There's a rich history of poetry serving as social commentary, intended to inspire calls to action.
I don't want life to end; I want it to stop for one moment. Let me catch my breath. Let me soak in the stillness for a brief moment and know that everything that feels so consequential is just a speck. Meaningless and temporal. Just like me.
By Dido Duane3 years ago in Poets
we gather possessions and trinkets we clutch them tightly to ourselves as if in a vain effort to stave off finality a life jackets of vain wishes
By Bren3 years ago in Poets
I am like a wild fire.. Try to tame me? I go ahead all pervasive.. And the burnt you! I am like a deep Ocean The deeper you go,
By Dr.CeeVee3 years ago in Poets
“Oh yeah? Did you kill anybody?" Is what people ask when they see smeared across my past
By Alex Fontaine3 years ago in Poets
she materializes as a slender woman, neck thin and thighs apart, stomach concave and ribs like a ladder. her collarbones threaten to puncture skin
By danika poon3 years ago in Poets
i am the golden of sunflowers, and the beaming rays of sunup, sundown. the cocoa of my eyes passed down from dynasties before me
No One Wanted To Feel Her Pain In The Long Hours Of Her Need In This Domestic Hurricane What Is Ignored Is Never Seen
By Sherrie D. Larch3 years ago in Poets
Savagely hunted this feral beast is by phantoms of perception. Ravaged cognition and aid of nowise, a nightmarish introspection.
By Elias Way3 years ago in Poets
Needle Train On the roof Tenement home Needle forgotten Mind on roam Thugs and mugs Pills and drugs Creepy crawly
By Andrew C McDonald3 years ago in Poets
Inspired by Billy Joel’s masterpiece ‘We Didn’t Light the Fire’ *********** Bill, Hillary, Oval Office, Monica Blowhards, relationships, total ironica
Twiddle the matchstick. Stare at the paper Try to ignore the candle and taper Malleable wax so smooth - watch it run Don’t begrudge a little harmless fun
V1. I feel a tickle in my throat It is nothing for which I will boast It's nagging away at me in jest It's full of lies and hot air at best
By Dee Dee Farrrrk3 years ago in Poets
