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.
Zazzles
Broomie
Broomie
Poem Published
26th Feb 2025 00:56am
26th Feb 2025 00:56am
Mortality
Please, please listen to the music while reading, copy and paste this link ty❤️ Dorian: by Agnes Obel https://youtu.be/HJzp2SRs0Ak?si=qenjV1ZnARwd_p4I
Often times throughout my lifetime I have been afraid of death for nothing. Because when it’s in your face, you’d be surprised to know the courage and clarity you are given to make the final decisions of your life. I have made these decision as of late. I will not live like a vegetable or on life support, or on oxygen, or any of those things. No absolutely not. I’d rather cut the cord and allow the universe to...
Often times throughout my lifetime I have been afraid of death for nothing. Because when it’s in your face, you’d be surprised to know the courage and clarity you are given to make the final decisions of your life. I have made these decision as of late. I will not live like a vegetable or on life support, or on oxygen, or any of those things. No absolutely not. I’d rather cut the cord and allow the universe to...
#PowerOfWords
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PAR
Poem Published
25th Feb 2025 4:46pm
25th Feb 2025 4:46pm
Me, Aristotle and the Potato
Peripatetic potato, so restless,
swirling in the fields.
Her journey is a dance.
In fertile land it sprouts.
Exploring the unknown
roots seek their way.
Traces of earth, signs of life.
Peripatetic potato
in search of new stops.
Under the sun and under the rain
it advances fearlessly.
Every step is a discovery.
Between stones and dry leaves
its path is traced.
Peripatetic without whereabouts.
Winds blow ancient stories.
in a curious listening.
Its heart always wandering.
Night falls,...
swirling in the fields.
Her journey is a dance.
In fertile land it sprouts.
Exploring the unknown
roots seek their way.
Traces of earth, signs of life.
Peripatetic potato
in search of new stops.
Under the sun and under the rain
it advances fearlessly.
Every step is a discovery.
Between stones and dry leaves
its path is traced.
Peripatetic without whereabouts.
Winds blow ancient stories.
in a curious listening.
Its heart always wandering.
Night falls,...
#freedom
#philosophical
#PowerOfWords
68 reads
6 Comments
Zazzles
Broomie
Broomie
Poem Published
25th Feb 2025 4:38am
25th Feb 2025 4:38am
From the heart
I had a heart attack this past Friday on February 21st 2025 at 10:20 am. I had 95% blockage in one of my coronary arteries.
I am writing this to express what I experienced. First of all when I started feeling weird I also noticed I had no saliva whatsoever in my mouth and my throat was completely dry, like a sand dune if you will, even after drinking a full 12 ounces of water, it didn’t feel at all like it made a difference. The pain that I felt came after while on my way to the hospital. It was like an octopus was in between both my breasts squeezing the life out of me. Then...
I am writing this to express what I experienced. First of all when I started feeling weird I also noticed I had no saliva whatsoever in my mouth and my throat was completely dry, like a sand dune if you will, even after drinking a full 12 ounces of water, it didn’t feel at all like it made a difference. The pain that I felt came after while on my way to the hospital. It was like an octopus was in between both my breasts squeezing the life out of me. Then...
#PowerOfWords
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6 Comments
wallyroo92
Bumped 24th Feb 2025 2:29am
1st Oct 2019 7:28pm
1st Oct 2019 7:28pm
She Will Take It Back
Mother Earth,
She will take it back,
The patriarchal society will soon come to an end,
It’s brought nothing but tyranny, war and famine,
It will give way to something new,
Something beautiful,
As a new generation rises in the horizon.
I hear their voices,
I see their eyes,
They stand up against the big political industrial machine,
They speak their minds calling for change,
Because the future is theirs.
One by one, their light comes up over the east,
With powerful narrative and imagery as they to walk the earth, ...
She will take it back,
The patriarchal society will soon come to an end,
It’s brought nothing but tyranny, war and famine,
It will give way to something new,
Something beautiful,
As a new generation rises in the horizon.
I hear their voices,
I see their eyes,
They stand up against the big political industrial machine,
They speak their minds calling for change,
Because the future is theirs.
One by one, their light comes up over the east,
With powerful narrative and imagery as they to walk the earth, ...
#earth
#environment
#PowerOfWords #feminism
#PowerOfWords #feminism
588 reads
7 Comments
PAR
Poem Published
21st Feb 2025 2:32pm
21st Feb 2025 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
97 reads
10 Comments
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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2 Comments
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
85 reads
6 Comments
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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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
117 reads
9 Comments
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
50 reads
1 Comment
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😑
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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
85 reads
4 Comments
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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