Poems about Inequality
#inequality
Poems about inequality, unfairness in society where some people have more opportunities and social status than others. Poems about inequality due to wealth, sex, race or birthplace.
Kementic1
Poem Published
8th Feb 2024 9:40pm
8th Feb 2024 9:40pm
Street Corner Pundit
People overlook what is right under their nose
like when the Emperor didn't have on any clothes
It took a kid to state a simple fact
While others whispered but, failed to act.
They were being blindly obedient to authority
Sadly, in this country that's the majority
"When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose"
and standing up for my people is the way I choose
The one thing I know is true
The system is out to screw me and you
While the powers that be dream of a new evil and how to fund it
I will...
like when the Emperor didn't have on any clothes
It took a kid to state a simple fact
While others whispered but, failed to act.
They were being blindly obedient to authority
Sadly, in this country that's the majority
"When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose"
and standing up for my people is the way I choose
The one thing I know is true
The system is out to screw me and you
While the powers that be dream of a new evil and how to fund it
I will...
#power
#politics
#LifeStruggles
#HumanRights
#inequality
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MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
5th Feb 2024 9:44pm
5th Feb 2024 9:44pm
Bigshots
Leadership! The buzzword perpetual
worshipped through the patristic eons
by the pallid preconceptual
and all of their sycophantic peons.
"All hands on deck to swear!"...
say the captains by Beatitudes,
then, by their demeanors you can compare
...antipodean human attitudes.
Actions prove when morality is lost
and ethos quoted more than followed
are values that may as well be tossed
as less mud wherein the hogs are wallowed.
Leadership! That faithful permission slip,
that let's them smugly flop...
worshipped through the patristic eons
by the pallid preconceptual
and all of their sycophantic peons.
"All hands on deck to swear!"...
say the captains by Beatitudes,
then, by their demeanors you can compare
...antipodean human attitudes.
Actions prove when morality is lost
and ethos quoted more than followed
are values that may as well be tossed
as less mud wherein the hogs are wallowed.
Leadership! That faithful permission slip,
that let's them smugly flop...
#corruption
#inequality
#deception
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6 Comments
Kementic1
Poem Published
4th Feb 2024 10:50pm
4th Feb 2024 10:50pm
The Other America
Blacks here live in places like N'awlins, B-more and Chiraq
where hard working people have to watch their back
Because from both the cops and criminals we are under attack
and the courts will not cut us any slack
Our country is divided by an ethic, religious or political wall
in order to survive my people climb mts. that are Everest tall
We live on a social-ecomonic isthmus
Where crimes on us by both Whites and Blacks we witness
At best, for us the glass that hold life's joy is only half full
but, least we are no longer...
where hard working people have to watch their back
Because from both the cops and criminals we are under attack
and the courts will not cut us any slack
Our country is divided by an ethic, religious or political wall
in order to survive my people climb mts. that are Everest tall
We live on a social-ecomonic isthmus
Where crimes on us by both Whites and Blacks we witness
At best, for us the glass that hold life's joy is only half full
but, least we are no longer...
#oppression
#racism
#freedom
#HumanRights
#inequality
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Kementic1
Poem Published
2nd Feb 2024 00:26am
2nd Feb 2024 00:26am
Your Brother In The Struggle
We came here as his chattel
sold on auction blocks like cattle
Our women he raped and disrespected
even today they remain unprotected
They laughed, smoked, ate and drank
while bodies of hung black men rotted and stank
Now shoot us like rabies carrying dogs in the street
or take us to jail after our heads they beat
It is sad to see
that after 300 years we are only semi-free
All these things in my mind I juggle
as I remain your Brother in the struggle
sold on auction blocks like cattle
Our women he raped and disrespected
even today they remain unprotected
They laughed, smoked, ate and drank
while bodies of hung black men rotted and stank
Now shoot us like rabies carrying dogs in the street
or take us to jail after our heads they beat
It is sad to see
that after 300 years we are only semi-free
All these things in my mind I juggle
as I remain your Brother in the struggle
#oppression
#racism
#freedom
#HumanRights
#inequality
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MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
16th Jan 2024 10:14pm
16th Jan 2024 10:14pm
Hush Yourself
Mired in perpetual outrage
the mind of convention is conceited
for rage is not the way of the sage
but just a brain, of decency, depleted.
Oh, we are all very dysfunctional
but I hesitate to call it sin
when it is work just to be punctual
about when our labors begin.
And it is easy to lapse into thinking
that ours is the only duress,
or that the apocalypse is brinking
because a dude walked by...wearing a dress.
So, please, do not speak of cultural wars,
It only confirms us as bigotry's whores!
the mind of convention is conceited
for rage is not the way of the sage
but just a brain, of decency, depleted.
Oh, we are all very dysfunctional
but I hesitate to call it sin
when it is work just to be punctual
about when our labors begin.
And it is easy to lapse into thinking
that ours is the only duress,
or that the apocalypse is brinking
because a dude walked by...wearing a dress.
So, please, do not speak of cultural wars,
It only confirms us as bigotry's whores!
#oppression
#LifeStruggles
#ignorance #inequality
#ignorance #inequality
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MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
16th Jan 2024 1:49pm
16th Jan 2024 1:49pm
No Monarchies!
Of the rich the poor should be suspicious
since we remember from old afflictions
that too much cash makes them injudicious
and prone to corruptions and addictions.
Evil hides behind tradition's shield
and unchecked influence leads to bad things
which is why old Yankees took to the field
to tell the world that...WE DON'T NEED KINGS!
Yet now we're told to kiss the rich man's ass
and that any sort of foment is treason.
But sometimes, when the boss is ungodly crass,
that fomented voice...is the voice of reason!
...
since we remember from old afflictions
that too much cash makes them injudicious
and prone to corruptions and addictions.
Evil hides behind tradition's shield
and unchecked influence leads to bad things
which is why old Yankees took to the field
to tell the world that...WE DON'T NEED KINGS!
Yet now we're told to kiss the rich man's ass
and that any sort of foment is treason.
But sometimes, when the boss is ungodly crass,
that fomented voice...is the voice of reason!
...
#oppression
#politics
#racism #inequality
#racism #inequality
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6 Comments
prometheus5290
Poem Published
11th Jan 2024 1:13am
11th Jan 2024 1:13am
Because I can't shit upwards
Because I cannot shit upwards,
I use my shit to convince those being shit on
to rage against those shitting on them.
I will become the shitter
to catalyze the mission,
but know I shit with love, with passion and compassion,
with the guts and the bile to see what is causing the problem and die trying to fix it.
If it didn't require shit,
I would use a different expedient means.
"Computer learning"
While writing this poem
autocorrect started correcting "shit" to "shot,"
but, by the...
I use my shit to convince those being shit on
to rage against those shitting on them.
I will become the shitter
to catalyze the mission,
but know I shit with love, with passion and compassion,
with the guts and the bile to see what is causing the problem and die trying to fix it.
If it didn't require shit,
I would use a different expedient means.
"Computer learning"
While writing this poem
autocorrect started correcting "shit" to "shot,"
but, by the...
#humankind
#CallToAction
#HumanRights #inequality
#HumanRights #inequality
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MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
10th Jan 2024 10:29am
10th Jan 2024 10:29am
Tax Reform
If a punishment ought to fit the crime
Then the wealthy must be bled with leeches
Or at least endure this humble rhyme
To counteract conservative screeches.
They say dollars are not national blood,
But mother's milk only they must suckle.
If others suggest that they share the flood
The response will be a haunting chuckle.
Somehow, laughing all the way to the bank
Has become a respected way to act.
Whatever happened to that tough old yank
That would shake his head at that lack of tact?
He sits, there, by an economic ghost
...
Then the wealthy must be bled with leeches
Or at least endure this humble rhyme
To counteract conservative screeches.
They say dollars are not national blood,
But mother's milk only they must suckle.
If others suggest that they share the flood
The response will be a haunting chuckle.
Somehow, laughing all the way to the bank
Has become a respected way to act.
Whatever happened to that tough old yank
That would shake his head at that lack of tact?
He sits, there, by an economic ghost
...
#politics
#inequality
#deception
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3 Comments
Ogbonna
Poem Published
9th Jan 2024 11:06pm
9th Jan 2024 11:06pm
The Unappreciated Woman
Just take a good look at me;
My frame is attractive!
It does the unsated
appetite of the chauvinist
fuel.
My curves and your fantasies
are mutually inclusive!
Without them, dreams
are truncated.
But I am an orgasmic
symbol.
The self opinionated chauvinist
designs me in his sub-conscious
to serve and be utterly subservient.
I am incarcerated as a chef,
and timeless baby sitter.
A baby machine for a
patriarchal dynasty.
My education is a threat to chauvinist ego.
My ignorance hones his misogynist...
My frame is attractive!
It does the unsated
appetite of the chauvinist
fuel.
My curves and your fantasies
are mutually inclusive!
Without them, dreams
are truncated.
But I am an orgasmic
symbol.
The self opinionated chauvinist
designs me in his sub-conscious
to serve and be utterly subservient.
I am incarcerated as a chef,
and timeless baby sitter.
A baby machine for a
patriarchal dynasty.
My education is a threat to chauvinist ego.
My ignorance hones his misogynist...
#oppression
#inequality
#vulnerability
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MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
28th Dec 2023 2:29am
28th Dec 2023 2:29am
All Ye Who are Good Fellows...
A conservative mind is a terrible thing;
incapable of absurd reduction,
and forever fixed on cash and bling
there's no time for sleuth deduction
whereby solutions may be found,
with liberality of thought,
and by fresh diversity crowned
to undermine the money despot
dedicated to hate and rage
in all four corners of the Earth
and have been that way in every age;
opposed to constant grace and mirth,
which most of us would love to know...
before we fill fresh graves below!
incapable of absurd reduction,
and forever fixed on cash and bling
there's no time for sleuth deduction
whereby solutions may be found,
with liberality of thought,
and by fresh diversity crowned
to undermine the money despot
dedicated to hate and rage
in all four corners of the Earth
and have been that way in every age;
opposed to constant grace and mirth,
which most of us would love to know...
before we fill fresh graves below!
#LifeStruggles
#HumanRights
#inequality #vulnerability
#inequality #vulnerability
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threesomelover
Poem Published
19th Dec 2023 3:56pm
19th Dec 2023 3:56pm
ARISE MY SISTERS
ARISE MY SISTERS
From Eve to Sarah
from Esther to Mary
from servant to princess
daughter and wife
the time has come
to make much of your beauty
drink deep from your wisdom
give voice to your song
build a pulpit for your message
and let the true resurrection come
My father is angry
you dare lay hands
on his daughters
abuse them for your pleasures
jail them for your pride
make much of your rules
that litter the nations with lies
The day has come
for a new a sword to be burnished
a...
From Eve to Sarah
from Esther to Mary
from servant to princess
daughter and wife
the time has come
to make much of your beauty
drink deep from your wisdom
give voice to your song
build a pulpit for your message
and let the true resurrection come
My father is angry
you dare lay hands
on his daughters
abuse them for your pleasures
jail them for your pride
make much of your rules
that litter the nations with lies
The day has come
for a new a sword to be burnished
a...
#dreams
#LifeStruggles
#LifeGoals #inequality
#LifeGoals #inequality
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BlueBeastGirl
Beasty
Beasty
Poem Published
19th Dec 2023 7:46am
19th Dec 2023 7:46am
Invisible Gypsy
Our silence is our safety
That's what my Dad would say
Don't tell them you're gypsy
That's how you end up dead
I'm Romani
I say it to an empty room
Swallowing my tears harshly
Old wounds reopened with precision
Invisible... That's all we are... Huh
That's what my Dad would say
Don't tell them you're gypsy
That's how you end up dead
I'm Romani
I say it to an empty room
Swallowing my tears harshly
Old wounds reopened with precision
Invisible... That's all we are... Huh
#heartbroken
#HumanRights
#despair
#inequality
#vulnerability
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