Poetry about Politics
#politics
A view of politics, from all corners of the world, expressed through poetry. Here you'll find poems about politics, power and government. This includes poems about support or criticism for particular political parties or leaders. Also, poetry about issues like poverty, law and discrimination and shining a light on how state corruption affects societies.
EdibleWords
Poem Published
Yesterday 11:12pm
Yesterday 11:12pm
Unexpected Reply
Apologies
for reading your poem
forwards and back
populist concerns
matter not
to a devilish hack
It’s not anime
vs playing cards
or right vs left
It’s anti natal
vs pro-life
sanctity of life
vs satanism
It’s a cult
It’s a grift
It’s anything but real
you accusingly squeal
Reeeeee!
Your facts
have been
fact-checked
but your newspaper
buried the lead
You hold your nose
when voting for Biden ...
for reading your poem
forwards and back
populist concerns
matter not
to a devilish hack
It’s not anime
vs playing cards
or right vs left
It’s anti natal
vs pro-life
sanctity of life
vs satanism
It’s a cult
It’s a grift
It’s anything but real
you accusingly squeal
Reeeeee!
Your facts
have been
fact-checked
but your newspaper
buried the lead
You hold your nose
when voting for Biden ...
#politics
#freedom
#morality
38 reads
1 Comment
adagio
Poem Published
3rd Feb 2023 10:12pm
3rd Feb 2023 10:12pm
Neath Pits And Stems
Neath pits and stems of turnips
and mountains of pumpkins
though I have forgotten
and then some
who is picking night bones
and which side to sleep on
when saying my prayers
sliding down the stairs
as the crickets violin and dance
whispering in my ear
beware of snapping turtles
weaving cat cradles
neath pits and stems of turnips
and mountains of pumpkins
though I have forgotten
and then some
who is picking night bones
and which side to sleep on
when saying my prayers
sliding down the stairs
as the crickets violin and dance
whispering in my ear
beware of snapping turtles
weaving cat cradles
neath pits and stems of turnips
#politics
#confusion
#hypocrisy #philosophical
#hypocrisy #philosophical
77 reads
0 Comments
Wafflenose
Ellie
Ellie
Poem Published
2nd Feb 2023 2:06pm
2nd Feb 2023 2:06pm
f**k you!
#anger
#politics
#illness
#PopCulture
#job
70 reads
26 Comments
Results_May_Vary
Seth_
Seth_
Poem Published
1st Feb 2023 1:21pm
1st Feb 2023 1:21pm
Pigs
all my friends have different names
all my pleasures have secret shames
every rule plays a different game
and only God knows the error of my ways
spin around and squeeze the vice
flip the coin and throw the dice
bring this to life and convince yourself
the money's right to justify
another whore for the voters
plot and pick your names and delegations
burn the righteous and reward the sinners
the strategy of propagation
spit the words of a book
no more real to you than the love
you claim for your child ...
all my pleasures have secret shames
every rule plays a different game
and only God knows the error of my ways
spin around and squeeze the vice
flip the coin and throw the dice
bring this to life and convince yourself
the money's right to justify
another whore for the voters
plot and pick your names and delegations
burn the righteous and reward the sinners
the strategy of propagation
spit the words of a book
no more real to you than the love
you claim for your child ...
#corruption
#politics
#America #religion
#America #religion
40 reads
2 Comments
DCLXVI_1989
Poem Published
31st Jan 2023 7:53am
31st Jan 2023 7:53am
Bah with the Bah
Your political view is breathtaking
When it comes to repeating,
You're a master.
Manipulated by fear, hate and disaster
They pull your strings
I watch you sing
You claim they're your thoughts
But I just heard them off your tv
It's everywhere
Asses planted in couches
Pretending to care
Uneducated opiate addicts
Regurgitating in masses
And when the tragic happens
They find us lost...
...zapped to screens just like moths
It's left me cold and dead inside
Watching buried heads...
When it comes to repeating,
You're a master.
Manipulated by fear, hate and disaster
They pull your strings
I watch you sing
You claim they're your thoughts
But I just heard them off your tv
It's everywhere
Asses planted in couches
Pretending to care
Uneducated opiate addicts
Regurgitating in masses
And when the tragic happens
They find us lost...
...zapped to screens just like moths
It's left me cold and dead inside
Watching buried heads...
#politics
34 reads
0 Comments
Everavalon
Poem Published
29th Jan 2023 2:39pm
29th Jan 2023 2:39pm
Left to design
Wake me; release my from these ties
Shape my aggression as it lies
Time to dethrone the Right man’s guise
By implanting filthy, intrepid spies
Dawn of the black winged invader
Breaching our walls
Unwholesome stranger
Building prisons for the buyers
Send our angels through the fires
No one sees the mastery
Intruders seek to silence me
Save the souls placed in seclusion
Break them free from mass delusion
Play the game inhaled at will
Lose the match; secure the bill
Adopt a design most...
Shape my aggression as it lies
Time to dethrone the Right man’s guise
By implanting filthy, intrepid spies
Dawn of the black winged invader
Breaching our walls
Unwholesome stranger
Building prisons for the buyers
Send our angels through the fires
No one sees the mastery
Intruders seek to silence me
Save the souls placed in seclusion
Break them free from mass delusion
Play the game inhaled at will
Lose the match; secure the bill
Adopt a design most...
#corruption
#politics
50 reads
1 Comment
DevilsChild
Poem Published
28th Jan 2023 9:41am
28th Jan 2023 9:41am
Stupid Motherf**ker Apocalypse
everyone walks around like a zombie
but it is me screaming brains! brains!
where the fuck are the brains!?
seems one day became today
thinking we're too late
it's the stupid motherfucker apocalypse!
we've heard about them
even seen them around
the stupid and hateful
we didn't think much of them
laughed them off as a joke
little did we know the stupidity was spreading
the headline read Hillary lost
a reality TV star won
oh well
what's the worst that could happen?
a few years passed
now we got a flat...
but it is me screaming brains! brains!
where the fuck are the brains!?
seems one day became today
thinking we're too late
it's the stupid motherfucker apocalypse!
we've heard about them
even seen them around
the stupid and hateful
we didn't think much of them
laughed them off as a joke
little did we know the stupidity was spreading
the headline read Hillary lost
a reality TV star won
oh well
what's the worst that could happen?
a few years passed
now we got a flat...
#politics
#LifeStruggles
#apocalypse
98 reads
6 Comments
Ashley_M_Hardy
Poem Published
28th Jan 2023 3:34am
28th Jan 2023 3:34am
Commander in Chief
It’s ya girl Ashley and I’m back for another election season!
But see my heart’s not really in it
I’ll need inspiration from the people before I make my final decision
‘Cause Trump’s gonna run again I’m sure of it, Biden slides in and out of consciousness right on stage
Some guy named Ron DeSantis doesn’t believe in Black historical education
Yet he wants to lead the nation, too
We live in a place where Emergency Services only work for a few, and not the greater good
Too many leeches and vultures at every turn
Snatching resources from the people that...
But see my heart’s not really in it
I’ll need inspiration from the people before I make my final decision
‘Cause Trump’s gonna run again I’m sure of it, Biden slides in and out of consciousness right on stage
Some guy named Ron DeSantis doesn’t believe in Black historical education
Yet he wants to lead the nation, too
We live in a place where Emergency Services only work for a few, and not the greater good
Too many leeches and vultures at every turn
Snatching resources from the people that...
#politics
#funny
77 reads
7 Comments
Eren
Poem Published
25th Jan 2023 1:28pm
25th Jan 2023 1:28pm
small beginnings
It was Charles Mackay who wrote of perspective
as a transitory release, so I have tried experimenting
with new, avantgarde ways
to breathe;
Because there is a certain pain that drives young men to make out with pillows,
and a statement about neo-expressionist architecture that we do not yet understand.
I want the risk that comes with asking for the time
In someplace where the sky at 8’oclock looks like the sky at 10,
and to look toward the world through a window that reveals
itself only upon the touch of rain.
...
as a transitory release, so I have tried experimenting
with new, avantgarde ways
to breathe;
Because there is a certain pain that drives young men to make out with pillows,
and a statement about neo-expressionist architecture that we do not yet understand.
I want the risk that comes with asking for the time
In someplace where the sky at 8’oclock looks like the sky at 10,
and to look toward the world through a window that reveals
itself only upon the touch of rain.
...
#politics
#nature
#MyInspiration
#WritingPoetry
#philosophical
46 reads
2 Comments
cjflier
Poem Published
24th Jan 2023 6:13pm
24th Jan 2023 6:13pm
Rising Waters
The waterline is rising
and all we do is stand there.
Stand in the same stagnant quagmire
that covers the same worn
(worn out)
path... waiting to drown.
A thick mist rises,
a fetid cloud covering our eyes
Blinding us, making us stumble
(repeating mistakes).
Moist, wispy tendrils wrap around us;
a comforting feeling
(complacency).
Day in, day out, breathing damp
putrid air needing
A good stiff breeze to break away;
A fresh new hard blow,
...
and all we do is stand there.
Stand in the same stagnant quagmire
that covers the same worn
(worn out)
path... waiting to drown.
A thick mist rises,
a fetid cloud covering our eyes
Blinding us, making us stumble
(repeating mistakes).
Moist, wispy tendrils wrap around us;
a comforting feeling
(complacency).
Day in, day out, breathing damp
putrid air needing
A good stiff breeze to break away;
A fresh new hard blow,
...
#lies
#politics
#ignorance
#hypocrisy
#deception
24 reads
0 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
22nd Jan 2023 2:49am
22nd Jan 2023 2:49am
Power
Power...
#identity
#politics
#myself
#culture
#SelfWorth
228 reads
17 Comments
PittinixDesigns
Poem Published
20th Jan 2023 10:18pm
20th Jan 2023 10:18pm
My Views 10
We should fearlessly raise public awareness on serious matters that affect everyone.
Those who practise evil things will no doubt disagree with our opinions.
If we cannot freely express our views on every issue, free speech would be useless.
The conventional system of education is brainwash and it is a heap of rubbish.
Diplomas belong in a pit latrine, they should be regarded the same as shitty toilet tissue.
Graduates of universities and self-styled intellectuals are destroying the earth.
Every religious organization that collects money by any method...
Those who practise evil things will no doubt disagree with our opinions.
If we cannot freely express our views on every issue, free speech would be useless.
The conventional system of education is brainwash and it is a heap of rubbish.
Diplomas belong in a pit latrine, they should be regarded the same as shitty toilet tissue.
Graduates of universities and self-styled intellectuals are destroying the earth.
Every religious organization that collects money by any method...
#corruption
#politics
#war
#LGBT
#religion
38 reads
0 Comments
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