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).
CasketSharpe
Poem Published
Today 8:01pm
Today 8:01pm
Motherf**ka Season (Broken Pussy) Part V
#women
#honesty
12 reads
1 Comment
ImperfectedStone
The Gardener
The Gardener
Poem Published
Today 6:00pm
Today 6:00pm
Outlier
You know the point
where brain fringes fuse,
they underlap,
only seen
at end
decayed
by someone curious.
Those carvings exist
of how you were made,
how I was made,
how we were finished
under our skin.
I want to peel back
on sunny days,
bloodless blooms
turned brown and crisp,
see stories
through hollowing,
never seen
by disappearing wind,
crashing waves.
I think that's
how perhaps you've
appeared before me,
a...
where brain fringes fuse,
they underlap,
only seen
at end
decayed
by someone curious.
Those carvings exist
of how you were made,
how I was made,
how we were finished
under our skin.
I want to peel back
on sunny days,
bloodless blooms
turned brown and crisp,
see stories
through hollowing,
never seen
by disappearing wind,
crashing waves.
I think that's
how perhaps you've
appeared before me,
a...
#love
#nature
#humankind
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Academic
Poem Published
Today 5:25pm
Today 5:25pm
Bogus Patriots: keen to cowardly defend their country's vile atrocities to the last drop of others blood but not theirs!
By Stanley Collymore
I wonder why all these people
on the Daily Mail and clearly
In its deceitful but clickbait
comments section, and equally
those on similarly likeminded
rightwing and Nazi rags, and
evidently also, the wannabe
taken seriously - electronic
media outfits, whose, own
viewing audience is clearly
into the trifling hundreds
and that is actually being
generally, magnanimous
to these noxious outlets.
All of them, distinctively
also so malignantly but
proudly and acridly...
I wonder why all these people
on the Daily Mail and clearly
In its deceitful but clickbait
comments section, and equally
those on similarly likeminded
rightwing and Nazi rags, and
evidently also, the wannabe
taken seriously - electronic
media outfits, whose, own
viewing audience is clearly
into the trifling hundreds
and that is actually being
generally, magnanimous
to these noxious outlets.
All of them, distinctively
also so malignantly but
proudly and acridly...
#hate
#dark
#greed
#denial
#fear
24 reads
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Casted_Runes
Turpin
Turpin
Poem Published
Today 4:53pm
Today 4:53pm
an author of the highest reputation
100th anniversary of the birth of Roald Dahl. Associated with antisemitism and not regarded as an author of the highest reputation.” - minutes from a meeting of the British Mint
looking at my dream bookshelves
I wonder who could stand
atop the plated plinth
or look up from a coin
and say ‘I never thought ill thoughts
and always paid my round’
to say it plain:
a bastard sometimes makes
a good writer
- not evil, mind,
just rotten in ways,
clutching a glass of port
and ranting on the feared Other ...
looking at my dream bookshelves
I wonder who could stand
atop the plated plinth
or look up from a coin
and say ‘I never thought ill thoughts
and always paid my round’
to say it plain:
a bastard sometimes makes
a good writer
- not evil, mind,
just rotten in ways,
clutching a glass of port
and ranting on the feared Other ...
#unicorns
15 reads
1 Comment
Abracadabra
Poem Published
Today 2:38pm
Today 2:38pm
Ways to Go
You said it didn't matter
trusted me to decide
a hole in the ground
or a puff of smoke
you didn't care which
because you knew
you wouldn't be around
to see
But with the price of dying
getting dearer by the year
I thought it would be cheaper
to freeze you and keep you
here at home
then little by little
one dainty morsel at a time
I'd feed you
to the crows
It seemed like a way
of putting life back
using nature's means to dispose ...
trusted me to decide
a hole in the ground
or a puff of smoke
you didn't care which
because you knew
you wouldn't be around
to see
But with the price of dying
getting dearer by the year
I thought it would be cheaper
to freeze you and keep you
here at home
then little by little
one dainty morsel at a time
I'd feed you
to the crows
It seemed like a way
of putting life back
using nature's means to dispose ...
#relationships
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Ashley_M_Hardy
Poem Published
Today 3:39am
Today 3:39am
Policy Changes
So, y’all know I’m kind of a policy geek
I received this email which explained some things to me,
And it said:
The Mandatory Minimums Act by design drives mass incarceration and perpetuates the effectiveness of the '94 Crime Bill
It doesn't allow a judge to consider the individual factors of a case so once convicted, you'll face a sentence regardless
And following the enactment of the Crime Bill, New York State slashed programs for inmates that would credit them earned time off, so no further consideration into their wellbeing
Hell, the cash bail system was...
I received this email which explained some things to me,
And it said:
The Mandatory Minimums Act by design drives mass incarceration and perpetuates the effectiveness of the '94 Crime Bill
It doesn't allow a judge to consider the individual factors of a case so once convicted, you'll face a sentence regardless
And following the enactment of the Crime Bill, New York State slashed programs for inmates that would credit them earned time off, so no further consideration into their wellbeing
Hell, the cash bail system was...
#politics
#motivational
#HumanRights
30 reads
3 Comments
da_poetic-edifier
Damon
Damon
Poem Published
Today 2:06am
Today 2:06am
Games We Play
Left wing; Right wing
It takes two wings to fly
No uniting; constant fighting
All birds will surely die
Elephants; Asses
Truancies from classes
Cyclops that can't see
Each in need of glasses
Black guy; White guy
Different shades of gray
Red fellow; mellow Yellow
Carmelo fade away
It takes two wings to fly
No uniting; constant fighting
All birds will surely die
Elephants; Asses
Truancies from classes
Cyclops that can't see
Each in need of glasses
Black guy; White guy
Different shades of gray
Red fellow; mellow Yellow
Carmelo fade away
#conflict
#politics
#death
32 reads
4 Comments
PeaceFlpw
Peace Flow
Peace Flow
Poem Published
Yesterday 8:08pm
Yesterday 8:08pm
crush stuff
sometimes I still fantasize when it comes to having a crush, the feeling is mutual on both sides; unending; like an actual friendship "with benefits"; casual get togethers; everything's "perfect" and nothing gets in the way of that
I know.... that sounds absolutely insane
I know.... that sounds absolutely insane
#loneliness
#girlfriend
#LifeStruggles
#confessional
#crush
37 reads
Ashley_M_Hardy
Bumped Yesterday 4:34pm
17th Dec 2021 10:01pm
17th Dec 2021 10:01pm
The OPS
How principled is the dictator that wages wars against his or her own people with a single decree
How skilled is the warrior that slaughters their own kin, cause they're unguarded without them
How discerning are the armies that wipeout entire townships and steal the commodities they exploit to outsiders
How reverent is any member of the elite that deceives the people they're sworn to protect
The sentiments of each vary but the story stays the same
The State makes a lot of money off of its poor citizens and their babies
This abrasive insane asylum we've named...
How skilled is the warrior that slaughters their own kin, cause they're unguarded without them
How discerning are the armies that wipeout entire townships and steal the commodities they exploit to outsiders
How reverent is any member of the elite that deceives the people they're sworn to protect
The sentiments of each vary but the story stays the same
The State makes a lot of money off of its poor citizens and their babies
This abrasive insane asylum we've named...
#LifeStruggles
#HumanRights
135 reads
4 Comments
Academic
Poem Published
Yesterday 2:30pm
Yesterday 2:30pm
f**k off USA and bloody well grow up! You're nowt else but a kiss-me-ass, egregious bully!
By Stanley Collymore
If and when Vladimir Putin does
realistically and sensibly create
a vitally strategic alliance and
crucially, a similarly military
partnership with Cuba, that by the
way the USA illicitly occupies in its
continuous seizure and distinctive
criminally ongoing, quite barbaric
usage of Guantanamo Bay; clearly
doing so despite sovereign Cuba's
repeatedly and lawful demands to
to have its so undeniable actually
distinctively; crucially importantly
and unmistakably also inherently ...
If and when Vladimir Putin does
realistically and sensibly create
a vitally strategic alliance and
crucially, a similarly military
partnership with Cuba, that by the
way the USA illicitly occupies in its
continuous seizure and distinctive
criminally ongoing, quite barbaric
usage of Guantanamo Bay; clearly
doing so despite sovereign Cuba's
repeatedly and lawful demands to
to have its so undeniable actually
distinctively; crucially importantly
and unmistakably also inherently ...
#hate
#dark
#greed
#denial
#fear
49 reads
1 Comment
joegracegrace
Joe Grace
Joe Grace
Poem Published
Yesterday 1:14pm
Yesterday 1:14pm
Why Replace SATURDAY With SUNDAY
IF SATURDAY = SABBATH, WHY REPLACE IT WITH SUNDAY ??
On "Pastors's Perspective," a radio call-in show, a caller recently asked,
"If Saturday is the Sabbath, why do we worship on SUNDAY instead ??"
Pastor Bryan Brodersen didn't beat around the bush.
He said, "Christ rose from the dead on Sunday - THAT's what we celebrate !!"
Very brief, direct - powerful !!
Its very simple:
Is Christ's RESURRECTION worth tossing out the original Saturday Sabbath ??!!
The old Sabbath celebrates God creating the universe and then resting.
Whereas the...
On "Pastors's Perspective," a radio call-in show, a caller recently asked,
"If Saturday is the Sabbath, why do we worship on SUNDAY instead ??"
Pastor Bryan Brodersen didn't beat around the bush.
He said, "Christ rose from the dead on Sunday - THAT's what we celebrate !!"
Very brief, direct - powerful !!
Its very simple:
Is Christ's RESURRECTION worth tossing out the original Saturday Sabbath ??!!
The old Sabbath celebrates God creating the universe and then resting.
Whereas the...
#earth
#sun
#moon
#stars
#evolution
20 reads
0 Comments
AlisVolatPropriis8
Poem Published
Yesterday 11:01am
Yesterday 11:01am
Byronage.
It's in this age
She built glass
casket and basket of
Figs and green orange
She wore the black grift
Bright and twinkled her red
eye colour.
She built glass
casket and basket of
Figs and green orange
She wore the black grift
Bright and twinkled her red
eye colour.
#redemption
27 reads
1 Comment
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