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.
cloventongue89
Poem Published
27th Nov 2021 3:13am
27th Nov 2021 3:13am
Placebo Defect
Musings from the outside
As you exhibit the symptoms
Contracts of disease
When your placebo is your cure
Taking shape
The weapons forged
Insights of the riot
Locked and loaded
Your firing blanks from the chambers
Of this arsenal of fear
How damaging the idolization of ideals
The threat you perceive is the threat you create
Subjected to the psychology of a victim
When everyone’s the predator
You’re only ever the prey
Slogan your accusation
In what the stickers say
Your hatred is your virtue ...
As you exhibit the symptoms
Contracts of disease
When your placebo is your cure
Taking shape
The weapons forged
Insights of the riot
Locked and loaded
Your firing blanks from the chambers
Of this arsenal of fear
How damaging the idolization of ideals
The threat you perceive is the threat you create
Subjected to the psychology of a victim
When everyone’s the predator
You’re only ever the prey
Slogan your accusation
In what the stickers say
Your hatred is your virtue ...
#lies
#corruption
#politics
#TruthOfLife
#deception
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Wired6
Poem Published
23rd Nov 2021 6:24pm
23rd Nov 2021 6:24pm
Que Sera,Sera.
On a fine Territory,
Granted autonomy, eventually,
By the big ole Queenie
The citizens of "Mean'tmuch more2me", celebrated
this historical event with jovial sentimentality,
much 2 the dismay of the big ole Queenie.
But she hadn't a choice,for if she didn't set the country free,
they were prepared 2 use havack on her country. Immediately.
So relinquish, did Queenie, the country of " Meantmuchmore2me",
leaving them 2
Party
Party
Party,indefinitely.
Now you're free,said Queenie, 2...
Granted autonomy, eventually,
By the big ole Queenie
The citizens of "Mean'tmuch more2me", celebrated
this historical event with jovial sentimentality,
much 2 the dismay of the big ole Queenie.
But she hadn't a choice,for if she didn't set the country free,
they were prepared 2 use havack on her country. Immediately.
So relinquish, did Queenie, the country of " Meantmuchmore2me",
leaving them 2
Party
Party
Party,indefinitely.
Now you're free,said Queenie, 2...
#corruption
#oppression
#politics
#poverty
#rebellion
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0 Comments
SatInUGal
Kumar
Kumar
Poem Published
23rd Nov 2021 5:48pm
23rd Nov 2021 5:48pm
11/19/21
Whatever privilege you have
You must use it-
That is the message
Make it matter
That you have a voice
You must use it-
That is the message
Make it matter
That you have a voice
#violence
#politics
#inequality
18 reads
3 Comments
Ashley_M_Hardy
Poem Published
22nd Nov 2021 00:41am
22nd Nov 2021 00:41am
Capitalism is Terrorism
Respect the sistah that sits there and reads for you
See, The economy is a study of the way production is paid,
In land, labor, wages and taxes
The actual point of Capitalism is to extract more cash from production and away from labor leaving wealth accumulation unregulated for some people
The sky's the limit but the pie isn’t divided equally
Like, Property for example,
Back then,
We had to work on the land we couldn’t own and Child labor laws didn’t exist
Millions of acres stolen and it didn’t matter what was on paper
Then, Predatory...
See, The economy is a study of the way production is paid,
In land, labor, wages and taxes
The actual point of Capitalism is to extract more cash from production and away from labor leaving wealth accumulation unregulated for some people
The sky's the limit but the pie isn’t divided equally
Like, Property for example,
Back then,
We had to work on the land we couldn’t own and Child labor laws didn’t exist
Millions of acres stolen and it didn’t matter what was on paper
Then, Predatory...
#identity
#politics
#rebellion
51 reads
2 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
20th Nov 2021 3:47am
20th Nov 2021 3:47am
For Who The Bell Tolls
There is much earthly beauty allocated on dependency of self-narcissism and the duality of vile and contempt for which one becomes the catalyst and the protagonist, interchanging its enabling privilege by all accountabilities.
Sources of discontent and the inability to embody the cerebral cortex allows one to prosper and thrive on the accords of his or her irrationalities to bespeak of higher morality. The detrimental cause and the effect are insufferable and insurmountable on any global scale of contention.
I have been intently listening to the fallacies of the...
Sources of discontent and the inability to embody the cerebral cortex allows one to prosper and thrive on the accords of his or her irrationalities to bespeak of higher morality. The detrimental cause and the effect are insufferable and insurmountable on any global scale of contention.
I have been intently listening to the fallacies of the...
#politics
#TruthOfLife
#MentalHealth
#PTSD
#philosophical
69 reads
8 Comments
oskar
Poem Published
18th Nov 2021 3:28pm
18th Nov 2021 3:28pm
paretenthood
Parenthood
My father hung in the belfry
so many called him father, but the old woman in the house where I lived
said he was my father.
When I met Mother superior, her eyes softened for a moment.
The hanging was an accident.
At his funereal, the bishop attended to stop rumours of suicide.
The old woman and I watched the proceeding at a far distance.
I did see the face of the prioress in the window
unblinkingly stern, but in the afternoon glow,
she had tears in the corner of her eyes.
The old woman cackled and said, she gave you to...
My father hung in the belfry
so many called him father, but the old woman in the house where I lived
said he was my father.
When I met Mother superior, her eyes softened for a moment.
The hanging was an accident.
At his funereal, the bishop attended to stop rumours of suicide.
The old woman and I watched the proceeding at a far distance.
I did see the face of the prioress in the window
unblinkingly stern, but in the afternoon glow,
she had tears in the corner of her eyes.
The old woman cackled and said, she gave you to...
#politics
#music
#morality #masculinity
#morality #masculinity
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0 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
18th Nov 2021 00:30am
18th Nov 2021 00:30am
storm clouds gathering
the evenings are growing darker but we’ve been here before I’d always thought it only happened once or twice a year
#politics
21 reads
1 Comment
JohnnyBlaze
Poem Published
16th Nov 2021 3:58pm
16th Nov 2021 3:58pm
"Let's go, Brando!"
they angrily chanted in diatribal fashion
waving hashtag anointed spears
as if waterboarding oars
high above their heads
leftover from Free Britney rallies
still wild donkey skewing sharp.
And he fled the Internets altogether
faster than my 5G Verizon connection
could keep pace with, so as to live
and return to fight another day
with his peculiar brand of poetry.
"Too many...
waving hashtag anointed spears
as if waterboarding oars
high above their heads
leftover from Free Britney rallies
still wild donkey skewing sharp.
And he fled the Internets altogether
faster than my 5G Verizon connection
could keep pace with, so as to live
and return to fight another day
with his peculiar brand of poetry.
"Too many...
#politics
#unicorns
#rebellion #scifi
#rebellion #scifi
67 reads
7 Comments
wallyroo92
Poem Published
11th Nov 2021 8:35am
11th Nov 2021 8:35am
Leave Big Bird Alone!
Leave Big Bird alone!
He’s just trying to live his best life
Why do these bastards want to debone
A beloved character with so much rife
Leave the six year-old alone!
He is a national treasure in children’s eyes
I don’t like some of these people’s tones
They’re trying to bring his career to a demise
Can’t they see he’s trying to promote
Being safe and healthy and just being kind
But these politicians are so cutthroat
Their sinister plans are just plain asinine
He’s taught me and our children so much
To be loving...
He’s just trying to live his best life
Why do these bastards want to debone
A beloved character with so much rife
Leave the six year-old alone!
He is a national treasure in children’s eyes
I don’t like some of these people’s tones
They’re trying to bring his career to a demise
Can’t they see he’s trying to promote
Being safe and healthy and just being kind
But these politicians are so cutthroat
Their sinister plans are just plain asinine
He’s taught me and our children so much
To be loving...
#children
#politics
#humankind #pandemic
#humankind #pandemic
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Taurek
Poem Published
10th Nov 2021 1:44am
10th Nov 2021 1:44am
Digital Past, Present, & Future
So the cool chick from the
BC texted me today and
said she overheard them
talking about me, saying
they wanted to keep me
onboard. They were
going to figure it
out in the next
2 weeks.
this is just after I talked to
my guy who said I was
looking at a lump sum,
monthly checks until
2023, and cheap
benefits that
would mostly
be paid by
my former
employer
I didn’t know what to do or
if I’d even have the option
so I went out to the tavern,
to seek advice from a ...
BC texted me today and
said she overheard them
talking about me, saying
they wanted to keep me
onboard. They were
going to figure it
out in the next
2 weeks.
this is just after I talked to
my guy who said I was
looking at a lump sum,
monthly checks until
2023, and cheap
benefits that
would mostly
be paid by
my former
employer
I didn’t know what to do or
if I’d even have the option
so I went out to the tavern,
to seek advice from a ...
#corruption
#politics
#money
#alcohol
#pandemic
78 reads
1 Comment
I_IS_ME
Poem Published
8th Nov 2021 2:16am
8th Nov 2021 2:16am
Planted Knowledge
Some people are on the streets because they are disgusted with the system
A system that continually uses their brains and abilities to maintain the status quo
They've given the rest of society their ass and requested that we kiss them
For getting on our knees like whores and bowing to a god that we truly don't know
They watch from their post as we silently obeys
Not realizing that we're doing what the man behind the king says
Not only sacrificing ourselves but also our first born
Without anyone taking the time to mend a rift, that was long ago torn ...
A system that continually uses their brains and abilities to maintain the status quo
They've given the rest of society their ass and requested that we kiss them
For getting on our knees like whores and bowing to a god that we truly don't know
They watch from their post as we silently obeys
Not realizing that we're doing what the man behind the king says
Not only sacrificing ourselves but also our first born
Without anyone taking the time to mend a rift, that was long ago torn ...
#corruption
#politics
#humankind
94 reads
4 Comments
I_IS_ME
Poem Published
8th Nov 2021 2:13am
8th Nov 2021 2:13am
Profiteers
Democracy is a concept derived in 510 B.C.
It has became nothing but a tool if you look at history
Each fucking year the word has became more perverse
That's why bitches at the podium has to be so dam rehearsed
A government by the people, for the people, is just words said
I can control your whole body if you allow me into your head
You'll do my work and fight my wars of profit
What part of ten percent that your ass don't get
Every two to four years you're in the booth playing the slots
When the electoral college has already been...
It has became nothing but a tool if you look at history
Each fucking year the word has became more perverse
That's why bitches at the podium has to be so dam rehearsed
A government by the people, for the people, is just words said
I can control your whole body if you allow me into your head
You'll do my work and fight my wars of profit
What part of ten percent that your ass don't get
Every two to four years you're in the booth playing the slots
When the electoral college has already been...
#politics
#humankind
58 reads
5 Comments
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