There's a rich history of poetry serving as social commentary, intended to inspire calls to action.
Crisis An economic and political crisis, A state of turmoil and unrest. People struggle to make ends meet, As the future seems uncertain at best.
By asrin3 years ago in Poets
I opened a virtual office complaints and undue payments flow through it like blood from cut veins “I don’t want to pay!”
By Moon Desert3 years ago in Poets
a little discord in tension resembles an imperceptible separateness between falling ill and not yet not everyone can see it
not the one who screams for kindness is the one who shows it because it takes a lot more to demonstrate it without raising your voice, with telling the truth
you fixed my broken nerves with just one humane gesture whilst others didn’t mind putting me down to the ground when I was already lying on the floor
Where are you taking off ❓❓ Please calm down. ✋ I'm going on a trip... I overdosed on my Heart. My mind is hazy And my conscious keep
By HandsomelouiiThePoet (Lonzo ward)3 years ago in Poets
Gina was in the kitchen unloading shopping bags full of Small spiral notebooks The kind of notebooks you'd buy in a grocery store
By David Parham3 years ago in Poets
You sit across a stranger and the same chemicals that poured into the brains of cavemen are now firing off every synapse
By Cody Saporito3 years ago in Poets
War, oh war A cruel and heartless beast A destroyer of homes, a killer of dreams Leaving only grief and despair in its wake
By Nasar3 years ago in Poets
Drake asked if there’s more to life, I wondered the same Is there more to the game than the chase of money, power and fame?
By Juliette Alessandra3 years ago in Poets
They told us come and love - we came and loved, And loved again; we did not know better Than to obey the last and smallest letter
By Vadim Kagan3 years ago in Poets
I saw a glitch in the life of all else Maybe the gods look down on our infamous vulnerabilities that succumb to systems of disbelief in ourselves.
By Atlas Azure3 years ago in Poets
