Social Justice Poems - Poems about Social Justice

Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen! Robin Hood , Robin Hood and his merry men give to the rich what they' taken from the poor. The world in which I'm living ain't the one I knew before....

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Just make believe And your dreams will set you free… Actually, it’s your sleep And blissful dreaming that sets you free In a la-la land of make believe. The real world doesn’t require belief It requires action Eat or be eaten, fight or flight. But dreaming is much more fun Especially when someone else does your hunting. This is the world of childish wonder Of dreams...

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What madness We are killing the healers and paying their killers Bound to the pound and signed our own fate Consuming its rot confiding in demons looting the land and soiling the seas The mother is burning the father is frail Its shadow is creeping its whispers are vile The machine it runs rampant its controls are all broken Our storytellers are paid...

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In a world gone mad where rape and murder in the name of love and peace get the unquestioning support of the freedom loving press and college campus crowd social justice jihad attains the level of a church indulgence get out of jail free card for the willful ignorance of good intentions we all know only lead to hell (10/18/23)...

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Once I threw a mouldy bread into the dumpster and when I went for groceries I saw a Gypsy boy taking the bread and being content about it. A tear dropped down my cheek. I was always surrounded by immoral people; drug addicts, alcoholics, small thieves, the poor. Perhaps they see me as one of them or they like the fact I don’t see them...

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Thin pale grass Competing with the Strong tree roots Pushed to the surface. Below the ground There are reasons. Heavy clay, Compacted soil, Competing For moisture, And air. Below the ground There are reasons. Can we cut the roots, Remove the grass, And plant a new garden. Below the ground There are reasons....

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...And in that lies the irony of this whole ‘social justice’ phrase, it exists to excuse racism, to put a nice name on mere hate. You want to hate pale people or attack any one that succeeds, just claim that it’s ‘social justice,’ then you can go and make them bleed. You want to say bigoted things and not have to take flak for...

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You hear the term bandied about, used to justify everything, this catch-all phrase, ‘social justice,’ its praises some constantly sing. It has become their shibboleth, to oppose it is heresy, should someone not buy into it you will hear the chorus of “Reeeee!” They claim it is the moral path, agree with it or be cancelled, but even quick examinations reveals it as a load of...

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Husband, brother, son, lover, friend - Will we see you again? Will you be a headline on the news? Unarmed and unashamed. We stand fearful and furious in tear soaked silent pleas. Something must change. His skin won't warrant death, and our hearts won't continue to pay the inexcusable cost of love in America....

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What a clamour What a noise To bring social justice To answer the cries That's gone on for centuries That they keep maintaining With promises and lies Black lives matter So we shout But who hears the cries When the establishment do nought After the cotton fields Up comes the continuity In the justice system When we are gunned down by agents Who prey on our community The leaders...

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Dissenters dominate the streets, The public dominion of demonstrations. This POTUS threatens military domination. Just forget the pesky First Amendment. Sowing seeds of civil war The best path...

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Dogs Included Push Raven Vegetable Fear Pleading Gum Arrest...

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“We have no milk,” you speak quietly in a tone reminiscent of another’s observation that wine had run out at a wedding feast. Miraculous transformation of wine or milk from pitchers of water seemingly absent from the church job description of educator and director of parish music, a deficit, in proportion to the yearly salary of nine thousand dollars for seven days work each week with two weeks off for...

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leader of social justice change society gift for rhetoric and oratory strived for freedom and compassion for all a name displayed on buildings nationwide remembered by his famous speech a life and true potential shortened about hope for a world we might live in one day...

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Blue Light Bulbs and a Bottle of Bleach and The Incandescent Must Win (part 1) By: J.R. Wren A wilting flower and a blade of grass No presumptions of the way things ought to be Feeding plenty on light through a tinted glass Patiently waiting and resting in what it means to be free “Steal, Steal, Steal. Make it up...

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