Poems About Humankind by Top Critiquers
#humankind
DamianDeadLove
Poem Published
6th Jul 2024 7:55pm
6th Jul 2024 7:55pm
Withdrawn
Built a foundation on a fault line
Temperamental bias stirs beneath
No substance dangles from the vine
Put the blade back in the sheath
When the walls tumbled down
It revealed a foolish arrogance
Under that smile lives a frown
A string-puppet born to dance
Rain pours from a dark sky
Drowning every seed planted
Promises built around a lie
Broken wishes never granted
When death comes to collect
Silence falls before the dawn
Time fades into disconnect
Existence of life withdrawn
Temperamental bias stirs beneath
No substance dangles from the vine
Put the blade back in the sheath
When the walls tumbled down
It revealed a foolish arrogance
Under that smile lives a frown
A string-puppet born to dance
Rain pours from a dark sky
Drowning every seed planted
Promises built around a lie
Broken wishes never granted
When death comes to collect
Silence falls before the dawn
Time fades into disconnect
Existence of life withdrawn
#humankind
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4 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
9th Jan 2025 9:51pm
9th Jan 2025 9:51pm
A Wasteland of Emptiness
There is a wind blowing inside us, thru a wasteland of emptiness
Without the possibility of germinating to fulfill our potential
Our nothingness is an internal vacuum with an insatiable appetite
A black hole at our core, threatening to suck everything else in
Our lives are essentially hollow, lacking inner strength and vigor
We seem to have lost our insides somewhere
Our guts have been removed and discarded or lost
The void within gives a painful, drawn feeling to our faces
We know that we are doomed creatures, fighting hopelessly for...
Without the possibility of germinating to fulfill our potential
Our nothingness is an internal vacuum with an insatiable appetite
A black hole at our core, threatening to suck everything else in
Our lives are essentially hollow, lacking inner strength and vigor
We seem to have lost our insides somewhere
Our guts have been removed and discarded or lost
The void within gives a painful, drawn feeling to our faces
We know that we are doomed creatures, fighting hopelessly for...
#emptiness
#humankind
#LifeStruggles
136 reads
9 Comments
crimsin
Unveiling
Unveiling
Poem Published
26th Mar 2025 10:02pm
26th Mar 2025 10:02pm
hiccup
gleaning from fact and fiction
with visions of past events
Sacred art is understanding
wealth of knowledge is what I crave
Putting away earthly things
The dark appears, and I look in
It is all around us
my star records are in the heavens
memories locked in code
lest they be discovered
Mortal touch is disavowed
divinity in the flesh is graced
within the numerals is the key
a bit of math, and the information comes pouring in
past happenings and the future in collision with time
There is no fate...
with visions of past events
Sacred art is understanding
wealth of knowledge is what I crave
Putting away earthly things
The dark appears, and I look in
It is all around us
my star records are in the heavens
memories locked in code
lest they be discovered
Mortal touch is disavowed
divinity in the flesh is graced
within the numerals is the key
a bit of math, and the information comes pouring in
past happenings and the future in collision with time
There is no fate...
#humankind
#spiritual
#stars
86 reads
4 Comments
Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
11th Jan 2025 2:12pm
11th Jan 2025 2:12pm
CENTER OF BALANCE
It's true that in this life we may never truly know what someone else, is going through in there own personal life. FOR example we all have a moment of a want and need of a helping hand from time to time ⌚ For sure it cost you nothing to have a good heart ❤️ and even a deeper spiritual soul 🙏 to connect on a positive level of energy and strength and understanding. For we all need that equal level of the center of balance of life and love. ❤️ THAT will affect us in ways that we may never truly understand, but that's alright to need and want not that...
#friendship
#humankind
#LifeCycle
#StreamOfConsciousness
#uplifting
103 reads
2 Comments
Solomon_Song
Poem Published
23rd Jan 2023 5:58am
23rd Jan 2023 5:58am
SUCCUMBED TO THE DRIVE
#sex
#rhyming
#humankind
353 reads
3 Comments
summultima
uma
uma
Poem Published
28th Apr 2025 8:04pm
28th Apr 2025 8:04pm
~from a miscellany day’s eclectic ensemble…
1.
the weekend’s gecko vibe continues..
still in a shivering horror, in the corner
of this a herpetophobic mind.. rings
terrific bells as I cross this bedroom
each time.. wondering, has this gecko
taken a refuge in there.. or better to
say, has conquered the room in reality..
2.
a delicate dipteran like a transparent
tiny midge, over my mobile touchscreen..
suffering in sticky traps of a droplet water..
& ah, this pure Buddhist~ Jainist hybrid
of a practicing Hindu... tries to...
the weekend’s gecko vibe continues..
still in a shivering horror, in the corner
of this a herpetophobic mind.. rings
terrific bells as I cross this bedroom
each time.. wondering, has this gecko
taken a refuge in there.. or better to
say, has conquered the room in reality..
2.
a delicate dipteran like a transparent
tiny midge, over my mobile touchscreen..
suffering in sticky traps of a droplet water..
& ah, this pure Buddhist~ Jainist hybrid
of a practicing Hindu... tries to...
#anxiety
#dark
#death
#humankind
#job
50 reads
1 Comment
PoetSpeak
Poem Published
24th Nov 2023 7:46pm
24th Nov 2023 7:46pm
Glove Compartment
I'll know everything I need to know
One look
Papers in order
No excess
What I would expect from you
So much beauty
Drips from your pores
Exquisite organization
Dark chocolate wrapper on back seat
Still human
One look
Papers in order
No excess
What I would expect from you
So much beauty
Drips from your pores
Exquisite organization
Dark chocolate wrapper on back seat
Still human
#cars
#TruthOfLife
#humankind #WritingPoetry
#humankind #WritingPoetry
253 reads
23 Comments
WillowsWhimsies
Poem Published
28th Apr 2025 12:34pm
28th Apr 2025 12:34pm
GPS is useless in life
28 of 30
amazing what you can do
with a single package of Ramen
when the budget has no elasticity
{...always assuming one exists in the first place...}
or how far you can stretch a tank of gas
carefully conserving
painstakingly plotting out routes
because...
...needs must
& no more resources are forthcoming
{at least...not in immediate sight}
crawling out of bed
even though your bones still ache
sore from the day before
after dropping in exhaustion
because there are...
amazing what you can do
with a single package of Ramen
when the budget has no elasticity
{...always assuming one exists in the first place...}
or how far you can stretch a tank of gas
carefully conserving
painstakingly plotting out routes
because...
...needs must
& no more resources are forthcoming
{at least...not in immediate sight}
crawling out of bed
even though your bones still ache
sore from the day before
after dropping in exhaustion
because there are...
#humankind
#LifeStruggles
#strength
84 reads
4 Comments
wallyroo92
Poem Published
Today 2:28am
Today 2:28am
Milky Way
We are cosmic dust
Part of the original creation
We are made of stars and planets
And everything spread across the great canvas
Compiled into sentient beings with the capacity to love
We are children of the universe
Descendants of galaxies and constellations
Waiting to join our brothers and sisters in the sky
While our eyes will be filled with awe and wonder
And until that fateful day
We’ll watch the stars here at home
Here, on the Milky Way
57 Unique Words
80 Total
Part of the original creation
We are made of stars and planets
And everything spread across the great canvas
Compiled into sentient beings with the capacity to love
We are children of the universe
Descendants of galaxies and constellations
Waiting to join our brothers and sisters in the sky
While our eyes will be filled with awe and wonder
And until that fateful day
We’ll watch the stars here at home
Here, on the Milky Way
57 Unique Words
80 Total
#humankind
#inspirational
#love
#stars
#universe
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1 Comment
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
218 reads
12 Comments
Cipher_O
Poem Published
23rd Aug 2021 11:50am
23rd Aug 2021 11:50am
justice
A corrupt framework,
in the inner workings -
of all forms of work,
here in this world.
I expect only injustice.
I expect only inhumanity.
I expect only self service.
Of… Humanity.
Because…
The only justice -
Exists in the transcendence
of… Justice.
An occurrence -
that exists
in a spiritual/intellectual process
of… Exits.
You cannot hurt me -
because I am not here,
in your nation state city,
governed in structures of fear.
You cannot manipulate me -
because...
in the inner workings -
of all forms of work,
here in this world.
I expect only injustice.
I expect only inhumanity.
I expect only self service.
Of… Humanity.
Because…
The only justice -
Exists in the transcendence
of… Justice.
An occurrence -
that exists
in a spiritual/intellectual process
of… Exits.
You cannot hurt me -
because I am not here,
in your nation state city,
governed in structures of fear.
You cannot manipulate me -
because...
#humankind
#misunderstood
#despair
#FeelingLost
#FeelingTrapped
471 reads
6 Comments
brokentitanium
k.
k.
Poem Published
9th Apr 2024 11:50am
9th Apr 2024 11:50am
Some things (and places) are worth the hype
Human-made wonders
can be hit and miss
when it comes to the awe department,
but nature never disappoints.
And human nature,
when at its rare best
can be truly extraordinary.
To see night fall within seconds
under a blazing crown,
and day return just as fast –
truly worthy of all the glory,
and others will write of it
more eloquently than I.
But
to witness it with thousands
who have sat cramped in cars for hours
through towns where “traffic” means
three cars at the...
can be hit and miss
when it comes to the awe department,
but nature never disappoints.
And human nature,
when at its rare best
can be truly extraordinary.
To see night fall within seconds
under a blazing crown,
and day return just as fast –
truly worthy of all the glory,
and others will write of it
more eloquently than I.
But
to witness it with thousands
who have sat cramped in cars for hours
through towns where “traffic” means
three cars at the...
#shadows
#peace
#humankind #NaPoWriMo2024
#humankind #NaPoWriMo2024
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