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.
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
49 reads
2 Comments
nutbuster
D C
D C
Poem Published
28th Jun 2019 7:15pm
28th Jun 2019 7:15pm
Friday night encounter
#lust
#oppression
#crush
682 reads
7 Comments
brokentitanium
k.
k.
Poem Published
13th Apr 2024 8:04pm
13th Apr 2024 8:04pm
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
227 reads
8 Comments
RyanBlackborough
Poem Published
3rd Sep 2024 6:38pm
3rd Sep 2024 6:38pm
Idiot savants
Go and gather up the known affiliates.
We're gonna build a village of idiots.
We gotta make sure this gets crazy.
"Getting out of hand" to me is just lazy.
Had our fill of tastless "pain et cirque".
Contorting dough into a shape won't work.
Hunting down cerebral stimuli.
We got the time to kill but it won't die.
Gonna paint this town the bloodiest of red.
A thin veneer of all the living dead.
Choking to death on the lives they've led.
Infected by the many lies wide-spread.
Blunt force persuasion you beg us to...
We're gonna build a village of idiots.
We gotta make sure this gets crazy.
"Getting out of hand" to me is just lazy.
Had our fill of tastless "pain et cirque".
Contorting dough into a shape won't work.
Hunting down cerebral stimuli.
We got the time to kill but it won't die.
Gonna paint this town the bloodiest of red.
A thin veneer of all the living dead.
Choking to death on the lives they've led.
Infected by the many lies wide-spread.
Blunt force persuasion you beg us to...
#corruption
#freedom
#oppression #rebellion
#oppression #rebellion
133 reads
5 Comments
buddhakitty
Poem Published
23rd Jul 2023 3:44pm
23rd Jul 2023 3:44pm
rondo
it is better that any
society fearing spirited
debate and asking serious
questions without being
shouted down or
canceled
should return to the
darkness of the cave
and solve their differences
with pointy sticks, stones and
clubs
history...
the ever expanding
circle of diminishing
returns
society fearing spirited
debate and asking serious
questions without being
shouted down or
canceled
should return to the
darkness of the cave
and solve their differences
with pointy sticks, stones and
clubs
history...
the ever expanding
circle of diminishing
returns
#violence
#oppression
#freedom
#HumanRights
#ignorance
239 reads
8 Comments
Connotation
Poem Published
9th May 2023 4:23pm
9th May 2023 4:23pm
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
191 reads
0 Comments
13
Poem Published
6th Sep 2020 1:18pm
6th Sep 2020 1:18pm
Going out
I sat alone at the table waited on by a lab technician in a hazmat suit.
The kind of situation that would seem normal
if I was ordering weapons-grade uranium to-go.
His muffled voice could barely cut through the triple layered protection
designed to keep him immune to even the wrath of god.
A few awkward chuckles and invisible faux-smiles later he was on his way
to the reactor to retrieve my lunch.
I notice the only other person bold enough to brave the new world
like me a few tables to my right.
His gaze is sharp and full of intent....
The kind of situation that would seem normal
if I was ordering weapons-grade uranium to-go.
His muffled voice could barely cut through the triple layered protection
designed to keep him immune to even the wrath of god.
A few awkward chuckles and invisible faux-smiles later he was on his way
to the reactor to retrieve my lunch.
I notice the only other person bold enough to brave the new world
like me a few tables to my right.
His gaze is sharp and full of intent....
#oppression
#satirical
#funny
#FreeVerse
#pandemic
690 reads
4 Comments
REMARKABLE_8
RichyRich
RichyRich
Poem Published
25th Dec 2022 1:58pm
25th Dec 2022 1:58pm
"Tell Santa "!!
Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄,
please 🙏 tell Santa 🎅!!
I been very, very
naughty, and not
Niice!!
Playing with,
mischievous device's!!
This is why, for Christmas 🎄
Tell Santa 🎅, I
Said!!
He could move on,
With, my gift 🎁
List!!
Been very, bad this
Christmas 🎄
It would be good 👍
If Santa understood,
Living in the hood!!.
That sometimes it's,
easier to do bad,
instead of doing, ...
please 🙏 tell Santa 🎅!!
I been very, very
naughty, and not
Niice!!
Playing with,
mischievous device's!!
This is why, for Christmas 🎄
Tell Santa 🎅, I
Said!!
He could move on,
With, my gift 🎁
List!!
Been very, bad this
Christmas 🎄
It would be good 👍
If Santa understood,
Living in the hood!!.
That sometimes it's,
easier to do bad,
instead of doing, ...
#violence
#oppression
#LifeStruggles
#inequality
#poverty
482 reads
16 Comments
Cipher_O
Poem Published
18th Jun 2021 9:43am
18th Jun 2021 9:43am
The War of Molecules
The whirling world is war.
In the darkness the star -
Fights against strenuous gravity
To hold itself together
and not fall into event horizons
that loom - across spaces like black lights of doom.
Even within the star -
there is war -
as molecules move about in frenzies
and furore -
shifting into themselves and transforming
into new forms with new functions...
And still at war -
bursting forth – in nameless anonymities
criss crossing and drawing strange symbols
seen only by...
In the darkness the star -
Fights against strenuous gravity
To hold itself together
and not fall into event horizons
that loom - across spaces like black lights of doom.
Even within the star -
there is war -
as molecules move about in frenzies
and furore -
shifting into themselves and transforming
into new forms with new functions...
And still at war -
bursting forth – in nameless anonymities
criss crossing and drawing strange symbols
seen only by...
#oppression
#power
#war
#universe
#stars
666 reads
4 Comments
faithmairee
Poem Published
24th Apr 2022 10:03am
24th Apr 2022 10:03am
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
535 reads
8 Comments
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