Newspeak Poems - Poems about Newspeak

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Deja Fool

...Embrace newspeak words
poetic masturbation
I am    always    write...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Flying Censor Shipment

...Unlike the newspeak of today                                                                                           the media rodeo plays the bull                                                  ...

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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