Angeline
Poet Chick
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If you're American or have been following American politics, you know America is having the craziest election season in many years. And our buds to the north are having an election season of their own though, frankly, I know little about their candidates.
I'm a political junkie. I always get pretty whipped up about elections. So I thought this might be a good time for political poetry. Post poems in this thread that speak to you about the election season or politics in general. They can be your own or someone else's, even found poetry. And if you haven't written a political poem, maybe this thread will inspire you to do so.
Election Year
by Donald Revell
A jet of mere phantom
Is a brook, as the land around
Turns rocky and hollow.
Those airplane sounds
Are the drowning of bicyclists.
Leaping, a bridesmaid leaps.
You asked for my autobiography.
Imagine the greeny clicking sound
Of hummingbirds in a dry wood,
And there you’d have it. Other birds
Pour over the walls now.
I'd never suspected: every day,
Although the nation is done for,
I find new flowers.
I'm a political junkie. I always get pretty whipped up about elections. So I thought this might be a good time for political poetry. Post poems in this thread that speak to you about the election season or politics in general. They can be your own or someone else's, even found poetry. And if you haven't written a political poem, maybe this thread will inspire you to do so.
Election Year
by Donald Revell
A jet of mere phantom
Is a brook, as the land around
Turns rocky and hollow.
Those airplane sounds
Are the drowning of bicyclists.
Leaping, a bridesmaid leaps.
You asked for my autobiography.
Imagine the greeny clicking sound
Of hummingbirds in a dry wood,
And there you’d have it. Other birds
Pour over the walls now.
I'd never suspected: every day,
Although the nation is done for,
I find new flowers.