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).
Alviola
Poem Published
Today 6:21am
Today 6:21am
The Color of Someday
There is no color in Gaza save one,
it is the color of limbs and clothes aghast,
here there are bicycles and dresses but
only in the color of veiled mothers
with frozen mouths thumping chests watching heaven.
The children there disappear like magic,
a mile away, the angry jew waves
his hand with the flourish of humph
giddy children vanish to a mist, stain air
but not the shore to a sea they cannot swim in.
Here bullets shred, a child is carried in
a white plastic bag the supermarket
gives you for your sharp cheeses and...
it is the color of limbs and clothes aghast,
here there are bicycles and dresses but
only in the color of veiled mothers
with frozen mouths thumping chests watching heaven.
The children there disappear like magic,
a mile away, the angry jew waves
his hand with the flourish of humph
giddy children vanish to a mist, stain air
but not the shore to a sea they cannot swim in.
Here bullets shred, a child is carried in
a white plastic bag the supermarket
gives you for your sharp cheeses and...
#freedom
5 reads
0 Comments
goldenmyst
Poem Published
Today 4:54am
Today 4:54am
Kokopelli on America
Kokopelli on America
Kokopelli’s flute dawns on sundial scarabs
Who cling to blue corn husks
Deep in beetled discography
Of petaled birth rites
In grottos where frogs are citizens
Where hopscotch is made of butter
That melts into candy crucifixes
Kokopelli’s flute dawns on sundial scarabs
Who cling to blue corn husks
Deep in beetled discography
Of petaled birth rites
In grottos where frogs are citizens
Where hopscotch is made of butter
That melts into candy crucifixes
#dreams
#America
#mythology #surreal
#mythology #surreal
9 reads
2 Comments
The_Silly_Sibyl
Essex Boy
Essex Boy
Poem Published
Yesterday 4:46pm
Yesterday 4:46pm
Graveyard Birds
My grandmother says that my brother won't change
until our father dies
and like the black and evil birds
that gather in graveyards
(the proverbial murder of crows)
we, the children of
his car-crash marriages,
come to claim his house,
to sell the naval engineer's worldly excrescence:
the scratched and broken DVDs
collected and pointlessly stored
back when his last wife died,
the tankard and the GRANDDAD mug
I bought him on a whim,
the entertainment centres and
other bibelots of engineering craft;
I...
until our father dies
and like the black and evil birds
that gather in graveyards
(the proverbial murder of crows)
we, the children of
his car-crash marriages,
come to claim his house,
to sell the naval engineer's worldly excrescence:
the scratched and broken DVDs
collected and pointlessly stored
back when his last wife died,
the tankard and the GRANDDAD mug
I bought him on a whim,
the entertainment centres and
other bibelots of engineering craft;
I...
#father
21 reads
3 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
Yesterday 4:23pm
Yesterday 4:23pm
Taking An Earthly Breather
Times are going to become hard for mankind, whereas, most are going to be begging to be placed out of their miseries. The elite will show their ugly head, and not by money but by power.
Those thirteen families who rule every sector of this world will take their right hand at the beast's political side.
I will be writing an upcoming piece on this and the war in the Middle East, how you can fight for a land, which is not even yours, in as much, when you are not even considered the original Jews.
I have...
Those thirteen families who rule every sector of this world will take their right hand at the beast's political side.
I will be writing an upcoming piece on this and the war in the Middle East, how you can fight for a land, which is not even yours, in as much, when you are not even considered the original Jews.
I have...
#identity
#LifeChangingMoment
#SelfReflection
#SelfWorth
#college
27 reads
12 Comments
Li0nsWater
Poem Published
Yesterday 12:51pm
Yesterday 12:51pm
High School Dropout (Butterfly Cinquain)
Sitting
across; looking
at school. Nothing is taught.
Transformation not an option.
Conform
to marginalization.
Never knowing thyself,
makes ignorance,
not, bliss.
across; looking
at school. Nothing is taught.
Transformation not an option.
Conform
to marginalization.
Never knowing thyself,
makes ignorance,
not, bliss.
#honesty
#frustration
#disappointment #wisdom
#disappointment #wisdom
9 reads
1 Comment
Bluevelvete
Poem Published
Yesterday 7:26am
Yesterday 7:26am
petal.
silken images flurry
soft wispy stragglers
how they sway a dance
fluttering tendrils seeded
of a passionate storied romance
hints of dewy skin
taunt to slowly bead
lazily drip
into a scrumptious
purpose driven need
breathless lips
that pouted grin
show a small trace
of a beguiling
devilishly smiling sin
tasting deep
those promises of silent screams
like fervent hushed allows
mouth 'pon mouth
sweet ambrosia laced growls
strong...
soft wispy stragglers
how they sway a dance
fluttering tendrils seeded
of a passionate storied romance
hints of dewy skin
taunt to slowly bead
lazily drip
into a scrumptious
purpose driven need
breathless lips
that pouted grin
show a small trace
of a beguiling
devilishly smiling sin
tasting deep
those promises of silent screams
like fervent hushed allows
mouth 'pon mouth
sweet ambrosia laced growls
strong...
#erotic
#flowers
#rose
#rhyming
#sensual
79 reads
32 Comments
Bluevelvete
Poem Published
Yesterday 5:59am
Yesterday 5:59am
because, character.
Don't give up on people
Return kindness
with kindness
Tell. The. Truth.
Have a glorious sense of humor,
about all things.
Don't ascribe to adolescent drama.
Making mistakes is human.
Remember that while accepting others
will always make mistakes too.
Try to forgive that which isn't inherently evil.
Bask in humility.
... and always,
be brave.
So brave that fear
could never shield honesty
Because there's unmitigated
honor in being real
To become better
To be better
...
Return kindness
with kindness
Tell. The. Truth.
Have a glorious sense of humor,
about all things.
Don't ascribe to adolescent drama.
Making mistakes is human.
Remember that while accepting others
will always make mistakes too.
Try to forgive that which isn't inherently evil.
Bask in humility.
... and always,
be brave.
So brave that fear
could never shield honesty
Because there's unmitigated
honor in being real
To become better
To be better
...
#kindness
#sun
#TruthOfLife
#honesty
#manipulation
54 reads
25 Comments
arortiz73
MTP
MTP
Poem Published
Yesterday 1:52am
Yesterday 1:52am
Her History
His hearse story was her history.
She wrecked him, and hysterectomy's
how she left him. An asshole,
burrows long into her years.
A rear-end won't ever mend
the rust resultant of the tears.
She said, "had he stayed a dick to me,
it would have happened appendectomy.
I only have one fear, I'll never get to share
the sear of being worser for the wear."
And she borrows... wreckage from the pit.
Abandoned only justifies her feelings of regret,
in the sorrow, tomorrow never sets.
She may be leaving for today,
bu the tree is all...
She wrecked him, and hysterectomy's
how she left him. An asshole,
burrows long into her years.
A rear-end won't ever mend
the rust resultant of the tears.
She said, "had he stayed a dick to me,
it would have happened appendectomy.
I only have one fear, I'll never get to share
the sear of being worser for the wear."
And she borrows... wreckage from the pit.
Abandoned only justifies her feelings of regret,
in the sorrow, tomorrow never sets.
She may be leaving for today,
bu the tree is all...
#monsters
14 reads
0 Comments
runaway-mindtrain
Poem Published
Yesterday 1:33am
Yesterday 1:33am
Stop getting your history from Hollywood, your present from Twitter, or your future is f**ked
..
#nonfiction
21 reads
garyd
Poem Published
13th May 2021 11:59pm
13th May 2021 11:59pm
One Last Thing
I ask of you one last thing
Bring me down to the sea before I die
My fingers are cold and bent from a life spent working with my hands
My legs are sore from years of walking on unyielding concrete
My back, bent over from carrying the burden of living, yearns to straighten once more as in my younger days
In my youth I traveled the mountains
They sang to me for a while
But their voice grew dim over time and then stopped
The winters grew grayer and more difficult to navigate
They lingered longer each year
The springs and summers grew...
Bring me down to the sea before I die
My fingers are cold and bent from a life spent working with my hands
My legs are sore from years of walking on unyielding concrete
My back, bent over from carrying the burden of living, yearns to straighten once more as in my younger days
In my youth I traveled the mountains
They sang to me for a while
But their voice grew dim over time and then stopped
The winters grew grayer and more difficult to navigate
They lingered longer each year
The springs and summers grew...
#strength
#hope
#emotions
15 reads
1 Comment
OyateInyanNajin
Poem Published
13th May 2021 10:48pm
13th May 2021 10:48pm
MORE OR NOTHING AT ALL (a simple key to greater understanding; 5-12-2021, STARBUCKS RESERVE, Palm Springs, California)
even one
simple word
such as
ocean
sun
dream
sky
life
or
love
filtered through
mind
thoughts or senses
can either
hold
for some
no further
meaning at all
yet for
others
at times
more experientially
open
more imaginatively
receptive
or evolved
even one
simple word
such as
ocean
sun
dream
sky
life
or
love
may often
contain
in the bones
of their
form
boundlessly resonant
broader deeper ...
simple word
such as
ocean
sun
dream
sky
life
or
love
filtered through
mind
thoughts or senses
can either
hold
for some
no further
meaning at all
yet for
others
at times
more experientially
open
more imaginatively
receptive
or evolved
even one
simple word
such as
ocean
sun
dream
sky
life
or
love
may often
contain
in the bones
of their
form
boundlessly resonant
broader deeper ...
#LifeAsAWriter
#PowerOfWords
#philosophical
#StreamOfConsciousness
#reading
12 reads
0 Comments
Academic
Poem Published
13th May 2021 9:03pm
13th May 2021 9:03pm
Mass delusions, and their alternate reality by sickening white has-beens, Karens, wannabes and vile nonentities!
By Stanley Collymore
Absolutely great, I readily
confess, to see distinctly
and highly committed
impressively conscionably minded Irish Americans, and chief among
them the US President, Joe Biden
quite proudly standing up to the
delusional and endemically too
barbaric; actually, white British
plus their so patently Coconut
and discernibly House Nigger
Useful Idiots. And absolutely
precisely how commendably
it would be if, let's say, some
stray USA, nuclear weapons
did accidentally -...
Absolutely great, I readily
confess, to see distinctly
and highly committed
impressively conscionably minded Irish Americans, and chief among
them the US President, Joe Biden
quite proudly standing up to the
delusional and endemically too
barbaric; actually, white British
plus their so patently Coconut
and discernibly House Nigger
Useful Idiots. And absolutely
precisely how commendably
it would be if, let's say, some
stray USA, nuclear weapons
did accidentally -...
#jealousy
#hate
#dark
#denial
#fear
26 reads
0 Comments
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