There's a rich history of poetry serving as social commentary, intended to inspire calls to action.
I can see either side of spectrum, I feel reds and blues and greys. Though my heart is ever growing, neither brown nor yellow phased.
By Keesha M.5 years ago in Poets
Manage to live in a world without walls, borders, alienation A bridge called my back off the hinges And less polarization
By Deborah L Godinez5 years ago in Poets
Like the colors of each season, my brain alters to adapt This chaotic landscape doesn't permit me to react.. in time to save my disordered mind
By Celia M5 years ago in Poets
Each smile i share from my face drowned by peoples sullen state each glimmer from my eyes i cast, greeted with suspicions doubt with shallow scorn
By Solitude crow5 years ago in Poets
August 27, 2015 A MAN'S SILENT CRY Written by: Charlene Marie Rhodes (For My Sons) I can hear a man cry in the strength of his silence,
By C~Marie Rhodes5 years ago in Poets
I watched the world on a little box; Square, bright, static and blue. A friend in the rain, a friend in the dark; Too much to learn and to fast to absorb.
By Ewa Ritchie5 years ago in Poets
the cop took your man and made him a blue chalk outline now wreathed In candle flame we took your man consumed
By Michele Cuomo5 years ago in Poets
My skin is sallow My blood is red My stomach turns at yellow women dead Stop Asian hate When you prick us we bleed It’s not too late
By Pamela Wong5 years ago in Poets
Picture Text: love• black There is beauty in Darkness for light is so easy to tame so easy to manipulate to grasp with cold hands
By Jordin Paige5 years ago in Poets
Me a color What kind of color I have to choose What kind of color I have to make as a favorite color What kind of color I have to pick
By Meri Diani5 years ago in Poets
When Gilbert stitched his flag He didn't think of me He made it for the silent Shunned and shamed The outcast and alone
By Denise Shelton5 years ago in Poets
RAINBOW WARRIOR- A SONNET I've marched beneath the colors of this flag In service of equality for all To shouts of "God hates sinners!", "Dyke!", and "Fag!"
By Julie A Pousson5 years ago in Poets
