Long Poems About Inequality
#inequality
Long poems about inequality. 300 words or more, most recently published poems first.
Knotshaker
Poem Published
17th Mar 2025 2:36pm
17th Mar 2025 2:36pm
The Real Enemy
You’d best chain those super-rich before they chain you.
But oh, my dears, you’re too busy fussing and fighting
with each other to take notice of what they’re up to.
They’ve got all the money.
Or they’ve got control of all the money.
They—or the public relations strategists who work for them—
started all the fusses, all the fights.
They set all the fires.
And you got spooked, hooked, hoodwinked by one or more of the various traumas
they’ve cooked up to distract you,
the various conflagrations they’ve arsoned—real or...
But oh, my dears, you’re too busy fussing and fighting
with each other to take notice of what they’re up to.
They’ve got all the money.
Or they’ve got control of all the money.
They—or the public relations strategists who work for them—
started all the fusses, all the fights.
They set all the fires.
And you got spooked, hooked, hoodwinked by one or more of the various traumas
they’ve cooked up to distract you,
the various conflagrations they’ve arsoned—real or...
#corruption
#greed
#inequality
#politics
#poverty
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poeticdelight
Hamid
Hamid
Poem Published
18th Dec 2024 12:59pm
18th Dec 2024 12:59pm
Blindness Of The Eyed Ones
It's so easy to write more words
vanity and levity, that say less
much the same when you talk too much
while your speech is meaningless
even at more lower level when you lie
in this mature age and awareness...............
when the child lies we blame the kid
scald him sometimes, hurt his feelings
don't we realize that they are our seed
Then, we reject the crops that we have sown
shameful when the child read our sickness,
see our vulnerability, watch how weak
we present our poetic selves....
vanity and levity, that say less
much the same when you talk too much
while your speech is meaningless
even at more lower level when you lie
in this mature age and awareness...............
when the child lies we blame the kid
scald him sometimes, hurt his feelings
don't we realize that they are our seed
Then, we reject the crops that we have sown
shameful when the child read our sickness,
see our vulnerability, watch how weak
we present our poetic selves....
#corruption
#deception
#inequality
#LifeStruggles
#vulnerability
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Wordsmith
Poem Published
28th Nov 2024 7:05am
28th Nov 2024 7:05am
The Cry of The Hungry
In the land where the sun kisses the soil
Where abundance once sprang from honest toil
Now hunger prowls... like a restless beast
And famine mocks every hoped-for feast
The yam barns are empty... the granaries bare
The fields once golden... now stripped of care
Scarcity spreads... like harmattan dust
A bitter curse... on a broken trust
A goat tied too long... will chew the rope
But here even ropes... can’t kindle hope
The people cry... their stomachs hollow
Yet promises are all they’re forced to swallow
Once we...
Where abundance once sprang from honest toil
Now hunger prowls... like a restless beast
And famine mocks every hoped-for feast
The yam barns are empty... the granaries bare
The fields once golden... now stripped of care
Scarcity spreads... like harmattan dust
A bitter curse... on a broken trust
A goat tied too long... will chew the rope
But here even ropes... can’t kindle hope
The people cry... their stomachs hollow
Yet promises are all they’re forced to swallow
Once we...
#corruption
#HumanRights
#inequality
#politics
#poverty
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Ahavati
Tams
Tams
Poem Published
4th Jul 2024 4:57pm
4th Jul 2024 4:57pm
Independence Day
I.
The kick of equality
across a continent
and a dose of
What. The. Fuck
does not match
the Q&A quiz
I took at 18
when I could finally vote
"What can you not stand, Tammy?"
"Hypocrisy."
Yet -
here it is—mangy hair
matted to the scalp,
shoveling the ground
to bury bones of truth
every passing moment
Its lids barely hang
by the teeth of its skin
blocking its eyesight
to democracy
dragging all that weight
killing off the last...
The kick of equality
across a continent
and a dose of
What. The. Fuck
does not match
the Q&A quiz
I took at 18
when I could finally vote
"What can you not stand, Tammy?"
"Hypocrisy."
Yet -
here it is—mangy hair
matted to the scalp,
shoveling the ground
to bury bones of truth
every passing moment
Its lids barely hang
by the teeth of its skin
blocking its eyesight
to democracy
dragging all that weight
killing off the last...
#corruption
#greed
#HumanRights
#hypocrisy
#inequality
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Soxy
SoxThePoet
SoxThePoet
Poem Published
5th Oct 2023 7:22am
5th Oct 2023 7:22am
Born Free
All hail the born-free generation!
How blessed are we, that we were born free?
Our bodies are free but not our minds,
Our labor is free but not our thoughts,
Our tongues are free but not our lives,
Our legs they open them for free but not our hearts,
Our Oxygen is free but not our health,
Our stress is free but not our smiles,
Our votes are free but not our rights,
Our poverty is free but not our dreams,
Our scars are free but not our healing,
Our struggles are free but not our peace,
Our freedom is free but only in the minds...
How blessed are we, that we were born free?
Our bodies are free but not our minds,
Our labor is free but not our thoughts,
Our tongues are free but not our lives,
Our legs they open them for free but not our hearts,
Our Oxygen is free but not our health,
Our stress is free but not our smiles,
Our votes are free but not our rights,
Our poverty is free but not our dreams,
Our scars are free but not our healing,
Our struggles are free but not our peace,
Our freedom is free but only in the minds...
#corruption
#politics
#freedom
#HumanRights
#inequality
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cabcool
Poem Published
24th Sep 2023 3:35am
24th Sep 2023 3:35am
the poor man's wealth
"The rich man's wealth is in the city….The poor man's wealth
is in a holy, holy place."―Peter Tosh (after Prov. 10:15)
the bite of poverty consumes the poor
who, in his lowliness, must still endure
the hunger of the world to feed his flesh
to vultures. everyday, his pain comes fresh,
his barrenness to harvest, like a crop,
where scarcely do the dews of heaven drop.
...
is in a holy, holy place."―Peter Tosh (after Prov. 10:15)
the bite of poverty consumes the poor
who, in his lowliness, must still endure
the hunger of the world to feed his flesh
to vultures. everyday, his pain comes fresh,
his barrenness to harvest, like a crop,
where scarcely do the dews of heaven drop.
...
#HumanRights
#greed
#inequality #poverty
#inequality #poverty
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cabcool
Poem Published
12th Sep 2023 5:56pm
12th Sep 2023 5:56pm
graffiti 1
graphic nuisance
"Scars - the graffiti of violence."—Harry Dresden
i.
inkblots
make a rhymeless
timeless
meaningless mess
whose absurd words
and crazy phrases
make puns of nuns
with filthy habits.
ii.
the sorry lots
of word harlots
fill the slots
of bigots
...
"Scars - the graffiti of violence."—Harry Dresden
i.
inkblots
make a rhymeless
timeless
meaningless mess
whose absurd words
and crazy phrases
make puns of nuns
with filthy habits.
ii.
the sorry lots
of word harlots
fill the slots
of bigots
...
#depression
#violence
#LifeStruggles
#MentalHealth
#inequality
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cabcool
Poem Published
7th Sep 2023 11:03pm
7th Sep 2023 11:03pm
seed begging bread
for when you die
a piece of me
lies in the ground
and though i live
the missing bit
cannot be found.
the bread on which
i gorge myself
sweet on my tongue ...
a piece of me
lies in the ground
and though i live
the missing bit
cannot be found.
the bread on which
i gorge myself
sweet on my tongue ...
#kindness
#food
#redemption
#inequality
#poverty
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Breedlove
Poem Published
10th Aug 2023 10:22am
10th Aug 2023 10:22am
Heal Yourself
#universe
#suffering
#inequality
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jenny_is_hungry
Poem Published
29th Jul 2023 5:28pm
29th Jul 2023 5:28pm
Soft Marches
I watched LGBTQIA+ march and I marched
When I could
A tight community loud enough to be understood
I watched the carriers march, demanding safer conditions
Nationwide, to show how bad it could be for Americans
I watch now as Hollywood uproots problems of compensation
The world rallies around the unity of their proclamation
And finally I March every time the nurses call
The group is always small
Two or three to represent all
Standing at the line again
While four hundred grease the cog
All complaining
It's not safe
The pay...
When I could
A tight community loud enough to be understood
I watched the carriers march, demanding safer conditions
Nationwide, to show how bad it could be for Americans
I watch now as Hollywood uproots problems of compensation
The world rallies around the unity of their proclamation
And finally I March every time the nurses call
The group is always small
Two or three to represent all
Standing at the line again
While four hundred grease the cog
All complaining
It's not safe
The pay...
#corruption
#HumanRights
#greed #inequality
#greed #inequality
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jenny_is_hungry
Poem Published
16th Jul 2023 9:43am
16th Jul 2023 9:43am
The True Two Party System
I've been to Greece
England
France
Even Iran
With my friend back in ten
I remember thinking
What the fucks up with American men
Ive had more problems when
I go out
It's almost a fight
Ive calmed with years
But face the same spite
You would think I feel unsafe cause of the men
No
Most
It's the hag faced, youngling, or bitter women
They hit home
Almost every time I'm out
Last time at five guys
An old lady staring with hate as she stuffed mouth
But it's always like...
England
France
Even Iran
With my friend back in ten
I remember thinking
What the fucks up with American men
Ive had more problems when
I go out
It's almost a fight
Ive calmed with years
But face the same spite
You would think I feel unsafe cause of the men
No
Most
It's the hag faced, youngling, or bitter women
They hit home
Almost every time I'm out
Last time at five guys
An old lady staring with hate as she stuffed mouth
But it's always like...
#women
#men
#CallToAction
#inequality
#responsibility
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cabcool
Poem Published
9th Jun 2023 9:07pm
9th Jun 2023 9:07pm
the life and the living
you, drunk on the honey,
i, sobered by the sting;
you drink at the fountain,
i, sodden by the fling
of flotsam and jetsam
you hurdle at my face
to render the programme
your fortune—my disgrace.
the milk curds, you guzzle,
while i must count the horns;
you sicken on rose blooms,
while i must bleed on thorns.
...
i, sobered by the sting;
you drink at the fountain,
i, sodden by the fling
of flotsam and jetsam
you hurdle at my face
to render the programme
your fortune—my disgrace.
the milk curds, you guzzle,
while i must count the horns;
you sicken on rose blooms,
while i must bleed on thorns.
...
#dreams
#LifeStruggles
#inequality #poverty
#inequality #poverty
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