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Limericks Of Protest

 
 
Reply Wed 27 May, 2020 07:33 pm
Topical limericks. Doggeral will be tolerated. Haiku doesn't count (syllables that is)
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fka-SealPoet
 
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Reply Wed 27 May, 2020 07:34 pm
@fka-SealPoet,
A prayer please for men like George Floyd,
Whose lives are summarily destroyed.
We are all in God’s image:
Why is there White privilege?
A question we would like to avoid…
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Wed 27 May, 2020 07:49 pm
@fka-SealPoet,
I was thirteen when Emmit Till died
I heard all of the voices that cried
I watched when an ugly law
Tipped his case into the maw
Of benevolently viewed homicide
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Thu 28 May, 2020 04:43 am
A slobbering inbred called Trump
Used Twitter whilst having a dump
He’d puff and he’d strain
“America’s great again,”
But the economy started to slump.
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fka-SealPoet
 
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Reply Thu 28 May, 2020 07:13 am
@fka-SealPoet,
If he finds the right string he can pull he
Would overrule social media fully.
His Kool-Aid, they gulp it
And Twitter’s a pulpit.
Where there’s a pulpit, you may find a bully.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Thu 28 May, 2020 08:23 am
Here's a nod and a peanut or two
For those who are voting red or blue
The banquet on the table
Is for women in sable
It's for masters of commerce or war
It's what they have you fighting for
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fka-SealPoet
 
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Reply Thu 28 May, 2020 01:14 pm
@fka-SealPoet,
In a tantrum, he tweets Mail-in FRAUD.
From his thumbs to the eyes of God.
Self-fulfilling prophecy
From Executive Office. He
Appointed the next Postmaster, how odd…
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Thu 28 May, 2020 01:51 pm
In the Thirties the Great Depression
Taught us some heavyweight lessons:
To level workers and CEOs
So one could touch nose to nose.
The notion became a waking glimmer
Until it was snuffed to not a shimmer.


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fka-SealPoet
 
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Reply Fri 29 May, 2020 06:00 am
@fka-SealPoet,
In the fallout of the death of George Floyd
Riots have white people annoyed!
‘Destruction of property:
They’re not acting properly!’
As if chattel were all that’s destroyed.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Fri 29 May, 2020 07:23 am
The color of oppression is red
First the oppressed, soon the fed
Blood the cost of justice
On that just trust us
Once on our necks you tread
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fka-SealPoet
 
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Reply Fri 29 May, 2020 09:56 am
There’s a video: white man with a hammer
Smashing glass during black protest clamor.
At the end of the day
When they haul folk away
Guess who’s not thrown in the slammer.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Fri 29 May, 2020 10:29 am
As the police station burns
Fireworks explosions stuns
The poets of action
Gaining in traction
More powerful than your guns
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fka-SealPoet
 
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Reply Sun 31 May, 2020 03:34 pm
@fka-SealPoet,
At an hour when things appear blackest
The president adds to his blacklist.
He’s laid down the law:
He’s anti-AntiFa.
Grammatically sides with the fascists.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 31 May, 2020 03:59 pm
Elected leaders' bravely spout platitudes
While granting unchecked latitudes
To the badges of aggression,
Complicitous to our oppression
These lap hounds to greedy latitudes.




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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 31 May, 2020 05:38 pm
Elected leaders' bravely spout platitudes
While granting unchecked latitudes
To the badges of aggression,
Complicitous to our oppression
These lap hounds to greedy amplitude

(corrected)
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fka-SealPoet
 
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Reply Tue 2 Jun, 2020 06:01 am
@fka-SealPoet,
By force he decreed protest stop
For a Bible in hand photo op.
They forced aside people
On his way to the steeple
Coming out on the side of the cop.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Tue 2 Jun, 2020 08:00 am
How many ways can black people die;
How many tears can black people cry
Until desperate actions
Test disparate factions
To throw off society's evil lie?

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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Wed 3 Jun, 2020 01:41 pm
Sometimes our wars of laws
Can expose the warts and flaws
Of the whole society:
Rewarding notoriety
Instead of brusquely sheathing its claws


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fka-SealPoet
 
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Reply Fri 5 Jun, 2020 03:34 pm
@fka-SealPoet,
As usual, Republicans are re-writing
Trump’s biblical photo-op sighting.
No chemical clouds
Dispersing the crowds.
Thus it must have been just tear-gas-lighting.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Fri 5 Jun, 2020 07:24 pm
Fifty ways to lose your dinner
Each way a certified winner
Just scope out the president
Who looks like an accident
His followers' a sinner - - -
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