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.
Vamps
Poem Published
18th Aug 2019 11:57am
18th Aug 2019 11:57am
Cry Awake
Waiting
For the
Time
To come
Transport
With a
Loaded
Gun
Fire me
Away
To sea
Let me be
Oh
Let me be
City streets
The fear
Awake
Passing
Through
A chance
To take
Don't let
them know
Or let
It show
...
For the
Time
To come
Transport
With a
Loaded
Gun
Fire me
Away
To sea
Let me be
Oh
Let me be
City streets
The fear
Awake
Passing
Through
A chance
To take
Don't let
them know
Or let
It show
...
#oppression
#death
#despair #suffering
#despair #suffering
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Vamps
Poem Published
13th Aug 2019 10:18pm
13th Aug 2019 10:18pm
The Island
Arriving here with hopes and dreams
Come on now
We'll picture the scene
People come from living in tents
In tens they come
To a place more intense.
Cameras on
Follow you around
Drone attack
at the slightest sound
The Island has been home to many
John, Paul, frank and Jenny
All fearful folk
This place'll do it
It'll make you choke
A land of opportunity
Money to be made
And surrounded by sea
Your complexion goes
From colour to pale ...
Come on now
We'll picture the scene
People come from living in tents
In tens they come
To a place more intense.
Cameras on
Follow you around
Drone attack
at the slightest sound
The Island has been home to many
John, Paul, frank and Jenny
All fearful folk
This place'll do it
It'll make you choke
A land of opportunity
Money to be made
And surrounded by sea
Your complexion goes
From colour to pale ...
#oppression
#freedom
#dystopian
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ThrillerFox
Poem Published
10th Aug 2019 2:14am
10th Aug 2019 2:14am
Comatose Culture
A fractured society exemplifies
The cost of life unsimplified
The price of envy - greed and strife
Paid in full - paved with lies
Neglected sense of self ensures
The disconnect - the world's allure
To pacify the thinking mind
Violence, drugs, lust, and vice
Only a fool can see the truth
Comatose has taken root
Obey, conform, submit, consume
Loyalty to the servitude
From cradle to grave we imprint the culture
But nothing is as it presents
Preying on our decay like vultures
Thriving on man's ignorant...
The cost of life unsimplified
The price of envy - greed and strife
Paid in full - paved with lies
Neglected sense of self ensures
The disconnect - the world's allure
To pacify the thinking mind
Violence, drugs, lust, and vice
Only a fool can see the truth
Comatose has taken root
Obey, conform, submit, consume
Loyalty to the servitude
From cradle to grave we imprint the culture
But nothing is as it presents
Preying on our decay like vultures
Thriving on man's ignorant...
#corruption
#oppression
#rhyming
#ignorance
#philosophical
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Naajir
TimSkee
TimSkee
Poem Published
7th Aug 2019 11:09am
7th Aug 2019 11:09am
Majesty
it's your majesty
exuding in prominence
a story you tell
wizened thru patience
powerful and purposeful
your time is at hand
the legend of you
stalks the memory of man
etched in his passage
this ode is for you
sowed in a cheapened reserve
while the wild roam free
i apologize
for the zoos and circuses
and the mockery
as i write this rite
i know words won't make this right
but they're all i have
it's your majesty
that humbles this...
exuding in prominence
a story you tell
wizened thru patience
powerful and purposeful
your time is at hand
the legend of you
stalks the memory of man
etched in his passage
this ode is for you
sowed in a cheapened reserve
while the wild roam free
i apologize
for the zoos and circuses
and the mockery
as i write this rite
i know words won't make this right
but they're all i have
it's your majesty
that humbles this...
#oppression
#animals
#TruthOfLife
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unnifaomsl
Poem Published
5th Aug 2019 4:02pm
5th Aug 2019 4:02pm
psychological warfare between modern angels and zombies
when all else fails
blame the past
as an innocent body flails
each breath closer to its last.
get defensive about sinning,
it falls on ears too smart
from the very beginning
wait for the slaughter to start
and closed eyes means it's okay to kill
And clogged arteries means to take another pill
and all is normal
and all is right
sleep peacefully
knowing you snuffed out their light.
blame the past
as an innocent body flails
each breath closer to its last.
get defensive about sinning,
it falls on ears too smart
from the very beginning
wait for the slaughter to start
and closed eyes means it's okay to kill
And clogged arteries means to take another pill
and all is normal
and all is right
sleep peacefully
knowing you snuffed out their light.
#sadness
#murder
#oppression
#war
#animals
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Inkognito
Poem Published
1st Aug 2019 4:27am
1st Aug 2019 4:27am
Wealth is not Meant to be Loved
Love it and you will go crazy.
People are striving for it, now they can't even think clearly.
It's breeding crime and social destitution.
Just notice how the pimp pushes girls to prostitution.
How the drugs feed the dealers.
How the sellers seeks the drugs,
To sell destruction to addicts,
Without any thoughts how it afflicts.
You don't need a fortune to be fortunate.
But they don't want to be lucky,
They don't care about getting bloody,
They only care about the money,
Notice...
People are striving for it, now they can't even think clearly.
It's breeding crime and social destitution.
Just notice how the pimp pushes girls to prostitution.
How the drugs feed the dealers.
How the sellers seeks the drugs,
To sell destruction to addicts,
Without any thoughts how it afflicts.
You don't need a fortune to be fortunate.
But they don't want to be lucky,
They don't care about getting bloody,
They only care about the money,
Notice...
#violence
#oppression
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dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
24th Jul 2019 1:58am
24th Jul 2019 1:58am
that's how he does it ..
well yeah it's annoying
another populist politician goes
for emotion rather than mind and
of course he wins ..
another populist politician goes
for emotion rather than mind and
of course he wins ..
#oppression
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Carpe_Noctem
Poem Published
22nd Jul 2019 11:11am
22nd Jul 2019 11:11am
Serbryanyye Kroliki
Do you understand?
no I don't stand under you
rather I comprehend that your mortgage
is nothing more than a death grip
that is why the government
can get fucked
nothing more than terrorists
trying to control minds with fear and intimidation
who do you work for mafia
where did you get that uniform
proud to protect
who the fuck you protecting then
it's just an illusion
a farce keeping you contained
within imaginary lines
those silver rabbits know the truth
hopping them borders like hurdles ...
no I don't stand under you
rather I comprehend that your mortgage
is nothing more than a death grip
that is why the government
can get fucked
nothing more than terrorists
trying to control minds with fear and intimidation
who do you work for mafia
where did you get that uniform
proud to protect
who the fuck you protecting then
it's just an illusion
a farce keeping you contained
within imaginary lines
those silver rabbits know the truth
hopping them borders like hurdles ...
#corruption
#oppression
#politics
#CallToAction
#HumanRights
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Joshuaberry
Ancestor
Ancestor
Poem Published
20th Jul 2019 10:14am
20th Jul 2019 10:14am
Such Government
They promised us bout phone and mobile,
But how bout network?
They promised us electricity at kainji dam,
But how bout stability.
They promised us bout democracy and independence,
But how bout good governance.
They promised us a cackoo with mutiple colors,
But they came only with its picture.
Pool of water on the tiled street:
Mirage of realism.
19:07:20:10:01
But how bout network?
They promised us electricity at kainji dam,
But how bout stability.
They promised us bout democracy and independence,
But how bout good governance.
They promised us a cackoo with mutiple colors,
But they came only with its picture.
Pool of water on the tiled street:
Mirage of realism.
19:07:20:10:01
#corruption
#oppression
#HumanRights
#inequality
#DomesticViolence
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joegracegrace
Joe Grace
Joe Grace
Poem Published
12th Jul 2019 12:38pm
12th Jul 2019 12:38pm
Proof That the Fall of Communism in Russia Was SUPERFICIAL Rather Than FOR REAL
(1) the KGB or secret police was the backbone of Communist rule in Russia.
If Communism really fell from power the KGB should be gone.
Well, the name was changed but the people that worked there before the "fall" of Communism still continued after that.
The continued existence and power of the KGB = a red flag informing us that the Commies are putting on an act when they claim Communism is dead in Russia !!
(2)Before the socalled fall of Communism, the state owned all the industries.
So when the Kremlin claimed that Communism was gone, the state had to sell off all...
If Communism really fell from power the KGB should be gone.
Well, the name was changed but the people that worked there before the "fall" of Communism still continued after that.
The continued existence and power of the KGB = a red flag informing us that the Commies are putting on an act when they claim Communism is dead in Russia !!
(2)Before the socalled fall of Communism, the state owned all the industries.
So when the Kremlin claimed that Communism was gone, the state had to sell off all...
#violence
#oppression
#power #politics
#power #politics
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MJ-SWIM
M.J S.W.I.M
M.J S.W.I.M
Poem Published
8th Jul 2019 3:19pm
8th Jul 2019 3:19pm
Imperial Dominion: Chapter II
Scene II: The Shadow of The Damned
It was a rainy day in the capital.
The market stalls closed their doors and locked their shutters; the promenade was void of festivities, void of any man or woman in the midst of performance art.
The churches and cathedrals were empty, wherever someone would dare to walk in the pouring rain there were no men or women to greet them, no imperial guards to watch them, and certainly nothing to do…
Not that the lack of activities bothered any of the city’s residents, who were too afraid to leave their homes while the rain still...
It was a rainy day in the capital.
The market stalls closed their doors and locked their shutters; the promenade was void of festivities, void of any man or woman in the midst of performance art.
The churches and cathedrals were empty, wherever someone would dare to walk in the pouring rain there were no men or women to greet them, no imperial guards to watch them, and certainly nothing to do…
Not that the lack of activities bothered any of the city’s residents, who were too afraid to leave their homes while the rain still...
#oppression
#fiction
#dystopian
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MJ-SWIM
M.J S.W.I.M
M.J S.W.I.M
Poem Published
8th Jul 2019 3:08pm
8th Jul 2019 3:08pm
Imperial Dominion: Chapter I
Foreword:
Imperial Dominion is a planet consisting of a single large continent in the general shape of a modified rhombus; with great seas that span the other sixty-five percent of the large world. It is a grand landscape, and at this current time in this current timeline it is dominated by an Empire with the once-great intentions of Emperor Octavius; now warped by the twisted mind of his only daughter, the Empress. The citizens of the Empire live in constant fear and oppression at the hands of their Imperial overseer, and with little light at the end of the tunnel; all is lost for...
Imperial Dominion is a planet consisting of a single large continent in the general shape of a modified rhombus; with great seas that span the other sixty-five percent of the large world. It is a grand landscape, and at this current time in this current timeline it is dominated by an Empire with the once-great intentions of Emperor Octavius; now warped by the twisted mind of his only daughter, the Empress. The citizens of the Empire live in constant fear and oppression at the hands of their Imperial overseer, and with little light at the end of the tunnel; all is lost for...
#oppression
#fiction
#rebellion #dystopian
#rebellion #dystopian
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