Halloween 2024

lillian

Promises glibly made.-
Lies repeated so many times,
swallowed by the gullible.
Round up the vermin,
ship ‘em all out!
January 6th  insurrectionists?
Patriots all.
Guard rails gone,
Project 2025 ready to go.
Convicted felon,
self-described pussy grabber.
If elected,
God help us all.

Quadrille (poem of exactly 44 words sans title) that includes a form of the word “promise” – today’s prompt at dVerse, the virtual pub for poets around the globe.

25 thoughts on “Halloween 2024”

  2. Lisa or Li's avatar msjadeli October 28, 2024 / 5:56 pm

    I love the image you chose to go with the poem. Not trying to be a smart aleck but you’ve enumerated his BEST attributes. It goes downhill from there.

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  3. Grace's avatar Grace October 28, 2024 / 7:28 pm

    Yikes. And we all hope that he does not win.

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    • lillian's avatar lillian October 30, 2024 / 12:31 pm

      We’ll be in Barcelona on election day (already voted) and board the ship on November 7. In all likelihood we’ll find out the final results either on the ship or in Barcelona….hoping we’ll be popping a bottle of champagne on our cabin’s deck rather than contemplating jumping overboard!

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    • lillian's avatar lillian October 30, 2024 / 12:32 pm

      Let’s just hope and pray things go well! Even then, this country could erupt with lawsuits, people trying to negate the results etc. What a mess! Hoping hoping hoping we turn the page.

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    • shaun tenzenmen's avatar tenzenmen November 1, 2024 / 10:45 pm

      A difficult choice when both ways are the wrong way!

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  6. Shweta's avatar Shweta Suresh October 29, 2024 / 9:21 am

    Hopefully things won’t go downhill! A hard-hitting piece, this one here!

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    • lillian's avatar lillian October 30, 2024 / 1:09 pm

      Noooooooooooooooo – he can NOT wIn! Surely our country is not a country that allows a convicted felon to become its president!

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      • Björn Rudberg (brudberg)'s avatar Björn Rudberg (brudberg) October 30, 2024 / 2:46 pm

        He will win… alas this time I am sure. But I cannot vote so that is what it is.

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  8. rothpoetry's avatar rothpoetry October 29, 2024 / 11:25 am

    You are right it seems… The pumpkin says it all!

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    • lillian's avatar lillian October 30, 2024 / 1:10 pm

      Prayers our country will see the right way and turn the page.

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  10. ben Alexander's avatar ben Alexander October 30, 2024 / 10:16 am

    Lillian, your sharp and powerful commentary on broken promises hits hard—it’s very timely!

    ~David

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    • lillian's avatar lillian October 30, 2024 / 1:11 pm

      Sadly, too timely. I still have faith our country will not elect a racist convicted felon to be president. It just cannot be!

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  11. navasolanature's avatar navasolanature November 4, 2024 / 1:47 pm

    I cannot believe the votes will go so close. Such a tragedy. And why was he voted out when Biden came in. Still the incorrigible trickster and in it for himself not all those ordinary folk who vote for him. Your poem and the pumpkin shows the despait that even this election is close is scary.

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