Poems About Consumerism by Top Critiquers
#consumerism
TheOralizer
Poem Published
11th May 2021 2:56pm
11th May 2021 2:56pm
LET'S HEAR IT FOR BUSYNESS
THINK!
I've heard it all my life:
"An idle mind is
the devil's workshop."
This sage proverb
is catalysis to stay busy.
"Don't let the grass
grow under your feet",
is another workaholic goody.
The reasoning behind this
pseudo-philosophy is you
can only get ahead, reach
your goal, or add bucks
to your bank account
by staying on the treadmill
none stop, 24-7-365.
BENEFITS:
Let's hear it for the benefits!
The benefits of not
resting, taking a break,
or an extended vacation
coupled with...
I've heard it all my life:
"An idle mind is
the devil's workshop."
This sage proverb
is catalysis to stay busy.
"Don't let the grass
grow under your feet",
is another workaholic goody.
The reasoning behind this
pseudo-philosophy is you
can only get ahead, reach
your goal, or add bucks
to your bank account
by staying on the treadmill
none stop, 24-7-365.
BENEFITS:
Let's hear it for the benefits!
The benefits of not
resting, taking a break,
or an extended vacation
coupled with...
#money
#consumerism
298 reads
4 Comments
PoetSpeak
Poem Published
16th Apr 2024 6:35pm
16th Apr 2024 6:35pm
On ...Off ...Tell me Another...Cut the Crap !!
That's my new expression
Old school like me
No apologies
I'll run circles around your candy ass
Streaming replaced cable
Bigger and faster they claimed
Still clouds and freezes
Just more bullshit
On... Off I say
Freaks of nature
Guys wearing shorts in 40 degree NYC
Motorized bikes, scooters, skateboards
Riding on the sidewalks
Pedestrians be damned
Selfish isn’t a right of passage
Hold a door for your neighbor
On… Off I say
5000 channels
Ten ingredient flavored mayonnaise
QR...
Old school like me
No apologies
I'll run circles around your candy ass
Streaming replaced cable
Bigger and faster they claimed
Still clouds and freezes
Just more bullshit
On... Off I say
Freaks of nature
Guys wearing shorts in 40 degree NYC
Motorized bikes, scooters, skateboards
Riding on the sidewalks
Pedestrians be damned
Selfish isn’t a right of passage
Hold a door for your neighbor
On… Off I say
5000 channels
Ten ingredient flavored mayonnaise
QR...
#technology
#TruthOfLife
#consumerism
#philosophical
#StreamOfConsciousness
118 reads
42 Comments
wolfatthedoor1966
Poem Published
5th Mar 2024 00:50am
5th Mar 2024 00:50am
the old city
the old
city needs
to be
reincorporated,
the skeleton
needs
new flesh,
opened eyes
out of
curiosity,
her lover's
life
breathed back
into her,
a crowd
of people
wandering
inside
of her,
debating,
discussing
how they
can continue
to keep
her alive
from
now on.
city needs
to be
reincorporated,
the skeleton
needs
new flesh,
opened eyes
out of
curiosity,
her lover's
life
breathed back
into her,
a crowd
of people
wandering
inside
of her,
debating,
discussing
how they
can continue
to keep
her alive
from
now on.
#identity
#city
#environment
#consumerism
#responsibility
93 reads
2 Comments
Grace
IDryad
IDryad
Poem Published
20th Aug 2017 00:39am
20th Aug 2017 00:39am
As the World turns
look East they chanted
look East, look East
and they did
the vanquished was lavish
in their achievements
hail sons of the Rising Sun
work hard o' children of toil
till the land
cut the hills to make plantations
sully the water
who cares, they are for monkeys
what...you need that for survival
monkeys or humans
choose....
oh look the money's coming
ker ching ...ker ching
lets spend it on a ship
an old used one
that will never sink
the rest of the money is mine
...
look East, look East
and they did
the vanquished was lavish
in their achievements
hail sons of the Rising Sun
work hard o' children of toil
till the land
cut the hills to make plantations
sully the water
who cares, they are for monkeys
what...you need that for survival
monkeys or humans
choose....
oh look the money's coming
ker ching ...ker ching
lets spend it on a ship
an old used one
that will never sink
the rest of the money is mine
...
#oppression
#money
#consumerism
#inequality
#poverty
587 reads
8 Comments
wallyroo92
Poem Published
4th Aug 2021 00:16am
4th Aug 2021 00:16am
Live Within Your Means
I won’t be trying to keep up with the Joneses
I don’t have that type of lusting or wanting
Nope, I won’t fall for that subliminal jonesing
That sort of spending can be very daunting
Every single day we’re bombarded with ads
Buy this, get that, it will make you feel better
Don’t have the cash for it? Then charge it!
Until you’re an insolvent near bankrupt debtor
In the meantime, those who are living the dream
Like to show how wonderful life can be
While the average mode lives beyond their means
Thinking if they have it they can...
I don’t have that type of lusting or wanting
Nope, I won’t fall for that subliminal jonesing
That sort of spending can be very daunting
Every single day we’re bombarded with ads
Buy this, get that, it will make you feel better
Don’t have the cash for it? Then charge it!
Until you’re an insolvent near bankrupt debtor
In the meantime, those who are living the dream
Like to show how wonderful life can be
While the average mode lives beyond their means
Thinking if they have it they can...
#happiness
#money
#TruthOfLife #consumerism
#TruthOfLife #consumerism
679 reads
8 Comments
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
4th Apr 2024 9:59pm
4th Apr 2024 9:59pm
New Elemental Codes
We but skim the macrocosmic order
with scarce more than a libertine's embrace
of all microcosm as jail space
where only thought as nexus accorder
will bestow triage to that order list
as a judge does for the laws of man
suiting an order within order plan
whereby all nature loves a communist
and others who follow nature's command
and the need to control the selfish men
who legalized rapacity, again,
instead of honoring nature's demand
where neutrality is a carbon thing...
with cells for every petrodollar king!
with scarce more than a libertine's embrace
of all microcosm as jail space
where only thought as nexus accorder
will bestow triage to that order list
as a judge does for the laws of man
suiting an order within order plan
whereby all nature loves a communist
and others who follow nature's command
and the need to control the selfish men
who legalized rapacity, again,
instead of honoring nature's demand
where neutrality is a carbon thing...
with cells for every petrodollar king!
#technology
#CallToAction
#consumerism #HumanRights
#consumerism #HumanRights
94 reads
4 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
5th Sep 2022 5:49am
5th Sep 2022 5:49am
Straight Talk Live (Is it Luciferin or Commercialism)
I will begin this Straight Talk Live piece with questions than answers, or any type of resolutions.
I am a very sociable interactive person, and I accept everyone as you are, as you stand, professionally, spiritually, and emotionally.
I never hide the person, as I am, is always as I do, confidence in my stance for what I do.
Life is not promised by the next breath we take, and it is too short to be measured by time.
Therefore, do not hide behind the veil of your true self.
My daily promotion, is to love yourself first,...
I am a very sociable interactive person, and I accept everyone as you are, as you stand, professionally, spiritually, and emotionally.
I never hide the person, as I am, is always as I do, confidence in my stance for what I do.
Life is not promised by the next breath we take, and it is too short to be measured by time.
Therefore, do not hide behind the veil of your true self.
My daily promotion, is to love yourself first,...
#TruthOfLife
#consumerism
#philosophical
533 reads
8 Comments
poeticdelight
Poem Published
15th Apr 2024 8:11pm
15th Apr 2024 8:11pm
A Why In Every While
Ah, how high i am taken !
When i read about Nature
And then, terribly shaken
To read a poem of self-torture
How desperate, then i feel !
To know you are barely twenty
But the joys of life you kill
While your blessings grow plenty
Shall you some day wake up and see
Your life's been vainly wasted
Between drugs, flesh and fake poetry
Finally, alas! nothing sweetly tasted
You have the power to break the walls
No regrets of the bad life and past
When you give deaf ear to evil's calls ...
When i read about Nature
And then, terribly shaken
To read a poem of self-torture
How desperate, then i feel !
To know you are barely twenty
But the joys of life you kill
While your blessings grow plenty
Shall you some day wake up and see
Your life's been vainly wasted
Between drugs, flesh and fake poetry
Finally, alas! nothing sweetly tasted
You have the power to break the walls
No regrets of the bad life and past
When you give deaf ear to evil's calls ...
#BDSM
#money
#alcohol
#addiction
#consumerism
69 reads
0 Comments
buddhakitty
Poem Published
12th Jan 2022 12:52pm
12th Jan 2022 12:52pm
for amber waves of pain
blood in the mouths of
our cities
blood in the thoughts
of our
polictians
blood stains the hands
of lady liberty
crystal meth street
lights
8 bucks for a pack
of smokes
America has a
hard on for self
destruction and
Wall St. while
there are over a
half-a-million
homeless
across the land
Christ climbs down
from the cross
to bless capitalism
and orders take out
chop suey
the left has left us
behind
the right...
our cities
blood in the thoughts
of our
polictians
blood stains the hands
of lady liberty
crystal meth street
lights
8 bucks for a pack
of smokes
America has a
hard on for self
destruction and
Wall St. while
there are over a
half-a-million
homeless
across the land
Christ climbs down
from the cross
to bless capitalism
and orders take out
chop suey
the left has left us
behind
the right...
#politics
#freedom
#consumerism #morality
#consumerism #morality
426 reads
14 Comments
Kinkwizard_95
Poem Published
5th Mar 2024 11:00pm
5th Mar 2024 11:00pm
Are we lost in Tesco?
Are we lost in Tesco?
Or lost inside ourselves?
Are we lost in Tesco?
Or stuck between the shelves?
Are we lost in Tesco?
Or have we gone insane?
Are we lost in Tesco?
Or in the bin again?
Are we lost in Tesco?
Or have we fallen through space and time?
Are we lost in Tesco?
Yes we are and it’s sublime!
Or lost inside ourselves?
Are we lost in Tesco?
Or stuck between the shelves?
Are we lost in Tesco?
Or have we gone insane?
Are we lost in Tesco?
Or in the bin again?
Are we lost in Tesco?
Or have we fallen through space and time?
Are we lost in Tesco?
Yes we are and it’s sublime!
#funny
#consumerism
#surreal
94 reads
2 Comments
a_methyste
hlightdroid
hlightdroid
Poem Published
31st Mar 2024 7:33pm
31st Mar 2024 7:33pm
Being
I am the biggest loser in the city
My parents reserved exclusively that fate for me.
Humans are afraid of death
But never think of the scariest place of all
Shame from another fellow being
When you are just being.
My parents reserved exclusively that fate for me.
Humans are afraid of death
But never think of the scariest place of all
Shame from another fellow being
When you are just being.
#consumerism
58 reads
2 Comments
PAR
Poem Published
29th Jul 2022 11:27am
29th Jul 2022 11:27am
Dare
Trying to taste the salt
from the dead sea,
in the pauper's sea.
In the non-navigable sea
of the migrant,
in the eternal movement
of beings who fear
their origin and their destination.
They don't always realize
the adult in the lines
from a boy's hand.
from the dead sea,
in the pauper's sea.
In the non-navigable sea
of the migrant,
in the eternal movement
of beings who fear
their origin and their destination.
They don't always realize
the adult in the lines
from a boy's hand.
#money
#mirror
#consumerism
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0 Comments
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