Poems about Society

• Departmental

  An ant on the tablecloth
  Ran into a dormant moth

  by Robert Frost 43 lines, 2 comments
• The Age Demanded

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

  by Ernest Hemingway 10 lines, 7 comments
• A Tear And A Smile

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

  by Khalil Gibran 0 lines, 8 comments
• 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
• Cocaine Nose -- Acid Face

  Cocaine nose — cocaine nose
  carefully takin' cocaine blows

  by Miguel Pinero 57 lines
• The Old Prison

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

  by Judith Wright 20 lines, 12 comments
• O What Is That Sound

  O what is that sound which so thrills the ear
  Down in the valley drumming, drumming?

  by W H Auden 43 lines, 65,535 comments
• The Book of Genesis According to St. Miguelito

  Before the beginning
  God created God

  by Miguel Pinero 102 lines, 1 comment
• Ultimately

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

  by Ernest Hemingway 3 lines, 4 comments
• La Bodega Sold Dreams

  dreamt i was a poet
  &

  by Miguel Pinero 41 lines
• Young Sycamore

  I must tell you
  this young tree

  by William Carlos Williams 24 lines, 3 comments
• Parable Of The Madman

  Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning
  hours,

  by Friedrich Nietzsche 65 lines, 2 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
• The Common Man

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

  by Julian Tuwim 31 lines, 8 comments
• Hitchhiker

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

  by Jack Kerouac 7 lines, 1 comment
• God lay dead in heaven;

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

  by Stephen Maria Crane 18 lines, 4 comments
• Mary, Mary, quite contrary

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

  by Roald Dahl 3 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 Prison Evening

  Each star a rung,
  night comes down the spiral

  by Faiz Ahmed Faiz 28 lines, 3 comments
• First They Came For The Communists

  First they came for the Communists,
  and I didn’t speak up,

  by Martin Niemoller 12 lines, 5 comments
• 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
• 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
• The Trail's End

  You've read the story of Jesse James
  of how he lived and died.

  by Bonnie Parker 95 lines, 4 comments
• 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
• The Fury of Aerial Bombardment

  You would think the fury of aerial bombardment
  Would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces

  by Richard Eberhart 16 lines, 2 comments
• Between Walls

  the back wings
  of the

  by William Carlos Williams 10 lines, 2 comments
• Bus East

  Society has good intentions Bureaucracy is like a friend
  years ago - other furies other losses -

  by Jack Kerouac 52 lines, 2 comments
• Tenebris

  There is a tree, by day,
  That, at night, Has a shadow,

  by Angelina Weld Grimke 15 lines, 1 comment
• The Patriot

  I am standing for peace and non-violence.
  Why world is fighting fighting

  by Nissim Ezekiel 46 lines, 1 comment
• Death Alone

  There are lone cemeteries,
  tombs full of soundless bones,

  by Pablo Neruda 47 lines

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