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Apathy Poems - Poems about Apathy

Premium Member A prospering weed
I kept quiet far too long. I couldn't open my mouth, it seemed, not even for a peep. The perfect doormat. Welcome to one and all. Come wipe your feet. Tolerance is that ugly sin a coward learns to live with while incessant cycles repeat. Nothing changes when nothing's said, silence being the prime enabler. And like a weed, shame grows in the shadow of acceptance. AP: 1st...

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Categories: apathy, angst, silence,
Form: Free verse
Apathy, Won
For the strong ones — on their stay-in-bed days. © Gabrielle Munslow 2025. All rights reserved. I think I’d just like to be — No noise in my head. The TV on standby. Radio not transmitting. The dog forgetting his bark. The tears unshed. Just leave me in bed. My whole psyche ashes away, aching from absorbing prophetic punches. I changed the trajectory of my life...

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Categories: apathy, deep,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A CONCENTRIC ODE TO APATHY
Urgent is the will, The self is as still as the night; Apathy controlling; Urgency calling, The will remains imprisoned; And apathy, keyless; Urgency calling, Apathy, shedding useless tears; Fear controlling action:- Genesis begins all, Revelation ends it all; Life dwells in between:- Apathy is like a cold stone Nestling in the mud; Decision, like a swing in the wind; Action roars like a lion, And races like a waterfall Roaring...

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Categories: apathy, allegory,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Apathy
disconnected jaded and feeling numb ennui quickly turns to melancholy ...

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Categories: apathy, psychological, sad,
Form: Free verse
Shrugs
Mugs, Aoathy feeds them drugs, Shrugs. (1-6-1 syllables)....

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Categories: apathy, conflict, drug, society,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member weathering winter apathy
though winter is here, we can’t afford to chill; the progress made is too dear and we must continue to build… no matter the level of snow, no matter the amount of ice, we must always remain on the go for those who have paid the price ensuring our black lives matter in this political ice we can’t have another winter of discontent with our liberation again frozen in frigid time; the loud cry was...

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Categories: apathy, allegory, courage, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Color Blind
How can we understand each other's color, When we use the same flavored word? It's impossible to say it any duller, And through our glasses the meaning is blurred. To you something bright as the sky, Will always strike me as navy blue. With a fire truck we could try, But to me it is simply maroon. Something as distinct as a rainbow, To...

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Categories: apathy, blue, color, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member apathy
last phase of life ...

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Categories: apathy, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Hammer to Apathy
Forget the cautionary calls for restraint — this world doesn’t need saviors. It wants hands that claw at the roots, Sick fangs that grind old ideas to dust. Ideas aren’t soft; they’re detonators, charged and ready to shatter the silence. You don’t repair a broken machine by merely shining its rust. The absence of thinking is a pandemic— eradicate it like a disease. Smash apathy...

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Categories: apathy, change,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Silent Feast
Corruption reigns while silence is served. We hone their knives with indifference, keep polishing their plates with our fatigue. The reckless and the cruel— they feast well, for the tables are laid. A democracy isn’t taken; it’s surrendered, a napkin at a time. We end the banquet by taking the plates away....

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Categories: apathy, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Leave Apathy Behind- 2021
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” - Plato In the shadows where nightmares thrive, courage falters and struggles to survive. Where the cries of innocence fall unheard, and darkness engulfs without a sound. Sex traffickers, predators invisible, prey upon the vulnerable, a nightmare’s dream. Still, in the face of fear we hesitate, lacking...

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Categories: apathy, courage, silence, voice,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member apathy, delivered - se7en
signed ... one man's horror another man's justice what was in the box mattered not its representation was enough an end ... a beginning ... it was sufficient to know it existed to know it bled warm, trusted, beloved, bound - by time and vengeance and a pink ribbon bound, indeed ... for oblivion as was the recipient of the rather unique (and deafening) 9mm reply a squeeze...

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Categories: apathy, allusion, analogy, film, horror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Shadow of Sunlight
Dark and vile truths are known to hide in secret places that don't confide their nature to the light of day. Bodies to skeletons decay in a closet or a deep well - an unknown place, a hidden hell. What is more shocking to me - the ugliness for all to see, as folks stroll by without a care, as if there...

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Categories: apathy, abuse, anti bullying, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Apathy
we encounter a neighbour who suffering from delusional dementia he mumbles and stumbles in delirium we pause awhile to assist yet we know his disability is permanent so apart from informing his kith and kin who in any event are apathetic there is nothing we really do all around we see suffering and decay something within us too...

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Categories: apathy, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cafe' of Apathy
Depression is a Nomad wanderer, searching for a hope to break In that place of heartless, smoke-filled rot where even laughter proves to fake. The Darkness is a bold intruder, a critique of one's existence, And hides in places, corners of gloom, an outcast from soul's resistance. In the Café of Apathy, the face of dejection reappears, Taking...

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Categories: apathy, depression,
Form: Rhyme

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