Poems about Oppression
#oppression
Poems about oppression, situations in which people are governed in an unjust way. Facing oppression by suffering prolonged cruelty and being prevented from having freedom and opportunity. Here you'll find distressing poems about people being subject to oppressive treatment by society and those in power.
Lilliputian
Poem Published
Yesterday 11:19pm
Yesterday 11:19pm
Your Good Girl
You want to keep me in your pocket,
Away from the sun’s rays,
And the dark shadows.
You want to keep me in a locker
With no holes in the walls,
Where I’m hidden and unseen,
A possession with reins,
To control as you wish.
You want to silence my voice,
You want me to live your way,
You want me to be your good girl.
But what about what I want?
Do I have a say in my life?
Away from the sun’s rays,
And the dark shadows.
You want to keep me in a locker
With no holes in the walls,
Where I’m hidden and unseen,
A possession with reins,
To control as you wish.
You want to silence my voice,
You want me to live your way,
You want me to be your good girl.
But what about what I want?
Do I have a say in my life?
#oppression
#weakness
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missjem56
Poem Published
Yesterday 2:42am
Yesterday 2:42am
Wormhole
Empty
silkworm
husks
Floating
upon
silken
seas
Dying
to
clothe
us!
by Jemia
silkworm
husks
Floating
upon
silken
seas
Dying
to
clothe
us!
by Jemia
#abuse
#nature
#oppression #philosophical
#oppression #philosophical
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goldenmyst
Poem Published
18th Feb 2025 3:09am
18th Feb 2025 3:09am
Reconsecration
Reconsecration
Glasses stained in Stygian windows
With leopard spot rims for predatory effect
Met with sanguine lipstick heat
Her flaming kiss
Is a nitro-glycerin palliative
For Soho heartaches gone mad
When her Greenwich Village tastes
Like poems on all gallows night
That sing for her last supper
When slumlords hang
A no-vacancy brand of fascism
On the rookery gates to skid row
While the arterial Cathedral
For her sacramental corpuscles
Is reconsecrated to Aphrodite
Glasses stained in Stygian windows
With leopard spot rims for predatory effect
Met with sanguine lipstick heat
Her flaming kiss
Is a nitro-glycerin palliative
For Soho heartaches gone mad
When her Greenwich Village tastes
Like poems on all gallows night
That sing for her last supper
When slumlords hang
A no-vacancy brand of fascism
On the rookery gates to skid row
While the arterial Cathedral
For her sacramental corpuscles
Is reconsecrated to Aphrodite
#city
#oppression
#sensual
#spiritual
#women
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2 Comments
rickthepoetwarrior
Poem Published
13th Feb 2025 8:57pm
13th Feb 2025 8:57pm
Trump's A. Null Desire
Trump's no Hitler
That's for sure
Unlike Adolf
Don's manure
Adolf
He no like a Jew
Donald
He blow Netanyahu
Wehrmacht
On the Russian Steppe
Walmart
On the Gaza Strip
Two-state solution
Not a chance
When puppet Don
Do Bibi prance
That's for sure
Unlike Adolf
Don's manure
Adolf
He no like a Jew
Donald
He blow Netanyahu
Wehrmacht
On the Russian Steppe
Walmart
On the Gaza Strip
Two-state solution
Not a chance
When puppet Don
Do Bibi prance
#oppression
#politics
#power
#racism
#war
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Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
13th Feb 2025 6:24pm
13th Feb 2025 6:24pm
Taking Over
A new force has risen. The good old days are done
We reinvent this system. A new age has begun
Alliance of disappointed members who have now conjoined
We share the same disgusts. It's time to feel our wrath
We'll knock you out in one breath
It's our turn to converge
The world needs to be cleansed of all the putrid noise
This pursuit that we chase, the fight is our life choice
Our honor should not be mocked. We're justified to protect it
Try and you will get fucked and you shall feel our wrath
We'll take you down in one breath
It's...
We reinvent this system. A new age has begun
Alliance of disappointed members who have now conjoined
We share the same disgusts. It's time to feel our wrath
We'll knock you out in one breath
It's our turn to converge
The world needs to be cleansed of all the putrid noise
This pursuit that we chase, the fight is our life choice
Our honor should not be mocked. We're justified to protect it
Try and you will get fucked and you shall feel our wrath
We'll take you down in one breath
It's...
#CallToAction
#conflict
#oppression
#rebellion
#rhyming
61 reads
6 Comments
Xaphan
Poem Published
10th Feb 2025 11:35am
10th Feb 2025 11:35am
Dunkelflaute
Doom laden skies held, not one breath, of wind
Under the achromatic mantle, torpidity binged
No turbine turned, there was no sunlight power
Kismet ordained, to drain, every megawatt hour
Eerie evenings, turned countrysides, into tundra
Lights burned bright, until the blackouts umbra
From the murk, came night and the cloying cold
Listlessly lingering, from the valley, to the wold
And dawn would seep, then creep, into each day
Unfolding itself into the simplicity, of bitter grey
Though time inexorably passed, beneath the veil
Enveloped, by...
Under the achromatic mantle, torpidity binged
No turbine turned, there was no sunlight power
Kismet ordained, to drain, every megawatt hour
Eerie evenings, turned countrysides, into tundra
Lights burned bright, until the blackouts umbra
From the murk, came night and the cloying cold
Listlessly lingering, from the valley, to the wold
And dawn would seep, then creep, into each day
Unfolding itself into the simplicity, of bitter grey
Though time inexorably passed, beneath the veil
Enveloped, by...
#environment
#humankind
#nature #oppression
#nature #oppression
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Casted_Runes
Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
2nd Feb 2025 1:30am
2nd Feb 2025 1:30am
The Feminine Stain
When I was a kid
my dad said he could
tell always when
a book was penned
by female hand and mind,
in cases even where
a male pseudonym was used,
and so he’d have to put it down
and pick up something else instead,
a woman’s prose
being too flowery for him.
He was horrified when
I told him at 12
that my favourite author
was Agatha Christie,
but settled a little
when I was 15
and reading Patricia Highsmith,
because she was a lesbian
and therefore of masculine mind,
to his mind.
...
my dad said he could
tell always when
a book was penned
by female hand and mind,
in cases even where
a male pseudonym was used,
and so he’d have to put it down
and pick up something else instead,
a woman’s prose
being too flowery for him.
He was horrified when
I told him at 12
that my favourite author
was Agatha Christie,
but settled a little
when I was 15
and reading Patricia Highsmith,
because she was a lesbian
and therefore of masculine mind,
to his mind.
...
#art
#feminism
#hate #oppression
#hate #oppression
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1 Comment
xthan
Poem Published
29th Jan 2025 10:39am
29th Jan 2025 10:39am
Beige pigs in long wigs
I hear her and her
cronies snorting
and laughing on
four seaters
so I went over,
leaning against
her chair like
some villain
she expects
us to become
told her i'm joining in
on the conversation,
knowing I overheard
her talking about me
her three friends look
down at the floor as
the train rolls into
London St Pancras
as she continues
to deny discussing
about me soon as
I stepped aboard
this rush hour train,
I repeat word
for...
cronies snorting
and laughing on
four seaters
so I went over,
leaning against
her chair like
some villain
she expects
us to become
told her i'm joining in
on the conversation,
knowing I overheard
her talking about me
her three friends look
down at the floor as
the train rolls into
London St Pancras
as she continues
to deny discussing
about me soon as
I stepped aboard
this rush hour train,
I repeat word
for...
#conflict
#HumanRights
#LGBT
#oppression
#transgender
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backdeckbenny
Poem Published
10th Jan 2025 11:46pm
10th Jan 2025 11:46pm
We fiddle while Rome Burns.
The fires that ravaged LA,the bombs that levelled Gaza,the inequality that sits on your doorstep.All caused by the same thing.
YOU.
Deny it if you like.
BUT
The three TVs or the three cars you have were fuel for the fires.
The well appointed home you live in was stolen from the man asleep on your door step.
The bombs falling in foreign lands paid for by your taxes.
GREED
OVERCONSUMPTION
What would you actually do to save the planet?Save another human being?
Doing NOTHING is so easy....
YOU.
Deny it if you like.
BUT
The three TVs or the three cars you have were fuel for the fires.
The well appointed home you live in was stolen from the man asleep on your door step.
The bombs falling in foreign lands paid for by your taxes.
GREED
OVERCONSUMPTION
What would you actually do to save the planet?Save another human being?
Doing NOTHING is so easy....
#consumerism
#oppression
80 reads
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
8th Jan 2025 10:14am
8th Jan 2025 10:14am
The Assist
Hurt creates anger
Anger triggers oppressed thoughts
Lend someone a hand
Anger triggers oppressed thoughts
Lend someone a hand
#friendship
#hurt
#oppression
#senryu
#support
74 reads
13 Comments
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
30th Dec 2024 7:44am
30th Dec 2024 7:44am
Forest Grump
Conservatism and populism
are stupid in simultaneity
like double down loads of bumpkin jism
or Monsanto homogeneity.
Yet this is what the MAGA yokel wants
just to claim victory to be their own
in trite double down loads of tweets and taunts
no ethical mind would ever condone;
a bitter win that the ages have seen
as loss in every facet of the act
whereby the venting of a pent-up spleen
would sacrifice every established fact
which would give everyone the hope they need
to overcome the injustice decreed.
are stupid in simultaneity
like double down loads of bumpkin jism
or Monsanto homogeneity.
Yet this is what the MAGA yokel wants
just to claim victory to be their own
in trite double down loads of tweets and taunts
no ethical mind would ever condone;
a bitter win that the ages have seen
as loss in every facet of the act
whereby the venting of a pent-up spleen
would sacrifice every established fact
which would give everyone the hope they need
to overcome the injustice decreed.
#oppression
125 reads
9 Comments
Kementic1
Poem Published
22nd Dec 2024 11:23pm
22nd Dec 2024 11:23pm
Never Goes Out Of Style
In America when it comes to fashion there is always a change
and clothes come in a wide price range
sometimes dresses, and sweaters have suede or leather patches
made in china in large batches
there are an infinite number of accessories
that shine like lights on Christmas trees
but, when comes to race, folks walk around with a phony smile
with hate in their hearts-that never goes out of style
and clothes come in a wide price range
sometimes dresses, and sweaters have suede or leather patches
made in china in large batches
there are an infinite number of accessories
that shine like lights on Christmas trees
but, when comes to race, folks walk around with a phony smile
with hate in their hearts-that never goes out of style
#HumanRights
#inequality
#LifeStruggles
#oppression
#racism
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