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.
BeginningPoet
James B.P.
James B.P.
Poem Published
Yesterday 1:02pm
Yesterday 1:02pm
world in change
dream
if you must,
to feel safe
to feel free
in that
near future,
stretch out
the beginner's
past,
worked
with shells
of hand and bone,
which
may choose
and dig
the dreamer's
last grave.
if you must,
to feel safe
to feel free
in that
near future,
stretch out
the beginner's
past,
worked
with shells
of hand and bone,
which
may choose
and dig
the dreamer's
last grave.
#politics
#freedom
#consumerism
#culture
#responsibility
18 reads
8 Comments
poetOftragedy
Poem Published
Yesterday 9:10am
Yesterday 9:10am
One eye turned blind
Why isn't there a song for every soldier,
A poem for every struggle hero?
Why is it the one's we see on TV
Read about on newspaper
And idolize
The one's we all have doubts in?
Tell me what's real,
Tell me what's fake
When the media paints -em as Heroes and Saints
Pushing their agenda and dictated by third parties gain
Is our history really written by cowards?
We being fed straight forward lies
And still we believe
Deep inside we all know we are being played
And we still being played
Yet we still toe the...
A poem for every struggle hero?
Why is it the one's we see on TV
Read about on newspaper
And idolize
The one's we all have doubts in?
Tell me what's real,
Tell me what's fake
When the media paints -em as Heroes and Saints
Pushing their agenda and dictated by third parties gain
Is our history really written by cowards?
We being fed straight forward lies
And still we believe
Deep inside we all know we are being played
And we still being played
Yet we still toe the...
#politics
#LifeGoals
#historical #StreamOfConsciousness
#historical #StreamOfConsciousness
15 reads
3 Comments
DevilsChild
Poem Published
Yesterday 7:10am
Yesterday 7:10am
If equality isn't on the table (then don't pretend it is...)
#anger
#politics
15 reads
A_Failed_Artist
Poem Published
10th Apr 2021 6:52am
10th Apr 2021 6:52am
Pointless
I could speak my mind, but you already did that for me.
I could tell you how much of a bastard you are, but you did that to yourself.
I could tell you how much of a bastard you are, but you did that to yourself.
#anger
#politics
9 reads
0 Comments
LokiOfLiterati
Poem Published
9th Apr 2021 3:05am
9th Apr 2021 3:05am
The remake
Before I rhyme I take the time / To find a door within / Mind spinning / Blindfolded between mistress’s thighs and fine linen / Shimmy the angles / Gams that understand an artist’s roll / Entangled particles, distantly humming identical notes / The medical smoke / Theoretical tropes / The “More angelic-than-thou Woke” / From the handful of thinly veiled sex jokes / To beyond the pale where the psychedelica spoke / Details stoked / Hidden trails poke through larks in daydreams / Margins in the mainstream / Hard to call anything crazy when the world gets remade through memes
#identity
#politics
#PopCulture
14 reads
1 Comment
javalini
Poem Published
7th Apr 2021 2:40pm
7th Apr 2021 2:40pm
POEM FOR 34
ike
you wise and righteous old thumb
how we miss the likes o' you
and your flag so bright against that blue frontier
and your nation of heroes
with her common man rising like a silver god
and the world awed at the might
of this christ among nations,
born of rebels
and rightly righteous
and her people free
and happy
and all of it true
and yet not true
for even as we stood golden on that hill
black bodies swung from southern oaks
and natives dwelled in deprivation
and gays hid lest they be shamed
and...
you wise and righteous old thumb
how we miss the likes o' you
and your flag so bright against that blue frontier
and your nation of heroes
with her common man rising like a silver god
and the world awed at the might
of this christ among nations,
born of rebels
and rightly righteous
and her people free
and happy
and all of it true
and yet not true
for even as we stood golden on that hill
black bodies swung from southern oaks
and natives dwelled in deprivation
and gays hid lest they be shamed
and...
#politics
27 reads
6 Comments
PunchDrunk
Poem Published
6th Apr 2021 4:48pm
6th Apr 2021 4:48pm
Corporate Blues
Buried in so many prayers
The lives worth fighting for
Sweep in and out of the city
Punching the numbers
Cleaning the tables
Absorbed in the condensation
Of the skyscraper windows
Mellow and lonely
The computer tech's only cat has cancer
And the dark chocolate
And the opening night sex tournaments
Can't abate the coma
Or Google away the aftermath
Of dividing her life between
Scarf shopping and Monopoly
Christmas on computer screens
Mortgage debt and disfigured means
Bead up on God's toy...
The lives worth fighting for
Sweep in and out of the city
Punching the numbers
Cleaning the tables
Absorbed in the condensation
Of the skyscraper windows
Mellow and lonely
The computer tech's only cat has cancer
And the dark chocolate
And the opening night sex tournaments
Can't abate the coma
Or Google away the aftermath
Of dividing her life between
Scarf shopping and Monopoly
Christmas on computer screens
Mortgage debt and disfigured means
Bead up on God's toy...
#politics
#freedom
#consumerism
#morality
#tradition
29 reads
6 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
17 reads
2 Comments
naijapoeteket
Poem Published
6th Apr 2021 10:10am
6th Apr 2021 10:10am
The Shakeup
The phenomena in my country
In recent times, like aphrodisiacs,
Are jerking my quills
With erection to wind another yarn.
My paper lays bare
On my night bed
Like a waiting bride on her first night,
And I will write
Yet another tabloid
On fantastic corruption in Nigeria again.
Can we ever gather together
Without having to steal?
This national cake,
What is it made of?
That we would rather loot
Than share it among ourselves.
Now the children must witness
This senseless tragic episode
Of...
In recent times, like aphrodisiacs,
Are jerking my quills
With erection to wind another yarn.
My paper lays bare
On my night bed
Like a waiting bride on her first night,
And I will write
Yet another tabloid
On fantastic corruption in Nigeria again.
Can we ever gather together
Without having to steal?
This national cake,
What is it made of?
That we would rather loot
Than share it among ourselves.
Now the children must witness
This senseless tragic episode
Of...
#corruption
#politics
#deception
25 reads
3 Comments
Kinkpoet
Poem Published
5th Apr 2021 3:18pm
5th Apr 2021 3:18pm
The Ending
today
withdrawing
from this event
in freshman english
we were taught that good
writing is concise
this has been
a core belief
which has drawn me
shorter forms
adding unnecessary
language
padding
makes poetry
seem pillowy
fifty words feels
too verbose
for me
so
with forty-nine
i resign
withdrawing
from this event
in freshman english
we were taught that good
writing is concise
this has been
a core belief
which has drawn me
shorter forms
adding unnecessary
language
padding
makes poetry
seem pillowy
fifty words feels
too verbose
for me
so
with forty-nine
i resign
#politics
#philosophical
52 reads
4 Comments
Kinkpoet
Poem Published
4th Apr 2021 2:49am
4th Apr 2021 2:49am
Flag Waving Patriots
while driving in a quiet
residential neighborhood
my eyes were drawn
to a nice home
with a flagpole in front
proudly displaying the
stars and stripes
for a moment i felt a twinge of patriotism
then i noticed
that below the
red white and blue symbol of my country
there was a second flag
lovely blue and white
with bold lettering
proclaiming
“F&*K BIDEN”
(but real letters instead of the
ampersand and asterisk
if you know what i mean)
which...
residential neighborhood
my eyes were drawn
to a nice home
with a flagpole in front
proudly displaying the
stars and stripes
for a moment i felt a twinge of patriotism
then i noticed
that below the
red white and blue symbol of my country
there was a second flag
lovely blue and white
with bold lettering
proclaiming
“F&*K BIDEN”
(but real letters instead of the
ampersand and asterisk
if you know what i mean)
which...
#politics
#NaPoWriMo2021
39 reads
4 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
31st Mar 2021 11:24pm
31st Mar 2021 11:24pm
it's like the eighties
thatcher and the yuppies versus some of us just got on with our music and our dreams whilst the rest of you keep voting for tories
#politics
#music
#dance
27 reads
3 Comments
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