There's a rich history of poetry serving as social commentary, intended to inspire calls to action.
The Girl Who Borrowed Midnight Midnight came early to town, It slipped in before the clocks allowed, People blamed the cliffs and sea,
By ♿ V+ Marie381Uk 12 months ago in Poets
We’ve landed on this strange land It seems abandoned, lonely I see no others, wife No females, males, or young We are all alone, without companions
By Alexandra Grant12 months ago in Poets
There is a spare chair at my table that I set like an altar for the life that hasn’t arrived yet. I put a plate there sometimes,
By Milan Milic12 months ago in Poets
I’m sick of headlines written in blood, lives reduced to hashtags, daughters turned to cannon fodder— sacrificial lambs led to slaughter
By SUEDE the poet12 months ago in Poets
I am the root that finds the single drop of water hidden in the blistering rock. I refused the clean, sharp blessing
By katie mahala12 months ago in Poets
I’m shaking sun dried oaks to try to gather up the leaves again. they crumble into dust in ways the buds can’t have perceived again.
By Ellana Blacher12 months ago in Poets
My chest is a library for all the things I didn’t say. ◆ The big confessions sit on the highest shelves, hardcovers with dust jackets
Life’s going too fast, so I mark every line. Reiterate every street, every obvious sign, as if the art of noticing could save me from forgetting.
By Marvelous Michael12 months ago in Poets
I’ve put my heart on airplane mode more times than I admit, a tiny switch of self-defense that feels like choosing “quit.”
I consume so I create. Living, breathing, becoming. In an age of overconsumption, I turn excess into expression.
Picture paradise What do you see? I imagine a world Where we never gather or harvest In excess of need Where we laugh at the ideas of
By Sam Spinelli12 months ago in Poets
We were hunter-gatherers from the start. In our own way. We learned. Painted mascara Like warpaint. For girls Or somewhere in between.
By River and Celia in Underland12 months ago in Poets
