Feel free to submit a poem on behalf of a non-member. I’ll submit one right now on behalf of our President.
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