Popular Observational Poems
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Poetry about life, society and the natural world
Popular poems, listed in order of their popularity this month.
DamianDeadLove
Poem Published
20th Jan 2025 6:38am
20th Jan 2025 6:38am
Opinions
Sorting through these countless lies
A road map reveals every last detail
Rotting minds unable to cut the ties
Where common sense should prevail
Just because a leader says something
Doesn’t mean it’s automatically factual
Talking heads wrapped around a string
All opinions will vary from what’s actual
Copyright @ Damian DeadLove 2025
A road map reveals every last detail
Rotting minds unable to cut the ties
Where common sense should prevail
Just because a leader says something
Doesn’t mean it’s automatically factual
Talking heads wrapped around a string
All opinions will vary from what’s actual
Copyright @ Damian DeadLove 2025
#philosophical
107 reads
21 Comments
DamianDeadLove
Poem Published
4th Jan 2025 8:59am
4th Jan 2025 8:59am
Loosing The Light
Cracks in the armor start to appear
How long before they figure it out?
Surely someone will sense the fear
That lingers behind this self-doubt
Falling fast into this desperate abyss
When was the last time it was silent?
The punchline was a swing and a miss
As a spectator quickly became violent
Flaming tongues searing paper flesh
How long till this soul bares the mark?
These lies are old but the pain is fresh
Loosing the light only leaves the dark
Copyright @ Damian DeadLove 2025
How long before they figure it out?
Surely someone will sense the fear
That lingers behind this self-doubt
Falling fast into this desperate abyss
When was the last time it was silent?
The punchline was a swing and a miss
As a spectator quickly became violent
Flaming tongues searing paper flesh
How long till this soul bares the mark?
These lies are old but the pain is fresh
Loosing the light only leaves the dark
Copyright @ Damian DeadLove 2025
#lies
134 reads
20 Comments
DamianDeadLove
Poem Published
21st Jan 2025 6:19am
21st Jan 2025 6:19am
Reverberated
Tired of all the voices spreading false hope
Got their fingers crossed behind their back
Still some people kept on feeding them rope
Everyone will hang with the remaining slack
When someone pardons their entire family
Before the first crime has been perpetrated
Catastrophic times bring forth this calamity
Curses screamed disapproval reverberated
Copyright @ Damian DeadLove 2025
Got their fingers crossed behind their back
Still some people kept on feeding them rope
Everyone will hang with the remaining slack
When someone pardons their entire family
Before the first crime has been perpetrated
Catastrophic times bring forth this calamity
Curses screamed disapproval reverberated
Copyright @ Damian DeadLove 2025
#philosophical
106 reads
21 Comments
DamianDeadLove
Poem Published
15th Jan 2025 6:07am
15th Jan 2025 6:07am
Shadow Of Doubt
Biased figures manipulate opportunities
Power has reigned since the dawn of time
Spitting rhetoric laced with dry ambiguities
False sincerity acted out in full pantomime
Dreams are aborted before even catching breath
Harsh reality of being worked and taxed to death
Programmed from a young age to conform
Most are burned out before reaching thirty
Riding out the calm straight into a shitstorm
Only way to quit the lie is going cold turkey
Hope is the idea that peace and love will win out
While living in a world built on a...
Power has reigned since the dawn of time
Spitting rhetoric laced with dry ambiguities
False sincerity acted out in full pantomime
Dreams are aborted before even catching breath
Harsh reality of being worked and taxed to death
Programmed from a young age to conform
Most are burned out before reaching thirty
Riding out the calm straight into a shitstorm
Only way to quit the lie is going cold turkey
Hope is the idea that peace and love will win out
While living in a world built on a...
#philosophical
124 reads
25 Comments
Ahavati
Tams
Tams
Poem Published
29th Jan 2025 1:46am
29th Jan 2025 1:46am
Watch and see
I'll end the war in Ukraine
within the first 24 hours
if elected president
Trump said
Day 21:
Russian troops push
toward Pokrovsk
as we speak
Trump remains silent
far too busy raging war
on our democracy
to maintain control:
commuting his militia
—J6 insurrectionists—
who'll beat police officers
and the national guard,
replacing qualified personnel
with predators and drunks
he deems loyalists,
cancelling health research
education...
within the first 24 hours
if elected president
Trump said
Day 21:
Russian troops push
toward Pokrovsk
as we speak
Trump remains silent
far too busy raging war
on our democracy
to maintain control:
commuting his militia
—J6 insurrectionists—
who'll beat police officers
and the national guard,
replacing qualified personnel
with predators and drunks
he deems loyalists,
cancelling health research
education...
#CallToAction
#faith
#politics #rebellion
#politics #rebellion
142 reads
25 Comments
DamianDeadLove
Poem Published
3rd Jan 2025 7:45am
3rd Jan 2025 7:45am
Razor-Blades
Slippery like a serpent with an agenda for war
Born on third base and believes he hit a triple
Empty vessel on lease to some corporate whore
Emotional ignorance hides an intellectual cripple
Words are razor-blades irritating his fragile soul
Constant reminders that he doesn’t measure up
Heavy handed hypocrite is prone to lose control
Only brand that matters is plastered on his cup
Copyright @ Damian DeadLove 2025
Born on third base and believes he hit a triple
Empty vessel on lease to some corporate whore
Emotional ignorance hides an intellectual cripple
Words are razor-blades irritating his fragile soul
Constant reminders that he doesn’t measure up
Heavy handed hypocrite is prone to lose control
Only brand that matters is plastered on his cup
Copyright @ Damian DeadLove 2025
#greed
#satirical
115 reads
20 Comments
brokentitanium
k.
k.
Poem Published
7th Jan 2025 8:41pm
7th Jan 2025 8:41pm
On Courage
It has little to do with bravery
or fear
or rugged badassery
It’s the letting go
laying down
that fuckit moment
in a set jaw
when inaction feels more dangerous
than meeting a tiger of terror
***
Faced with the option of
being torn to obstinate shreds
left for dead
or
languishing in the rot of regret
agonizing endlessly over what ifs
I’ll take the tiger
.
or fear
or rugged badassery
It’s the letting go
laying down
that fuckit moment
in a set jaw
when inaction feels more dangerous
than meeting a tiger of terror
***
Faced with the option of
being torn to obstinate shreds
left for dead
or
languishing in the rot of regret
agonizing endlessly over what ifs
I’ll take the tiger
.
#courage
105 reads
15 Comments
WillowsWhimsies
Poem Published
27th Jan 2025 6:39pm
27th Jan 2025 6:39pm
demo crew on standby
grandpa was a master builder
building with an eye for expansion
for growth & adaptation
to support many generations
none of those short-sighted greed-blinded mansions
20 rooms for one dude
he was a man for every season
& I paid attention
as current events expose a rotten foundation
I'm reminded of his philosophy
when the integrity of a structure
is no longer sound
tear it down
don't leave it standing
causing further dangers
pay attention to the issues
& don't repeat them
construct it...
building with an eye for expansion
for growth & adaptation
to support many generations
none of those short-sighted greed-blinded mansions
20 rooms for one dude
he was a man for every season
& I paid attention
as current events expose a rotten foundation
I'm reminded of his philosophy
when the integrity of a structure
is no longer sound
tear it down
don't leave it standing
causing further dangers
pay attention to the issues
& don't repeat them
construct it...
#corruption
#greed
#inequality
93 reads
15 Comments
Her
Poem Published
7th Jan 2025 10:06pm
7th Jan 2025 10:06pm
These Days - A Collaboration With WillowsWhimsies
Where are the real souls
Unafraid to be themselves
Scarred and raw with honest words
Why are hands more often open
Than hearts and minds
More willing to take than share
What happened to unapologetic truth
Finding joy in less than more
Opening windows rather than closing doors
Who said it was okay
To make emotions unavailable
In the name of not getting hurt
I’d give my next heartbeat
To receive true sincerity
But it seems these days that’s a rarity
Unafraid to be themselves
Scarred and raw with honest words
Why are hands more often open
Than hearts and minds
More willing to take than share
What happened to unapologetic truth
Finding joy in less than more
Opening windows rather than closing doors
Who said it was okay
To make emotions unavailable
In the name of not getting hurt
I’d give my next heartbeat
To receive true sincerity
But it seems these days that’s a rarity
#disappointment
#frustration
#greed
#hypocrisy
#lies
140 reads
14 Comments
fianaturie8
Fia Naturie
Fia Naturie
Poem Published
15th Jan 2025 00:57am
15th Jan 2025 00:57am
Last Rainbow
I am the rainbow after your storm
The sky is not of slate grey
It is darker, unrelenting, menacing
it summons the lightning
wicked in its invention
You see it
Before you hear the destruction
You feel it
Through the concrete construction
There's no time to run from the devastation
Boom!
Crack!
Pow!
What is left now?
The sun
Peaks its head out for fun
Illuminating the particles in the sky
Seeing all the colors way up high
Wish on...
The sky is not of slate grey
It is darker, unrelenting, menacing
it summons the lightning
wicked in its invention
You see it
Before you hear the destruction
You feel it
Through the concrete construction
There's no time to run from the devastation
Boom!
Crack!
Pow!
What is left now?
The sun
Peaks its head out for fun
Illuminating the particles in the sky
Seeing all the colors way up high
Wish on...
#rhyming
#StreamOfConsciousness
127 reads
14 Comments
DamianDeadLove
Poem Published
10th Jan 2025 8:19am
10th Jan 2025 8:19am
Stinking Up The Joint
Scattered thoughts merge into shades of grey
Talking heads speak in riddles without a point
Waking up to the reality that most simply obey
While corporate swine are stinking up the joint
Copyright @ Damian DeadLove 2025
Talking heads speak in riddles without a point
Waking up to the reality that most simply obey
While corporate swine are stinking up the joint
Copyright @ Damian DeadLove 2025
#philosophical
109 reads
13 Comments
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
20th Jan 2025 8:19pm
20th Jan 2025 8:19pm
Brand New Monarchies
Of the rich the poor should be suspicious
since we remember from old afflictions
that too much cash makes them injudicious
and prone to corruptions and addictions.
Evil hides behind tradition's shield
and unchecked influence leads to bad things
which is why old yankees took the field
to tell the world that we don't need kings!
Yet now we're told to kiss the rich man's ass
and that any sort of foment is treason,
but sometimes when the boss is unduly crass
that fomented voice...is the voice of reason!
Somehow...
since we remember from old afflictions
that too much cash makes them injudicious
and prone to corruptions and addictions.
Evil hides behind tradition's shield
and unchecked influence leads to bad things
which is why old yankees took the field
to tell the world that we don't need kings!
Yet now we're told to kiss the rich man's ass
and that any sort of foment is treason,
but sometimes when the boss is unduly crass
that fomented voice...is the voice of reason!
Somehow...
#politics
117 reads
17 Comments
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