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When Serpents Reign (Haiku on Bad Governance)
Nick Adegwe-Oshomah
***Haiku written in 1996
On misrule and tyranny
In African...
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All Saint's Day
John Keble
And, lightened of the world's misrule,
  Ye soar those elder saints to meet
  Gathered long since at Jesus' feet,
  No world of...
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Gotham. Book II.
Charles Churchill
Born and bred slaves, that they, with proud misrule,
Should make brave freeborn men, like boys at school,
To the whip crouch and tremble--Oh,...
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Political Ballet: A Dystopian Choreography
Mawphniang Napoleon
Let deeds, not words, set the pace
Before misrule by peasantry
Now we lead, we hold history

Let duplicity's curtains drop
Icons topple,...
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Stooges Apotheosis
Michael Stuart Waterson
cosmos inscrutably and violently dumb
where misrule calls the tune,
and laughter is a thunderclap
of the gods applauding...
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Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 3. The Landlord's Tale; The Rhyme of Sir Christopher
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
That pettifogger from Furnival's Inn,
Lord of misrule and riot and sin,
Who looked on the wine when it was...
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The Convocation: A Poem
Richard Savage
The Bane of Nations, the Misrule of...
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The Day of The Lord
Charles Kingsley
Idleness, Bigotry, Cant, and Misrule,
Gather, and fall in the...
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The Peoples Message is Sacred
Ofuonyebi 'Dinobi
-then they murmured and complained
-against the misrule
-and a bloody khaki-monks
-with a bloody eyes and triggers
-emerged form the woods
-to keep you...
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The Perfect Playmate
Katharine Tynan
King of misrule when Christmas frosts were...
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