Call To Action Poems
#CallToAction
Call to action poems, a style of poetry which motivates the reader to take notice and make changes in their life, for the good of a cause. Highlighting issues in society, and attempting to provide solutions, to encourage the reader to take action and help deal with the problem. Call to action poems try to change peoples' mindsets, and inspire them to move beyond apathy and inaction.
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
3rd Dec 2024 7:23pm
3rd Dec 2024 7:23pm
Privatization & Deregulation Ruined NYC
NYC doesn't have alligators but it does have moats, that at one time protected the downtown subculture.
This kept away the jocks, yuppies, normal people and other intruders.
By the late 1990's, crime subsided and the real estate developers magically made the hood livable.
NYC was losing it's soul.
By the time the new millennium was near, the real estate boom forever transformed the city's styles & attitudes.
The oddities lost their frontier
Some rolled with these changes, others left the city and some reminisced about the "Good old days". ...
This kept away the jocks, yuppies, normal people and other intruders.
By the late 1990's, crime subsided and the real estate developers magically made the hood livable.
NYC was losing it's soul.
By the time the new millennium was near, the real estate boom forever transformed the city's styles & attitudes.
The oddities lost their frontier
Some rolled with these changes, others left the city and some reminisced about the "Good old days". ...
#CallToAction
#corruption
#nonfiction
#politics
#rebellion
79 reads
6 Comments
Dan_ONeill
Dan ONeill
Dan ONeill
Poem Published
29th Nov 2024 10:34am
29th Nov 2024 10:34am
The Beauty of the Mystery
They just laughed and said ‘what use little rhymes in the face of cold dust erupting,
What will your words achieve when our machines blister skin’?
‘Nothing’, I say, ‘nothing will be achieved if you’re taking domination as your measure.
All I can do is hold on to the beauty of the mystery.’
‘Look at you, an empty container, grasping and gasping, as the beast finds its feet,
How will holding hands advance the project we’ll soon complete?’
‘It won’t’, I say, ‘but some things trip monsters even when they stomp,
That’s how we reach for the mystery of the...
What will your words achieve when our machines blister skin’?
‘Nothing’, I say, ‘nothing will be achieved if you’re taking domination as your measure.
All I can do is hold on to the beauty of the mystery.’
‘Look at you, an empty container, grasping and gasping, as the beast finds its feet,
How will holding hands advance the project we’ll soon complete?’
‘It won’t’, I say, ‘but some things trip monsters even when they stomp,
That’s how we reach for the mystery of the...
#CallToAction
#humankind
#LifeStruggles
#nature
#technology
51 reads
1 Comment
Wordsmith
Poem Published
28th Nov 2024 6:56am
28th Nov 2024 6:56am
Chains of Freedom
Hold up
Don’t talk
Or the grim reaper will steal your voice.
Words turn weapons stripped of choice
Next you're in cuffs
Bound and subdued
Dragged to halls where fairness is skewed.
“Arise my Lord” the bailiff calls
But justice has crumbled within those walls.
Judged for truths you dared to say
Now silenced tossed like waste-away.
In the jungle of law where power preys
Your rights dissolve in a smoky haze.
In the heart of the city beneath neon lights
Lies Mide a dreamer who fought for rights.
He raised his...
Don’t talk
Or the grim reaper will steal your voice.
Words turn weapons stripped of choice
Next you're in cuffs
Bound and subdued
Dragged to halls where fairness is skewed.
“Arise my Lord” the bailiff calls
But justice has crumbled within those walls.
Judged for truths you dared to say
Now silenced tossed like waste-away.
In the jungle of law where power preys
Your rights dissolve in a smoky haze.
In the heart of the city beneath neon lights
Lies Mide a dreamer who fought for rights.
He raised his...
#CallToAction
#corruption
#freedom
#politics
#rebellion
73 reads
2 Comments
Ash_233
Poem Published
27th Nov 2024 2:53am
27th Nov 2024 2:53am
Silenced Violence
I didn’t know grief had a sound, until it echoed in the silence after the gunshot.
How could something so final, so brutal, happen so fast?
The tears felt so heavy but were pointless. Nothing could remove your bloodstain in the dirt.
I screamed at the ground, but the earth didn’t care,
So, I cursed at the heavens demanding he be spared.
The truth is we stand in a shooting range, and no one even flinches when the bullets start flying.
As kids play on the playground, which would soon be their graveyard.
Like bodies hitting the ground is just background...
How could something so final, so brutal, happen so fast?
The tears felt so heavy but were pointless. Nothing could remove your bloodstain in the dirt.
I screamed at the ground, but the earth didn’t care,
So, I cursed at the heavens demanding he be spared.
The truth is we stand in a shooting range, and no one even flinches when the bullets start flying.
As kids play on the playground, which would soon be their graveyard.
Like bodies hitting the ground is just background...
#CallToAction
#frustration
#hope
#HumanRights
#violence
93 reads
8 Comments
Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
26th Nov 2024 8:56pm
26th Nov 2024 8:56pm
OUT WITH THE TRASH
They say that we have to learn to walk away. FROM the very deepness of the negativity. 😞 That has no real reason to be able to judge, you in your own thoughts and insight and spiritual subconsciousness. Yet they do 🤨🤔 YET why they dislike you and they have no real reason. THAT THEY CAN REALLY JUSTIFY, THE TRUTH OF THE REASON BEHIND THE REAL MOTIVE. 🤔 Fact check ✔️ For sure some people's are just creatures of habits. 🤨 AS we have took the time to notice, the kinds of mental mind games. THAT has stimulate the truth covering it up behind...
#CallToAction
#metaphor
#philosophical
#StreamOfConsciousness
#uplifting
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0 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
20th Nov 2024 11:15am
20th Nov 2024 11:15am
Pro Death
Too many humans
Mankind is off track
The Black Plague was a dick
But it needs to come back
Our world's spinning faster
Like a playground carousel
With a trillion kids pushing
Until it flings us off to hell
China may be dystopia
But they got one thing right
One child per family
We could use their insight
No lives matter
We're all equally worthless
I'll say it again
No lives matter
We're all equally worthless
I'm not "Pro-Life"
So save your breath
And I'm not...
Mankind is off track
The Black Plague was a dick
But it needs to come back
Our world's spinning faster
Like a playground carousel
With a trillion kids pushing
Until it flings us off to hell
China may be dystopia
But they got one thing right
One child per family
We could use their insight
No lives matter
We're all equally worthless
I'll say it again
No lives matter
We're all equally worthless
I'm not "Pro-Life"
So save your breath
And I'm not...
#CallToAction
#death
#LifeGoals
#LifeStruggles
#satirical
81 reads
4 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
20th Nov 2024 11:00am
20th Nov 2024 11:00am
Exterminate the boomers
Here they come, feasting on the young
No hair, no care
Shuffling like a zombie
They don't care about the future
As long as we keep bowing to them
Wrinkled hands write the script
No choice but follow
Treat it like an edict
Greed is the motto of the sick
Cloaked by the model of their politics
The broken structures they erect
Built inequality incarnate
Time will cast them aside
But when?
The damage is done
Progress is no friend to them
Simply accumulate
There's no room to...
No hair, no care
Shuffling like a zombie
They don't care about the future
As long as we keep bowing to them
Wrinkled hands write the script
No choice but follow
Treat it like an edict
Greed is the motto of the sick
Cloaked by the model of their politics
The broken structures they erect
Built inequality incarnate
Time will cast them aside
But when?
The damage is done
Progress is no friend to them
Simply accumulate
There's no room to...
#CallToAction
#parody
#philosophical
#satirical
#TruthOfLife
70 reads
2 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
19th Nov 2024 7:28pm
19th Nov 2024 7:28pm
Human Filth
There is nothing special
about human beings
we've raped the earth
the future is fleeting
We fight over bullshit
and make more new laws
living in denial
ignoring the cause
Beliefs are like opinions
We each have one and their all toxic
Obese specimens wasting air & water
mouth breathing morons
consuming and breeding
not wearing condoms
Carrying capacity
is far exceeded
a global extinction
that's what is needed
Can you handle this?
about human beings
we've raped the earth
the future is fleeting
We fight over bullshit
and make more new laws
living in denial
ignoring the cause
Beliefs are like opinions
We each have one and their all toxic
Obese specimens wasting air & water
mouth breathing morons
consuming and breeding
not wearing condoms
Carrying capacity
is far exceeded
a global extinction
that's what is needed
Can you handle this?
#anger
#CallToAction
#environment
#pollution
#TruthOfLife
77 reads
6 Comments
Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
15th Nov 2024 5:41pm
15th Nov 2024 5:41pm
YOUR ENERGY LEVEL
There will come a time in each of our lives, for the mind to develop a sense of rebuilding, your thoughts on a positive level. Because with real substance with real intelligences, with your own thoughts to believe that you can
😉 with the strength of your own personal connection into the SUBCONSCIOUSNESS of your own mind thoughts. For sure have you ever wondered, 🤔 what is your true spiritual energy level, of your faith for you have to believe in thyself. For do you have the ability and perseverance, and true determination and real evidence of your strength.
Along...
😉 with the strength of your own personal connection into the SUBCONSCIOUSNESS of your own mind thoughts. For sure have you ever wondered, 🤔 what is your true spiritual energy level, of your faith for you have to believe in thyself. For do you have the ability and perseverance, and true determination and real evidence of your strength.
Along...
#CallToAction
#metaphor
#philosophical
#StreamOfConsciousness
#uplifting
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0 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
11th Nov 2024 8:41pm
11th Nov 2024 8:41pm
Take Him Down!
He is Satan, hear him roar
Hearing dark voices, too loud to ignore
The naive in pews, who worship air
Weak-minded drones, drowning in despair
Forced abstinence drives spineless blue-ball priests
Alter boy defilers, now it's time to feast
For my tips on how to waste these pricks
Dial me 1-900-666
Pedophile priests who pray on kids
Jesus hates you for what they say you did
The concept is quite simple
Command the flock to procreate
More babies, more Catholics
More money, controlling your fate
Let's...
Hearing dark voices, too loud to ignore
The naive in pews, who worship air
Weak-minded drones, drowning in despair
Forced abstinence drives spineless blue-ball priests
Alter boy defilers, now it's time to feast
For my tips on how to waste these pricks
Dial me 1-900-666
Pedophile priests who pray on kids
Jesus hates you for what they say you did
The concept is quite simple
Command the flock to procreate
More babies, more Catholics
More money, controlling your fate
Let's...
#abuse
#CallToAction
#corruption
#religion
#revenge
86 reads
6 Comments
JAZZMANOR
Poem Published
11th Nov 2024 3:24pm
11th Nov 2024 3:24pm
It Is About Us All
For those who are dejected
at what election night brought
didn’t roll away way
I just want to share what I was taught
You may not have won
but if are still trying you haven’t failed
though I know the fear is
any opposition will be jailed
Yes there was a time when
Pete Seeger, Paul Robeson were blacklisted
harassed, scorned, ridiculed
opposition was tight fisted
But they served as models for other
how to oppose and not subsidize hate
still heroes in my eyes
no I must believe it isn’t to...
at what election night brought
didn’t roll away way
I just want to share what I was taught
You may not have won
but if are still trying you haven’t failed
though I know the fear is
any opposition will be jailed
Yes there was a time when
Pete Seeger, Paul Robeson were blacklisted
harassed, scorned, ridiculed
opposition was tight fisted
But they served as models for other
how to oppose and not subsidize hate
still heroes in my eyes
no I must believe it isn’t to...
#CallToAction
#hope
#universe #wisdom
#universe #wisdom
101 reads
7 Comments
wallyroo92
Poem Published
10th Nov 2024 9:47pm
10th Nov 2024 9:47pm
Lie in Wait
It slowly creeps in the shadows undetected
All the while everything on the surface seems fine
Even as the body fights it becomes subjected
To something sinister that at first seemed so benign
The fatal disease then spreads quickly without control
Destroying and consuming everything in its path
Even though warning signs may whisper it to the soul
The mind doesn’t want to realize it or do the math
The victim becomes brittle at the core, to the bone
Not realizing what it’s done until it’s too late
And all the medicine won’t help...
All the while everything on the surface seems fine
Even as the body fights it becomes subjected
To something sinister that at first seemed so benign
The fatal disease then spreads quickly without control
Destroying and consuming everything in its path
Even though warning signs may whisper it to the soul
The mind doesn’t want to realize it or do the math
The victim becomes brittle at the core, to the bone
Not realizing what it’s done until it’s too late
And all the medicine won’t help...
#CallToAction
#cancer
#hope #LifeStruggles
#hope #LifeStruggles
132 reads
6 Comments
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