Observational Poems
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poetry about life, society and the natural world
Observational poems offer a view of life from the world the writer inhabits. You'll find social, political and nature poems that provide an outlook on life around the globe. Observational poetry offers social commentary on subcultures, war, poverty, street life and politics. Along with social poems, you'll also find poetry here which explores the natural world. This broad category has poetry about everything to do with the way the world works (or doesn't work).
BargainBinPoet
Poem Published
Today 7:02am
Today 7:02am
Cold as ice
Tis place is cold like ice cubes
One cat meowed goodbye
No “Hey” in Dustbuster Subway
Tis place is shallow like a muddy puddle
Full of huffs and puffs
No substance abusage
Tis road stop has no view
the beauty is ugly
inside and on the exterior
Tis bed is hard like cement
statues pissed on
spray painted messy words, all over
Tis place smells like rotten eggs
stinky like garbage
leftovers not frerigerated
Tis place is rotten to an apples core
full of worms
I wouldn’t give to a...
One cat meowed goodbye
No “Hey” in Dustbuster Subway
Tis place is shallow like a muddy puddle
Full of huffs and puffs
No substance abusage
Tis road stop has no view
the beauty is ugly
inside and on the exterior
Tis bed is hard like cement
statues pissed on
spray painted messy words, all over
Tis place smells like rotten eggs
stinky like garbage
leftovers not frerigerated
Tis place is rotten to an apples core
full of worms
I wouldn’t give to a...
#WritingPoetry
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0 Comments
Lookawaynow
Rose
Rose
Poem Published
Today 5:54am
Today 5:54am
Poppy Red Corn Dead
Returning cold climates,
weathered warnings,
creaking old gates &
leaves like falling snow
Over hills plowed,
poppy fields red,
corn yellow stubs dead
The wind with it's howling
sadness, over swaying trees
Shallow rivers,
picking up the pace
In undercurrents.
Crystallized complexions
formed by temperament,
Ice maidens arise,
coronations &
Silver gowns,
revealing once more.
A daylights fanfare
to a shimmering day
My enlightened...
#love
3 reads
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Blackwolf
Poem Published
Today 3:27am
Today 3:27am
Some
Some Play With Water Some Play With Fire
Some Let It Flow Some They Choose Desire
Some Bite The Hand That Answers Their Demand
Then Those Who Ask And Others That Command
Some Who Live By Chance Some Very Well Planned
Some Prayer Led And Fed Some Are Pre Damned
Some Have Fun Some Undone Before Even Begun
No Idea Where They Are Going Or Coming From
Some Live In Their Head In A Land Of Living Dead
Some Are Stuck In A Last Act Or Words Once Said
Some Down On Knees Begging Once More...
Some Let It Flow Some They Choose Desire
Some Bite The Hand That Answers Their Demand
Then Those Who Ask And Others That Command
Some Who Live By Chance Some Very Well Planned
Some Prayer Led And Fed Some Are Pre Damned
Some Have Fun Some Undone Before Even Begun
No Idea Where They Are Going Or Coming From
Some Live In Their Head In A Land Of Living Dead
Some Are Stuck In A Last Act Or Words Once Said
Some Down On Knees Begging Once More...
#MentalHealth
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SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
Today 3:08am
Today 3:08am
Remembering The Sky
ER CRITICAL CARE TRAUMA UNIT A
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
11:34 am
09-21-18
Chaos of deafening screams
Reality has fled, left with only daydreams
Here I stand in mental confusion
Tears of disillusion
God help me please
Souls dropping today to their knees
Anyone have a tissue
Blood, guts, no glory, no wishes
As a nurse, is my existence mended into someone else’s pain
Last breath, last rites, never to feel or see the rain
God, I look to you each and every day
People have love, faith, yet, for the...
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
11:34 am
09-21-18
Chaos of deafening screams
Reality has fled, left with only daydreams
Here I stand in mental confusion
Tears of disillusion
God help me please
Souls dropping today to their knees
Anyone have a tissue
Blood, guts, no glory, no wishes
As a nurse, is my existence mended into someone else’s pain
Last breath, last rites, never to feel or see the rain
God, I look to you each and every day
People have love, faith, yet, for the...
#sadness
#despair
#emptiness #apathy
#emptiness #apathy
11 reads
2 Comments
TomShields
Evilhappy
Evilhappy
Poem Published
Yesterday 00:35am
Yesterday 00:35am
Keep Writing
Don't fall
asleep
you have all
these promises to keep
your idle hands plan demise that you so wantonly idolize
do not nod off now in agreement with your own demise
do not fall asleep . . .
your head heavy with the dreamless promises of a soothing drift
slipping away so easily down the avenue of lost time into your coffin
the nails are crooked, bent and they've created a rift
there's grave dirt on this bed, the wooden casket is rotten
you've hammered the heads in wrong far too often
of course, the recourse is to rebuild, would you...
asleep
you have all
these promises to keep
your idle hands plan demise that you so wantonly idolize
do not nod off now in agreement with your own demise
do not fall asleep . . .
your head heavy with the dreamless promises of a soothing drift
slipping away so easily down the avenue of lost time into your coffin
the nails are crooked, bent and they've created a rift
there's grave dirt on this bed, the wooden casket is rotten
you've hammered the heads in wrong far too often
of course, the recourse is to rebuild, would you...
#strength
#sleep
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SatansSperm
Poem Published
Yesterday 11:53pm
Yesterday 11:53pm
So nice to see you
We are not friends
or lovers
we are just two people
who shared some madness
or lovers
we are just two people
who shared some madness
#gratitude
17 reads
4 Comments
Ahavati
Poem Published
Yesterday 11:05pm
Yesterday 11:05pm
Cherokee Jew
Centuries have passed
since we were discovered
my ancestors extending
offerings of smoke
to strangers in our midst
Ascending to the realm
of Great Spirit, tattooed ringlets:
inked acceptance and peace
forged brotherhood between us
Earth was allocated, homesteads built
each tribe to teach and learn:
hunt for shelter, clothes
grind maize for bread
weave blankets for warmth
What we received in...
since we were discovered
my ancestors extending
offerings of smoke
to strangers in our midst
Ascending to the realm
of Great Spirit, tattooed ringlets:
inked acceptance and peace
forged brotherhood between us
Earth was allocated, homesteads built
each tribe to teach and learn:
hunt for shelter, clothes
grind maize for bread
weave blankets for warmth
What we received in...
#corruption
#peace
#HumanRights #greed
#HumanRights #greed
25 reads
3 Comments
Catman555
Poem Published
Yesterday 9:22pm
Yesterday 9:22pm
Radical Shift
This statement is not misogyny
This is rant with greatest sympathy
For all the voices that are unheard
In this world becoming more absurd
Where in a human race, a woman
So beautiful, now a huge problem
As well as men demanding more sex
The women live in a princess complex
The more we all see a melancholic shift
The more the human race goes into a rift
No opinions to be expressed because of fear
Only to be obeyed in the cliche they smear
Two parasites of the entire universe
Two political wings to deliver a curse
The...
This is rant with greatest sympathy
For all the voices that are unheard
In this world becoming more absurd
Where in a human race, a woman
So beautiful, now a huge problem
As well as men demanding more sex
The women live in a princess complex
The more we all see a melancholic shift
The more the human race goes into a rift
No opinions to be expressed because of fear
Only to be obeyed in the cliche they smear
Two parasites of the entire universe
Two political wings to deliver a curse
The...
#women
#men
#politics #freedom
#politics #freedom
7 reads
2 Comments
Nari
Bumped Yesterday 7:51pm
3rd Jul 2018 4:34am
3rd Jul 2018 4:34am
Bonsai
Surgery on the breasts
speak to the ancient art of
feet binding
and reminds us
that we have not been born
solely for being pruned
in areas that are wrong to exist in
punished
by the sloughing
of mandarin type flesh and dead tissue
in hopes of securing
a particular disposition in life
and the layers of gauze always
secret the new skin
not for contempt
nor shame of being gilded
by the ways in which I may appear to this world
not for my partner's pleasure
but for mine
not to become any size to cute...
speak to the ancient art of
feet binding
and reminds us
that we have not been born
solely for being pruned
in areas that are wrong to exist in
punished
by the sloughing
of mandarin type flesh and dead tissue
in hopes of securing
a particular disposition in life
and the layers of gauze always
secret the new skin
not for contempt
nor shame of being gilded
by the ways in which I may appear to this world
not for my partner's pleasure
but for mine
not to become any size to cute...
#women
#identity
#beauty
#feminism
#SelfDiscovery
57 reads
0 Comments
ElusiveSleepfall
MatthewZ
MatthewZ
Poem Published
Yesterday 5:13pm
Yesterday 5:13pm
Peace (A Final Goodbye)
Hello Matthew.
"Where have you been?"
I've been right here, but it's like you don't know me anymore.
"I...I can't seem to see you through this din."
Why don't you come with me now?
"It's just...I've got so much to do...and so much going on."
But you must come see me, it's what is truly important.
"I will, I promise...when life dies down a bit."
Precisely. But it would be good if you visited me here, now.
"I know...I know. It hurts me badly not to see you!"
More than you...
"Where have you been?"
I've been right here, but it's like you don't know me anymore.
"I...I can't seem to see you through this din."
Why don't you come with me now?
"It's just...I've got so much to do...and so much going on."
But you must come see me, it's what is truly important.
"I will, I promise...when life dies down a bit."
Precisely. But it would be good if you visited me here, now.
"I know...I know. It hurts me badly not to see you!"
More than you...
#dark
#TruthOfLife
#despair
#denial
#separation
13 reads
7 Comments
Blackwolf
Poem Published
Yesterday 5:02pm
Yesterday 5:02pm
Bull View
Some Are Pros At Conning People With A Bull Eye View
Some Just Bull Shit It's What They Know How To Do ,
Some Defend Some Need To Mend Some Send A Reminder
To The Self To Be A Little Kinder So Not To Be Any Blinder
Than They Already May Be To Help Them See The Pain
Of Each Day Some Endure Until They Can't Take Anymore
And Every Insult Is A Stain On An Emotional Mainframe
And Every Flame Is Just Burning Rubber On The Brain ;
Hang Them High While You Deny The Snare Is There
And Some Just...
Some Just Bull Shit It's What They Know How To Do ,
Some Defend Some Need To Mend Some Send A Reminder
To The Self To Be A Little Kinder So Not To Be Any Blinder
Than They Already May Be To Help Them See The Pain
Of Each Day Some Endure Until They Can't Take Anymore
And Every Insult Is A Stain On An Emotional Mainframe
And Every Flame Is Just Burning Rubber On The Brain ;
Hang Them High While You Deny The Snare Is There
And Some Just...
#anger
#motivational
#frustration
17 reads
4 Comments
Duende
Poem Published
Yesterday 4:56pm
Yesterday 4:56pm
_Untitled_
wars fill the news
the world’s in pain
what can we do
i don’t have
a vote, not
even a voice
i turn off the tv
cook dinner
light a candle
cherish the fact
i have water
and shelter
Think of the
ones who don’t
*for World Peace Day
https://youtu.be/a3qFnSXLvjg
the world’s in pain
what can we do
i don’t have
a vote, not
even a voice
i turn off the tv
cook dinner
light a candle
cherish the fact
i have water
and shelter
Think of the
ones who don’t
*for World Peace Day
https://youtu.be/a3qFnSXLvjg
#peace
#inequality
33 reads
9 Comments
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