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.
Xaphan
Poem Published
11th Oct 2022 00:42am
11th Oct 2022 00:42am
Haunted World
Haunted world, cast into a radioactive, Venus guise
Ascension has been mortally razed, within their lies
Under a spell, those who were, decided not to think
Now, they're the ghosts and ashes, of those extinct
They had it all, as they chose to see, but didn't look
Ending everything inevitably, as the lightning struck
Death was, the missile, the bomb, the artillery shell
Wailing with insanity's sirens, to warn, but not repel
Ordained by heaven, but the gods, were not in fact
Removed, from the horror, of each depraved attack
Let those MAD men...
Ascension has been mortally razed, within their lies
Under a spell, those who were, decided not to think
Now, they're the ghosts and ashes, of those extinct
They had it all, as they chose to see, but didn't look
Ending everything inevitably, as the lightning struck
Death was, the missile, the bomb, the artillery shell
Wailing with insanity's sirens, to warn, but not repel
Ordained by heaven, but the gods, were not in fact
Removed, from the horror, of each depraved attack
Let those MAD men...
#hate
#oppression
#war
#death
#MentalHealth
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missjem56
Poem Published
3rd Oct 2022 9:19am
3rd Oct 2022 9:19am
Progress?
It's a funny thing
That colour of skin
Didn't become a definition
Until the 16th/17th century
And that a few thousand years ago
Neither did gender
And here we are
In a so called advanced society
That separates
And divides us all
Into little boxes
Cliched
I witnessed, and also received abuse
But glad i was neither
Black, brown, ginger,overweight
And especially not female
As i knew that the abuse i endured
Would of been worse
Although having my head kicked
Punched, beaten with snooker balls within a...
That colour of skin
Didn't become a definition
Until the 16th/17th century
And that a few thousand years ago
Neither did gender
And here we are
In a so called advanced society
That separates
And divides us all
Into little boxes
Cliched
I witnessed, and also received abuse
But glad i was neither
Black, brown, ginger,overweight
And especially not female
As i knew that the abuse i endured
Would of been worse
Although having my head kicked
Punched, beaten with snooker balls within a...
#violence
#oppression
#memories #humankind
#memories #humankind
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1 Comment
wallyroo92
Bumped 27th Sep 2022 8:22pm
27th Feb 2019 2:10pm
27th Feb 2019 2:10pm
Maya's Portraits
Every time I read Maya’s poetry,
I’m in awe of the emotion she conveys,
But every time I see her portraits,
I can’t but help sense her pain.
In each of her pictures she tell a story,
Of trials and tribulations and triumphs,
Because in her smile she conquered it all,
And her works surely made her a giant.
Maya’s portraits always show a resilience,
Her experiences made her even stronger,
In her face there is a soulful grace,
With a gift that brought her honor.
#MayaAngelou
I’m in awe of the emotion she conveys,
But every time I see her portraits,
I can’t but help sense her pain.
In each of her pictures she tell a story,
Of trials and tribulations and triumphs,
Because in her smile she conquered it all,
And her works surely made her a giant.
Maya’s portraits always show a resilience,
Her experiences made her even stronger,
In her face there is a soulful grace,
With a gift that brought her honor.
#MayaAngelou
#oppression
#power
#racism
#freedom
#inequality
582 reads
5 Comments
PittinixDesigns
Poem Published
23rd Sep 2022 2:47am
23rd Sep 2022 2:47am
My Views 8
The government, the military, and the police are organizations that work together.
These organizations should find a way to do their jobs without doing the following things.
1. Embarrass innocent people,
2. Harass innocent people,
3. Intimidate innocent people,
4. Abuse innocent people physically or verbally,
5. Inconvenience innocent people,
6. Oppress innocent people,
7. Last but not least, murder innocent people.
Since these organizations fail to carry out their duties without adversely affecting innocent people,
Their...
These organizations should find a way to do their jobs without doing the following things.
1. Embarrass innocent people,
2. Harass innocent people,
3. Intimidate innocent people,
4. Abuse innocent people physically or verbally,
5. Inconvenience innocent people,
6. Oppress innocent people,
7. Last but not least, murder innocent people.
Since these organizations fail to carry out their duties without adversely affecting innocent people,
Their...
#murder
#abuse
#oppression
#politics
#military
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Josh
Joshua Bond
Joshua Bond
Poem Published
10th Sep 2022 10:37am
10th Sep 2022 10:37am
Villanelle Nr.23 — Reviewing the Queen and Us
To the discordant witch we had to say no
a long time ago as the terminators proceeded
without a hitch ’til the wee small hours and time to go
home where cold beds lay waiting for us and so
all we had to do could have succeeded
by shutting the rough sheds and saying no …
sadly naďvety piqued the flow
of consequences and firmly heeded
the lies spooked rickety minds ’til time to go
demonstrating that to keep the show
on the road one keeps language fully seeded
steeped in pageantry to test the plebs' grit to say...
a long time ago as the terminators proceeded
without a hitch ’til the wee small hours and time to go
home where cold beds lay waiting for us and so
all we had to do could have succeeded
by shutting the rough sheds and saying no …
sadly naďvety piqued the flow
of consequences and firmly heeded
the lies spooked rickety minds ’til time to go
demonstrating that to keep the show
on the road one keeps language fully seeded
steeped in pageantry to test the plebs' grit to say...
#oppression
#politics
#money
#HumanRights
#inequality
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13 Comments
Dreamboy
Poem Published
22nd Aug 2022 11:18pm
22nd Aug 2022 11:18pm
ghost ships
Your safety net
has come so horribly
undone
you're drowning
in the waves
of fear
you left behind
thinking the net
would always be.
Safety
is an illusive worry.
Tighten your muscles
and stiffen your neck
Lock up the doors.
Abandon this
ship.
has come so horribly
undone
you're drowning
in the waves
of fear
you left behind
thinking the net
would always be.
Safety
is an illusive worry.
Tighten your muscles
and stiffen your neck
Lock up the doors.
Abandon this
ship.
#oppression
#frustration
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SatInUGal
Kumar
Kumar
Poem Published
13th Aug 2022 1:06am
13th Aug 2022 1:06am
8/3/22
Imagine if this were the news:
The Nazis won, ending the Jews’
Everything one could conceive
Nothing left except to grieve
Culture, nuance and tradition
Lost to gunpoint proselytism
Any left would bear the scars
Minds existing behind bars
Most would say they disappeared
Though it was all engineered
This is actually what happened
Colonizers drew a map and
Colored in right over them
No right to be American
Genocide before the world
Rolled out like a flag unfurled
America hides this truth inside
Its false...
The Nazis won, ending the Jews’
Everything one could conceive
Nothing left except to grieve
Culture, nuance and tradition
Lost to gunpoint proselytism
Any left would bear the scars
Minds existing behind bars
Most would say they disappeared
Though it was all engineered
This is actually what happened
Colonizers drew a map and
Colored in right over them
No right to be American
Genocide before the world
Rolled out like a flag unfurled
America hides this truth inside
Its false...
#anger
#oppression
#America
#rhyming
#CallToAction
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Kementic1
Poem Published
8th Aug 2022 10:57pm
8th Aug 2022 10:57pm
The Facts
Everday I am an internet sleuth
in search of the truth
Bc all around me are rumors and conspiracy theories
that I track down using Edge, Firefox and Chrome quires
Nowadays even the Supreme court now has leaks
with twist and turns more bizarre than an episode of twin peaks
The Ex-President has told 30,00 lies alone
multiply that with Congress via MSM on the phone
I like my sex and my data raw
and am a stickler for accuracy bc it is monkeypox not paw
I find it hard to relax
bc I am always looking for-The...
in search of the truth
Bc all around me are rumors and conspiracy theories
that I track down using Edge, Firefox and Chrome quires
Nowadays even the Supreme court now has leaks
with twist and turns more bizarre than an episode of twin peaks
The Ex-President has told 30,00 lies alone
multiply that with Congress via MSM on the phone
I like my sex and my data raw
and am a stickler for accuracy bc it is monkeypox not paw
I find it hard to relax
bc I am always looking for-The...
#corruption
#oppression
#politics
#ignorance
#deception
228 reads
2 Comments
Mrd
Mr. D
Mr. D
Poem Published
21st Jul 2022 5:53pm
21st Jul 2022 5:53pm
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sometimes
i see you as pharoah’s daughter
down by the river of bulrushes
as she comes across
something amazing:
an abandoned baby
a newly birthed poem
floating like a
golden bauble
in the stream
how then can
she turn away
without a comment
as though she cannot see
a parting of waters
a burning bush
and a glimpse
of a strange land
so many years ahead
flowing with milk
with honey
to have seen
the babe in helpless
desperation
and to walk...
i see you as pharoah’s daughter
down by the river of bulrushes
as she comes across
something amazing:
an abandoned baby
a newly birthed poem
floating like a
golden bauble
in the stream
how then can
she turn away
without a comment
as though she cannot see
a parting of waters
a burning bush
and a glimpse
of a strange land
so many years ahead
flowing with milk
with honey
to have seen
the babe in helpless
desperation
and to walk...
#beauty
#oppression
#apathy
199 reads
8 Comments
Casted_Runes
Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
14th Jul 2022 6:36pm
14th Jul 2022 6:36pm
The Straights
I always feel their eyes on me.
Wanting to know what I am, how I work,
as if they'd like
to take me apart
and analyse the bloody cogs.
But more than this,
they'd like to fix,
to make me something they
can fuck or kill, or just sit by and watch
as I go up in flames. And light a cigarette,
and grin, and say
"I always knew, of course...
can always tell with poofs."
Wanting to know what I am, how I work,
as if they'd like
to take me apart
and analyse the bloody cogs.
But more than this,
they'd like to fix,
to make me something they
can fuck or kill, or just sit by and watch
as I go up in flames. And light a cigarette,
and grin, and say
"I always knew, of course...
can always tell with poofs."
#gay
#oppression
#LGBT #bullying
#LGBT #bullying
139 reads
9 Comments
RobinHood
Robin
Robin
Poem Published
4th Jul 2022 6:11pm
4th Jul 2022 6:11pm
A Turtle named Yertle
There was a turtle named Yertle--a clever fellow.
He lived in a marsh where the wind was mellow.
One warm day, to his own surprise,
he found his mind could see so much further than his eyes.
'Oh such lands that I could own! If only the sight of such I was shown!'
'If only a stone could become like a throne, so much more land on my stand I could own!'
On this warm day, with such an ambition, the little turtle climbed to a higher position.
On the top of a stone, oh what sights he could see!
Taller than all turtles--so...
He lived in a marsh where the wind was mellow.
One warm day, to his own surprise,
he found his mind could see so much further than his eyes.
'Oh such lands that I could own! If only the sight of such I was shown!'
'If only a stone could become like a throne, so much more land on my stand I could own!'
On this warm day, with such an ambition, the little turtle climbed to a higher position.
On the top of a stone, oh what sights he could see!
Taller than all turtles--so...
#oppression
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Alviola
Poem Published
28th Jun 2022 6:16pm
28th Jun 2022 6:16pm
All Over Again
Isn't the sea a fist with the earth inside?
When capped with white outrage and egged by roars,
waves can corkscrew through breakwaters with ease.
After the frothing, it disappoints though,
the roar vanishes, apologetic,
it cedes the sea to ship horns and seagulls.
We forget what we fought for, to march anew
is new, not remembered, but we will roar
once more, we are capped again with outrage,
there are ships to upend, dictatorships,
islands to reach, children to feed, after
the end of every ebb, like the sea, we heave, ...
When capped with white outrage and egged by roars,
waves can corkscrew through breakwaters with ease.
After the frothing, it disappoints though,
the roar vanishes, apologetic,
it cedes the sea to ship horns and seagulls.
We forget what we fought for, to march anew
is new, not remembered, but we will roar
once more, we are capped again with outrage,
there are ships to upend, dictatorships,
islands to reach, children to feed, after
the end of every ebb, like the sea, we heave, ...
#oppression
#freedom
#HumanRights
#sacrifice
#rebellion
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