February 21, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week, in honor of President’s Day, is politics.
Today’s poem is about politicians from the point of view of
an apathetic electorate.
I welcome comments on my poems at
http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
What promises they make and cannot
keep!
Each year like well-trained dogs
they bark and yelp,
An annual charade they cannot
help,
Knowing well where they must drive
their sheep.
Their vetted visions sow what none
might reap;
Their practiced platitudes are off
the shelf;
Their chief constituent remains
the self;
Still, we vote and then go back to
sleep.
We do not care how much they lie
and steal
So long as streets are clean and
taxes low,
And we are taken care of, more or
less.
OK, the self-served suffering may
be real
Of those poor souls we do not care
to know.
But what has that to do with happiness?
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/whatpr.html.
For more poems about politics, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/politicalpoems.html
.
This week’s theme: Politics
February 20: Praised Be Those Who Would Distribute Power
February 21: What Promises They Make and Cannot Keep
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