Slaves Poems - Poems about Slaves

GOD Love Slaves Too...

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Expelled from paradise, directed down to hell Whose court is talking about justice here? Yours are the apples, and your garden blooms so well Pick any fruit, and treat the snake, my dear The cruel punishment will never put them right, Your congregation of the disingenuous slaves The triumph of the law will not be glorified By their rants expanded...

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Minds turned into images Barren moments, parched feelings Drowned in haste and unease, Self-indulgent and covetous Desolate technology slaves Imprisoned in closed cabins Chained to the chairs Eyes fixed on the screens Human skeletons with dried hearts Drained and deserted relationships Torn emotions and tainted lives Emptiness all around Ruled by commerce and profit Turning world in to market With frozen conscience Infringing the peace...

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From the top to the bottom, The world is nothing If not a flaming cauldron Pulling us in, you, me, each and every one Down a slippery slope Into the breach Because we can and must, And when it comes How do you rise to meet the tide, Or do you waiver, falter and fall? This moment when there is just you How do you...

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NB This is not a literal translation of the famous choir "Va Pensiero" from the Nabbucco, but just what I felt as when many, many years ago I was in a choir and sang this lovely aria. ******************************************** Listen to our pitiful pleas, Oh Almighty God. Let them be heard from every mountain and vale. Let my prayers...

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Slaves to Righteousness continued But thanks to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you are now entrusted. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. Romans 6:17-18 I put this in human terms for you are weak in your...

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I walk these many streets I walk this path of stone I hunger for a life That I can call my own I'm a slave to my job I'm a slave to this town I'm a slave to the system That strives to keep me down I owe money for my house I owe money for my car I owe money to the bank I'm left...

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You pay, the world is your slave. Even poetry is an item for business ! You buy the best seat in house, your garbage will be elevated to grace, and the slaves of the money will not attempt to disavow any red, black, yellow or the brown race. (11.17.2023)...

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None are more enslaved hopelessly, than those who falsely believe that they are free, and none get angrier than any by far, than those you attempt to enlighten how unfree they are....

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we all are slaves in time's ship held hostage to a promise of eternity as the sails fill, oars are manned we journey into life facing contretemps in some moments while lucky stars at times command the bow we sail away and the stratagem is to open the eyes let the future reign give yourself happiness in every possible moment yesterday is a lesson that we...

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Oh, technology, You, robber of: Our hearts Our minds Our very souls Slaves have we become To you Having given up our dreams Our ambitions Our feelings So Here and there, aimlessly, Ar We are driven, Sightless Heartless Mindless Soulless Against our will Against our beliefs Against our humanity, Consequently, Instead, of you, oh technology, A servant of ours to be, Subservient, to you, oh technology, we have Become! © Demetrios Trifiatis 08 December 2022...

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*** C A T and the SPHINX*** Cat is on the prowl Without taking a step! Proud fellow, often unseen, Gracefully gliding by. He feels he knows it all — At least all that is necessary to know — Of the far, the wide, on Past the doors and through the walls. Cat tallies his receipts From his surroundings,...

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People bought and sold as chattel Considered no more than cattle This still goes on today, you see In markets we are told are free The difference being that the slave once bought and sold for a fee is now free to sell...

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"When I come for you resolutely, Don't bend before my deadly summons. Tarry not like a galery slave, But like a courteous host behave." Said death. "When I come for you, Never lie dreading under the dust. Know it's only when the seeds rot That the florid sprouts." Said death. "When I come for you, Strut like an indomitable foe. With hands swinging and head held high, To...

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We We work We slaves We produce We plan We wait We smile We rebel We strike We shadows We forsaken We acted We remembered We ghosts We…...

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