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Barbarity Poems - Poems about Barbarity

LUGUBRIOUS READING
...I have read the Code Noir. I have read the papal bull of Nicholas V. I have read the charter of imperialism. I have read the Indigenous Code I have read the Torah, the Bible, and the Quran. I ha......

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Categories: barbarity, africa,
Form: Free verse
IN THE DARKNESS OF IMPERIALISM
...I was born in a banana republic, Between the carnivorous chains of Françafrique, In an open-air dumpster, Where tyranny, barbarity, and savagery speak with arrogance. I am perfumed with all the n......

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Categories: barbarity, corruption,
Form: Free verse



WE ARE STILL HERE
... Barbarity and treachery are not things of God... true resistance of the innocent, yes, it is a divine thing...!......

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Categories: barbarity, allusion, analogy, blessing, truth,
Form: Epigram
Hermann Hesse translation of 'Secretly We Thirst'
...Hermann Hesse English Translations Secretly We Thirst… by Hermann Hesse from The Glass Bead Game translation by Michael R. Burch Charismatic, spiritual, with the gracefulness of arabesques, ......

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Categories: barbarity, birth, dance, death, dream,
Form: Free verse
POSITIVE THINKING POETRIX
... Usury and surplus value, barbarity and treachery do not adorn with love and poetry.... ......

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Categories: barbarity, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,
Form: Epigram



I CHOSE
...I chose to write, For all those torn-off branches, For all those scarred backs, For all those dehumanized bodies, For all those centuries of persecution. I chose to read, To decon......

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Categories: barbarity, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Final Solution III
...All hope was vain and nothing could atone for deeds beyond atrocity defined. These demagogues turned nation hearts to stone through apathy and rhetoric maligned. Though hell’s regime forged mecha......

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Categories: barbarity, holocaust, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
THE DISCIPLINES OF FACILITY
...The apostles of decadence claim that the divine spark demands lust, power and material goods. Why pay attention to these puppets enlightened by the dogmatic obscurantism of the West? Our heavenly......

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Categories: barbarity, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks
...I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks..., (a poor excuse for legs), and get me the latest sophisticated prosthetics advancements, whereat integration of cultured stem cells into custom made......

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Categories: barbarity, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Facing Life's Crises
...Have we embarked a Ship of Fools By forsaking the Golden Rule? And, have we formed a neutral state Sitting astride the Fence of Fate? Our devalued civility, Desensitized humanity, Deprecated ......

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Categories: barbarity, angst, fate, humanity, identity,
Form: Rhyme
THE DARKNESS OF HUMAN PERDITION
...On all these battlefields, shrill howls, Corpses riddled with rotting bullets, Abandoned tanks on fire, Under this black sky of mourning, where death makes its home. Where love has vanished f......

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Categories: barbarity, 12th grade, africa,
Form: Free verse
The Parables of My Soul
...In the twilight of my melancholy existence, love savors its bravery, like a vulture allergic to the suspicious aspects of ephemeral glamour, in a final macabre choreography. On the edge of the prec......

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Categories: barbarity, 12th grade, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Touch Therapy - 6
...Limerence lingered warmly on his shadowed lips from her kiss, Her perfect kiss, She enveloped his head with a raining fire of bliss, nothing was ever amiss with their love lock, She was his i......

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Categories: barbarity, love, mental health,
Form: Epic
Moral Army
...Moral army, As always said," African youths are well organised and disciplined." Fighting with the westerners  in african territories It is not the calls or visions. Everyone is tired to se......

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Categories: barbarity, africa, truth, western,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Enough
...Did not search him though I'd authority No cage left in me for barbarity......

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Categories: barbarity, emotions, evil,
Form: Rhyme

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