Poems About Oppression by Top Critiquers
#oppression
Poems about oppression by top critiquers. Poems written by members who have given lots of feedback to other poets this month.
Friends
Pain creates anger
Anger triggers oppressed thoughts
Lend someone a hand
Anger triggers oppressed thoughts
Lend someone a hand
#anger
#friendship
#oppression
#haiku
#support
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Candace Queen a light in a dark world
oppression is real
you can feel the weight of it on your soul
some bear the pain of this day and out
they walk on like soldiers
fighting a war most people don't see
poverty teaches you how to be grateful
for the most basic things
like a bed to sleep in
or food to eat
warm clothes
some go into battle without any of these things
these warriors navigate the world fiercely
that their souls can war with these demons
is nothing short of amazing to me
I was in the city only three days
a concrete hell...
you can feel the weight of it on your soul
some bear the pain of this day and out
they walk on like soldiers
fighting a war most people don't see
poverty teaches you how to be grateful
for the most basic things
like a bed to sleep in
or food to eat
warm clothes
some go into battle without any of these things
these warriors navigate the world fiercely
that their souls can war with these demons
is nothing short of amazing to me
I was in the city only three days
a concrete hell...
#love
#beauty
#oppression #daughter
#oppression #daughter
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Hell On Earth
It feels like hell whenever you're around
No one's allowed to make a sound
Go ahead and demand our absent respect
Wherever you are evil sadly abounds
You make living hell on earth
At birth I must have been cursed
Knowing I'm just your property
It the thing that hurts the worst
Why momma stays with you I don't know
My dislike for you only seems to grow
There must be a way to break free
You're not a father but my foe
No one's allowed to make a sound
Go ahead and demand our absent respect
Wherever you are evil sadly abounds
You make living hell on earth
At birth I must have been cursed
Knowing I'm just your property
It the thing that hurts the worst
Why momma stays with you I don't know
My dislike for you only seems to grow
There must be a way to break free
You're not a father but my foe
#betrayal
#oppression
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Lab Rats
like rats caged
tested and tamed
documenting all of
my sterile lines
from times they will
never know anything about
battles lost to add to the count
controversial treatments:
pills to pause mental disparage
cause growths malformed
of both psyche and form
and they wonder why
I’m forlorn
the lab rat that bites back
I will not conform
to ill-minded nature
when our freedom of thought is
being contained
yet we continue to blame...
...
tested and tamed
documenting all of
my sterile lines
from times they will
never know anything about
battles lost to add to the count
controversial treatments:
pills to pause mental disparage
cause growths malformed
of both psyche and form
and they wonder why
I’m forlorn
the lab rat that bites back
I will not conform
to ill-minded nature
when our freedom of thought is
being contained
yet we continue to blame...
...
#motivational
#MentalHealth
#identity
#oppression
#SelfHarm
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The Border
Race
Creed
Color
Application
Lawyers
Amnesty
Desparation
Bias
Lucky ones
Freedom
Creed
Color
Application
Lawyers
Amnesty
Desparation
Bias
Lucky ones
Freedom
#oppression
#CallToAction
#HumanRights
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motives matter
it seems to me
the only reason to ban history
is an intent
to re-inhabit it
bury the truth
making it more unrecognizable
when what was
& should never have been
becomes reality
again
the only reason to ban history
is an intent
to re-inhabit it
bury the truth
making it more unrecognizable
when what was
& should never have been
becomes reality
again
#corruption
#oppression
#HumanRights #inequality
#HumanRights #inequality
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UNLESS and UNTIL
I have again awaken alone
within my cold, lonely bedsheets
where only one side is disturbed
and only by my sexless sleep
I long for you to not only wrinkle
my sheets, but to leave my bed
and me sweaty and a hot tangled
mess
I want to awaken blissfully sore,
sleepy and satisfied with echoes
of ecstasy lingering in my bed and
on my body, within me
I wish to be your first good morning and your last good
night and every good dream
inbetween
But yet, I awaken alone again
Until, you want...
within my cold, lonely bedsheets
where only one side is disturbed
and only by my sexless sleep
I long for you to not only wrinkle
my sheets, but to leave my bed
and me sweaty and a hot tangled
mess
I want to awaken blissfully sore,
sleepy and satisfied with echoes
of ecstasy lingering in my bed and
on my body, within me
I wish to be your first good morning and your last good
night and every good dream
inbetween
But yet, I awaken alone again
Until, you want...
#sex
#lover
#passion
#PopCulture
#oppression
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GIANTS
Greed drives those in power hungry for more
Taking away from those who have less
Lobbying because they want to rule the world
And in the process stunting any forward progress
And they linger, like titans muscling the weak
With a lust that can never be satisfied
An avarice that is unyielding and building
A society with a great divide
But behold, there comes a warrior
A champion who will take up the fight
And they will change the course of history
The tipping point when the moment is right
It’s the old story of David...
Taking away from those who have less
Lobbying because they want to rule the world
And in the process stunting any forward progress
And they linger, like titans muscling the weak
With a lust that can never be satisfied
An avarice that is unyielding and building
A society with a great divide
But behold, there comes a warrior
A champion who will take up the fight
And they will change the course of history
The tipping point when the moment is right
It’s the old story of David...
#oppression
#music
#inequality #NaPoWriMo2020
#inequality #NaPoWriMo2020
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As the World turns
look East they chanted
look East, look East
and they did
the vanquished was lavish
in their achievements
hail sons of the Rising Sun
work hard o' children of toil
till the land
cut the hills to make plantations
sully the water
who cares, they are for monkeys
what...you need that for survival
monkeys or humans
choose....
oh look the money's coming
ker ching ...ker ching
lets spend it on a ship
an old used one
that will never sink
the rest of the money is mine
...
look East, look East
and they did
the vanquished was lavish
in their achievements
hail sons of the Rising Sun
work hard o' children of toil
till the land
cut the hills to make plantations
sully the water
who cares, they are for monkeys
what...you need that for survival
monkeys or humans
choose....
oh look the money's coming
ker ching ...ker ching
lets spend it on a ship
an old used one
that will never sink
the rest of the money is mine
...
#oppression
#money
#consumerism
#inequality
#poverty
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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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Untitled
Anticipating the taunt
Of a spellbound fate was
Like irony for some
Vicarious shame,
Bringing loneliness
To those of whom
Have beckoned, trekked,
Waited for poetic justice in the
Retribution of intrusive
Marketing that shrouds, hides.
Masterful callousness,
Pretending to never feel,
Mocked and laughed at
The innocent wonder
Of familiar reminiscence,
Like insisting favor
Was sensual, assuming an
Embarrassing tease,
Reinforcing the numb veracity
Of what carnality was worth. ...
Of a spellbound fate was
Like irony for some
Vicarious shame,
Bringing loneliness
To those of whom
Have beckoned, trekked,
Waited for poetic justice in the
Retribution of intrusive
Marketing that shrouds, hides.
Masterful callousness,
Pretending to never feel,
Mocked and laughed at
The innocent wonder
Of familiar reminiscence,
Like insisting favor
Was sensual, assuming an
Embarrassing tease,
Reinforcing the numb veracity
Of what carnality was worth. ...
#oppression
#LifeStruggles
#God
#spiritual
#humankind
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To see love win
I cannot change the system from within,
so why stay here, stuck in the status quo?
I know I might not live to see love win.
When frightened minds see human love as sin
and power players change rules as they go,
it’s risky changing systems from within.
I feel the judgement even from my kin,
who say that change is moving far too slow
and don’t have time to wait to see love win.
But change by force will only change the spin,
as new oppressors rise up from below.
To end the cycle, hearts must change within.
...
so why stay here, stuck in the status quo?
I know I might not live to see love win.
When frightened minds see human love as sin
and power players change rules as they go,
it’s risky changing systems from within.
I feel the judgement even from my kin,
who say that change is moving far too slow
and don’t have time to wait to see love win.
But change by force will only change the spin,
as new oppressors rise up from below.
To end the cycle, hearts must change within.
...
#oppression
#politics
#religion
#rebellion
#NaPoWriMo2024
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DU Poetry : Poems About Oppression by Top Critiquers