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Social Issues Poems - Poems about Social Issues

Premium MemberIceman the Bronx

...The Iceman the Bronx/Tony Adamo

I DIG THAT THE ICEMAN’S BACK, HITTING THE SPOKEN WORD STAGES IN THE BRONX AND THE OTHER BOROUGHS IN NEW YORK/AFTER ALL HE IS BORN AND BREAD IN DE BRONX/WORD SPITTER...
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Categories: social issues, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word

Poetic letter Putin the electric kool aid acid test results into action

...Poetic letter Putin the electric kool aid acid test results into action... 

when president elect Donald John Trump
sworn in vowing to accept the following pledge.
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm...
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Categories: social issues, 12th grade, abuse, america,
Form: Rhyme



Poetic letter Putin the electric kool aid acid test results into action

...Poetic letter Putin the electric kool aid acid test results into action... 

when president elect Donald John Trump
sworn in vowing to accept the following pledge.
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm...
...
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Categories: social issues, 12th grade, abuse, america,
Form: Rhyme

Poetic letter Putin the electric kool aid acid test results into action

...Poetic letter Putin the electric kool aid acid test results into action... 

when president elect Donald John Trump
sworn in vowing to accept the following pledge.
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm...
...
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Categories: social issues, 12th grade, abuse, america,
Form: Rhyme

what the paper said

...What the paper said

A newspaper I sometimes read is not happy
that billionaires dabble in politics 
the paper is partly right; especially if the rich 
The person who thinks about it is not libe...
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Categories: social issues, age, angst, anxiety, best
Form: Free verse



Beyond The Black Board

...Teaching is a noble profession
But, given less regard on golden opportunities
I saw their plight of sacrifices
One example, teacher in remote places
Where servicing education to less fortunate on...
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Categories: social issues, people, political, society,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberI Couldn't Talk About It, So I Wrote A Poem

...Overindulgence, it’s just the way it is in this society.
Overindulgence in sex, food, alcohol, drugs, spending,
spending beyond the means and getting in debted for 
self-indulgence in vanity, mate...
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Categories: social issues, people, society,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Want To Make This Perfectly Clear: Contrast Contest

...Firstly, having realized that PS Soupers cross the International Line, aspects of politics should be addressed. Clarity of 'Crossing the Aisles'. An American phrase references Congress and seldom els...
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Categories: social issues, analogy,
Form: Carpe Diem

Flux Eterna

...“That body is female!”, they tell me.
At the turn of the moon
It purges itself of its sins,
Washing away what lives could have been,
Punished for failing biological duties.

“That body is femal...
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Categories: social issues, angst, deep, how i
Form: Free verse

Gen X 1965-1980

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   Gen X or the
MTV generation.
   See a big growth in the
 Dept. of education.

   A generation of latchkey 
Kids home alone.
   Rocky hits the box office,
With Sylvester Stallone....
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Categories: social issues, childhood, memorial,
Form: Rhyme

The Changeling

...Don’t try to reason with them
or you will be called ULTA MAGA!

Never try facts or logic to dissuade them
or you will be labeled ULTRA MAGA!!

Forget discussing social issues with them,
for yo...
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Categories: social issues, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Beware Lest You Become An Ultra Maga

...Don’t try to reason with them
or you will be called ULTA MAGA!

Never try facts or logic to dissuade them
or you will be labeled ULTRA MAGA!!

Forget discussing social issues with them,
for yo...
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Categories: social issues, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Nation of Subjugation

...Social issues affects many people from all walks of life. 
A nation of destruction from past to present days from addictions, excess bank fees, church burnings and shootings, Covid 19, human traffic...
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Categories: social issues, africa, america, corruption, depression,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberFrom First To Last Poetically

...It seems just like only yesterday
when poetry took a real grip on me
as one that struggles with anxious thoughts
stammering words held me not to being free

But the pen brought me release
then ...
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Categories: social issues, memory, poetry, words, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Writer In Me, Wants You To Know

...THE WRITER IN ME, WANTS YOU TO KNOW

Somebody called me a poetess in one of the Open Poetry
sessions I attended and I said, “I’m not really a poetess”.
I am a simple woman and I am a writer of si...
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Categories: social issues, write, writing,
Form: Free verse

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