My Mind Is a Train StationFlickering lights cast shadows on the crowd,
Each chasing hopes that slip through their hands.
Trains whistle past in endless circles,
Rushing toward visions that never stay.
I stand beneath a single blinking light,
Waiting quietly as the crowd fades away.
No need to follow fading tracks,
No rush to catch a train that disappears.
The platform empties, footsteps soften,
Only my shadow remains,...
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Categories:
social, destiny, emotions, feelings, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Social MediaSocial media has transformed how people communicate and interact globally, fostering connectivity and collaboration~ Why is it we can’t honor, respect, or be kind without cruelty in the mix?—Poet
• increases the fear of missing out
• leads doubt and unhealthy comparisons
• creates unrealistic expectations
• causes isolation
• triggers dopamine addiction
• anxiety and low self-esteem
Don’t throw it all away~ Moderation is key!
...
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Categories:
anxiety, bullying, social,
Form: Senryu
the conferenceThe conference
I had gone to a writer's conference
The room was full of authors only interested
in reading and pushing their book
I had brought a book called Hunger, written
by Knut Hamsun, the pages were loose and
kept falling off, but there was a picture
of him a stern man-looking intellectual
The leader of the meeting, a man who was
proud he...
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Categories:
absence, adventure, age, social,
Form: ABC
Owen the PheasantIn Memoriam: Owen the Pheasant
Lost at an auction in Vermont betwixt a first edition Anna Karenina and a bitter divorcée named Ruth.
There once was a pheasant named Owen,
whose plumage was splendid and showin’.
but a flatlander brute,
with a camo jumpsuit,
won him cheap—next to Tolstoy—unknowin’.
...
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Categories:
animal, funny, satire, social,
Form: Limerick
MirrorbreedMirror in the washroom, mirror in the hall,
who is the saddest, most tragic of all?
Me, me, me— our chant, our plea, our scroll.
We cry for heartbreak, curse what we recall,
mourn mood swings and childhood’s sprawl.
We share our feelings, raw and blatant,
talk as if we own sorrow’s patent.
An indulgent binge of trauma dumping
hailed as “growth,” with...
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Categories:
social, imagination, mirror, myth,
Form: Rhyme
When Holy Hands Drop BombsWhat makes it okay to bomb a nation?
Kill so many who don’t have a station?
Destroy a country, cities and families?
Women, babies, children and men—all tragedies—
Who never chose this war… suffer again and again.
Across the globe, a catch twenty-two
Do what I say, not as I do.
What happened to the Fifth Commandment?,
In a world where religion is...
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Categories:
social, allah, angel, bible, conflict,
Form: Free verse
FRAMEDA spineless society claims its might,
With echoes of empty convictions,
Chanting lies, then painting them white.
It builds colossal monuments of blame,
Raised upon deception’s foundation,
And casts truth in indented frames.
It framed history, carving narratives to favor its rule,
It framed streets that swallowed innocence whole,
It framed parents, planting doubts upon their role.
It framed justice, bending verdicts to...
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Categories:
social, society,
Form: Rhyme
Social ButterflyShe flutters through the velvet air,
A whisper, soft without a care,
In every room her laughter flies—
The radiant, rare social butterfly.
With charm that flows like vintage wine,
She draws the world in every line.
A wink, a word, a glance, a smile,
She makes the mundane worthwhile.
No corner's dark when she appears,
She mends the awkward, calms the fears.
Each stranger's...
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Categories:
social, best friend, butterfly, care,
Form: Rhyme
I Am Not A BrickThey shaped the mold before I arrived,
A perfect cast where all compiled.
I was meant to be poured, settle and fit,
But I hardened too soon and fractured it.
I stretched too far and pulled to wide,
Shattered their mold and stood defied.
They wait, watch and trace my lines
tracking my stance, weighing my fall.
counting the cracks that don't exist...
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Categories:
philosophy, social, society,
Form: Rhyme
TheatreTheatre
Something happens I can't explain
It feels enclosed quite like a train
Within its wall you are truly set free
To be yourself or who you want to be It's like, let's pretend, or dressing up
Childlike feelings, they fill your cup
Escaping, distracting the daily grind
You can leave your worries all behind
Rehearsing, sets and stage lights
The anticipation of...
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Categories:
friendship, happy, social,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Waiting for the callWaiting for the call
Time is the coin of life
Spend it wisely
Who's to blame?
Now they know your game.
Ain't it strange
That we need to be framed.
We need to escape
To a house by the sea
To get away from the
The other you and me
To be free
It's easy to say
Not so easy to see
Waiting for the call
...
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Categories:
social, anxiety, dream, mental health,
Form: Couplet
TommorrowThere is no use saying sorry
I don't have the time to bend you
over backwards and push this all inside.
So take all your broken pieces
Brush your past aside
I can't forgive you today. but we
have the rest of our lives
So say you love me tomorrow,
Tomorrow we will be just fine
we can start another ending
we have...
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Categories:
encouraging, hope, nice, social,
Form: Free verse
Social MediaSocial media is a charade
A manic masquerade
Where charlatans peddle lies
And truth slowly dies
But you were led to the dance
And you thought you had a chance
So you either go ballistic
Or end up a statistic
Volatile times produce hostile rhymes
And television that glorifies crimes
We're taught to live shameless
And despite mistakes we're blameless
To them everything is a...
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Categories:
social, america, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
FlawsI know making you less perfect
won’t make me any better
yet I can’t help it
I fabricate your flaws in my head
as if it would make my own disappear
almost as if ruining you
made me any better
…
almost as if making you imperfect
made me as perfect as you
—maybe I should learn to love my flaws instead of obsessing...
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Categories:
social, girl, high school, identity,
Form: Free verse
Window coverings x Updatedmauve drapes hang fondly
colouring her bandy shack
like lavish gift bows...
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Categories:
poverty, psychological, social,
Form: Senryu
Specific Types of Social Poems
Definition | What is Social in Poetry?
Poems Related to Social
civil, communal, cordial, group, familiar, collective, community, general, common, societal, sociable, nice, amusing, communicative, companionable, convivial, entertaining, gracious, gregarious, hospitable, informative, mannerly, neighborly, organized, pleasant, pleasurable, polished, polite, popular, diverting,