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Social Order Poems - Poems about Social Order

Premium MemberIN THE CHANGING TIME A'COMING

...Indeed, the truth will always be self-evident

and beyond all lies;

Though they laid down the 5th to ensure deniability

of evident charges,

Over the trials of history—his-story—true crime ...
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Categories: social order, allegory, black african american,
Form: Free verse

The Zone

...You have breached the zone; tell me where else can the children roam? You have planted landmines on every corner and you have disrupted the social order. I hear sirens going off in my dreams and it c...
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Categories: social order, bereavement, business, childhood, community,
Form: Narrative



Premium MemberAnomie

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"In those days there was no king in Israel:
every man did that which was right in his own eyes."
Bible, Judges 21:25

The word 'Anomie' is new to my vocabulary, but
by definition, I am well ...
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Categories: social order, america, people,
Form: Prose Poetry

No Claim To Fame

...They manage to keep a fanned flame
These ones with no claim to fame
They don’t trade, build or make
Yet heralds ogle for their sake
And I to myself only wonder
That I find no rhyme or reason in ...
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Categories: social order, culture, integrity,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberJim Crow's Demise

...Hello. I was born after the Civil War and met my fate after much civil unrest. You may have never encountered me, but some things you might already know. My name is Jim Crow, and I was born and lived...
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Categories: social order, race,
Form: Prose Poetry



Its Not You

...The morning started off with a bang there are just something’s that you cannot understand, principle or freedom, deprivation or celebration the deception slowly fades away. 

The man next-door stoo...
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Categories: social order, allah, care, celebration, community,
Form: Narrative

Angel Eyes

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"Angel Eyes" 

that dark angel
standing in the corner
observing the shadows of man 
pass him by -

he has angel eyes

that shine high beam
bright bushfires that light ...
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Categories: social order, art, muse, truth,
Form: Free verse

Just Now

...The tributes keep pouring in and my heart is singing a wonderful hymn
The lines are getting longer and the passions are getting stronger
They stormed the streets in a hundred thousand  throng; peop...
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Categories: social order, absence, africa, allusion, america,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberUS Health Warning New Virus Alert

...EPIDEMIOLOGICAL NAME: Donkey Pox

ORIGIN: First detected in Orwellian hippies, Leninist/Marxist think tanks, insane asylums, secret societies, bourgeois anti-intellectual elites, social order a...
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Categories: social order, sick, society,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberMercurial Cloud

...The universe is a mercurial cloud.
Against its overbearing chaos,
I have only my words.
They are never solutions,
Only questions.
Always selective in their attention.
Always filters screening o...
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Categories: social order, music, perspective, philosophy, science,
Form: Free verse

Cosmic Connections

...A dream inside an illusion 
A soul inside a body
A mind inside a brain
A life inside a dying carcass

Suffering

Devils inside good people
Chaos inside peace
Hatred inside Smiles 
Serenity ...
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Categories: social order, conflict, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLest We Forget-F

...It's no secret that many Deep Southerners decided to desert
To points North, East, and West, they trod to avoid the hurt
You would too if like us, you were kicked around like dust
Jim Crow built a...
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Categories: social order, america, racism,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberMore Than Race-F

...Despite the day-to-day signs of man’s bitter degradation, there were many in the South who somehow still failed to see the endless pain of segregation. From the viewpoint of those who never lived the...
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Categories: social order, america, family, race,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberHis Name Was Jim

...Some chose to forget about him while still others deny his evils.                                                                        He was never voted in by the citizenry, nor was he ever voted ...
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Categories: social order, history, racism,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberIts a Part of Me

...Our lives are not immune to the impact of time,
nor is our mind between the tensions of love and hate.
That's why I curse this wanderlust heart -
still searching for that wandering sta...
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Categories: social order, emotions, introspection, life,
Form: Prose Poetry

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