There's a rich history of poetry serving as social commentary, intended to inspire calls to action.
VANISHING Your face is vanishing In the never-ending Distance in the road Ahead... And it too is vanishing.
By Dee Livingston5 years ago in Poets
SOCIETY SAYS Eeeew, you are too fat. Gosh, what are you eating? No man is gonna want you. You know what? stop eating; ice cream,yoghurt,rice,bread, sugar,burger,pizza, pancakes, infact,all carbs. Just stop!
By Muhammad Iqbal5 years ago in Poets
I’m driving somewhere through downtown America passing the familiar hunched over forms of the homeless helpless nomads seeding the boulevard
By Jan Portugal5 years ago in Poets
1. Learn how to dance: whether it’s vogue-ing, two step, contra or whatever’s up on TikTok, it is your heritage. Own it.
By Dane BH5 years ago in Poets
Rattletrap bus This “luxury coach” is the worst I’ve seen In a year. Everything squeaks. In row 2 on the left, A man radiates a stealth smell
By Gene Lass5 years ago in Poets
People masked world gasps Back to the times from where all it starts Teary the eyes,when our loved one departs Seeing people beg a common man yells still none to help
By Shizza5 years ago in Poets
A life half spent in doing what I thought I should, what I thought I could, was a half life of half measures decaying exponentially,
By Maria Shimizu Christensen5 years ago in Poets
Asonnet Poetry’s initial beauty withers When Theory envelops it with norms: Long, slow words that fight metaphors like worms.
By Patrick M. Ohana5 years ago in Poets
November? 'tis a summer's day! For tropic airs are blowing As soft as whispered roundelay From unseen lips that seem to say
By Maiya Devi Dahal5 years ago in Poets
They talked of old campaigns, nineteen-fourteen And Mons and watery Yser, nineteen-fifteen And Neuve Chapelle, 'sixteen, 'seventeen, 'eighteen
Do not diminish me to your overpriced Starbucks order Or Crayola colors named for foods and grains of wood I bleed the same thick and velvety crimson
By Rii Pierce5 years ago in Poets
Why do I need to learn how to drive? I've been there, done that, had my fair share of almost accidents. Sure, practice makes perfect ...
By Kaitlyn Dawn5 years ago in Poets
