Poems about Society

• The Waiting Life

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

  by Dorothea Mackellar 13 lines, 5 comments
• Old Ladies' Home

  Sharded in black, like beetles,
  Frail as antique earthenwear

  by Sylvia Plath 22 lines, 2 comments
• The Soul Of Spain

  In the rain in the rain in the rain in the rain in Spain.
  Does it rain in Spain?

  by Ernest Hemingway 49 lines, 1 comment
• Hug O'War

  I will not play at tug o' war.
  I'd rather play at hug o' war,

  by Sheldon Allan Silverstein 11 lines, 9 comments
• For My People

  For my people everywhere singing their slave songs
  

  by Margaret Walker 58 lines, 2 comments
• The Puzzle of the Cooper and the Vintner

  A cooper and a vintner sat down for a talk,
  Both being so groggy that neither could walk;

  by Benjamin Banneker 23 lines, 2 comments
• The Song Of Smoke

  I am the Smoke King!
  I am Black!

  by W E B Du Bois 34 lines
• Waltz

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

  by Pablo Neruda 25 lines, 1 comment
• Meditation On The A30

  A man on his own in a car
  Is revenging himself on his wife;

  by Sir John Betjeman 23 lines, 1 comment
• Reynard The Fox - Part 2

  On old Cold Crendon's windy tops
  Grows wintrily Blown Hilcote Copse,

  by John Masefield 1517 lines
• Failure of Communion

  What is the space between,
  enclosing us in one

  by Judith Wright 14 lines
• 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 Wrathful

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

  by Nizar Qabbani 196 lines, 1 comment
• The Professor

  Remember me? I am Professor Sheth.
  Once I taught you geography. Now

  by Nissim Ezekiel 36 lines
• Snowdrops

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

  by Kenneth Slessor 17 lines, 1 comment
• Ironic Poem about Prostitution

  When I was young and had no sense
  In far-off Mandalay

  by George Orwell 13 lines, 7 comments
• Running Scared

  RUNNIN' SCARED -- RUNNIN' SCARED
  you're goin' nowhere

  by Miguel Pinero 68 lines
• 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
• 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
• An Abortion

  Do not bathe her in blood,
  the little one whose sex is

  by Frank O'Hara 20 lines, 1 comment
• Unity

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

  by Alfred Noyes 27 lines, 1 comment
• 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
• On The Day They Birthed My Mother...

  The wind pushed the sun
  behind the moon

  by Miguel Pinero 27 lines
• 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
• The Great Sin Of Prejudice Against Color

  Children,
  who made your skin white?

  by Sojourner Truth 46 lines, 1 comment
• 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
• Friendship IXX

  And a youth said, \

  by Khalil Gibran 19 lines, 3 comments
• Landing on the Moon

  When in the mask of night there shone that cut,
  we were riddled. A probe reached down

  by May Swenson 30 lines
• Earth

  Grasshopper, your fairy song
  And my poem alike belong

  by John Hall Wheelock 78 lines, 1 comment

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