There's a rich history of poetry serving as social commentary, intended to inspire calls to action.
IT'S COLD, DARK, AND GLOOMY OUT I NEED TO TAKE A BATH TO DROWN MY DOUBT I FEEL COMFORTABLE, RELAXED IN MY SPACE I FEEL WARM AND SAFE, BUT I'M TRYING TO REPLACE
By Jessica Smart8 years ago in Poets
Have you always felt this way? Have you always felt the sway of the ages, the drifting and drafting of loose-leaf pages, in limbs ever-creaking from far-flung breeze?
By Joel Crow8 years ago in Poets
Go to school get good grades go to college go to more college (and more college) get a job (be a provider) find a mandatory life partner (preferably a spouse)
By Wyld Tha Bard8 years ago in Poets
I wonder how it is to be white? White as white is seen. Pink lipped white, Blonde blue white. A mother of white, Maybe a daughter of white.
By Jesse Hardy8 years ago in Poets
All we wanted was the Kingship Never knew we'd have to deal with the King Shit Smoke a joint and now you're a drug fiend then
By Brian Kelly8 years ago in Poets
Sometimes, I think the fact that we were ever born at all, is the cruelest joke that ever existed. To live only to die, for what?
By Jessica Rasile8 years ago in Poets
You look in your mirror, And you hate what you see. But you look at your phone's screen And you love who you appear to be.
By Grace Harwood8 years ago in Poets
They try to shut us down- make us go silently, But wewillnot conform to society. Will make our voices heard, Won't let it pass quietly.
By Undefined Writings8 years ago in Poets
I rather be broke than a slave to an identity, shuffling and jiving only this time in well pressed clothes cleverly cloaking my pain, my authenticity
America Written and read By Allen Ginsberg The YouTube version, you know The crowd laughs uproariously Is it meant to be funny?
By N.Zbornak8 years ago in Poets
Humanity, through pores sweat insanity, approaching great lands and establishing Sovereignty, but our violent nature beckons days to live in infamy
By Dragon Tran8 years ago in Poets
Sometimes life is a picture, A reflection in a window passing by. The shadow of a passenger on a train, Capture that, Throw it into the wind and watch it fly.
