Best Newspeak Poems
2071 - Big Brother Watches From On High...2017 - year zero
They loaned to the poor, who cannot repay.
They stole from the old, who cannot recover.
They sold our future, for better or worse
and made our children pay.
They school......
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Categories:
newspeak, corruption, humanity, pain, parody,
Form:
Free verse
Wishing For 1984...Wishing for 1984
'War is Peace Freedom
is Slavery Ignorance
is Strength Big Brother…'
is waiting for Godot who came quickly and travelled from Pyongyang to glorious
theoretical impossibilit......
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Categories:
newspeak, dedication,
Form:
Haibun
The Flying Censor Shipment...Unlike the newspeak of today the media rodeo plays the bull ......
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Categories:
newspeak, allegory, freedom, history, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Prowling Tyranny...Prowling predator in a starless night.
No one knew when it began.
Have we forgotten all the lies about Vietnam,
the predatory newspeak from Pentagon deception?
Prowling predator in a starless n......
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Categories:
newspeak, america, corruption, history, language,
Form:
Political Verse
Oh Mr Activist...You talk of neo- liberalism
And progressive politics
They say Im left of centre
Like a sort of wonky shelf
Please oh Mr Activist , the Newspeak you can keep.
What we need more of, is a lot mor......
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Categories:
newspeak, political,
Form:
Free verse
Getting Rid of Words To Breed Good Little Citizens...we are living in an age when people would rather cover
their ass than think about what they say,
when people would rather try to censor the way we speak
than look at the reasons that we say the thin......
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Categories:
newspeak, life, words, age, people,
Form:
Free verse
Banned Book Club VII- 1984...Midtone grey surrounds what’s left of a man’s soul
Scenes of biblical abominations troll
Inky are the hellish horizons appalled
An okay is needed for anything at all
Manipulating truth determin......
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Categories:
newspeak, anxiety, books,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Newspeak...I'm sick of this twisted English
Never meaning what it says
No medals for plain speaking
Ever awarded these days.
Free Cash the machine said
But it turned out to be a skank
Later on that week t......
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Categories:
newspeak, humor, irony, language,
Form:
Rhyme
Can'T Fool Mother Nature...DOUBLETHINK
Can’t Fool Mother Nature
1: THIS LIFE
Newspeak, Doublethink,
and other similar words
only bedevil us.
When trying to figure out what was said,
George Orwell In his novel, “19......
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Categories:
newspeak, abuse, appreciation, confusion, earth
Form:
Free verse
Citadel of Censorship...The noblemen control the pen, indeed they own the farm,
but nonetheless exude finesse (and need I mention charm?)
with revenue to sate the few, exulting arm in arm;
for all the rest, they wish the......
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Categories:
newspeak, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Unadorned Conscience...Thinking it sophisticated, he declared himself a sophist.
Dwelling deep in Plato’s cave, he became learned in the shapes of shadows.
Enamored by their dim dancing, he concluded there can be no tr......
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Categories:
newspeak, allegory, allusion, heart, humanity,
Form:
Didactic
Deja Fool...Embrace newspeak words
poetic masturbation
I am always write......
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Categories:
newspeak, age, beautiful, courage, endurance,
Form:
Haiku
The Glitch in the Grid...The telescreens hummed their endless drone,
A symphony of truth alone,
Dictated, printed, beamed so wide,
Where independent thought had died.
Newspeak choked the rebel tongue,
And every sun......
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Categories:
newspeak, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
Like a Hermit...Propaganda,
Misinformation,
Newspeak;
Word on the street.
World War three?
We'll see.
Google,
Facebook
YouTube;
Dogman,
Mothman,
UFOs and portals.
Bad,
Badder,
Worst;
Causing me to......
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Categories:
newspeak, mental illness,
Form:
List
Liturgy for the Damned of Progress...My wounded heart drinks deep from the rotting gut of misery,
Humanity vomits its relics onto the oozing tiles of the real.
I see kids chewing syringes like candy canes,
Their innocence smashed, fa......
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Categories:
newspeak, america, change, christian, community,
Form:
Rhyme