Poems about Society

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Reservoirs

There are places in Wales I don't go:
Reservoirs that are the subconcious

by R S Thomas 22 lines, 1 comment
You who live

You who live now in this world

by Eustache Deschamps 15 lines
The Great Sin of Prejudice Against Color.

Children,
who made your skin white?

by Sojourner Truth 46 lines, 1 comment
The Ballad of Ben Hall's Gang

Come all ye wild colonials And listen to my tale;
A story of bushrangers' deeds I will to you unveil.

by Anonymous Oceania 49 lines
On Woman's Dress

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

by Sojourner Truth 42 lines
Sicilian Emigrant’s Song

O—eh—lee! La—la!
Donna! Donna!

by William Carlos Williams 25 lines
The Tree Is Here, Still, In Pure Stone

The tree is here, still, in pure stone,
in deep evidence, in solid beauty,

by Pablo Neruda 14 lines, 1 comment
Earth

Grasshopper, your fairy song
And my poem alike belong

by John Hall Wheelock 78 lines, 1 comment
Staying At Ed's Place

I like being in your apartment, and not disturbing anything.
As in the woods I wouldn't want to move a tree,

by May Swenson 23 lines
Proletarian Poet

A big young bareheaded woman
in an apron

by William Carlos Williams 11 lines, 1 comment
To any member of my generation

What is it you remember? - the summer mornings
Down by the river at Richmond with a girl,

by George Barker 15 lines, 3 comments
Riverbank Blues

Went down to the river, sot me down an' listened,
Heard de water talkin' quiet, quiet lak an' slow:

by Sterling A Brown 31 lines
Friendship IXX

And a youth said, \

by Khalil Gibran 19 lines
Ultima Verba (My Last Word)

... Quand même grandirait l'abjection publique
A ce point d'adorer l'exécrable trompeur ;

by Victor Marie Hugo 154 lines
A Roosevelt

Es con voz de la Biblia, o verso de Walt Whitman,
que habría que llegar hasta ti, Cazador!

by Ruben Dario 54 lines
The Slavery Of Greece

Unrivall'd Greece! thou ever honor'd name,
Thou nurse of heroes dear to deathless fame!

by George Canning 93 lines
The Cry of the Dreamer

I am tired of planning and toiling
In the crowded hives of men;

by John Boyle O'Reilly 34 lines, 1 comment
What Spain Was Like

Spain was a taut, dry drum-head
Daily beating a dull thud

by Pablo Neruda 22 lines
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, 1 comment
2nd Chorus Mexico City Blues

Man is not worried in the middle
Man in the Middle

by Jack Kerouac 21 lines
The People

I recall that man and not two centuries
have passed since I saw him,

by Pablo Neruda 134 lines
241st Chorus

And how sweet a story it is
When you hear Charley Parker

by Jack Kerouac 25 lines, 1 comment
Generation To Generation

In a house which becomes a home,
one hands down and another takes up

by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 24 lines
The Great Titanic

It was on one Monday morning just about one o'clock
When that great Titanic began to reel and rock;

by Anonymous Americas 29 lines, 4 comments
A Poet Is Not a Jukebox

A poet is not a jukebox, so don’t tell me what to write.
I read a dear friend a poem about love, and she said,

by Dudley Randall 66 lines
Mose

A soft song, filled
With a misery...

by Sterling A Brown 30 lines
1st Chorus Mexico City Blues

Butte Magic of Ignorance
Butte Magic

by Jack Kerouac 23 lines
Naya Shivala (with English Translation)

power and peace are implied in the songs of the disciples.
The salvation of the people of the world lies in love!

by Muhammed Iqbal 40 lines, 1 comment
Pain XVI

And a woman spoke, saying, "Tell us of Pain."
And he said:

by Khalil Gibran 0 lines
Suburban Monastery Death Poem

august 1968
e.cleveland ohio

by D A Levy 1251 lines, 3 comments

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