There's a rich history of poetry serving as social commentary, intended to inspire calls to action.
Wrote this ages ago and I feel it is more appropriate after legal changes in the nation and with an election in the offing:
By Kendall Defoe 4 years ago in Poets
Another very hot and humid day nothing on television listening to a radio station that plays the same kind of music pretty much every hour
By Mark Graham4 years ago in Poets
I realize the pull of the mountain. Electricity powers the views, too. There’s a woman, career, and the fountain. Social wasps sting through the skin of the shoe.
By Skyler Saunders4 years ago in Poets
I started drinking coffee because I was tired. Isn’t that why everyone does it? I was a teen on the bus in the city sitting holding my lids up with anxiety as my phantom adhesives
By Tiana 4 years ago in Poets
I outgrew the place that called itself my job. Shifts on replay and attention peaked for the smallest crumb of difference to let me know another day had passed.
By The Dani Writer4 years ago in Poets
The ancient wisdom forgotten Destroyed by power ill gotten And only faces distorted by the pain and the torture Cling fingertip grasping
By Jessica Perryman4 years ago in Poets
I am a raging bull, a slumbering giant gorged on discontent, having feasted on too much regret. I hungered so I ate,
By Raine Lori4 years ago in Poets
Driving under, Dim carpark lights, My mother tells me to get out of this place Something is not right - where are the mortals?
By 🇻🇳 Journey with Juju 🇦🇺4 years ago in Poets
Can I cry for a thousand women? Can I say the unsaid? Do I have the courage to speak for them? The wounded and the dead
My neighbour is unique That’s what he probably thinks when he lights up a cigarette occasionally on his balcony being a theatre stage for him
By Moon Desert4 years ago in Poets
The birds will sing, the snow will melt, The seas will rise, the rivers swell Men will fight and women weep - And the arc of life will bend
By John Welford4 years ago in Poets
"PURPOSE PT. 3" Poem derived from my first completed journal, Black and Blue (2018-2019). Written August 9th 2018. ~~~~~~~
By Alyssa "Lefty" P.4 years ago in Poets
