Poems about Society

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The Ballad Of The Landlord

Landlord, landlord,
My roof has sprung a leak.

by Langston Hughes 39 lines, 8 comments
We Are Accused Of Terrorism

We are accused of terrorism
If we dare to write about the remains of a homeland

by Nizar Qabbani 86 lines, 2 comments
Heritage

What is Africa to me:
Copper sun or scarlet sea,

by Countee Cullen 127 lines, 3 comments
Mike Teavee...

The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,

by Roald Dahl 92 lines, 22 comments
On Gay Wallpaper

The green-blue ground
is ruled with silver lines

by William Carlos Williams 21 lines, 2 comments
"Goodbye, my friend, goodbye"

Goodbye, my friend, goodbye
My love, you are in my heart.

by Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin 7 lines, 4 comments
Municipal Gum

Gumtree in the city street,
Hard bitumen around your feet,

by 0 lines, 24 comments
A Lower Eastside Poem

Just once before I die
I want to climb up on a

by Miguel Pinero 66 lines, 1 comment
Ballad Of The Totems

My father was Noonuccal man and kept old tribal way,
His totem was the Carpet Snake, whom none must ever slay;

by 41 lines, 6 comments
A Coat

I MADE my song a coat
Covered with embroideries

by William Butler Yeats 9 lines, 15 comments
a song in the front yard

I’ve stayed in the front yard all my life.
I want a peek at the back

by Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks 22 lines, 4 comments
Dreamtime

Here, at the invaders talk-talk place,
We, who are the strangers now,

by 29 lines, 6 comments
Metho Drinker

Under the death of winter's leaves he lies
who cried to Nothing and the terrible night

by Judith Wright 18 lines, 19 comments
The Great Hunger

Clay is the word and clay is the flesh
Where the potato-gatherers like mechanised scarecrows move

by Patrick Kavanagh 766 lines, 5 comments
Ambition Over Adversity

Take one's adversity
Learn from their misfortune

by Tupac Shakur 7 lines, 11 comments
Tableau

Locked arm in arm they cross the way
The black boy and the white,

by Countee Cullen 13 lines, 7 comments
Liberty Needs Glasses

excuse me but lady liberty needs glasses
and so does mrs justice by her side

by Tupac Shakur 18 lines, 13 comments
Legend

The blacksmith's boy went out with a rifle
and a black dog running behind.

by Judith Wright 51 lines, 3 comments
Fallen Star: Dedicated to Huey P. Newton

They could never understand
what u set out 2 do

by Tupac Shakur 15 lines, 7 comments
The Sisters

In the vine-shadows on the veranda;
under the yellow leaves, in the cooling sun,

by Judith Wright 16 lines, 7 comments
Understand Old One

What if you came back now
To our new world, the city roaring

by 8 lines, 9 comments
The Age Demanded

The age demanded that we sing
And cut away our tongue.

by Ernest Hemingway 10 lines, 5 comments
Can You See The Pride In The Panther?

Can You See the Pride In the Panther
As he grows in splendor and grace

by Tupac Shakur 13 lines, 22 comments
Cocaine Nose -- Acid Face

Cocaine nose — cocaine nose
carefully takin' cocaine blows

by Miguel Pinero 57 lines
Departmental

An ant on the tablecloth
Ran into a dormant moth

by Robert Frost 43 lines, 2 comments
La Bodega Sold Dreams

dreamt i was a poet
&

by Miguel Pinero 41 lines
Seekin' The Cause

he was Dead
he never Lived

by Miguel Pinero 98 lines
We Wear the Mask

We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,-

by Paul Laurence Dunbar 17 lines, 18 comments
The Old Prison

The rows of cells are unroofed,
a flute for the wind's mouth,

by Judith Wright 20 lines, 12 comments
Ultimately

He tried to spit out the truth;
Dry-mouthed at first,

by Ernest Hemingway 3 lines, 3 comments

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