Poems about the Power of Words
#PowerOfWords
Poems about the power of words, and the ability for words to influence human behavior. Whether it's the power of words to hurt and abuse, or to empower and motivate, words have been demonstrated in science to affect the emotions and actions of others. Here you'll find poems exploring the power of written and spoken words on the writer, other people, and wider society.
PAR
Poem Published
Yesterday 2:32pm
Yesterday 2:32pm
An Inspiration from Vision_of_Insanity's poem
Someone told you that you were a criminal.
Someone threw words into the air
and waited for you to pick them up:
CRIM and then INAL U R an SO ON soon.
But who said you can't be a criminal?
PURE F if you want to be so, the die is cast...
Like letters floating around you, satellites stationary.
U R I N A L C R E A M and many others.
W E R C R E A M in A L L the top cherries!
But who said you can't?
JuST a BuNCH of SNFLL MTHRFCKRS.
Wait, who said that?
Someone threw words into the air
and waited for you to pick them up:
CRIM and then INAL U R an SO ON soon.
But who said you can't be a criminal?
PURE F if you want to be so, the die is cast...
Like letters floating around you, satellites stationary.
U R I N A L C R E A M and many others.
W E R C R E A M in A L L the top cherries!
But who said you can't?
JuST a BuNCH of SNFLL MTHRFCKRS.
Wait, who said that?
#anxiety
#dark
#mirror
#PowerOfWords
#violence
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Pishashee
Poem Published
20th Feb 2025 7:51pm
20th Feb 2025 7:51pm
Concepts
Sorry for the stark reality, but isn't the truth better?
I was watching some Merry Melodies a few days ago on YouTube—ever showing my ability to rise above and be the unstressed individual, escaping our world... today. I cringe at the reality...
Anyway, Porky Pig had a bakery and it was just lovely. Except, he was battling some pesky flies.
The flies, being a threat to his pristine cleanliness to the public; a public he will be selling his bakery goods to, therefore making him rich off the wonderful baked goods and money he rakes in.
And, so there...
I was watching some Merry Melodies a few days ago on YouTube—ever showing my ability to rise above and be the unstressed individual, escaping our world... today. I cringe at the reality...
Anyway, Porky Pig had a bakery and it was just lovely. Except, he was battling some pesky flies.
The flies, being a threat to his pristine cleanliness to the public; a public he will be selling his bakery goods to, therefore making him rich off the wonderful baked goods and money he rakes in.
And, so there...
#MyInspiration
#passion
#PowerOfWords #WritingPoetry
#PowerOfWords #WritingPoetry
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PAR
Poem Published
19th Feb 2025 11:32am
19th Feb 2025 11:32am
almost forgotten languages on the surface of a stone
I spent the night with my fingers buried
on some keys, damn typewriter,
they don't speak my language.
I have an old alphabet and you probably
never seen a carrier pigeon...
I struggle with these meaningless words,
out of context, code words
that try to signify love, desire, oblivion.
What about the numbers?
Ah, those malevolent signifiers of time,
of space and how many fingers we have then,
on each hand, how many times they touch
every year of your time, every letter of your name...
Each phase of the moon.
...
on some keys, damn typewriter,
they don't speak my language.
I have an old alphabet and you probably
never seen a carrier pigeon...
I struggle with these meaningless words,
out of context, code words
that try to signify love, desire, oblivion.
What about the numbers?
Ah, those malevolent signifiers of time,
of space and how many fingers we have then,
on each hand, how many times they touch
every year of your time, every letter of your name...
Each phase of the moon.
...
#love
#passion
#PowerOfWords
#redemption
#romantic
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missjem56
Poem Published
18th Feb 2025 7:38pm
18th Feb 2025 7:38pm
The Bookshop Poets
A whispering of my words
Amongst millions of others
Sat upon the bookshop shelves
Humbling, and profound
Sharing our words of poetry
With the ever silent audience
That never recipricated
Remaining as quiet as mice
I never saw the secrets
Contained within their covers
Whilst awaiting their 'dog-ears'
A multitude of printed words
The majority of which
I will likely never read
I wondered
What if all these words
From all the books
Within the confines
Of just this one bookshop
Should escape their...
Amongst millions of others
Sat upon the bookshop shelves
Humbling, and profound
Sharing our words of poetry
With the ever silent audience
That never recipricated
Remaining as quiet as mice
I never saw the secrets
Contained within their covers
Whilst awaiting their 'dog-ears'
A multitude of printed words
The majority of which
I will likely never read
I wondered
What if all these words
From all the books
Within the confines
Of just this one bookshop
Should escape their...
#inspirational
#LifeAsAWriter
#philosophical
#PowerOfWords
#WritingPoetry
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Anne-Ri999
Poem Published
18th Feb 2025 7:30am
18th Feb 2025 7:30am
Declaration, there are no spears left
wind swept wings
soft steel wings will bare me
beyond all abandonment
extorted extinctions
from each margin the marginalized
will awaken fully as reindeer red
drips from skies
inked whale tears
fermented center
this world still seeks
no matter
how grotesque
our own
abhorrent
reflection
there is no more hiding
once in a mausoleum
they will find the first bone
of the last human
extinctions extorted
an exquisite execution
of life's
abandonment ...
soft steel wings will bare me
beyond all abandonment
extorted extinctions
from each margin the marginalized
will awaken fully as reindeer red
drips from skies
inked whale tears
fermented center
this world still seeks
no matter
how grotesque
our own
abhorrent
reflection
there is no more hiding
once in a mausoleum
they will find the first bone
of the last human
extinctions extorted
an exquisite execution
of life's
abandonment ...
#PowerOfWords
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Zazzles
Broomie
Broomie
Poem Published
18th Feb 2025 00:07am
18th Feb 2025 00:07am
Dumb Things Narcissists Say # 2
Come to daddy
said the middle aged man
to his senior-citizen pet
the pet looks up
then flopped back down.
The man repeats himself
then says, you know daddy
has a bad leg, like wtf?
Copyright © 2025 J. Doucette
All rights Reserved
said the middle aged man
to his senior-citizen pet
the pet looks up
then flopped back down.
The man repeats himself
then says, you know daddy
has a bad leg, like wtf?
Copyright © 2025 J. Doucette
All rights Reserved
#PowerOfWords
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missjem56
Poem Published
17th Feb 2025 10:14pm
17th Feb 2025 10:14pm
Much Ado......
Just thinking about language
And colloquial variations
So....
Would a 'northern' version
Of newt
Be nowt?
There's no bout adoubt it
And how is no sense
The same as nonsense
Only different?
And can you ride tandem?
These questions, and more
Are much ado about nothing
Or
Much ado about nowt
Or should that therefore
Be newt?
by Jemia
And colloquial variations
So....
Would a 'northern' version
Of newt
Be nowt?
There's no bout adoubt it
And how is no sense
The same as nonsense
Only different?
And can you ride tandem?
These questions, and more
Are much ado about nothing
Or
Much ado about nowt
Or should that therefore
Be newt?
by Jemia
#LifeAsAWriter
#parody
#philosophical
#PowerOfWords
#satirical
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Zazzles
Broomie
Broomie
Poem Published
17th Feb 2025 5:29pm
17th Feb 2025 5:29pm
Dumb Things Narcissists Say #1
After She hired a professional landscaper
to come in and make Her fairgrounds hospitable
He still denied Her a face-to-face meeting
with the bearded lady
Only to then have the nerve to request
She play with His super-soaker
upon demand😑
Copyright © 2025 J. Doucette
All rights Reserved
to come in and make Her fairgrounds hospitable
He still denied Her a face-to-face meeting
with the bearded lady
Only to then have the nerve to request
She play with His super-soaker
upon demand😑
Copyright © 2025 J. Doucette
All rights Reserved
#PowerOfWords
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missjem56
Poem Published
12th Feb 2025 3:56pm
12th Feb 2025 3:56pm
Only Be A Sec (xSixty!)
A
Minutia
Of
Minute (rhymes with newt!)
Minute ( ditto init!)
Minuets
by Jemia
Minutia
Of
Minute (rhymes with newt!)
Minute ( ditto init!)
Minuets
by Jemia
#funny
#LifeAsAWriter
#philosophical #PowerOfWords
#philosophical #PowerOfWords
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backdeckbenny
Poem Published
9th Feb 2025 8:18pm
9th Feb 2025 8:18pm
Trump
I love words, especially when I stumble upon a new one.Even more so when the word fits perfectly with what the mind is trying to describe.
Scofflaw
a person who flouts the law, especially by failing to comply with a law that is difficult to enforce effectively.
Scofflaw
a person who flouts the law, especially by failing to comply with a law that is difficult to enforce effectively.
#PowerOfWords
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Anne-Ri999
Poem Published
9th Feb 2025 9:36am
9th Feb 2025 9:36am
Utopian eggs
In streaks dawn is painted.
I as an observer will place a stethoscope towards all skies . Sometimes bursting into budding roses. In these times passing when hearing will become listening. This eternal global rhythm will become known. My fountain pen is clad in deep dark rivers where firstly I was a bird. Long before my aching bones nestled into winged words,
In oceanic knowing I delved into viral pools. That night I had awoken to strange intrinsic images being woven into a pattern. A lucid dream told me a cross lined pattern where dim light shone. A cloak collected me...
I as an observer will place a stethoscope towards all skies . Sometimes bursting into budding roses. In these times passing when hearing will become listening. This eternal global rhythm will become known. My fountain pen is clad in deep dark rivers where firstly I was a bird. Long before my aching bones nestled into winged words,
In oceanic knowing I delved into viral pools. That night I had awoken to strange intrinsic images being woven into a pattern. A lucid dream told me a cross lined pattern where dim light shone. A cloak collected me...
#dreams
#PowerOfWords
#metaphor
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Pinkdreams
Poem Published
5th Feb 2025 3:06am
5th Feb 2025 3:06am
List Number Something: Words I Hate
1. Cremains. Please save such sporty word fusions for the likes of 'J Lo' or ;bronde' not what is leftover from the immolation of an adored one. Additionally, cremains sounds like macaroni. Wasn't there a brand
of macaroni called creamettes? No to "creamins". A thousand times no.
2. Moist. Yeah, I know. You hate it too. Let's form a Moist Haters club.
3. Classy: If you call yourself classy, you're not.
4. Spendy. Tacky way of saying expensive
5. Supper. Don't ask me why. Unless it's a light evening meal taking...
of macaroni called creamettes? No to "creamins". A thousand times no.
2. Moist. Yeah, I know. You hate it too. Let's form a Moist Haters club.
3. Classy: If you call yourself classy, you're not.
4. Spendy. Tacky way of saying expensive
5. Supper. Don't ask me why. Unless it's a light evening meal taking...
#PowerOfWords
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