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Dehumanised Poems

Eight decades on'

...Eight decades past world war two was at its last gasp.'
Parades were to folow.' Nazi Germany was beaten hollow
Like a drum..'Some scenes echo.' And make me dumb my
Mouth, silent my eyes observe th...

Categories: dehumanised, education,
Form: Rhyme

Help me

...White powdered pill, help me stop the way I feel
Give me the will, show me something real 

Take a pile let's sleep a little while
My head on the kitchen tile, if only I went the extra mile
I wo...

Categories: dehumanised, addiction, betrayal, cry, dark,
Form: Rhyme

Drowning In A Daylight Nightmare

...

Where are we heading 
Human nature helplessly wondering 
Mother Nature hopefully warning..

A submerged universe
By a torrent of floods curse
What is coming hope not worse..

A world of l...

Categories: dehumanised, engagement, evil, faith, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

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The Waste Land Today

...One hundred years on
Our Waste Land we celebrate
Desiccated and dry as a desert
Within our dehumanised souls
Where the tumbleweed of untruth
Sits with such disconnection
From reality,
Myriad v...

Categories: dehumanised, corruption,
Form: Blank verse

Hanging Onto Paradigms

...Inside grows dour 
each passing hour, 
another second hand 
mouthful of sand 

Falling into guillotined arms 
fully embraced,
Take me wherever 
inevitability goes,
Nah, been down that road
...

Categories: dehumanised, allusion, dark, depression, life,
Form: Free verse

Street Walker

...She was only a whore they said
Just a druggie on the game
Most of the papers couldn’t be
Bothered to correctly spell her name.
Just an illegal immigrant tart,
Part of one of those foreign mobs
...

Categories: dehumanised, anger, class, death, political,
Form: Rhyme

Announcement By Shepherds

...Announcement to Shepherds
Luke 2:8-20

Luke: “Nearby shepherds were living in the fields,
Guarding their sheep at night. 9 The Lord’s angel,
Stood before them, the Lord’s glory shone [yields],
...

Categories: dehumanised, angel, angst, atheist, christmas,
Form: Quatrain

Ghetto

...This large human ghetto,
millions and millions enslaved,
within stony walls of beliefs,
man-made political doctrines, 
cultures and societal rules, 
God breathes in every body,
but machines con...

Categories: dehumanised, anti bullying, black african
Form: Free verse

I Can'T Breathe

...I can’t breathe

still in my shackles
no chance to escape my isolation
cries of anguish emancipated
from an awareness that is unfree
the stain is but human made
a long history of human trade
...

Categories: dehumanised, emotions, faith, freedom, life,
Form: Free verse

Revenge

...The cause of many a downfall
The seed of much discontent
Revenge is sweet to some
But always has a bitter outcome 

Only a fool turns to revenge
And expects no unintended consequences
The bile...

Categories: dehumanised, anger, conflict,
Form: Prose

What Pass We Are At

...This can be done,
and it is not,
promise is made,
to buy time and,
let it all go by,
machine works for us,
and we work for machine,
in between we do not work at all,
whatever comes in between...

Categories: dehumanised, introspection, life, philosophy, work,
Form: Free verse