social commentary
There's a rich history of poetry serving as social commentary, intended to inspire calls to action.
Attention Span
Senryu for you Fifteen seconds all that’s due Comment & you’re through.
Randy Wayne Jellison-KnockPublished 3 days ago in PoetsAsphyxiation
Find myself stuck in a quiet phantasy Driven by hypoxia, aphonia and anopia The toxins syphon, as does the apathy Virtuoso pianist hammers La campanella
Paul StewartPublished 3 days ago in Poets- Top Story - March 2024
Stringing Lights
How I yearn to be the voice that liberates self from the past for the joy of a future. . How I yearn for daylight to warm my cheeks
Lindsay SfaraPublished 3 days ago in Poets Preacher
I never wanted to be a preacher of anything not even science especially that science cannot be preached but only understood as ever-changing
Patrick M. OhanaPublished 3 days ago in PoetsDancing with Myself
With disconcerting dread I felt it oozing 'tween my toes A texture that had me question the barefoot path I chose And alarmed an olfaction that wafted up into my nose
Gerard DiLeoPublished 3 days ago in Poetsthriving and flourish
you see your name, not in lights but over-lined, blackbook listed the accused, the fickle, the trickster consort of those, undesireable
⸘jason alan‽Published 3 days ago in PoetsThese Walls: Never Again
my guard was down and you caught me being myself you laughed mocked and made fun in the very moment my mask was off
Josh MorganPublished 4 days ago in PoetsNails of the Death
big eyes pretty eyes wild eyes bloodshot eyes tired eyes so, so tired eyes big smiles big boxes, big crates big tears
angela hepworthPublished 4 days ago in PoetsEcho
I’m talking to you Telling you things I should be telling myself Lovely things about how great you are That you deserve to be loved
Atomic HistorianPublished 4 days ago in PoetsThe little rabbit and the fox
In the meadow bright and green, A little rabbit and a fox were seen. The rabbit hopped with joy and glee, While the sly fox watched silently.
Good Begin
It is always a good day Let us begin it rightly That's what they say Let the journey live brightly We rise high peacefully
Epics
From epigraph to epitaph My epic is a pictograph Graphically depicting an epithet Of the e'pithiness I beget . Festooned within an epigram
Gerard DiLeoPublished 4 days ago in Poets