Poems about Society

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Unity

I.
Heart of my heart, the world is young;

by Alfred Noyes 27 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
On Visiting The Spot Where Captain Cook And Sir Joseph Banks First Landed In Botany Bay

Here fix the tablet. This must be the place
Where our Columbus of the South did land.

by Barron Field 13 lines
The Puzzle of the Cooper and the Vintner

Now, my worthy friend, find out if you can,
The vessel's dimensions, and comfort the man!

by Benjamin Banneker 25 lines, 1 comment
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
La Muse Malade (The Sick Muse)

Ma pauvre muse, hélas! qu'as-tu donc ce matin?
Tes yeux creux sont peuplés de visions nocturnes,

by Charles Baudelaire 119 lines, 1 comment
On The Day They Birthed My Mother...

The wind pushed the sun
behind the moon

by Miguel Pinero 27 lines
The Waiting Life

Since it befell, with work and strife
I had not time to live my life

by Dorothea Mackellar 13 lines, 1 comment
Hate

My enemy came nigh,
And I

by James Stephens 19 lines, 3 comments
The Horse Show

Constantly near you, I never in my entire
sixty-four years knew you so well as yesterday

by William Carlos Williams 42 lines, 1 comment
Snowdrops

The Snowdrop Girl in fields of snowdrops walks,
Whiter than foam, deeper than waters flowing,

by Kenneth Slessor 17 lines, 1 comment
Old Ladies' Home

Sharded in black, like beetles,
Frail as antique earthenwear

by Sylvia Plath 22 lines, 2 comments
Failure of Communion

What is the space between,
enclosing us in one

by Judith Wright 14 lines
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
The Little Home

The little house is not too small
To shelter friends who come to call.

by Edgar Albert Guest 18 lines
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
La Cañonera Del Mundo

Que yo me cago en la madre tierra que
te parió

by Miguel Pinero 29 lines, 1 comment
For My People

For my people everywhere singing their slave songs

by Margaret Walker 58 lines, 2 comments
On The Lock-In

lock-in
night time

by Miguel Pinero 63 lines
Visitin' A Friend At The Cold Shop

In the place of business lunches
where a dull sun rises to blind your

by Miguel Pinero 77 lines
Letter To My Sister

It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods;
To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip,

by Anne Spencer 26 lines
Waltz

I touch hatred like a covered breast;
I without stopping go from garment to garment,

by Pablo Neruda 25 lines, 1 comment
The Wrathful

O pupils of Gaza . . .
Teach us . . .

by Nizar Qabbani 196 lines, 1 comment
Beauty XXV

Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide?

by Khalil Gibran 28 lines, 7 comments
Easter 1916

I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces

by William Butler Yeats 80 lines, 4 comments
Spring Garden -- Philadelphia

Spring Garden wears a welfare coat --
in the summer . . .

by Miguel Pinero 86 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
The Old Familiar Faces

I HAVE had playmates, I have had companions,
In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days--

by Charles Lamb 21 lines, 2 comments
The Trial

The East receives my songs, some praise, some curse
To each of them my gratitude I bear

by Nizar Qabbani 9 lines
La Gente Que No Se Quiere Pa' Na Con La Lengua

El sábado por la noche
la selva de cemento está

by Miguel Pinero 34 lines

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