Poems about Society

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Jazz Fantasia

Drum on your drums, batter on your banjoes,
sob on the long cool winding saxophones.

by Carl Sandburg 18 lines, 1 comment
The Book of Genesis According to St. Miguelito

Before the beginning
God created God

by Miguel Pinero 102 lines, 1 comment
Young Sycamore

I must tell you
this young tree

by William Carlos Williams 24 lines, 2 comments
You Men

(Español)
Hombres necios que acusáis

by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz 138 lines, 8 comments
As The Poems Go

as the poems go into the thousands you
realize that you've created very

by Charles Bukowski 13 lines, 1 comment
William Street

The red globe of light, the liquor green,
the pulsing arrows and the running fire

by Kenneth Slessor 17 lines, 6 comments
A Tear And A Smile

I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart
For the joys of the multitude.

by Khalil Gibran 48 lines, 2 comments
The Common Man

When plastered billboards scream with slogans
'fight for your country, go to battle'

by Julian Tuwim 31 lines, 6 comments
Black Woman With The Blond Wig On

Black woman with the blond wig on
you're living an illusion.

by Miguel Pinero 45 lines, 3 comments
God lay dead in heaven;

God lay dead in heaven;
Angels sang the hymn of the end;

by Stephen Maria Crane 18 lines, 5 comments
A Prison Evening

Each star a rung,
night comes down the spiral

by Faiz Ahmed Faiz 28 lines, 3 comments
I Like Americans

By A Foreigner
I like Americans.

by Ernest Hemingway 34 lines
Death Alone

There are lone cemeteries,
tombs full of soundless bones,

by Pablo Neruda 47 lines
Polish Flowers

A box with paints from childhood's time:
The colors of town are earth and grime.

by Julian Tuwim 5 lines, 1 comment
from Book I, Paterson

Paterson lies in the valley under the Passaic Falls
its spent waters forming the outline of his back. He

by William Carlos Williams 41 lines, 1 comment
The Dunciad: Book IV

Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light
Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!

by Alexander Pope 656 lines, 3 comments
Hitchhiker

"Tryna get to sunny Californy" -
Boom. It's the awful raincoat

by Jack Kerouac 7 lines
Mary, Mary, quite contrary

Mary, Mary, quite contrary
How does your garden grow?

by Roald Dahl 3 lines, 1 comment
Tenebris

The bricks are the color of blood
and very small.

by Angelina Weld Grimke 14 lines, 2 comments
Night of the Scorpion

"I remember the night my mother was stung by a scorpion.
Ten hours of steady rain had driven him to crawl beneath a sack of rice.

by Nissim Ezekiel 23 lines, 8 comments
New York City Hard Time Blues

NYC Blues
Big time time hard on on me blues

by Miguel Pinero 260 lines
Harlem Wine

This is not water running here,
These thick rebellious streams

by Countee Cullen 12 lines, 2 comments
I Like Canadians

By A Foreigner
I like Canadians.

by Ernest Hemingway 40 lines, 3 comments
The Hasteners

The last walls of shame fell,
And we rejoiced...

by Nizar Qabbani 132 lines, 1 comment
Between Walls

the back wings
of the

by William Carlos Williams 10 lines, 2 comments
I Have No Gun,But I Can Spit

Some thirty inches from my nose
The frontier of my Person goes,

by W H Auden 7 lines, 12 comments
Clancy of the Overflow

I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better
Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago,

by A B Banjo Paterson 37 lines, 4 comments
Jitterbug Jesus

Tiempos is longin' lookin'
for third world laughter

by Miguel Pinero 45 lines, 3 comments
To A Brown Boy

That brown girl's swagger gives a twitch
To beauty like a Queen,

by Countee Cullen 14 lines
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem

You are disdainful and magnificant--
Your perfect body and your pompous gait,

by Helene M Johnson 15 lines

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