Poems about Society

• 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
• The Triantiwontigongolope

  There's a very funny insect that you do not often spy,
  And it isn't quite a spider, and it isn't quite a fly;

  by C J Dennis 38 lines, 9 comments
• Harlem Wine

  This is not water running here,
  These thick rebellious streams

  by Countee Cullen 12 lines, 2 comments
• New York City Hard Time Blues

  NYC Blues
  Big time time hard on on me blues

  by Miguel Pinero 260 lines, 1 comment
• Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem

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

  by Helene M Johnson 14 lines, 1 comment
• The Galilee Hitch-Hiker

  The Galilee Hitch-Hiker
  Part 1

  by Richard Brautigan 201 lines, 1 comment
• This Is Not The Place Where I Was Born

  puerto rico 1974
  this is not the place where i was born

  by Miguel Pinero 78 lines, 1 comment
• Nebraska

  April doesnt hurt here
  Like it does in New England

  by Jack Kerouac 66 lines, 3 comments
• The Menudo Of A Cuchifrito Love Affair

  la ruca
  juanita rosita esposita

  by Miguel Pinero 44 lines
• 10th Chorus Mexico City Blues

  The great hanging weak teat of India
  on the map

  by Jack Kerouac 22 lines
• Jitterbug Jesus

  Tiempos is longin' lookin'
  for third world laughter

  by Miguel Pinero 45 lines, 3 comments
• The Hasteners

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

  by Nizar Qabbani 132 lines, 1 comment
• She's All My Fancy Painted Him

  An obstacle, that came between
  Him, and ourselves, and it.

  by Lewis Carroll 32 lines, 1 comment
• To A Brown Boy

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

  by Countee Cullen 14 lines, 2 comments
• Poetry Readings

  poetry readings have to be some of the saddest
  damned things ever,

  by Charles Bukowski 49 lines, 4 comments
• Tartary

  If I were Lord of Tartary,
  Myself, and me alone,

  by Walter de la Mare 32 lines, 2 comments
• Genius

  Genius, like gold and precious stones,
  is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

  by Mark Twain 50 lines, 3 comments
• Hunger

  I come among the peoples like a shadow.
  I sit down by each man's side.

  by Robert Laurence Binyon 19 lines, 2 comments
• Flag Salute

  \"I pledge allegiance to the flag"-- \
  "They dragged him naked

  by Esther Popel 37 lines, 8 comments
• The Objection To Being Stepped On

  At the end of the row
  I stepped on the toe

  by Robert Frost 18 lines, 4 comments
• The Little Boy And The Old Man

  Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."
  Said the old man, "I do that too."

  by Sheldon Allan Silverstein 9 lines, 3 comments
• On The Pulse Of Morning

  A Rock, A River, A Tree
  Hosts to species long since departed,

  by Dr. Maya Angelou 105 lines, 1 comment
• A Convict's Lament on the Death of Captain Logan

  I am a native of the land of Erin,
  and lately banished from that lovely shore;

  by Anonymous Oceania 53 lines, 4 comments
• Outlaws -- Billy the Kid and Clyde Barrow

  Billy rode on a pinto horse
  Billy the Kid I mean

  by Bonnie Parker 36 lines, 9 comments
• A Slice Of Wedding Cake

  Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls
      Married impossible men?

  by Robert Graves 20 lines
• "Booker T. and W.E.B."

  "It seems to me," said Booker T.,
  "It shows a mighty lot of cheek

  by Dudley Randall 38 lines
• Hate

  My enemy came nigh,
  And I

  by James Stephens 19 lines, 9 comments
• Black Messengers (Translation of Los Heraldos Negros)

  There are in life such hard blows . . . I don't know!
  Blows seemingly from God's wrath; as if before them

  by Cesar Vallejo 22 lines, 4 comments
• On Woman's Dress

  I'm awful hard on dress, you know.
  Women, you forget

  by Sojourner Truth 40 lines, 2 comments
• Against Love

  He feels no raptures which are joys diseased,
  And is not much transported, but still pleased.

  by Katherine Philips 17 lines, 1 comment

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