Long Poems About Culture
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Long poems about culture. 300 words or more, most recently published poems first.
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
23rd Dec 2022 8:49pm
23rd Dec 2022 8:49pm
The Uprising Of The Black Man In A Forgotten Society With Poet REMARKABLE_8
If you are just now just tuning into my Straight Talk Live forum, I would like to introduce to everyone Poet REMARKABLE_8. He will advocate with his voice what it details to be an African American man in society and some of the myths and complexities he must face to survive in a world that does not dutifully cater to his wishes or provide the necessities of his needs.
A superficial state of existence not by choice but my designs going back as far as when the Constitution was first drafted.
Before we get started, REMARKABLE_8, can you give...
A superficial state of existence not by choice but my designs going back as far as when the Constitution was first drafted.
Before we get started, REMARKABLE_8, can you give...
#TruthOfLife
#humankind
#philosophical
#culture
#tradition
1217 reads
9 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
10th Oct 2022 5:26am
10th Oct 2022 5:26am
Rainbow Coalition
I recently watched the movie titled Alice, staring KiKi Palmer, a movie that debates the chronical aftermath of domesticated help still being held as slaves by plantation landowners.
It is the revered story inspired by true events resulting in the Emancipation Proclamation, signed on January 1, 1863, and how a landowner who fabricated to his slaves they were not free, and how he continued to enslave them for years following being free.
A very great movie to watch.
This is the introduction of my Straight Talk Live piece, I was once advised by my grann, it is...
It is the revered story inspired by true events resulting in the Emancipation Proclamation, signed on January 1, 1863, and how a landowner who fabricated to his slaves they were not free, and how he continued to enslave them for years following being free.
A very great movie to watch.
This is the introduction of my Straight Talk Live piece, I was once advised by my grann, it is...
#TruthOfLife
#honesty
#racism
#philosophical
#culture
545 reads
4 Comments
JAZZMANOR
Poem Published
25th Sep 2022 7:43pm
25th Sep 2022 7:43pm
Bye Pac Conference
My first job outside the home
usher for UCLA/ USC football
back then known as the Pac 10
I knew the Coliseum well
Both mom dad studied at USC
(Westwood was off limits for people of color back then)
my brother briefly coached at SC
and the school was a walk away from the grandparents
Alternative Saturdays my dad and then I
worked as Trojan/ Bruin game staff
eventually added Pauley Pavilion
and the 84 Olympics
Always fun to see Pac 10 battles
USC legend in football
UCLA in basketball
but...
usher for UCLA/ USC football
back then known as the Pac 10
I knew the Coliseum well
Both mom dad studied at USC
(Westwood was off limits for people of color back then)
my brother briefly coached at SC
and the school was a walk away from the grandparents
Alternative Saturdays my dad and then I
worked as Trojan/ Bruin game staff
eventually added Pauley Pavilion
and the 84 Olympics
Always fun to see Pac 10 battles
USC legend in football
UCLA in basketball
but...
#strength
#courage
#culture #tradition
#culture #tradition
275 reads
2 Comments
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
12th Aug 2022 1:19am
12th Aug 2022 1:19am
Today's Countenance
If the television set is to be believed then representatives of the fair sex are now expected to air brush away all traces of perceived wretchedness from their very own visages while the troglodytic male members of our species may lounge about with no care whatsoever regarding their manly facial flaws or beard bound meal chunks. I'm sure all that is fair somehow...but I don't see it.
True love, as hot as a panful of Neruda verse, never requires such artificial bracings and cupid's dart will not always wait for my lady's face.
Things are now dangerously informal...
True love, as hot as a panful of Neruda verse, never requires such artificial bracings and cupid's dart will not always wait for my lady's face.
Things are now dangerously informal...
#culture
#masculinity
256 reads
0 Comments
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
11th Aug 2022 3:49am
11th Aug 2022 3:49am
Cold War Blues
The morning introspection had me realizing how much I like a good antenna, not just any, but the sort that point skyward like steeples to the gods of electromagnetism. Sometimes on stroll-abouts I note a fine specimen at a modest residence and wonder if there is a superannuating cold war spy inside the house making reports back to Moscow letting them know how massy our supermarkets have become. Being ancient, he no longer hears well and so somehow thinks that Gorbachev is still in charge, kind of like the out of touch post war Japanese trooper on Gilligan's Island. People really need to keep...
#technology
#culture
221 reads
0 Comments
Casted_Runes
Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
6th Jul 2022 2:10pm
6th Jul 2022 2:10pm
My Culture Fix - 06/07/22
The book I'm reading
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers, a debut by a Victorian literature PhD about a New York restaurant critic and "female psychopath", a psychological phenomenon which she discusses in the first-person narrative, stylised as a sort of prison diary. She's a cannibalistic serial killer, in her early 50s. The book, therefore, is comparable to both American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and Hannibal by Thomas Harris, though in my opinion more interesting/funnier than the former and less pulpy than the latter.
The book I wish I had written
Breakfast at...
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers, a debut by a Victorian literature PhD about a New York restaurant critic and "female psychopath", a psychological phenomenon which she discusses in the first-person narrative, stylised as a sort of prison diary. She's a cannibalistic serial killer, in her early 50s. The book, therefore, is comparable to both American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and Hannibal by Thomas Harris, though in my opinion more interesting/funnier than the former and less pulpy than the latter.
The book I wish I had written
Breakfast at...
#books
#PopCulture
#culture #nonfiction
#culture #nonfiction
309 reads
3 Comments
Casted_Runes
Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
27th Jun 2022 5:17pm
27th Jun 2022 5:17pm
My Culture Fix - II
My favourite author or book
Flannery O'Connor for author, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke for book.
The book I’m reading
The Woods Are Dark by Richard Laymon, in the restored and uncut edition by the late author's daughter, Kelly. Laymon was a "splatterpunk" author, in his case essentially meaning that his books are extremely trashy, extremely nasty, non-literary horror. Comparable to splatter films, basically, like Nightmares in a Damaged Brain, Cannibal Holocaust, et al. I enjoy them because I get all the fun of a silly, shocking story without having...
Flannery O'Connor for author, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke for book.
The book I’m reading
The Woods Are Dark by Richard Laymon, in the restored and uncut edition by the late author's daughter, Kelly. Laymon was a "splatterpunk" author, in his case essentially meaning that his books are extremely trashy, extremely nasty, non-literary horror. Comparable to splatter films, basically, like Nightmares in a Damaged Brain, Cannibal Holocaust, et al. I enjoy them because I get all the fun of a silly, shocking story without having...
#culture
223 reads
0 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
15th Jun 2022 5:14pm
15th Jun 2022 5:14pm
The Murder Of Crows...
Falsehood joviality stolen birthrights unbeknownst of humility documented by scrolls written of ancient time
Fourscore the crown falsify echoes of bloodied birthright disparity as it once flowed like sands of time
Give me liberty, your generation of thievery gave me death
Stolen heritage unto every mankind worn proudly of a soulless heart given less
Burdensome history, not rooted of melanin creed
The first shall be last, shall be first again, beautifully seeps of honeyed Creole DNA bowed, until death principles will bleed
To the...
Fourscore the crown falsify echoes of bloodied birthright disparity as it once flowed like sands of time
Give me liberty, your generation of thievery gave me death
Stolen heritage unto every mankind worn proudly of a soulless heart given less
Burdensome history, not rooted of melanin creed
The first shall be last, shall be first again, beautifully seeps of honeyed Creole DNA bowed, until death principles will bleed
To the...
#spiritual
#TruthOfLife
#honesty
#philosophical
#culture
618 reads
2 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
21st Mar 2022 11:23pm
21st Mar 2022 11:23pm
Perceptions
I am that woman who you look upon with disdain, judgement in your callous eyes
Mere glimpses of my appearance, cannot tell you who I am, I could be ordained from the skies to sit by your side
It’s the laughter in my voice, my hands that moves so seductively, so sweet
Oh, the vile contempt your spew to determine the world, without walking miles in the tight shoes coveted by someone’s else feet
My hair, Afrocentric, curly, kinky, natural, nappy, locs, braided, no more unimportance than what sits upon your head
If I...
Mere glimpses of my appearance, cannot tell you who I am, I could be ordained from the skies to sit by your side
It’s the laughter in my voice, my hands that moves so seductively, so sweet
Oh, the vile contempt your spew to determine the world, without walking miles in the tight shoes coveted by someone’s else feet
My hair, Afrocentric, curly, kinky, natural, nappy, locs, braided, no more unimportance than what sits upon your head
If I...
#TruthOfLife
#respect
#philosophical
#culture
#women
779 reads
11 Comments
Pinkdreams
Poem Published
21st Mar 2022 6:39am
21st Mar 2022 6:39am
LBDs
Two little black dress hotties (known, hereafter, as LBDs)
enter the Las Vegas elevator
emitting quiet disdain of all things public
they are, of course
stunning
(one must be to be an LBD)
attendant facial expressions of boredom
like 17th in line
at the DMV boredom
who can blame them
they've never had to conquer to win
victory's no thrill when it's handed to you
there she was
a 44 year old woman
in their elevator
clad in a bad liar of a 'Slimsuit'
wrapped in a oversized towel
rivulets...
enter the Las Vegas elevator
emitting quiet disdain of all things public
they are, of course
stunning
(one must be to be an LBD)
attendant facial expressions of boredom
like 17th in line
at the DMV boredom
who can blame them
they've never had to conquer to win
victory's no thrill when it's handed to you
there she was
a 44 year old woman
in their elevator
clad in a bad liar of a 'Slimsuit'
wrapped in a oversized towel
rivulets...
#courage
#beauty
#uplifting
#acceptance
#culture
445 reads
2 Comments
Mikash
Poem Published
18th Mar 2022 3:20am
18th Mar 2022 3:20am
If Foucault Were A Panoptical Poet
I know not what happened before my memory.
Just take for granted what [i]I’ve been told.
From wrinkled lips
And tattered tomes
Come marked ‘membrances –
Songs of stodgy tone.
We, ourselves, are marked should we forget them.
“They” are the holidays.
We “manouvre” ourselves
In our “natural – malleable – forms”
To be “docile” – “drawn” – and “quartered” –
Fifteen minutes at a time.
Atomic clocks [are] like wartime...
Just take for granted what [i]I’ve been told.
From wrinkled lips
And tattered tomes
Come marked ‘membrances –
Songs of stodgy tone.
We, ourselves, are marked should we forget them.
“They” are the holidays.
We “manouvre” ourselves
In our “natural – malleable – forms”
To be “docile” – “drawn” – and “quartered” –
Fifteen minutes at a time.
Atomic clocks [are] like wartime...
#identity
#holiday
#philosophical
#culture
#tradition
430 reads
0 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
1st Mar 2022 4:25am
1st Mar 2022 4:25am
Celebrating The Last Day Of Black History Month
What this month of February has taught me from the beginning is our beautiful hues comes in so such magnificent greatness of higher attitudes.
There are the benevolent scientists whom he or she has achieved perfection before their patented inventions were adopted to use by any standard measured in time.
Several poets, such as Langston Hughes, or poetess, Maya Angelou, sang the rendition of their lyrical woes in such poetic whispers you could have comprehended the chorus by mind alone, pertinent elements formed from their thoughts, wrapping the crest of the...
There are the benevolent scientists whom he or she has achieved perfection before their patented inventions were adopted to use by any standard measured in time.
Several poets, such as Langston Hughes, or poetess, Maya Angelou, sang the rendition of their lyrical woes in such poetic whispers you could have comprehended the chorus by mind alone, pertinent elements formed from their thoughts, wrapping the crest of the...
#identity
#LifeAsAWriter
#SelfReflection
#culture
#SelfWorth
589 reads
6 Comments
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