There's a rich history of poetry serving as social commentary, intended to inspire calls to action.
The air between us is thinning, a fault line shivering under the weight of all the things I haven’t dared to say. It’s in the static of a casual glance,
By Forest Green6 months ago in Poets
The quiet pulse of you is all I know, A steady rhythm humming in my veins, Where deep within, the embers softly glow, And bind my heart in sweet, silken chains.
My dear departed hammer girl Wearing window-shopping pearls Today we say goodbye Honoring your best try Getting goals But life is so cold
By Marc OBrien6 months ago in Poets
Nana & Grand Forever They didn’t need the world to see, what they held was always known, in the silence they would share
By ♿ V+ Marie381Uk 6 months ago in Poets
Don’t Kill The Ants I watched them carry their quiet world, tiny bodies bent beneath invisible weight, a kingdom moving beneath our careless feet,
Lying again on this wet floor, the rain hasn’t stopped for weeks. - The waves rise, and rise, enveloping my body again revealing, then releasing skeletal remains
By Reece Beckett6 months ago in Poets
We were told that it would simmer as long as the sky was blue For a country as wide as a kitchen light Steam curling up from a single shared pot
By Brooke Moran6 months ago in Poets
Tartan Farm. Where once mornings steamed Off thoroughbred backs that breathed and dreamed. Where fences stitched the emerald land
By Christy C. House6 months ago in Poets
Who Will Remember The Unwanted They fade before the world can see, faces lost in passing crowds, names that never settle in memory,
Moans in the Morning No one ever Minds I hear it through the walls It could be stretching or a blessing when couples combine
By Amourè Deezyy6 months ago in Poets
I. What a blank page may conceive. Untapped feelings, unexplored worlds, secrets revealed. II. The truth comes forward,
By Dean Traylor6 months ago in Poets
Broken Trees That Curse The Living They stand twisted, their roots torn from the ground, Branches clawing at the sky without a single sound,
