Poems About Culture by Top Critiquers
#culture
Poems about culture by top critiquers. Poems written by members who have given lots of feedback to other poets this month.
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Hamid
Hamid
Poem Published
31st May 2024 2:49pm
31st May 2024 2:49pm
Old Folks, Beauty, Strength and Emotion
i remember grandpa had hands of wood, haired like a hedgehog.
a rifle hang on his living room walls, dating from French colonialism.
A handicrafted fine curiosity,bequeathed by a noble resident Frenchman ,
a fair colonial who rejected the war, abhorred the carnage
and massacre perpetrated against the unarmed people..
He left all his properties to grandpa for being friendly,
loyal and workaholic server, and a faithful gate guardian;
He left a treasury among which a double barrel rifle,
and even an elegant glossy closet and...
a rifle hang on his living room walls, dating from French colonialism.
A handicrafted fine curiosity,bequeathed by a noble resident Frenchman ,
a fair colonial who rejected the war, abhorred the carnage
and massacre perpetrated against the unarmed people..
He left all his properties to grandpa for being friendly,
loyal and workaholic server, and a faithful gate guardian;
He left a treasury among which a double barrel rifle,
and even an elegant glossy closet and...
#beauty
#culture
#identity #morality
#identity #morality
90 reads
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PAR
Poem Published
14th Sep 2023 2:39pm
14th Sep 2023 2:39pm
Three Statues in the Garden
Medusa looking at me
inside the mirror
petrifying me
on the Icarus flight.
Leaving me adrift
like Ulysses without Ithaca
wanting mermaids.
And freezes my blood
in the labyrinth
of the veins.
Minotaur and Cyclops
setting the heart rate
of a distant chimera
deciphering riddles.
This muse abuses me
just tying me...
she's a shady girl and
profuse in the silences
telling me secrets,
obstacles and pain.
Not paying attention to me.
I lay down on the floor
prostrate in worship
for...
inside the mirror
petrifying me
on the Icarus flight.
Leaving me adrift
like Ulysses without Ithaca
wanting mermaids.
And freezes my blood
in the labyrinth
of the veins.
Minotaur and Cyclops
setting the heart rate
of a distant chimera
deciphering riddles.
This muse abuses me
just tying me...
she's a shady girl and
profuse in the silences
telling me secrets,
obstacles and pain.
Not paying attention to me.
I lay down on the floor
prostrate in worship
for...
#mirror
#MyInspiration
#mythology
#culture
#tradition
145 reads
1 Comment
Adelphina
Poem Published
11th Aug 2022 3:26am
11th Aug 2022 3:26am
Sugar Skulls & Dragons
Bat wings emerge
From the heart's aortas
Caged inside a red rose
Metallic skeletal frame
Busting out of the box
A Pandora Aurora
Of sweeping blue green
Blazing fiery flames
Flying with the flow
Soaring high diving low
Excited to take flight
Into the Babylon night
Midnight yearning to be desired
By untamed aquamarine fire
Destined to sunset amongst
Serpents & Latins
Shining over the land of
Sugar Skulls & Dragons
From the heart's aortas
Caged inside a red rose
Metallic skeletal frame
Busting out of the box
A Pandora Aurora
Of sweeping blue green
Blazing fiery flames
Flying with the flow
Soaring high diving low
Excited to take flight
Into the Babylon night
Midnight yearning to be desired
By untamed aquamarine fire
Destined to sunset amongst
Serpents & Latins
Shining over the land of
Sugar Skulls & Dragons
#mythology
#SelfDiscovery
#culture
672 reads
31 Comments
Betty
Poem Published
20th Jun 2022 5:31pm
20th Jun 2022 5:31pm
Ode to Mysogyny: Things men say
It’s difficult
You wouldn’t understand
You should smile more.
Well aren’t you pretty?
You know this is traditionally a man’s job.
You can’t expect anyone to take you seriously.
You should wear pants if you don’t want me to look.
You should button the top button if you don’t want me to look.
Your skin is so soft
You should put your hair up.
I like a woman who takes care of herself.
Women don’t talk like that.
Are you trying to be a man?
That’s not very feminine.
Watch your tone.
Let the men talk.
This...
You wouldn’t understand
You should smile more.
Well aren’t you pretty?
You know this is traditionally a man’s job.
You can’t expect anyone to take you seriously.
You should wear pants if you don’t want me to look.
You should button the top button if you don’t want me to look.
Your skin is so soft
You should put your hair up.
I like a woman who takes care of herself.
Women don’t talk like that.
Are you trying to be a man?
That’s not very feminine.
Watch your tone.
Let the men talk.
This...
#identity
#politics
#culture
393 reads
34 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
26th Jun 2023 00:09am
26th Jun 2023 00:09am
overcast, again
in the ‘fifties they wore raincoats all the time, or at least they did in the films; it was mostly grey in british films of the ‘fifties it tended to rain ..
#culture
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brokentitanium
k.
k.
Poem Published
10th Apr 2020 1:51am
10th Apr 2020 1:51am
Imagine
It’s not a given
that we’ll come out of this
better people than we were.
But…
like many,
I imagine
and have my moments of excitement…
Hope for a new way of living gently
of caring more deeply
of connecting more authentically…
Maybe….
our entire system will transform
businesses will stop the constant growth rat-race
religions will return to loving and serving
governments will care for the most vulnerable
people will know and cherish their neighbours…
Imagine all the people…
We’ll all...
that we’ll come out of this
better people than we were.
But…
like many,
I imagine
and have my moments of excitement…
Hope for a new way of living gently
of caring more deeply
of connecting more authentically…
Maybe….
our entire system will transform
businesses will stop the constant growth rat-race
religions will return to loving and serving
governments will care for the most vulnerable
people will know and cherish their neighbours…
Imagine all the people…
We’ll all...
#humankind
#philosophical
#culture
#pandemic
#NaPoWriMo2020
716 reads
8 Comments
CasketSharpe
Poem Published
19th Oct 2018 00:24am
19th Oct 2018 00:24am
The World’s Oldest Profession
(Pussy in the Sands)
“Whoring has been around since the begging of time
Because women of all shapes and races has been selling behind,
“Let’s start off in the days of the Egyptians
Where the Pharaohs was doing some tall pimpin,
“From Hebrew slaves, to fine ass concubine babes
Fucking from the throne room to the desert caves,
“Getting buck nasty with any bitch
And if she refused the dick-then straight to the alligator pit,
“If the queen wasn’t giving up the ass
She could be eliminated real motherfuckin fast,
“The queen couldn’t argue,...
“Whoring has been around since the begging of time
Because women of all shapes and races has been selling behind,
“Let’s start off in the days of the Egyptians
Where the Pharaohs was doing some tall pimpin,
“From Hebrew slaves, to fine ass concubine babes
Fucking from the throne room to the desert caves,
“Getting buck nasty with any bitch
And if she refused the dick-then straight to the alligator pit,
“If the queen wasn’t giving up the ass
She could be eliminated real motherfuckin fast,
“The queen couldn’t argue,...
#sex
#culture
759 reads
10 Comments
Trillium
Poem Published
21st Feb 2024 5:04pm
21st Feb 2024 5:04pm
Mainlining Outrage
Cable news
Talk radio
Blogs
Social media
A quick fix
Stoking anger
Feeling superior
To the idiots
The weak
Snowflakes
Troglodytes
Who don’t get it
See the world your way
The business of outrage
Feeding the need
Echoes of what you want to hear
Big business
Conspiracies
Cons
Needing an enemy
The other
To vilify
Driving wedges between people
Accepting the extremists view of the other.
No...
Talk radio
Blogs
Social media
A quick fix
Stoking anger
Feeling superior
To the idiots
The weak
Snowflakes
Troglodytes
Who don’t get it
See the world your way
The business of outrage
Feeding the need
Echoes of what you want to hear
Big business
Conspiracies
Cons
Needing an enemy
The other
To vilify
Driving wedges between people
Accepting the extremists view of the other.
No...
#anger
#culture
115 reads
3 Comments
Sappho
Poem Published
6th Jul 2024 8:49am
6th Jul 2024 8:49am
If Only
If only every child
Had someone at their side who
Listened to them attentively
Took them seriously
Believed in their potential
Encouraged them
Always had their back and
Loved them unconditionally
This world would be a better place
Had someone at their side who
Listened to them attentively
Took them seriously
Believed in their potential
Encouraged them
Always had their back and
Loved them unconditionally
This world would be a better place
#culture
#morality
#responsibility
151 reads
5 Comments
Marks
Poem Published
5th Aug 2021 00:34am
5th Aug 2021 00:34am
I wonder how
.. ... ... ...
My mind...
is a VHS
A night...
without scenes
My wish...
is being granted
My wings ...
are outstretched
And I ...
I want to know ... I try to know ...
... I want to know ... I wonder how ... (x)
I wonder how ...
I wonder how ...
How can there be a scenario...
... where I shut myself from everyone
How can there be a cyberpunk realm...
... exchanging places with the Cold War (xx) ...
My mind...
is a VHS
A night...
without scenes
My wish...
is being granted
My wings ...
are outstretched
And I ...
I want to know ... I try to know ...
... I want to know ... I wonder how ... (x)
I wonder how ...
I wonder how ...
How can there be a scenario...
... where I shut myself from everyone
How can there be a cyberpunk realm...
... exchanging places with the Cold War (xx) ...
#inspirational
#culture
564 reads
7 Comments
oldmanG
Poem Published
10th Nov 2024 00:25am
10th Nov 2024 00:25am
I Wanna Be A…
I Wanna Be A…
So I’m just a rock star
Trying to get on the stage
Thunder from under the auditorium
Broken string that I play
I’m just getting started don’t tempt me
Sit in the audience and listen
Feel like I can be one of them
I can be almost as good as them
Good enough for me and then some
I can slay a dragon if you let me
I can be your demon if that’s what you want me to be
I can be a friar serving penance for the congregation
All I want to be is a rock star
I know this will not...
So I’m just a rock star
Trying to get on the stage
Thunder from under the auditorium
Broken string that I play
I’m just getting started don’t tempt me
Sit in the audience and listen
Feel like I can be one of them
I can be almost as good as them
Good enough for me and then some
I can slay a dragon if you let me
I can be your demon if that’s what you want me to be
I can be a friar serving penance for the congregation
All I want to be is a rock star
I know this will not...
#culture
#identity
#music
30 reads
0 Comments
Lowko
Jimi Tatz
Jimi Tatz
Poem Published
17th Oct 2024 2:33pm
17th Oct 2024 2:33pm
3 Amigos
Gino loved his music. He would make it on his laptop, he would record his vocals into it, and make sure that it's all back up.
Sitting in his room, making tunes on his ones, his Spaniard friend knocks on the door because she's shaking for a bong.
Gina was her name. She would buy weed from Gino every day before she started her shifts at work and became a slave.
Gino asks Gina if she would lay some Spanish down on a song that he'd been working on. What could go possibly wrong?
He calls his friend Rev over, who is a wizz on the guitar, with ginger...
Sitting in his room, making tunes on his ones, his Spaniard friend knocks on the door because she's shaking for a bong.
Gina was her name. She would buy weed from Gino every day before she started her shifts at work and became a slave.
Gino asks Gina if she would lay some Spanish down on a song that he'd been working on. What could go possibly wrong?
He calls his friend Rev over, who is a wizz on the guitar, with ginger...
#art
#culture
#identity
#masculinity
#music
93 reads
2 Comments
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