Best Suffrage Poems
The Universal Suffrage of the DarkNothingness has caught me by the throat
Tossed me to the innards of its prayer
Joan of Arc unhorsed in a nightmare
Burgundy makes offers for her coat
When we’re real and know the here and now
Do we entertain our thoughts and dare
To let ...
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Categories:
suffrage, allegory, allusion, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Villanelle
Special SuffrageSince our most recent U.S. Presidential non-selection,
for one thing a Trumpian could not become
is therapeutically presidential,
I have become worried about our democratic suffrage.
Perhaps only mothers, or maybe also fathers,
of kids with special vulnerability needs
should be allowed to vote,
or perhaps each and all allowed to vote,
but...
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Categories:
suffrage, community, health, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Woman Suffrage Horn HaikuWoman Suffrage
Horn Haiku
women cried out loud
had been part of a big crowd
were very endowed
woman would suffer
man had zone which was buffer
that made things tougher
had prayed to our Lord
we do want to look toward
things we can afford
Wilson with wimper
always would lose his temper
fidelis...
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Categories:
suffrage, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Haiku
For Those BeforeI’ve had the example
Of women I love,
Being strong and outspoken
When push comes to shove.
Generations before me
Gave me so much
My looks and hair colour
Tenacity and such.
I was taught by the greatest,
Who in term was taught,
By the greatest to her mind
Her mother of...
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Categories:
suffrage, rights,
Form:
Rhyme