One Hundred Poems, Volume II

By Tuomas Vainio

This batch of hundred short poems leans heavily towards politics and to a lesser extend to the various recent aspects of popular culture. This is a continuation to my personal challenge to write at least one poem a day until I reach 1000 poems, or maybe a number over 9000.

More specifically this collection contains several poems on the topics of feminism, racism, #GamerGate and since each of these topics are highly controversial, it is likely that our views on these subjects will have discrepancies. Well, at least if you are in favour of feminism, do not want to end racism, and are not in favour of #GamerGate.

Nevertheless other topics have been touched as well.

This time around, I would say that my favourite poem is the one called "Courage and Bigotry." It is slightly longer than the average length of the other poems.

The table of contents:

Here we go again
On the sixth of march
Compulsory Swedish
Under the storm and rain (For a fantasy novel)
Combined European Army?

European army and how it could work
Dandelion Prince (For a fantasy novel)
A Top Gear job opening?
Terry Pratchett
#GamerGate and Women in Video Games?

CHAPPiE
Garnet
Poetry is a sounding board
Break up poem
Parenting?

Old love
We will own this sky
21.03.2015
Gaming and microtransactions
Feminism is our modern swastika

Space Monkey
Passive Aggressive Spring
#Gamergate as FBI priority
4/5th Direction
Space Monkey

Old School Western
Stereotypical Fantasy Villain
Another World
Early bird
The Dead Fields (For a fantasy novel)

For what it's worth
Pillars of Eternity
I hate you
Headache
Let me see

Culture of rape?
Hugo Awards 8.4.2015 4/8/2015
Were I to sell renewable energy
135 downloads
#SadPuppies

Break
It keeps going onwards
Hillary's tweet
GRRM and Sad Puppies
Netflixdevil

NASA | SDO: Year 5
Tower of Judgement (For a fantasy novel)
Baron of Storms (For a fantasy novel)
Two days to elections
The Terror of Honey Badgers at Calgary Expo

Election Day
Courage and Bigotry
Fear
On the Death of Racism
Ode to my new hat

Bicycle
Flash Gordon
Man of Steel
Political Correctness
The Two Natural Disasters

Birthday Roses
Thoughts on Baltimore Riots
David Simon: End the Drug War
Happy thoughts
News from Nepal in 2015

Bernie Sanders for President
Space Monkey
And the sky shall fall
I like to argue like a Flame Warrior
Sleep

Night at the club
On Potatoes
A gamer is dead, long live the gamer!
Space Monkey
All those racist words

Controversial poems...
Fried Rice
Taunts online
My dear Watson
I received a letter

On police with cameras
King's counsel (For a fantasy novel)
Girlfriend's espresso
On women who want to have it all
On a brighter note

A response to Elisa Chavez's “#gamergate”
Sidetracked
The bitch waits in the shower
A Person of Colour
“Redneck Avengers: Tulsa Nights” — A Bad Lip Reading

Hundred online straws
Headaches of mine
The Green Elephant
Sandwich with ham
And now she wants salmon

Sidekick Max: Furiosa's Road
To Be A Delicate Flower
A Green Car
Hello my love
Some Two Hundred Poems

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tuomas Vainio
• Release date: May 31, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311369741

Tuomas Vainio

I write, I read, and the typos are still there. It is the crux of my life. Anyhow, my published works should not be overpriced and in some outlets you might be even able to set your own price!

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Here we go again

It is a new start,

Time for second part,

Not quite the work of art,

Only more poems to take apart,

Thus I wonder if I truly have the heart.

But here we go again;

Another hundred poems that I deign.

Here we go again.

:)

On the sixth of march

My coming vote became clear,

When I witnessed today's sneer,

Their crass ignorance of what is right,

The unwillingness to correct decades of blight,

I cannot understand how they remain so blind,

I shall never remember them in kind,

They try to hold back the change,

They suffer from mental mange.

Compulsory Swedish

There is no need for compulsory Swedish,

It is quite far away from what we wish,

Let us choose the languages we learn,

Let us work hard for what we yearn,

Away with the binds that chain us,

A willing mind is always a plus,

A mind freed of false reasons,

Of your intellectual treason,

Please just open your ears,

Set aside your bigoted fears,

So your mind will not be askew,

And we could learn a language or two,

Instead of hours and years simply wasted,

We could learn foreign languages without hatred,

But nor voice or reason ever shines your dim minds,

You persist to see us fall and struggle with binds,

When we could learn to embrace the world,

We are simply kept place in a choke hold,

Yet no one can be forced to learn Swedish,

It does not matter how hard you try or wish,

It does not matter which inside trades you play,

As your arguments remain without a single sway,

As our wish of freedom and choice is forever stronger,

And thus you cannot hold us back a single moment longer.

Under the storm and rain (For a fantasy novel)

Can you hear the wind moan,

See the ropes and banners thrown,

This storm tonight is something new,

Change cackles before morning anew,

What it shall bring forth nobody knows,

So huddle around in wait as the wind goes,

Hear its harrowing tap against glass and walls,

Huddle together around fire until morning calls,

This is not the first storm to arrive in our city,

We will survive as things are not gritty,

Just huddle along and watch the fire,

Let us enjoy warmth under storm's ire,

And see for ourselves what morning shall sire.

Combined European Army?

Our president gave his thumb up,

But I think it is time for a close up,

To consider who shall bear it all,

Who in case of war is first to fall,

Is he blind to our very proximity,

How we can have no unanimity,

How Europe forgot to forearm,

How I long not to raise my arm,

But I am forced by conscription,

So my life is up out of dereliction,

Thus today my fate was sealed,

Russia always strikes a shield,

Testing metal and will