social commentary
There's a rich history of poetry serving as social commentary, intended to inspire calls to action.
Day Break
Can I feel your rage this ‘rise, or is the beast within me still, while I sip my morning coffee and drown my wake-up pill?
KJ AartilaPublished 14 days ago in PoetsWhere’s the Wood
Where’s the wood, I tell you? Are we running out of trees? Are you too lazy to cut some free? Did you misplace your favourite ax?
Patrick M. OhanaPublished 14 days ago in Poetsfeels like acceptance
Hey there, You... You know who wanted to connect personally, direct one to another, brothers and sisters in arms, suffering through lives with absent charms
Paul StewartPublished 14 days ago in PoetsPlanting Flags on Foreign Shores
Ink on contracts dries Oh, we nameless faces rejoice! A new spring now dawns // The price of televisions I no longer watch the trees
Matthew FrommPublished 14 days ago in Poets- Content Warning
Corium
I am full of celestial patterns and cosmic battle scars. Chock-full of wandering melodies Plucked on badly tuned guitars.
Silver Serpent BooksPublished 14 days ago in Poets Shelter
If I were on the ground crying would you help me? If I were hungry and I needed a meal would you feed me? If I smelled foul and I needed bathing would you bathe me?
Rick Henry ChristopherPublished 15 days ago in PoetsThe Bear, The Man, and The Woods
Sunlight bleeds through the pines There’s a bear on the path before me A strange man approaches from the rear I run towards the bear
Atomic HistorianPublished 15 days ago in Poets- Content Warning
Ode to the Unnamed
In the calm of the morning in a mountain town The bus driver is telling a child to calm down. How can he know the trauma this child has endured
VNessa ErlenePublished 15 days ago in Poets Blue Mars
Why are we planning to go to I-hate-red Mars? We have pressing issues here on pale blue dot Earth. I love blue, methinks it is in my genes’ memoirs.
Patrick M. OhanaPublished 15 days ago in PoetsThey Could Live On
If You don't take the stories that You find Residing within Your mind And use ink on the page to let them lie When Your time comes, Your stories will go with You
Thavien YliasterPublished 15 days ago in PoetsDifferent Opinions
Different Opinions Loud and obnoxious some have said, Words that we say right off of our head. Some are helpful, but mostly not so much,
Dan R FowlerPublished 15 days ago in Poetsmadness
it is the stillness on the inside of their voices it leaves me shuddering but i know more i feel more i clutch the dancing shadows and breathe