There's a rich history of poetry serving as social commentary, intended to inspire calls to action.
Brush-loved blues and greens. I’m painted canvas in the corner not for show to every eye. Unrelenting artist defied nadir and night to fashion craft,
By The Dani Writer5 years ago in Poets
Look to me to answer your questions. To convey: information, context, emotion. Made to don multiple personalities, convictions of which where never my own.
By ceara5 years ago in Poets
Biden’s crime bill, 3 strikes you’re out, war on drugs, clean the streets, highway infrastructure, create crack,
By Douglas Berg5 years ago in Poets
When you don’t see my color you don’t see me When you see my color and quickly make an assumption you don’t see me When you make conclusions of who I am base on my color
By Han Tang5 years ago in Poets
Brown girl . Red State. Weaponized shades , Forging hate through fractured streams. I’m a caramel, horchata, Boricua.
By Genesis Gonzalez5 years ago in Poets
He hides in his whiteness A privilege by birth By race By colonialism Genocides And slavery He hides in his whiteness
Who am I? A question I ask myself frequently. Well I'm me, just ordinary, boring, plain jane me. But other than that who am I?
By Farah Nisa5 years ago in Poets
Color me audacious I am a neon orange and pink tangerine scream Color me audacious I am the feather of a flamingo, and this extremophile will drink up any tea you have to spill no matter how hot or cold
By James Brittain5 years ago in Poets
reminiscence dizzy with chalk rain runoff, touch teal strawberry rivulets bruising the concrete mashed wet against bare knees, scrabbling to bottle up lilac sunset chipped across fingernails
By Erica5 years ago in Poets
Here I am White in Wyoming . Viewing our world. Looking into the whiteness of Myself . Am I that person? Who doesn’t really see themselves ,
By Nova Rae5 years ago in Poets
white is not a color it is the absence of color I am not white though I am identified as so my ancestors the Irish and Italians
By john mese5 years ago in Poets
(This is the epigraph, a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a work, usually a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme.)
By Monica Romo5 years ago in Poets
