Poems on Humanity and Humankind
#humankind
Poetry examining humanity and what it means to be a human. Here you'll find poems about humankind, our effect on the world and what our purpose is as humans. Also poetry which considers what the future has in store for our species.
BatPowers
Bat Powers
Bat Powers
Bumped Today 2:56pm
7th Jan 2023 5:26pm
7th Jan 2023 5:26pm
The f**king Flea
#humankind
#anxiety
#frustration
#denial
#apathy
223 reads
4 Comments
Tia
Poem Published
Yesterday 7:18pm
Yesterday 7:18pm
Better or worse
People think about others
That's just a fact
But they do it in two different ways
Some people compare themselves to their supposed superiors
Those who they believe are better than them
Others prefer to ignore that
And focus on those who are worse, inferior
Is it a cruel trick or fate that we all live this way?
Or is it simply the common flaw of humanity?
Perhaps comparison is simply our truth
That's just a fact
But they do it in two different ways
Some people compare themselves to their supposed superiors
Those who they believe are better than them
Others prefer to ignore that
And focus on those who are worse, inferior
Is it a cruel trick or fate that we all live this way?
Or is it simply the common flaw of humanity?
Perhaps comparison is simply our truth
#humankind
#philosophical
#TruthOfLife
28 reads
2 Comments
Paulajobi
Paula Jobi
Paula Jobi
Poem Published
11th Dec 2024 8:56pm
11th Dec 2024 8:56pm
Skin Game
How do you identfy Paula?
I'm white. Nearly White.
A bit of Native American.
Long ago and far away...
DOES IT MATTER?
Some other family members are mixed:
white/black & white/brown...
One married an Chinese girl twice...
Are mixed kids "told" their race?
DOES IT MATTER?
Can't we see the person...
Inside the "color"?
Does your precieved color...
determine who you are or aren't?
DOES IT MATTER?
Some people will say...
first black ball player...
first...
I'm white. Nearly White.
A bit of Native American.
Long ago and far away...
DOES IT MATTER?
Some other family members are mixed:
white/black & white/brown...
One married an Chinese girl twice...
Are mixed kids "told" their race?
DOES IT MATTER?
Can't we see the person...
Inside the "color"?
Does your precieved color...
determine who you are or aren't?
DOES IT MATTER?
Some people will say...
first black ball player...
first...
#humankind
#HumanRights
43 reads
2 Comments
Connotation
Poem Published
11th Dec 2024 5:07am
11th Dec 2024 5:07am
Given Goner Gloom
Distant dawn has news.
Inner call infused.
Sprinkle spawn bestrew.
Living carbon rule.
Figure yonder zooms.
Fickle far removed.
Kingdoms long bemuse.
Bidders born abuse.
Business bothers bloom.
Brittle blossom blues.
Fiddled foster youth.
Silver strong with spoons.
Sinner song produced.
Singer solemn food.
Tiller rotten fruit.
Filtered fondness juice.
Wilder want assumes.
Simple starlet view.
Hinted harlot hue.
Kinship followed suit.
Cyclic cosmic clues. ...
Inner call infused.
Sprinkle spawn bestrew.
Living carbon rule.
Figure yonder zooms.
Fickle far removed.
Kingdoms long bemuse.
Bidders born abuse.
Business bothers bloom.
Brittle blossom blues.
Fiddled foster youth.
Silver strong with spoons.
Sinner song produced.
Singer solemn food.
Tiller rotten fruit.
Filtered fondness juice.
Wilder want assumes.
Simple starlet view.
Hinted harlot hue.
Kinship followed suit.
Cyclic cosmic clues. ...
#humankind
#metaphor
#morality
#rhyming
#spiritual
34 reads
2 Comments
Naajir
Bumped 8th Dec 2024 00:15am
17th Jan 2023 4:59am
17th Jan 2023 4:59am
Death Becomes Nature
after hunting her down for millennia
they finally captured her
harnessed her body...harvested her soul
turned her once ripe and fertile garden
into a dreary desolate dystopia
terror-forming all the natural beauty
she birthed forth through a labor of divine love into
a gluttonous feast for their succubus-cube
siphoning all in its path like a great energy beast
from another dimension
parasitic in origin
depopulating billions at a time
defecating charred and broken skeletons
back into the endless wastelands ...
they finally captured her
harnessed her body...harvested her soul
turned her once ripe and fertile garden
into a dreary desolate dystopia
terror-forming all the natural beauty
she birthed forth through a labor of divine love into
a gluttonous feast for their succubus-cube
siphoning all in its path like a great energy beast
from another dimension
parasitic in origin
depopulating billions at a time
defecating charred and broken skeletons
back into the endless wastelands ...
#dark
#death
#nature #humankind
#nature #humankind
630 reads
4 Comments
APissPoorShaman
Ryszard
Ryszard
Poem Published
7th Dec 2024 7:48pm
7th Dec 2024 7:48pm
Catching the First Bus Out of Town
Philosophers are philosophers to ask
unanswerable questions
and then ask why
the questions are unanswerable.
the world turns,
and circles the sun
time tockingly advances,
all life moves from beginning to end,
it is only the mind of man
that is stationary
and rooted to this time and place,
forever doomed to repeat
the mistakes they will make tomorrow.
unanswerable questions
and then ask why
the questions are unanswerable.
the world turns,
and circles the sun
time tockingly advances,
all life moves from beginning to end,
it is only the mind of man
that is stationary
and rooted to this time and place,
forever doomed to repeat
the mistakes they will make tomorrow.
#disappointment
#greed
#hate
#humankind
#philosophical
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0 Comments
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
7th Dec 2024 2:29pm
7th Dec 2024 2:29pm
Echoes
Bestirred by a radio app today,
reiterating the infamy date,
I recollected what my dad would say
about how that war affected our fate.
Sick, he had stayed home from Sunday school
where thusly by a broadcast he had heard
of the sneak attack on Yankee rule
and the international afterword...
which in a few short years saw him training
with artillery to use on Japan
when their empire was at last waning
along with their co-prosperity plan...
but Russian threats, and the atomic bomb,
had his odds increase for troth...
reiterating the infamy date,
I recollected what my dad would say
about how that war affected our fate.
Sick, he had stayed home from Sunday school
where thusly by a broadcast he had heard
of the sneak attack on Yankee rule
and the international afterword...
which in a few short years saw him training
with artillery to use on Japan
when their empire was at last waning
along with their co-prosperity plan...
but Russian threats, and the atomic bomb,
had his odds increase for troth...
#humankind
#LifeCycle
#technology
109 reads
12 Comments
CasketSharpe
Poem Published
3rd Dec 2024 8:12pm
3rd Dec 2024 8:12pm
Decapitated Emotions
You have to watch out for golddiggers-so don’t be slippin
Because they will drain you without fuckin, then you in the category of simpin,
“But bitches pulling a Kamala Harris will only entertain a loss
When they realize I’m the motherfuckin boss,
“So they betta ride that Megan the Stallion out the door or Beyoncé Bounce
Because money, cum or love the bitch won’t get a goddamn ounce,
“Women who approach me like that has already fucked up
And like a Leprechaun escaping with the gold she is shit out of luck,
“If a ho’...
Because they will drain you without fuckin, then you in the category of simpin,
“But bitches pulling a Kamala Harris will only entertain a loss
When they realize I’m the motherfuckin boss,
“So they betta ride that Megan the Stallion out the door or Beyoncé Bounce
Because money, cum or love the bitch won’t get a goddamn ounce,
“Women who approach me like that has already fucked up
And like a Leprechaun escaping with the gold she is shit out of luck,
“If a ho’...
#humankind
51 reads
2 Comments
PeaceFlpw
Peace Flow
Peace Flow
Poem Published
2nd Dec 2024 6:12pm
2nd Dec 2024 6:12pm
reality/dreams/ being(s)
I wished I were an "alien" if it meant that I could teleport to one's spaceship- and ascend into a pleasant state of existence;
"culture" is a double edged predicament; I wish there were a list from which one could choose what society one'd like to inhabit-
like "liberation" within reason; it's true- i absolutely agree- that existence isn't what it's been hyped up to be; it's like those sort of misleading twisted random dreams you wake up from like-
yea something...
"culture" is a double edged predicament; I wish there were a list from which one could choose what society one'd like to inhabit-
like "liberation" within reason; it's true- i absolutely agree- that existence isn't what it's been hyped up to be; it's like those sort of misleading twisted random dreams you wake up from like-
yea something...
#escape
#humankind
#LifeCycle #philosophical
#LifeCycle #philosophical
77 reads
MySmile
Besma
Besma
Poem Published
2nd Dec 2024 4:47pm
2nd Dec 2024 4:47pm
Drowning In A Daylight Nightmare
Where are we heading
Human nature helplessly wondering
Mother Nature hopefully warning..
A submerged universe
By a torrent of floods curse
What is coming hope not worse..
A world of less and less meaning
For all those on the surface floating
Solid grounds nolonger touching..
To what is occurring inside unaware
Unable to see the gloom and void in the air
Drowning in a daylight nightmare..
Trapped in a web of wealth and profusion
Full to the brim the sight in confusion
Bathing in...
Human nature helplessly wondering
Mother Nature hopefully warning..
A submerged universe
By a torrent of floods curse
What is coming hope not worse..
A world of less and less meaning
For all those on the surface floating
Solid grounds nolonger touching..
To what is occurring inside unaware
Unable to see the gloom and void in the air
Drowning in a daylight nightmare..
Trapped in a web of wealth and profusion
Full to the brim the sight in confusion
Bathing in...
#humankind
#LifeAsAWriter
#LifeCycle
#technology
#universe
77 reads
6 Comments
xthan
Poem Published
2nd Dec 2024 4:34pm
2nd Dec 2024 4:34pm
Silk
I avoid common
pleasantries we end
up falling merciless
at the knees to
as I imagine
you get asked
these questions
quite often,
so we discuss the mentees who
still ring you occasionally, eagerly
filling you in about what's happening
because the powdered wig remains
your life long companion,
how one got their first win recently
and couldn't believe it until they
returned to chambers, you show
me silk scarves your sister gifted
last month as she accompanied
you to your...
pleasantries we end
up falling merciless
at the knees to
as I imagine
you get asked
these questions
quite often,
so we discuss the mentees who
still ring you occasionally, eagerly
filling you in about what's happening
because the powdered wig remains
your life long companion,
how one got their first win recently
and couldn't believe it until they
returned to chambers, you show
me silk scarves your sister gifted
last month as she accompanied
you to your...
#confessional
#humankind
#LifeCycle #TruthOfLife
#LifeCycle #TruthOfLife
74 reads
1 Comment
PAR
Poem Published
2nd Dec 2024 2:20pm
2nd Dec 2024 2:20pm
Affirmations
Dreams fill your nights with all secrets you hide.
The ghosts that wander through your mind.
Whispers of your past you hear in the dark.
People that touched deepest corners of your heart.
A place where you let your thoughts roam free.
Scars you carry that no one else can see.
Things you loved so fiercely it left you in ruins.
Songs you sing when the world is not in tune.
Fears keep you awake when the night is still.
No moments of joy make your heart truly thrill.
Someone you ever felt a connection so profound. ...
The ghosts that wander through your mind.
Whispers of your past you hear in the dark.
People that touched deepest corners of your heart.
A place where you let your thoughts roam free.
Scars you carry that no one else can see.
Things you loved so fiercely it left you in ruins.
Songs you sing when the world is not in tune.
Fears keep you awake when the night is still.
No moments of joy make your heart truly thrill.
Someone you ever felt a connection so profound. ...
#confessional
#humankind
#identity
#myself
#patience
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6 Comments
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