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).
I_IS_ME
Poem Published
Today 8:56am
Today 8:56am
Admit It
To hear the words coming out of her mouth that, she knew I despised
Still spitting venom as the life fled from her eyes
She was a force to be reckoned with, no one could deny
As she laid there dying, she said you're dead but will not die
I felt a cold hand grip my heart in the middle of a beat
I watched as she fought for her last breath, gripping the sheets
Little did I know that I had just been cursed
Little did I know the tighten around my heart would only get worse
I watched as a small trail of blood slid down the side of her face ...
Still spitting venom as the life fled from her eyes
She was a force to be reckoned with, no one could deny
As she laid there dying, she said you're dead but will not die
I felt a cold hand grip my heart in the middle of a beat
I watched as she fought for her last breath, gripping the sheets
Little did I know that I had just been cursed
Little did I know the tighten around my heart would only get worse
I watched as a small trail of blood slid down the side of her face ...
#corruption
#LifeStruggles
#TruthOfLife
#humankind
#greed
16 reads
3 Comments
_boybrains
Poem Published
Today 6:49am
Today 6:49am
The problem
isn’t the fawn seasoning
to a stag nor the buck
seasoning to a doe,
it is the ignorant
remaining still or
falling backwards.
to a stag nor the buck
seasoning to a doe,
it is the ignorant
remaining still or
falling backwards.
#LGBT
#LifeStruggles
#confessional
#transgender
#minimalist
9 reads
2 Comments
Harold-Weathervein
Poem Published
Yesterday 00:10am
Yesterday 00:10am
Bartalk Bravado? I Think?
#night
#alcohol
#nostalgia #apathy
#nostalgia #apathy
13 reads
1 Comment
Naajir
Poem Published
Yesterday 7:02pm
Yesterday 7:02pm
Fahrenheit NYC
NYC...
has been sold to the highest bidder
buildings are going up higher..
rent even higher
skyrocketing...politician pocketing bribes
it's greed gone gluttonous
with no logical thought in sight
no insight whatsoever
impending ecological disaster
coming faster and faster
all this 'progress' has become a drain
on the infrastructure
over taxed just like the residents
strained to the max...
trains coming to a complete halt
power outages inducing
outrage...heatwave heightens
frustrations in this...
has been sold to the highest bidder
buildings are going up higher..
rent even higher
skyrocketing...politician pocketing bribes
it's greed gone gluttonous
with no logical thought in sight
no insight whatsoever
impending ecological disaster
coming faster and faster
all this 'progress' has become a drain
on the infrastructure
over taxed just like the residents
strained to the max...
trains coming to a complete halt
power outages inducing
outrage...heatwave heightens
frustrations in this...
#corruption
#politics
#city #greed
#city #greed
25 reads
2 Comments
poetryaccident
Poem Published
Yesterday 5:20pm
Yesterday 5:20pm
Hope Delayed
These robes of lost promised hope
threads entangled by discord
hung in tatters by long abuse
by the rulers of this world
vestments tarnished without regard
for the hope that’s been lost
believers searching among the bones
finding only a sad heirloom
when wrapped tightly to evoke
happiness sought above all else
this is the pledge lost to deceit
surviving only in servant’s thoughts
the threads unravel by day’s end
an emperor left without their clout
still the theists long for a time
hope delayed on the...
threads entangled by discord
hung in tatters by long abuse
by the rulers of this world
vestments tarnished without regard
for the hope that’s been lost
believers searching among the bones
finding only a sad heirloom
when wrapped tightly to evoke
happiness sought above all else
this is the pledge lost to deceit
surviving only in servant’s thoughts
the threads unravel by day’s end
an emperor left without their clout
still the theists long for a time
hope delayed on the...
#religion
9 reads
1 Comment
LUUH19
Emeraldia
Emeraldia
Poem Published
Yesterday 4:07pm
Yesterday 4:07pm
Turn It Over
Sounds like a broken record
The present
Always developing
Always the third
I am just telling the truth
There is no new news
There is no time machine
To take us out the blues
We look up with hope
She is by our side
Singing the song
The song for the master
To leave her some food
She pushes it to you
So you can eat it too
The cage has been shiny
And now it is fragile
The smell of the rust
Lingers in the air
Scrape some off the bars
Melt it down, to shoot it up
We Pass the...
The present
Always developing
Always the third
I am just telling the truth
There is no new news
There is no time machine
To take us out the blues
We look up with hope
She is by our side
Singing the song
The song for the master
To leave her some food
She pushes it to you
So you can eat it too
The cage has been shiny
And now it is fragile
The smell of the rust
Lingers in the air
Scrape some off the bars
Melt it down, to shoot it up
We Pass the...
#TruthOfLife
11 reads
0 Comments
Academic
Poem Published
Yesterday 3:00pm
Yesterday 3:00pm
I kjærlig unisont
Av Stanley Collymore
Føl gleden i meg! Det er praktisk talt palpable, kan du ikke se?
Og alt fordi jeg er så gal forelsket i deg. Så mye slik at
alle sener i hele kroppen min er akutt levende med
energi og mest intensivt massivt sparket opp
med ukontrollabel lidenskap for deg. Så
vær så snill,vennligst ta ombord hva
jeg forteller deg, hva jeg så dypt
nyter og verdsetter med Helligheten av livet mitt
som jeg har falt ivrig og uimotståelig forelsket
i deg, og å ha fått vite deg som jeg ville
mest alvorlig i de givne...
Føl gleden i meg! Det er praktisk talt palpable, kan du ikke se?
Og alt fordi jeg er så gal forelsket i deg. Så mye slik at
alle sener i hele kroppen min er akutt levende med
energi og mest intensivt massivt sparket opp
med ukontrollabel lidenskap for deg. Så
vær så snill,vennligst ta ombord hva
jeg forteller deg, hva jeg så dypt
nyter og verdsetter med Helligheten av livet mitt
som jeg har falt ivrig og uimotståelig forelsket
i deg, og å ha fått vite deg som jeg ville
mest alvorlig i de givne...
#FallingInLove
5 reads
0 Comments
Academic
Poem Published
Yesterday 2:57pm
Yesterday 2:57pm
In Loving Unison
By Stanley Collymore
Feel the pleasure in me! It’s virtually palpable, can’t you see?
And all because I’m so madly in love with you. So much
so that every sinew in my entire body is acutely alive
with energy and most intensely massively fired up
with uncontrollable passion for you. So please,
please take on-board what I’m telling you,
what I so deeply cherish and value with
the sanctity of my life that I’ve fallen
fervently and irresistibly in love with you, and
having got to know you as I do would most
earnestly in those...
Feel the pleasure in me! It’s virtually palpable, can’t you see?
And all because I’m so madly in love with you. So much
so that every sinew in my entire body is acutely alive
with energy and most intensely massively fired up
with uncontrollable passion for you. So please,
please take on-board what I’m telling you,
what I so deeply cherish and value with
the sanctity of my life that I’ve fallen
fervently and irresistibly in love with you, and
having got to know you as I do would most
earnestly in those...
#LifeChangingMoment
11 reads
0 Comments
Joshuaberry
Ancestor
Ancestor
Poem Published
Yesterday 10:14am
Yesterday 10:14am
Such Government
They promised us bout phone and mobile,
But how bout network?
They promised us electricity at kainji dam,
But how bout stability.
They promised us bout democracy and independence,
But how bout good governance.
They promised us a cackoo with mutiple colors,
But they came only with its picture.
Pool of water on the tiled street:
Mirage of realism.
19:07:20:10:01
But how bout network?
They promised us electricity at kainji dam,
But how bout stability.
They promised us bout democracy and independence,
But how bout good governance.
They promised us a cackoo with mutiple colors,
But they came only with its picture.
Pool of water on the tiled street:
Mirage of realism.
19:07:20:10:01
#corruption
#oppression
#HumanRights
#inequality
#DomesticViolence
10 reads
0 Comments
Adzy
Poem Published
Yesterday 9:17am
Yesterday 9:17am
Weather
The sky turns to grey
The wind starts to bite
The rain begins to fall
The world ends tonight
The plates are now shifting
The ground starts to crack
The temperature's rising
There's no turning back
The tide gets restless
The ice melts in the sun
The lightning starts flashing
What have we all done?
The storm is approaching
Life will now halt
The world is dying
And its all our fault
The wind starts to bite
The rain begins to fall
The world ends tonight
The plates are now shifting
The ground starts to crack
The temperature's rising
There's no turning back
The tide gets restless
The ice melts in the sun
The lightning starts flashing
What have we all done?
The storm is approaching
Life will now halt
The world is dying
And its all our fault
#environment
#pollution
#nature
#humankind
#apocalypse
14 reads
2 Comments
PlaydateWithFire
Poem Published
Yesterday 3:43am
Yesterday 3:43am
War doesn't stop at home.
I curse the rain,
but it's my own dirt that has
me walking in mud.
There can be no
forgiveness of sin, without the
shedding of blood.
Screams in my ears,
nightmares and tears, the life
I'm left here to live.
It was never my war,
I cannot rest anymore, look what
they make us all give.
but it's my own dirt that has
me walking in mud.
There can be no
forgiveness of sin, without the
shedding of blood.
Screams in my ears,
nightmares and tears, the life
I'm left here to live.
It was never my war,
I cannot rest anymore, look what
they make us all give.
#ImSorry
#war
#FeelingLost #nightmares
#FeelingLost #nightmares
33 reads
5 Comments
I_IS_ME
Poem Published
Yesterday 1:35am
Yesterday 1:35am
Andromeda
Swirling space particles circling a black hole's drain
Included is a menage of everything, the good, the bad, the crazy, the sane
The hate swirled in with the love, riding on dark and light
The particles only know their charge, they don't know wrong from right
These particles as they travel to planets, they are orbiting stars
They exist on a plain where as from here to the sun isn't that far
Time is so irrelevant, it dam near stands still
And the forces of the universe bends everything to their will
Anything moving had to have been acted...
Included is a menage of everything, the good, the bad, the crazy, the sane
The hate swirled in with the love, riding on dark and light
The particles only know their charge, they don't know wrong from right
These particles as they travel to planets, they are orbiting stars
They exist on a plain where as from here to the sun isn't that far
Time is so irrelevant, it dam near stands still
And the forces of the universe bends everything to their will
Anything moving had to have been acted...
#LifeStruggles
#humankind
43 reads
14 Comments
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