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Protest Poems - Poems about Protest

The Ones Not Forgotten
So many names on the page today, so many more gone— vanished into silence. Does the world still care? I know they do. I hope they do. Children stolen, ripped from the arms that once held lullabies. Teens slipping through dusk, running from homes that never saw them, or saw too much. The ones who cared are left holding echoes....

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Categories: protest, 10th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Protesting The Moment
Protesting The Moment Illuminating the night by the light of a bonfire Captivating the insight before one’s mind begins to tire Emigrating out of fright as one’s own government becomes a liar Abdicating all your rights as they burn your life upon the pyre Procession of a line for food that western lives refuse to see Intercession...

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Categories: protest, life,
Form: Rhyme



A protest of reclamation
The ground shakes in anticipation A wave of newfound hope sparks the attention Of surrounding people A march dedicated to the right of freedom Each step marks the ground of remembrance A permanent mark that refuses erasure The sound of revolution echoes in every building Voices that demand to be heard Voices that demand reperation Each chant an indictment Each sign...

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Categories: protest, community, discrimination, joy, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Eve of Deconstruction
The Buffalo church, it is implodin' Rhetoric flarin', parishes unloadin' We're good enough to give, but have no say in votin' You don't believe in division, but what's that decree your totin' You fired our trustees and now you're gloatin' But you tell me over and over and over again, my friend Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve...

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Categories: protest, corruption, religion,
Form: Rhyme
America's Disease
You couldn’t see the forest for the trees, Just another microbe in America’s disease. “Read my lips,” Bush One said — You listened close and voted Red. Taxes rose, spending too — How’s that working out for you? You couldn’t see the forest for the trees, Just another microbe in America’s disease. “It’s the economy, stupid,” Clinton blew — You bought the line and...

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Categories: protest, patriotic, political,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member No Kings Day
No King’s! Day of defiance ...

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Categories: protest, america, death, voice,
Form: Rhyme
There was a protest in my body
My heart The voice Each beat a chant Refusing to be silenced Each beat getting louder An act of defiance It would not be quiet Our skeleton The foundation The vessel which carried the rebellion It's the ground that doesn't crumble Even as we march It doesn't take the attention It remains humble Knowing that it was not bigger than the movement The blood...

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Categories: protest, body, discrimination, metaphor, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
The after
The after What happens after? When what was loud is now silent Where a place once filled with cameras go unnoticed What once made history is now forgotten Later On TV they'll be a recap The story will go They'll manipulate the situation Bonus if its told by a republican They'll say The police were peaceful, we'll be labelled as criminals I guess it's...

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Categories: protest, anger, race, racism, violence,
Form: Free verse
Oblivion
Poem ‘Oblivion’ Drastic times calls forth bold demands, Not quiet hearts or passive hands. For change to rise, the roofs and roots must shake, To build a new, immoral and unethical ways must break. Sometimes it takes the patience to fall, To raise up justice, loud and tall. Opposition paves the path, it’s true, For something better, bold, and new. Wrongdoing for too long...

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Categories: protest, america, discrimination, inspirational, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member We are the Heroes
First they said that our laws were sufficient and the guardrails enough of a force that the Courts and their Orders would stop him keep the country and people on course But the Justice Department had failed us sadly frozen in fear and disgrace and the SCOTUS is soaked in corruption selling votes, taking trips, filling space We’re the...

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Categories: protest, freedom, inspiration, political,
Form: Rhyme
New Dawn
Our lips burn like swords drawing blood out at the break of a dawn. Coughing poison droplets in the fabric the time has spun. There goes our youth forever; There goes our thoughts- all ends at nothing, and nothing ends at all. Praying lords to resuscitate their kingdoms where we reside, summon back the innocence of a child, leaving behind something worth living for. ...

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Categories: protest, appreciation, atheist, political, power,
Form: Free verse
Mahabodhi Temple Protest
buddha the light of asia the beacon of peace revered around the world confined by some radicals in his own enlighten abode shackled in superstitious principals he broke away from preaching against blind faith encouraging open mind to question all and everything not even sparing him to accept something only after examining on self realization and scientific fact so hear this plea if it appeal to humanity with no intent...

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Categories: protest, emotions, forgiveness, grief, humanity,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member ALWAYS REMEMBER
Today’s blessing comes via Elie Wiesel. A man who understood injustice…prejudice and woe having survived the Nazi concentration camps over 70 years ago… The words he spoke once he was liberated… today should be accentuated and stressed… “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice… But there must never be a time we fail to protest.” ...

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Categories: protest, courage,
Form: Rhyme
The Thing
The things of which we cannot speak Make us become we cannot say The thing brought back from yesterday That praised the strong and crushed the weak That thing whose name we cannot name That fathers fought to keep at bay The thing we thought had gone away Now clothes our parliament in shame Klaus Barbie made their king of spies Elon von...

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Categories: protest, america, anger, conflict, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
SAVE THE RAIN
If were the rain, what some want it to be nowdays even more... toxic rain polluted vertical river how we would all live too long! ...

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Categories: protest, allusion, conflict, rain,
Form: Free verse

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