Corporation for Public Broadcasting shuts down after federal funding cuts( L A. Times - A cogent and accurate commentary by Member - johntomas )
You recycle a common but baseless accusation that NPR and PBS have become “left-leaning,” when in reality, what’s often labeled as “bias” is simply truthful reporting on deeply troubling actions -- including Donald Trump’s sustained attacks on...
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Categories:
society, america, bible, christian, corruption,
Form: Didactic
My Friend's WeddingSaturday is native to weddings and ceremonies
Of anxieties – patterned in coarse sputum of rain.
My friend Bonsy and his wife filled the calendar
With the uselessness of time, levelled against waste
As indicated by the clocks of dew-coated pavements
Of our yawning city.
Next to this was the arrangement of formalities which
Came with the attainment of stress. They haggled
Between...
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Categories:
celebration, society, wedding,
Form: Free verse
Dad
Even though fathers might all seem similar in some ways
They are actually all different as are cats and bears
Or even pirates and trees regardless of hidden fees
When working in the woods
Dad was a bear and a force to be reckoned with
But like a famous man, “he preferred it nice and peaceful”
He liked to be...
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Categories:
society, change, dad, family, feelings,
Form: Free verse
When We Shed Our Old Skin and Grow More Beautiful Than EverIt clung like ivy, patient, green with hunger —
wrapped itself around every beam,
crept beneath shingles,
rooted in the cellar’s damp breath.
I mistook it for the house itself —
fed it rain, fed it dust,
let it climb my windows
and press its leaves to the glass
until I could no longer see daylight.
But rot loosens quietly.
One morning the vines lay...
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Categories:
society, change, confidence, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
poem number 10 from saltmilk
… do you love me, woman
it is cloudy in this street
as that sandalwood perfume
stretching between our arms
here everything of it is gone
with the floods and good
you are the only tree left behind
and love is the...
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Categories:
society, anger, angst, anxiety, character,
Form: Free verse
Instructions For Walking Awayfeet tracing ruts
softened by the weight of others
the path was worn
polished
not by insight
but by generations
unquestioning the same direction
a weed split the sidewalk
where my foot hesitated
they handed us maps
already marked, folded
creased at the routes
they wanted us to traverse
walls hung with heirlooms
no one claimed
shadows
longer than the rooms
classrooms’ chalkboards of certainty
offices pressed flat with...
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Categories:
society, freedom, identity, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Lyric
Blurring the LinesThe fakification of modern life
Is almost complete
As AI and disinformation
Crowd out the real and true.
If you didn’t see and do it
How can you even trust
It ever happened
Or at least how they say.
Like the old Emperor and his new robes
But in reverse
Now it’s the old calling out the lies
While the young just accept the illusion.
To the...
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Categories:
culture, discrimination, society, truth,
Form: Narrative
SALTINE SOCIETY RED, YELLOW, BROWN, BLACK
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHITE PEOPLE ATTACK
BLACK, BROWN, YELLOW, RED
THEY'D JUST PREFER THAT YOU ALL WERE JUST DEAD...
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Categories:
society, racism,
Form: Rhyme
todays sad sonneti dont believe in organized religion
but i do believe in a supreme being
and his opposite-destroying with a mind invasion
wrapped up as compassion-his evil doing
once there was a thing called tolerance
where people could freely express different opinions
now to do it today-is a game of chance
as the minority holds-the pubic opinions
if you dare step out of line
they...
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Categories:
society, today,
Form: Sonnet
The Energy Of ThoughtAll things are created from energy.
Man wants to control the form it will be,
say yes or no to creativity.
There are no limits to a mind set free.
A no can stop a possibility,
stop the flow of energy completely.
Man can prevent its best efficiency,
stop production with a selfish decree.
Just like steel can be a scalpel or sword,
a...
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Categories:
society, creation, freedom, future, humanity,
Form: Sonnet
It's a cold world new song versionIt's a cold world
Intro and chorus
It's a cold world- it's a cold cold world
everywhere you turn, there's so much pain
You can pretend that it's all o.k
You can pretend that it's all o.k...
It's a cold world- such a cold cold world
everywhere you turn, there's so much pain
You can pretend that it's all o.k
that it's all o.k,...
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Categories:
humanity, introspection, pain, society,
Form: Lyric
lets close this divideinformation\disinformation-
[depends upon your point of view]
divides a society
hatred-crumbles a society
racism-falls a society
we are ALL human-so let's work together for humanity
...
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Categories:
society,
Form: Free verse
No One Counts the Bodies Jesus Walked Past
Kensington spreads its legs—
lets the city crawl in,
dripping Xylazine / fentanyl / tranq,
open sore veins
moaning dirty dirges.
False prophets—
all piss and panic—
bark half-lies
through decaying molars,
fingering apathy
for spare change.
You smell it
five blocks before you enter.
The stench tests your soul
before it reaches your throat.
Narcan.
burnt spoons.
street toilet.
Dreams twitch under heat lamps—
larval things
too stubborn to die.
Hope?
Hope’s a half-smoked, laced Newport
balanced...
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Categories:
society, addiction, death, drug, mental
Form: Didactic
The Ugliness of MoneyWhy do so many not have enough
for their most basic needs
While others have more
than they can ever spend
They can’t take it with them in the end...
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Categories:
money, society,
Form: Free verse
After,SchoolThe celestial bodies ....
They witnessed my feet on the sand
becoming mutual with the hard rocks .
My red blood and sweat
They saw my inability to choose something else.
The nights with shiny eyes in the sky
sometimes abruptly shooting to offer me a wish sometimes
I declined
I declined.
And now here comes the time...
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Categories:
society, 12th grade, age, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Society Poems
Definition | What is Society in Poetry?
Poems Related to Society
company, humanity, community, nation, culture, civilization, world, public, association, population, commonwealth, commonality, companionship, camaraderie, comradeship, zoo, jungle, friendship, rat race, general public, social order, club, league, group, network