Political Poems for Free
by Nicholas Gordon
Poems about politics, political poetry, free for any personal or non-commercial purpose.
All poems: copyright by Nicholas Gordon. For political stories, click on Political Stories for Free.
- After All, the Market Runs on Greed
- Ah, the Temptation
- America: An Ideal That's Less than Ideal
- America Can Never Be America
- America Is Built on a Foundation of Hope
- America Is Not an Exclusive Club
- America Is on a Long Journey
- America's Built on Stolen Land
- America's Is the World's Eventual State
- And These Are the Islands (Typhoon Haiyan)
- Andrew Was a Soldier of the Faith
- Base Your Life on Reason, Only Reason (Bastille Day)
- Because Injustice Is the Match (Bastille Day)
- Because the Root of Poverty Is Injustice (Bastille Day)
- Before the Terror Comes the Tyranny (Bastille Day)
- Beware of Inequalities Too Wide (Bastille Day)
- Beware of Power Absolute, Unshared (Bastille Day)
- Beware of the Future: We Are the Ancien Régime (Bastille Day)
- Blessed Are Those Who Compromise Their Visions (Bastille Day)
- Borders Are Obscenities
- Darfur/Darfur
- Each of Us Is like One Drop of Rain (Earth Day)
- Each of Us Might Follow a Bright Star(Epiphany)
- Each Must Save the Earth in Multiple Ways (Earth Day)
- Election Day Seems Sometimes like Which Crook
- Elections, as You Know, Are Bought and Sold
- Elections Bring Regime Change
- Erring on the Side of Love
- Even So, We Did What We Believed In (Ethel and Julius Rosenberg)
- Even the Earth Knows Well the Market Must (Earth Day)
- Even When There's Little Choice, We Choose (Election Day)
- Everything We Thought Was True Was Not True (Communism)
- Exhausted by the Long Campaign
- Fifty-Eight Comes Often to the Table
- Fifty-Nine Takes Pleasure in Exposing
- First Step
- For Vegans, There Are Blessings from the Future
- Free Markets and the Wilderness
- Goodbye to All That Silly Talk (Labor Relations, Enron)
- Graduation Means that Now You Must (Student Debt)
- Great Ends Demand Great Sacrifice
- Greatness Is the Child of Choice and Chance
- Here We Have No Harbingers
- Hope Is the Only Road to Peace
- Hubris Is a Quality of People
- I Wish There Were a Washington
- In Every Heart There Is, of Course, Corruption
- In Heaven I Met Karl Marx
- In Politics Corruption Is the Norm
- In What We've Done We Take the Greatest Shame (July 4th, War in Iraq, War on Terror)
- Indeed, from Whom or What Are Rights Derived
- Indeed, This Should Be Interdependence Day
- Indians Are, of Course, Not Indians (Political Correctness)
- Inevitably, the World Will Be One Country
- Innocence Is like an Open Door
- Is This the Beginning of the End
- Ismail and Yitzhak Are Half-Brothers
- June 19th, 1865
- Jury's Still Out, I Guess, on Democracy
- Just Remember: Freedom's Not a Given
- Just Words Declared Our Freedom Long Ago
- Justice and Deterrence
- Justice Is a Collection Agency
- Justice Is as Justice Does
- Justice Is the Antidote for Vengeance
- Justice Isn't Only in a Courtroom
- Justice Now Means Food, Health, Habitation
- Labor Leaves Us Little Time to Live
- Labor Ought Not Be like Time in Prison
- Labor Ought to Earn a Decent Living
- Labor's a Commodity, like Fish
- Lest There Be Lingering Doubt, Let Me Assure You
- Lest You Think High Taxes Rob the Rich
- Let Every Worker Earn a Living Wage
- Let the Market Set the Price of Labor
- Let There Be a Right to Earn a Living
- Let Unions Bear Some Blame for Their Demise
- Let Us Honor Capital and Labor
- Let's Not Minimize the Role of Thugs
- Life for Most of Us Has Not Improved
- Love Engenders Love
- Make of Me a Hero
- Maybe This Was Harder than I Thought
- Morphed to Somalia
- Movements Are like Waves upon the Shore
- Mugabe and Mandela
- My Home Is Here, America
- Need Is Not the Mother of Invention
- Now, at Last, the Time of Reckoning
- Obama/Osama
- Peace Is Just a Brief Time Out from Killing
- Peace Is Not the Product of Despair
- Perhaps There Is Some Better Way than Voting
- Perhaps This Is No Time for Telling Tales
- Policy or Personality
- Politics Brings Out the Worst in Us
- Position Was Always One of Your Favorite Words
- Praised Be Those Who Would Distribute Power
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- Soldiers Kill, for That Is Their Profession
- Some Would Have the Courage of Their Dreams
- Song for Psalm 114: A Prayer for a Child Born in America
- Take Me to Your Leader
- Terror Must Be Beaten Back by Justice
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Please direct all email correspondence to [email protected].
Please direct all correspondence by mail to
Nicholas Gordon, P.O. Box 3043, Fort Lee, NJ 07024.
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