social commentary
There's a rich history of poetry serving as social commentary, intended to inspire calls to action.
Blurred and Buffered
Vague photos and still frames: framed and framing, blurred and buffering; and we see it all in snapshots, brushed together touched and tampered with to make a whole — weunderstand the picture in context, we underscore necessity to our life and relate to textual compromise.
By Shaun Stokes8 years ago in Poets
Poison
I breathe in the toxins of my own pride. My own self fulfilling prophecy that someday I will succeed. That someday I will be someone. I am someone. The corrupter of my own fate. The empty glass that falls to the ground and breaks apart into a million dangerous shards. The quivering hand that writes the letters that spell out "You. Will. Be. Nothing."
By Christopher Foster8 years ago in Poets
