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Best Social Poems

Below are the all-time best Social poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of social poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member One World
Love is not a color,
No hue, neither a race.
All of our blood is the same, 
That runs deep within our veins.

If we could lift up...

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Categories: social, america, for her, for
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Human Being
You are a human being they told me, something you should treasure
But isn't a human being the only animal who kills for pleasure?
Man's inhumanity to...

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Categories: confusion, social,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Cyber Real
Has the convenience of technology 
inoculated us from reality?
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
I pray the code my soul to keep?
Does your universe live within 4G
Or...

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Categories: social, computer, culture, identity, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Who Am I
I am the ring around Saturn
spinning words as particles of ice and dust
with the power to transcend

I am the original chosen to be right here...

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© Humble B  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: social, black african american, faith,
Form: Verse
Each Day Takes Its Turn
Standing firm 
we live 
we give 
we take 
we learn 
we strive to make sure 
each day enlightens us 
and brightens us
even as light fades...

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Categories: social, black african american, day,
Form: Carpe Diem



Premium Member Selfie Or Call Me Insensitive
You call me insensitive,
But I don't believe that's true;
Because, you see,
It's all about me.
It's not about you.

You say your opinion doesn’t matter,
That I’ve no respect...

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Categories: social, angst, culture, funny, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oneness
Oneness
                   Authored by Chuck Keys

It had no...

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© Chuck Keys  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: social, black african american, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Enemy's Child : Collab With Carolyn D
The battles on the field are harsh and tough
The looting in their wake engorged with greed
Abundant spoils of war are not enough.
 
Atrocious in their...

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Categories: baby, social, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Girl With the Black Pearl Eyes

The heat of the street more than you can take
hem hiked high above your bony knees
spread slightly apart so you can breathe
sitting in the stifling...

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Categories: social, abuse, addiction, drug, lost,
Form: Free verse
Vigilant
We must be vigilant to 
the shards of  radiance and splendor 
that flash 
before our squinting cynic eyes....

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Categories: social, devotion, faith, hope, inspirational,
Form: Didactic
Secretly Obsessed
Obsessed with the thought of you
wondering if it's only me or
if you sometimes remember the sweet things you've said
and if you meant them how I...

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© Humble B  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: social, adventure, confusion, dream, fantasy,
Form: Verse
Wall Street
Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth....

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Categories: political, slam, social, war,
Form: Epic
Viagra Falls
There once was a man from Niagara
whose wiener's so long it would stab ya'

but when it got little 
his pills became skittles   
until...

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Categories: social, allegory, fantasy, father, funny,
Form: Limerick
Soul Stones
We swallow boulders:
(lead words, molasses covered prejudice, glass shards of promises long broken)

Mouths open wide and heads tipped back
like Hawaiian fire eaters.

Chipped teeth are bits...

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Categories: social, hope, introspection, life, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member President For a Day
-Dr President Lady, please  launch the nuclear war button-

I'm packing up my girdle; I'm heading up state 
Where society thinks only men should run...

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Categories: social, appreciation, celebration, courage, devotion,
Form: Free verse

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