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.
Bon_Mot
Poem Published
Today 3:53am
Today 3:53am
beware.
#violence
#oppression
#politics
#racism
#ignorance
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RiAN
Poem Published
Yesterday 9:05am
Yesterday 9:05am
This is why I refuse
On this day, May 17th
we all raise the flag
but what for and to what_
Celebrating the signing of the Norwegian Constitution in Eidsvoll, 17 May 1814. Constitution Day is the national day of Norway and is an official public holiday observed on 17 May each year.
Part of this law did not give women any right but the right of doing dishes
of cleaning dirt and wiping it under the mat
In this law of 1814 it even was oficially stated that men were in charge of not only
the economic side but also on all levels men were in charge.
When...
we all raise the flag
but what for and to what_
Celebrating the signing of the Norwegian Constitution in Eidsvoll, 17 May 1814. Constitution Day is the national day of Norway and is an official public holiday observed on 17 May each year.
Part of this law did not give women any right but the right of doing dishes
of cleaning dirt and wiping it under the mat
In this law of 1814 it even was oficially stated that men were in charge of not only
the economic side but also on all levels men were in charge.
When...
#oppression
#feminism
#culture #tradition
#culture #tradition
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5 Comments
Em-ily
Poem Published
4th May 2021 8:47pm
4th May 2021 8:47pm
Visual poem. I would have eaten the face off of God and Catholicism, then ditched the boredom of church services.
Violate these commandments, break them happily or at least break those that do not involve harming OTHER people. The whole thing is an outdated mess The "first commandment" was explicitly directed at Women.
#oppression
#historical
#nonfiction
26 reads
2 Comments
Razzerleaf
Poem Published
3rd May 2021 11:17pm
3rd May 2021 11:17pm
A quiet drink with friends
The hard case poet
playing pool,
pairs transgender
with bender
and forces his rhyme.
Its not the first time
the critique has had him
in handcuffs.
The trial continues
long after a conviction
of community disservice.
His muse hears footsteps
after dark,
walks the long way home
to avoid the park;
hates the small scar
just below the cheek,
takes another lifetime
before she could speak
about it to anyone.
playing pool,
pairs transgender
with bender
and forces his rhyme.
Its not the first time
the critique has had him
in handcuffs.
The trial continues
long after a conviction
of community disservice.
His muse hears footsteps
after dark,
walks the long way home
to avoid the park;
hates the small scar
just below the cheek,
takes another lifetime
before she could speak
about it to anyone.
#violence
#oppression
#transgender
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2 Comments
FATBOY300PLUS
Poem Published
28th Apr 2021 2:47pm
28th Apr 2021 2:47pm
Just Plain Complaining
Ever wonder why the self-proclaimed "greatest nation on the planet" runs a financial structure that promotes total slavery?
Attending college to get a job where one can:
a) manage someone else's money
b) count someone else's money
c) build someone else's business into a more powerful entity
d) learn and enforce laws created by people long dead, or unaffected by the laws they have made
e) teach these laws to other people's children
f) "insert your 2 cents here"
The system attaches food, shelter, clothing, , benefits for one's...
Attending college to get a job where one can:
a) manage someone else's money
b) count someone else's money
c) build someone else's business into a more powerful entity
d) learn and enforce laws created by people long dead, or unaffected by the laws they have made
e) teach these laws to other people's children
f) "insert your 2 cents here"
The system attaches food, shelter, clothing, , benefits for one's...
#oppression
#greed
#inequality #poverty
#inequality #poverty
37 reads
4 Comments
PunchDrunk
Poem Published
10th Apr 2021 12:00pm
10th Apr 2021 12:00pm
Narcissus
Scratching my way to freedom
I found a respite from your cruelty
Hurling my tearful doldrums
Into outerspace
The hornet has its nest
And a hole will hide the scorpion
But you, my lovely serpent
Can't find a home in either place
A bitter, salty powder
Made from cried out dirges
Time to genuflect
Upon your righteous kill
What keeps a donor needing
A seeker constantly seeking
In lonely, broken mirrors
For one more soul to to steal?
The titan, breathless and pale
Slinking...
I found a respite from your cruelty
Hurling my tearful doldrums
Into outerspace
The hornet has its nest
And a hole will hide the scorpion
But you, my lovely serpent
Can't find a home in either place
A bitter, salty powder
Made from cried out dirges
Time to genuflect
Upon your righteous kill
What keeps a donor needing
A seeker constantly seeking
In lonely, broken mirrors
For one more soul to to steal?
The titan, breathless and pale
Slinking...
#anger
#betrayal
#abuse
#oppression
#bullying
72 reads
9 Comments
naijapoeteket
Poem Published
6th Apr 2021 10:15am
6th Apr 2021 10:15am
Cycles of Broken Memoirs
Since naming, blaming and shaming
Has become an aberration in Nigeria,
And because holding the scepter and crown
Accountable is counted as insolences,
We must learn new ways of singing praises.
We must learn by heart
The names of the cronies
That has piloted Nigeria to such great height
Behold the catalogue of potentates
That did not misrule Nigeria at all;
They did not loot our treasury with reckless abandon.
They are our national heroes
That helped us to build our nation
Into what it is today.
Thus the...
Has become an aberration in Nigeria,
And because holding the scepter and crown
Accountable is counted as insolences,
We must learn new ways of singing praises.
We must learn by heart
The names of the cronies
That has piloted Nigeria to such great height
Behold the catalogue of potentates
That did not misrule Nigeria at all;
They did not loot our treasury with reckless abandon.
They are our national heroes
That helped us to build our nation
Into what it is today.
Thus the...
#oppression
#politics
#inequality #deception
#inequality #deception
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2 Comments
Pishashee
Poem Published
27th Mar 2021 4:44am
27th Mar 2021 4:44am
The Eastside
There is a girl up the street
pacing the sidewalk,
begging someone
on the phone for help.
She's in hell. Beaten.
The black on blackness
of a past
that's been seconded with...
and the press,
and the cross,
it hangs at her hip.
pacing the sidewalk,
begging someone
on the phone for help.
She's in hell. Beaten.
The black on blackness
of a past
that's been seconded with...
and the press,
and the cross,
it hangs at her hip.
#oppression
#drugs
#homelessness
#addiction
#poverty
80 reads
1 Comment
EdibleWords
Poem Published
17th Mar 2021 1:05am
17th Mar 2021 1:05am
The Economy of Oppression
Saturated with
virtue signaling sellers
elites of academia
art, culture and
mainstream media
have made a killing
stuffing their pockets
to tales of woe
and now the market
is over-saturated
a princess wants to run
for president
after trauma from
the spotlight
and the Netflix
series she got the
spotlight for
Peddling her minority
to pass herself off ...
virtue signaling sellers
elites of academia
art, culture and
mainstream media
have made a killing
stuffing their pockets
to tales of woe
and now the market
is over-saturated
a princess wants to run
for president
after trauma from
the spotlight
and the Netflix
series she got the
spotlight for
Peddling her minority
to pass herself off ...
#corruption
#oppression
#politics
#racism
#deception
107 reads
4 Comments
EdibleWords
Poem Published
15th Mar 2021 10:35pm
15th Mar 2021 10:35pm
The Slavery Chains Called Master
Branded by rewritten
history books
scarred by labels
never lived
your language denied
in chains of names
like “master”
your voice gagged
dehumanized
gifts you gave
branded as debt
or worse yet
a brazen theft
the pirate power
blinds your eyes
with a victim
narrative
You’ve never been
the oppressor
Yet with words
like “master”
Your slavery
is complete
What...
history books
scarred by labels
never lived
your language denied
in chains of names
like “master”
your voice gagged
dehumanized
gifts you gave
branded as debt
or worse yet
a brazen theft
the pirate power
blinds your eyes
with a victim
narrative
You’ve never been
the oppressor
Yet with words
like “master”
Your slavery
is complete
What...
#oppression
87 reads
6 Comments
DAGODDESS
Poem Published
4th Mar 2021 9:19am
4th Mar 2021 9:19am
WHERE STARS ARE BORN
I’M FROM A PLACE WHERE
WE ROCK OUR SWORDS IN OUR BACKS
LIKE MEDALLIONS
WEARING EVERY PAIN WE FEEL
AS SOME SACRIFICE WE’RE MAKING
CARRYING AROUND BURDENS
LIKE SWEET MEMORIES
CROWDING UP OUR SPACES
OUR FONDEST MEMORIES FILLED WITH FEAR AND REGRET
MISSING OUR MOTHERS
I’M FROM A PLACE WHERE
LOVE IS SOMETHING TO BE WEARY OF
RATHER THAN KEEP YOU COMFY
KEEP YOU WARM AND CUDDLY
THAT’S NOT IDEAL FOR US
LOVE
KILLING YOU SLOWLY
BREAKING YOUR HEART DOWN
PEELING BACK LAYERS LIKE CLOTHING
LEAVING YOU NAKED ...
WE ROCK OUR SWORDS IN OUR BACKS
LIKE MEDALLIONS
WEARING EVERY PAIN WE FEEL
AS SOME SACRIFICE WE’RE MAKING
CARRYING AROUND BURDENS
LIKE SWEET MEMORIES
CROWDING UP OUR SPACES
OUR FONDEST MEMORIES FILLED WITH FEAR AND REGRET
MISSING OUR MOTHERS
I’M FROM A PLACE WHERE
LOVE IS SOMETHING TO BE WEARY OF
RATHER THAN KEEP YOU COMFY
KEEP YOU WARM AND CUDDLY
THAT’S NOT IDEAL FOR US
LOVE
KILLING YOU SLOWLY
BREAKING YOUR HEART DOWN
PEELING BACK LAYERS LIKE CLOTHING
LEAVING YOU NAKED ...
#oppression
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buddhakitty
Poem Published
25th Feb 2021 3:21am
25th Feb 2021 3:21am
morality
those who do not
question the actions
of civil authority
are complicit
in the abuses
and the atrocities
committed by
that society
question the actions
of civil authority
are complicit
in the abuses
and the atrocities
committed by
that society
#corruption
#oppression
#freedom
#HumanRights
#deception
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23 Comments
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