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).
drone
Poem Published
Today 12:23pm
Today 12:23pm
Down To The Bone
You've gotta see it
to understand it
verifiable to be sure
before one can really
Imagine
imagining
the truth of it
one must first
resonate
with the feeling
that comes from it
for one
to be able
to Imagine it
down
to the bone
to understand it
verifiable to be sure
before one can really
Imagine
imagining
the truth of it
one must first
resonate
with the feeling
that comes from it
for one
to be able
to Imagine it
down
to the bone
#honesty
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missjem56
Poem Published
Today 11:44am
Today 11:44am
Rapt
When it comes to Covid
I'm hoping for no Christmas presence 🦋
I'm hoping for no Christmas presence 🦋
#Christmas
#pandemic
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drone
Poem Published
Today 11:33am
Today 11:33am
Wings Of Change
We inherited
an abandoned planet
abandoned by them
Abandoned
left
to fend for ourself's
the system
we understood
Gone
fighting
from untold centuries past
up to
today
fighting hiding
keeping
knowledge
and the things
they left behind
those
specialized Sméagols
hoarding
what they claim
is to dangerous
for us
for we would
Change
from a static
decying chrysalis
that would Evolve
Into Wings
...
an abandoned planet
abandoned by them
Abandoned
left
to fend for ourself's
the system
we understood
Gone
fighting
from untold centuries past
up to
today
fighting hiding
keeping
knowledge
and the things
they left behind
those
specialized Sméagols
hoarding
what they claim
is to dangerous
for us
for we would
Change
from a static
decying chrysalis
that would Evolve
Into Wings
...
#secrets
#lies
#betrayal
#TruthOfLife
#honesty
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PurpuraBuho
Poem Published
Today 8:22am
Today 8:22am
eavesdropping
I dive in head first
The freedom is as intoxicating as
if I were swimming in gin.
I can move in any direction or
just stop and float awhile,
not even birds can do that.
Yet it isn't clear like the liquor,
it's blue like a perfect sky, tranquil turquoise.
air bubbles are rising to
the surface in their clustered way.
In the white sunbeams,
the corals are dusky pink, others uplifting orange.
schools of bright-hued fish and
strange sea flowers decorate the sand floor.
I swim past the reef into the deeper blue, ...
The freedom is as intoxicating as
if I were swimming in gin.
I can move in any direction or
just stop and float awhile,
not even birds can do that.
Yet it isn't clear like the liquor,
it's blue like a perfect sky, tranquil turquoise.
air bubbles are rising to
the surface in their clustered way.
In the white sunbeams,
the corals are dusky pink, others uplifting orange.
schools of bright-hued fish and
strange sea flowers decorate the sand floor.
I swim past the reef into the deeper blue, ...
#sea
#fish
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1 Comment
BigVirge
Big Virge
Big Virge
Poem Published
Today 7:56am
Today 7:56am
“Ethics” ... A Poem written By Big Virge 24/7/2020
Now I’ve ...
Already Done Said It ... !!!
Some Peoples’ Work Ethic ...
Is ... TRULY PATHETIC ... !!!!!
And YET THEY ...
Seem To Want CREDIT ... ?!?
For The Way That They ...
Choose To Work Away ...
In Their Day To Day ...
But They Need To REFRAIN ...
From Making CLAIMS ... !!!!
That Their Ethics SWAY ...
To Having NO DELAY ...
In Being ... GREAT ... !!!!!!
I’ve Said It BEFORE ...
And I’m Now SURE ...
That I Will Say It AGAIN ... !!!
The CLAIMS Some Make ...
Are Those...
Already Done Said It ... !!!
Some Peoples’ Work Ethic ...
Is ... TRULY PATHETIC ... !!!!!
And YET THEY ...
Seem To Want CREDIT ... ?!?
For The Way That They ...
Choose To Work Away ...
In Their Day To Day ...
But They Need To REFRAIN ...
From Making CLAIMS ... !!!!
That Their Ethics SWAY ...
To Having NO DELAY ...
In Being ... GREAT ... !!!!!!
I’ve Said It BEFORE ...
And I’m Now SURE ...
That I Will Say It AGAIN ... !!!
The CLAIMS Some Make ...
Are Those...
#TruthOfLife
#honesty
#humankind
#art
#responsibility
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Olivia-H
Poem Published
Today 7:37am
Today 7:37am
Do you know?
By the same author
Who wrote
"You are the Universe"
Being inert
Edited
A ground-breaking
Twirl
"Y̶o̶u̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶U̶n̶i̶v̶e̶r̶s̶e̶ "
"You were the Universe"
My entire thought
Revolved around
And that pain
Was the best seller
Of that time
A revised edition
Who wrote
"You are the Universe"
Being inert
Edited
A ground-breaking
Twirl
"Y̶o̶u̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶U̶n̶i̶v̶e̶r̶s̶e̶ "
"You were the Universe"
My entire thought
Revolved around
And that pain
Was the best seller
Of that time
A revised edition
#LifeAsAWriter
#LifeChangingMoment
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SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
Today 6:35am
Today 6:35am
Aching
#lust
#lover
#passion
17 reads
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Myanus
Poem Published
Today 5:57am
Today 5:57am
Satan, Where Do I Begin?
I. A Boy’s Virgin Shot
The tree’s naked
outstretched limb
holds up a sparrow
for me.
My first shot
drops it to the frozen
ground, hard, at my feet.
II. Kinesis
Under a falling red sun,
in the stench of decomposing
leaves and muddy
dark earth,
I turn over a stone. See!
Circling white centipede—
Dancing black spider—
Tangle of worms
scrambling.
The tree’s naked
outstretched limb
holds up a sparrow
for me.
My first shot
drops it to the frozen
ground, hard, at my feet.
II. Kinesis
Under a falling red sun,
in the stench of decomposing
leaves and muddy
dark earth,
I turn over a stone. See!
Circling white centipede—
Dancing black spider—
Tangle of worms
scrambling.
#dark
#sun
#shadows #evolution
#shadows #evolution
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MyLadyCharlotina
Poem Published
Today 5:03am
Today 5:03am
i got to say, i am a Big Fan of DUALITY.
i have always considered the lengths to which man has gone (and has hewed to for such a long time...writing treatises in their literal thousands and at such very incredible and fantastic length) in order to abnegate and then explain away Duality in favor of "Her" supposed "opposite" – Non-duality, Non-differentiation, Non, Non, Non, Non, Non, Non, Non, Non...
I am your Superior, shut up and don't talk). It's like Each One of humanity's religions has this idea somehow splintered into it, so deeply embedded as to be the very root. Just what, or Who, were they really trying to Excize...
I am your Superior, shut up and don't talk). It's like Each One of humanity's religions has this idea somehow splintered into it, so deeply embedded as to be the very root. Just what, or Who, were they really trying to Excize...
#politics
#spiritual
#rebellion
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1 Comment
Taurek
Poem Published
Today 3:15am
Today 3:15am
Vortex Blues
#depression
#men
#sex
#money
#disappointment
16 reads
1 Comment
ravibabygirl
Poem Published
Today 2:27am
Today 2:27am
mental health
i question if i am meant for this world
i feel so different from anyone else
i guess we all feel this way
sometimes i feel like I'm a statue or made of clay
we are looked at differently
our brain is not wired the same as others
we don't follow what trend is current
maybe were more openminded
it's hard to go through life afraid
or having to hear voices see images that are not there
we don't need to saved
we are what they fear
...
i feel so different from anyone else
i guess we all feel this way
sometimes i feel like I'm a statue or made of clay
we are looked at differently
our brain is not wired the same as others
we don't follow what trend is current
maybe were more openminded
it's hard to go through life afraid
or having to hear voices see images that are not there
we don't need to saved
we are what they fear
...
#anxiety
#depression
#MentalHealth
#suffering
#FeelingTrapped
17 reads
3 Comments
Bluevelvete
Poem Published
Yesterday 10:59pm
Yesterday 10:59pm
whis'p tendril dreams.
in the distance,
a child's screaming laugh echoes
as palm fronds rustle
and a slight breeze catches those wispy baby hairs on her neck
the gentle recall of his fingertips. . .
soft tickle'd dreams,
while goosebumps spread
and push at her seams
She swears —
his heady scent
drifts through the air . . .
a possible ghostly appear
flaring a tender recall;
hers is a heart that has fallen
a glassheart'd hope
of only his possible chosen
her smile curls,
..... as she...
a child's screaming laugh echoes
as palm fronds rustle
and a slight breeze catches those wispy baby hairs on her neck
the gentle recall of his fingertips. . .
soft tickle'd dreams,
while goosebumps spread
and push at her seams
She swears —
his heady scent
drifts through the air . . .
a possible ghostly appear
flaring a tender recall;
hers is a heart that has fallen
a glassheart'd hope
of only his possible chosen
her smile curls,
..... as she...
#hope
#dreams
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16 Comments
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