There's a rich history of poetry serving as social commentary, intended to inspire calls to action.
Messiahs and martyrs And saviors And saints Sacrosanct Sanctimonious False idol feints Behind gates, Palace walls
By Michael Brandon Marchese5 years ago in Poets
They say We make better The world With each level We add To the sky-scraping Business or pleasure Purchased Edifice
Our world of hatred, And its humans, vile, debased, vitiated, Preferring murder, pain and atrocity, Over showing a speck of humanity.
By Lynn H.5 years ago in Poets
Battle begins, intentions barbaric, ready in mail-shirt, hatred as helm. As arrows rise, the army attacks. Each side fights fatefully, vengeance as goal.
By Isaac Marshall5 years ago in Poets
Extra! Extra! Forget all about it! Is any of it true? Maybe, to a few. Newspapers are in the past. And so is the news.
By Rowan Finley 5 years ago in Poets
What lost souls They all must be Upon that rock Do they not see? Each one of them No more than dust Than greed, than wrath
To be back in America Comfort and solace I'd find in amenities, Pleasantries, Remedies For my deprived of joy blues
Vaporized Nuclear skies Dehumanized Before your eyes Let shadows stain Your throne of lies And downfall reigns
Fellow Americans Won't is not can't We can end this tirade This ignorant rant Neo-nazi crusade
Enchanted shore descendant Branch upon the kapok tree In forests of El Yunque The coqui songs compelling me To write of the Taino sol
The underlings stare In submissive awestruck Subjugation in landmine-filled Landfills, are stuck In the trenches, the feces
March in the streets But I urge you beware They’ll still butcher the sheep With the arms that they bear Private properteers part with
