There's a rich history of poetry serving as social commentary, intended to inspire calls to action.
Once a Street Girl I learned early how to walk without looking back, How to keep my hands steady and my heart closed tight,
By ♿ V+ Marie381Uk 6 months ago in Poets
Dear May, Bluebonnets bloom beside blue poppies striving to open early. Berries form, only we must wait for August’s hands.
By Andrea Corwin 6 months ago in Poets
after all the newspapers were cut and the book ban at the libraries while our neighbors were being rounded up and sent to Guantanamo
By Mark Francis6 months ago in Poets
What I Refused to See I called it love when it was something smaller, Something that asked less and took far more, I ignored the cracks that spread between us,
pedophile eyes stay open through the darkest nights, cold witnesses to the desecration of the human spirit they weave through body,
By Harper Lewis 6 months ago in Poets
I found a peony in the woods, Remnant of a lost Eden A foreigner rooted where it could not bloom, without a word to speak in its defense.
By Natalie Wilkinson6 months ago in Poets
In the timeline where the bombs didn’t drop, where treaties held like promises we meant, the city still stands—glass towers catching light
By Aarsh Malik6 months ago in Poets
Okay With Not Being Okay There are days the smile sits slightly wrong, Like it borrowed strength it cannot prolong, Words come easy, light and bright,
I don’t wanna speak in generalizations, but my mother and I, kinda fit the bill! Oil and water just never really mixed; 40+ decades, we don’t still.
By Alaine Hay6 months ago in Poets
A pillow like a slab of marble another sleepless night ahead another nightmare rears its head in this warm, far too fiery bed.
By Reece Beckett6 months ago in Poets
This game of life has a new board on which we play. More advanced than monopoly or checkers. More applicable than artificial sweeteners.
By Lamar Wiggins6 months ago in Poets
through my teeth i say i am fine i tell myself it is not a lie not if i really want it to be true not if i need to believe it
By ⸘jason alan‽6 months ago in Poets
