Long Poems About Inequality
#inequality
Long poems about inequality. 300 words or more, most recently published poems first.
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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the Hand that makes the lily bloom
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more,
that is poor."—Lucius Annaeus Seneca
behold the lily in the swamp,
how pure and bright she blooms!
unfettered by stark stench and muck,
great stature she assumes.
her litheness every eye consumes,
queens emulate her pluck;
her elegance stirs brides and grooms
to light their wedding lamp.
behold the poor man in his dirt, ...
that is poor."—Lucius Annaeus Seneca
behold the lily in the swamp,
how pure and bright she blooms!
unfettered by stark stench and muck,
great stature she assumes.
her litheness every eye consumes,
queens emulate her pluck;
her elegance stirs brides and grooms
to light their wedding lamp.
behold the poor man in his dirt, ...
#LifeStruggles
#greed
#inequality
#morality
#poverty
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Justice
Blacks get more time than whites.
The police love to read our rights.
The justice system is so damn dirty.
Damn, they don't show any mercy.
They're supposed to serve and protect.
But yet they don't give us any respect.
Because it's the color of my skin.
Like being black is an awful sin.
They say we gotta vote for change.
These laws gotta be rearranged.
Living in this world we're not equal.
We live in a world full of evil.
I'm not doing this for likes and views.
Blacks being killed is always in the news.
When...
The police love to read our rights.
The justice system is so damn dirty.
Damn, they don't show any mercy.
They're supposed to serve and protect.
But yet they don't give us any respect.
Because it's the color of my skin.
Like being black is an awful sin.
They say we gotta vote for change.
These laws gotta be rearranged.
Living in this world we're not equal.
We live in a world full of evil.
I'm not doing this for likes and views.
Blacks being killed is always in the news.
When...
#morality
#rhyming
#HumanRights #inequality
#HumanRights #inequality
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Self Provided Philosophical Fellatio
Am I normal?
Am I regular?
Am I different?
Am I special?
How do I fit in?
Where do I fit in?
Who are my people?
Where is my home?
These are all questions that in this modern age of a more liberal society all young adults are almost required to ask themselves. Everywhere, people always want to know where they fit in and how they are special. But the problem with this progression fueled thought process where we give people more and more reins and labels to control themselves and live their own lives, as they...
Am I regular?
Am I different?
Am I special?
How do I fit in?
Where do I fit in?
Who are my people?
Where is my home?
These are all questions that in this modern age of a more liberal society all young adults are almost required to ask themselves. Everywhere, people always want to know where they fit in and how they are special. But the problem with this progression fueled thought process where we give people more and more reins and labels to control themselves and live their own lives, as they...
#humankind
#HumanRights
#inequality
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Crowd Control
Why would you need to call in the military
Threats of lethal force from a leader that's scary
Smoke grenades going off, followed by a national guard force
Family pitted against family ignorantly protesting the source
This motherfucker was foreseen a revelation ago
He would ride the bitch to power and then pimp hate like a hoe
Buying up all of the bullets, gloating, ready to give the command
But how are they going to enter the battlefield and kill their brother like any other man
There are a lot of mothers and daughters that are fighting...
Threats of lethal force from a leader that's scary
Smoke grenades going off, followed by a national guard force
Family pitted against family ignorantly protesting the source
This motherfucker was foreseen a revelation ago
He would ride the bitch to power and then pimp hate like a hoe
Buying up all of the bullets, gloating, ready to give the command
But how are they going to enter the battlefield and kill their brother like any other man
There are a lot of mothers and daughters that are fighting...
#LifeStruggles
#humankind
#inequality
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Allowed
Can you see what we have allowed
Looking out of your bedroom window and seeing the fire rain down
There are nuclear missiles posing as storm clouds
Nothing can be done, we've given up our voice's sound
At one time a proud and voiced people
Ranked among the top as freedoms keepers
But at some point our spines dissolved into a gel
Not to worry we also gave away our brains as well
The spines dissolving gives us an excuse for doing nothing
Pretending that we thought our leaders were only just bluffing
Idly watching each and every...
Looking out of your bedroom window and seeing the fire rain down
There are nuclear missiles posing as storm clouds
Nothing can be done, we've given up our voice's sound
At one time a proud and voiced people
Ranked among the top as freedoms keepers
But at some point our spines dissolved into a gel
Not to worry we also gave away our brains as well
The spines dissolving gives us an excuse for doing nothing
Pretending that we thought our leaders were only just bluffing
Idly watching each and every...
#humankind
#HumanRights
#inequality
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Observing Things
Did humans through Caine and Abel introduce ourselves to death
Will we begin burning skeletons when there's no rain forest left
We're cutting down bodies at the same rate as trees
Wars leaving us on the battlefields like dead fucking leaves
Someone dreamt to build industry all along waterways, a poisonous dream
This dream was a nightmare declaring death to everything down stream
Logging again adding to the destruction, poisoning rivers and creeks
The eroding land left behind is still reaching it's peak
Topsoil washing away carrying with it...
Will we begin burning skeletons when there's no rain forest left
We're cutting down bodies at the same rate as trees
Wars leaving us on the battlefields like dead fucking leaves
Someone dreamt to build industry all along waterways, a poisonous dream
This dream was a nightmare declaring death to everything down stream
Logging again adding to the destruction, poisoning rivers and creeks
The eroding land left behind is still reaching it's peak
Topsoil washing away carrying with it...
#LifeStruggles
#humankind
#inequality
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Early Edition
Am I, my own worst enemy
Because I'm believing what the news is telling me
Once an entity within itself, protected by the constitution
Then shitted on the public at large and then joined the institution
Shit getting pimped by every politician with or seeking an office
Each telling the same fucking lie and hoping that you don't notice
They say, "climate change is just bullshit about as real as planet X
If we listen to the scientist on this, who knows what's next"
They have collectively joined forces, although they deny it to the...
Because I'm believing what the news is telling me
Once an entity within itself, protected by the constitution
Then shitted on the public at large and then joined the institution
Shit getting pimped by every politician with or seeking an office
Each telling the same fucking lie and hoping that you don't notice
They say, "climate change is just bullshit about as real as planet X
If we listen to the scientist on this, who knows what's next"
They have collectively joined forces, although they deny it to the...
#politics
#HumanRights
#inequality
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Fat Cats
Fat cats, your pockets shouldn't be bulging like that
Clear your minds by giving it all back
Fat cat, how much do you need before it stops making sense
Being broke and needy are no longer your defense
To see the world I climbed atop a garbage heap
There were so many below me screaming for just a peep
From here upon my throne made of trash
I could see the line where our two worlds clashed
The have-nots were rebelling, the illusion was fading fast
The fat cats had depended on an illusion that simply couldn't last
To had...
Clear your minds by giving it all back
Fat cat, how much do you need before it stops making sense
Being broke and needy are no longer your defense
To see the world I climbed atop a garbage heap
There were so many below me screaming for just a peep
From here upon my throne made of trash
I could see the line where our two worlds clashed
The have-nots were rebelling, the illusion was fading fast
The fat cats had depended on an illusion that simply couldn't last
To had...
#humankind
#HumanRights
#inequality
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Neutrality
Isn't it funny that man searches for a better more peaceful place to live
When it's man that wars and takes abusingly all that this planet gives
Isn't it funny how we drain this planet and continue to laugh
How we take all for ourselves after promising each other half
Given a gift that only should comes in second to one
The love that we should share for each other is where it all begun
To take nothing and explode it into an infinite number of pieces
With life continuing to be formed from the energy it releases
Charged particles bonded...
When it's man that wars and takes abusingly all that this planet gives
Isn't it funny how we drain this planet and continue to laugh
How we take all for ourselves after promising each other half
Given a gift that only should comes in second to one
The love that we should share for each other is where it all begun
To take nothing and explode it into an infinite number of pieces
With life continuing to be formed from the energy it releases
Charged particles bonded...
#earth
#drugs
#humankind #inequality
#humankind #inequality
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Matrixing
To bludgeon me, shoot me, doesn't end me
The cracking of the flesh releases the spirit introducing me
To what really is instead of this warped version of reality
The freeing of the spirit allows me to see, that we're all shackle, thinking we're free
Garbage piled miles high all around
The walls of your imagined Jericho long ago came tumbling down
The master program was attacked by a trojan
That keeps us seeing what isn't there again and again
We fight each other over nothing, because nothing is all that we know
Those that have...
The cracking of the flesh releases the spirit introducing me
To what really is instead of this warped version of reality
The freeing of the spirit allows me to see, that we're all shackle, thinking we're free
Garbage piled miles high all around
The walls of your imagined Jericho long ago came tumbling down
The master program was attacked by a trojan
That keeps us seeing what isn't there again and again
We fight each other over nothing, because nothing is all that we know
Those that have...
#corruption
#humankind
#HumanRights #inequality
#HumanRights #inequality
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Caged Heat
Can you imagine walking among the carnage of reality
Your destiny was to discover that there is no such a thing as infinity
To know there's a beginning and end, I've mentally closed the loop
Into a Mobius strip containing time and space riding on truth
Lies and everything corrupt is simply negative energy
My dragon has been well fed off of those that defy me
Never mind whatever deity you bow to, be they of darkness or light
I am the only one left of my race and I must show my might
Invading Nebulars and killing stars before they're born ...
Your destiny was to discover that there is no such a thing as infinity
To know there's a beginning and end, I've mentally closed the loop
Into a Mobius strip containing time and space riding on truth
Lies and everything corrupt is simply negative energy
My dragon has been well fed off of those that defy me
Never mind whatever deity you bow to, be they of darkness or light
I am the only one left of my race and I must show my might
Invading Nebulars and killing stars before they're born ...
#hate
#humankind
#inequality
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DU Poetry : Long Poems About Inequality