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.
SeaCat
Poem Published
Today 11:45pm
Today 11:45pm
A Muse
Maudlin, weepy,
beer oiled in pipe-smoke shrouds
I’m drunkenly wordless in the tavern
watching old men
play round after round of domino topple.
The grandfather clock
stood in the corner strikes
nine
and through smoky veils, and scratchy juke-box tunes
she approaches,
clothing a total textile-transgress
hair a chestnut wind-tangled thatch;
offers a tissue
dabbing my eyes.
My Talisman
a pendant around her neck,
I anoint with a kiss
and from a twinkle in my mind, words ...
beer oiled in pipe-smoke shrouds
I’m drunkenly wordless in the tavern
watching old men
play round after round of domino topple.
The grandfather clock
stood in the corner strikes
nine
and through smoky veils, and scratchy juke-box tunes
she approaches,
clothing a total textile-transgress
hair a chestnut wind-tangled thatch;
offers a tissue
dabbing my eyes.
My Talisman
a pendant around her neck,
I anoint with a kiss
and from a twinkle in my mind, words ...
#MyInspiration
#WritingPoetry
#PowerOfWords
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Hunterapsych
Poem Published
Yesterday 4:10am
Yesterday 4:10am
Words pt3
Words in my book
words which don't always work
but I keep searching, attempting and failing but learning and growing
slowly as fuck knowing
I'll never know it all
or even most of it
in aspect at all.
Words fill the page
words remove the rage
release me from this cage
take me to a place where I can
survey the stages I still stumble through.
words which don't always work
but I keep searching, attempting and failing but learning and growing
slowly as fuck knowing
I'll never know it all
or even most of it
in aspect at all.
Words fill the page
words remove the rage
release me from this cage
take me to a place where I can
survey the stages I still stumble through.
#WritingPoetry
#PowerOfWords
22 reads
5 Comments
Pilan_8
Mical
Mical
Poem Published
14th Sep 2019 1:41am
14th Sep 2019 1:41am
[f**k corporations]
#corruption
#PowerOfWords
#tanka
#freedom
#HumanRights
37 reads
2 Comments
highlyfunctional
Poem Published
10th Sep 2019 00:47am
10th Sep 2019 00:47am
Testosterone & Tobacco
surrounded
by testosterone & tobacco
talking about Mardi Gras
and barber chairs
and tits
not offended, just bored
and wondering
if that’s all there is
ball caps covering bald spots
cargo shorts hiding small dicks
and me in a corner
typing “what does it all mean”
into a cracked screen
at least I’m wearing an adult
pair of trousers
and a full set of hair
thank god for that
because I’m far too vain
and if I’m going to talk
about breasts and the like
it won’t be...
by testosterone & tobacco
talking about Mardi Gras
and barber chairs
and tits
not offended, just bored
and wondering
if that’s all there is
ball caps covering bald spots
cargo shorts hiding small dicks
and me in a corner
typing “what does it all mean”
into a cracked screen
at least I’m wearing an adult
pair of trousers
and a full set of hair
thank god for that
because I’m far too vain
and if I’m going to talk
about breasts and the like
it won’t be...
#PowerOfWords
139 reads
34 Comments
gothicsurrealism
Daniel Long
Daniel Long
Poem Published
8th Sep 2019 5:31pm
8th Sep 2019 5:31pm
"B"
Breaking barriers barricading blessings!
Oh beware of the biologic binges
of our bitter bombs born of today!
Oh beware of the biologic binges
of our bitter bombs born of today!
#PowerOfWords
22 reads
0 Comments
cabcool
Poem Published
6th Sep 2019 7:04pm
6th Sep 2019 7:04pm
when God made ink
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God
and the Word was God. John 1:1 KJV
in eden one morning,
when adam was even,
the first ink was spilled in the vast universe.
it came without warning
(no signal was given),
for God needed not Divine Ink to rehearse.
He spilled on the parchment
of heaven the habits
that men should to Him and to others revere.
it was an encroachment
to stray from these limits,
for inkblots would bring consequences severe.
...
and the Word was God. John 1:1 KJV
in eden one morning,
when adam was even,
the first ink was spilled in the vast universe.
it came without warning
(no signal was given),
for God needed not Divine Ink to rehearse.
He spilled on the parchment
of heaven the habits
that men should to Him and to others revere.
it was an encroachment
to stray from these limits,
for inkblots would bring consequences severe.
...
#God
#Christian
#PowerOfWords #morality
#PowerOfWords #morality
46 reads
9 Comments
PandoraUnleashed
Poem Published
3rd Sep 2019 7:42pm
3rd Sep 2019 7:42pm
Just a Whisper....
We are just a dandelion wish away from each other....
....if only in that field of dreamscapes where we've planted the same thoughts.
There, can the conversation & laughter be as endless as our favorite songs.
While sowing the seeds of every kiss & carress as we bring them to fruition.
Close your eyes & rest them upon that field of what seems like swaying weeds.
If only beneath the curtains of our eyes....
.... are we just a dandelion wish away from each other.
....if only in that field of dreamscapes where we've planted the same thoughts.
There, can the conversation & laughter be as endless as our favorite songs.
While sowing the seeds of every kiss & carress as we bring them to fruition.
Close your eyes & rest them upon that field of what seems like swaying weeds.
If only beneath the curtains of our eyes....
.... are we just a dandelion wish away from each other.
#lust
#dreams
#PowerOfWords
324 reads
48 Comments
PoetryandMe79
Poem Published
1st Sep 2019 5:51pm
1st Sep 2019 5:51pm
The Box!!
Don't put me in a box
I wear no labels I'M me theirs no need to define me.
Just no I am me
Society wonts to put labels on everything and everyone you won't do that to me.
I don't label myself and I don't let others label me .
People often ask what are you lesbian , bisexual, straight ? I say I'M whatever I want to be on any given day depending on how the wind blows (Laughing out Loud ) again I'M just me .
The morel of this poem is stop labeling people stop judging people while you asking me who I am look in the mirror who are you???.
I wear no labels I'M me theirs no need to define me.
Just no I am me
Society wonts to put labels on everything and everyone you won't do that to me.
I don't label myself and I don't let others label me .
People often ask what are you lesbian , bisexual, straight ? I say I'M whatever I want to be on any given day depending on how the wind blows (Laughing out Loud ) again I'M just me .
The morel of this poem is stop labeling people stop judging people while you asking me who I am look in the mirror who are you???.
#MyInspiration
#PowerOfWords
#passion
26 reads
0 Comments
Benzy_420
Poem Published
1st Sep 2019 11:51am
1st Sep 2019 11:51am
Pretentious
I could write to you a heartfelt poem, a well crafted song, a letter of intent, or simply a page of words that fill the canvas.
Alas.
None will be as fortunate as those that were written for the sake of standing for the pretentious.
To provide an example for the outcast of the incomprehensibly arrogant nature of man to speak in near uninterpretable ways.
A show off of linguistics that baffle with no purpose beyond such a display.
To convey the mindful superiority of mindlessness.
The simplistic and succinct splash in seas,...
Alas.
None will be as fortunate as those that were written for the sake of standing for the pretentious.
To provide an example for the outcast of the incomprehensibly arrogant nature of man to speak in near uninterpretable ways.
A show off of linguistics that baffle with no purpose beyond such a display.
To convey the mindful superiority of mindlessness.
The simplistic and succinct splash in seas,...
#LifeAsAWriter
#misunderstood
#WritingPoetry
#PowerOfWords
#art
33 reads
0 Comments
Youngmumble
Poem Published
28th Aug 2019 1:45am
28th Aug 2019 1:45am
Fail
I see the
Signs did
I leave a trail,
I'll some how
Win when you
Hope I fail.
Light 2 the
Sky i'll
Beat like a nail,
Rise to the top
When you
Hoping I fail.
I can never
Change
Even when I
Turn pale,
I'll Be that
Winner
When you. ARBEDACARBA
Hoping I. CARBA
Fail. ARBA
I'll smile. RBA
As I climb. BA
The rell, A
I be some ...
Signs did
I leave a trail,
I'll some how
Win when you
Hope I fail.
Light 2 the
Sky i'll
Beat like a nail,
Rise to the top
When you
Hoping I fail.
I can never
Change
Even when I
Turn pale,
I'll Be that
Winner
When you. ARBEDACARBA
Hoping I. CARBA
Fail. ARBA
I'll smile. RBA
As I climb. BA
The rell, A
I be some ...
#WritersBlock
#MyInspiration
#WritingPoetry
#PowerOfWords
#passion
47 reads
1 Comment
DecipherMe
Poem Published
26th Aug 2019 4:25am
26th Aug 2019 4:25am
Retina of Imagination
Phasing in and out under the night waves
over the bodies in poppy bulb
past the irises inundated in purple beams.
At the break of the wish totem
and the unsealing of classic reads in the hollow,
at the stake of tried flags to the river
eroded at the helmline,
immortal
faced to the phantom's vision port
against upstream canyon and upstream trout.
Roll eyes over a fog
and sews lampshade in the air.
Once chews the tip off a gun, sprays fountains powder of...
over the bodies in poppy bulb
past the irises inundated in purple beams.
At the break of the wish totem
and the unsealing of classic reads in the hollow,
at the stake of tried flags to the river
eroded at the helmline,
immortal
faced to the phantom's vision port
against upstream canyon and upstream trout.
Roll eyes over a fog
and sews lampshade in the air.
Once chews the tip off a gun, sprays fountains powder of...
#PowerOfWords
61 reads
3 Comments
DCLXVI_1989
Poem Published
25th Aug 2019 5:34am
25th Aug 2019 5:34am
Fractured Atoms
I don't know what this is
What these words mean
Or if anyone should give a shit
All i know
Is that what little i control
Flows here to be left behind
Vague cataclysms
Bound by schisms
Too realistic
My strength is what holds these fractured wholes together.
Cracked, they'd fall apart without me.
My feet, draining in the gutter, left standing.
Diamond mind, collapsing, no support.
Vague practitions
Bound by schisms
Conquer and divide
Seems like druids
Left these ruins
Held...
What these words mean
Or if anyone should give a shit
All i know
Is that what little i control
Flows here to be left behind
Vague cataclysms
Bound by schisms
Too realistic
My strength is what holds these fractured wholes together.
Cracked, they'd fall apart without me.
My feet, draining in the gutter, left standing.
Diamond mind, collapsing, no support.
Vague practitions
Bound by schisms
Conquer and divide
Seems like druids
Left these ruins
Held...
#PowerOfWords
27 reads
0 Comments
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