social commentary
There's a rich history of poetry serving as social commentary, intended to inspire calls to action.
Stolen blue people in transit
The Black One's harbour. Stolen Blue souls wait to board. Rain-soaked shackles grind. ---- (In the Irish language, dark-skinned or black people are described as 'blue'. Gorm is the word for blue, and daoine gorma (blue people) is used to refer to Afro-Caribbean folk.
By Conor Darrall3 years ago in Poets
