Most Commented Political / Social Poems (810)

The Rhythm Of Time
There’s an inner thing in every man,
Do you know this thing my friend?
It has withstood the blows of a million years,
And will do so to the end.

It was born when time did not exist,
And it grew up out of life,
It cut down evil’s strangling vines,
Like a slashing searing knife.

It lit fires when fires were not,
And burnt the mind of man,
Tempering leadened hearts to steel,
From the time that time began.

It wept by the waters of Babylon,
And when all men were a loss,
It screeched in writhing agony,
And it hung bleeding from the Cross.

It died in Rome by lion and sword,
And in defiant cruel array,
When the deathly word was ‘Spartacus’
Along the Appian Way.

It marched with Wat the Tyler’s poor,
And frightened lord and king,
And it was emblazoned in their deathly stare,
As e’er a living thing.

It smiled in holy innocence,
Before conquistadors of old,
So meek and tame and unaware,
Of the deathly power of gold.

It burst forth through pitiful Paris streets,
And stormed the old Bastille,
And marched upon the serpent’s head,
And crushed it ‘neath its heel.

It died in blood on Buffalo Plains,
And starved by moons of rain,
Its heart was buried in Wounded Knee,
But it will come to rise again.

It screamed aloud by Kerry lakes,
As it was knelt upon the ground,
And it died in great defiance,
As they coldly shot it down.

It is found in every light of hope,
It knows no bounds nor space
It has risen in red and black and white,
It is there in every race.

It lies in the hearts of heroes dead,
It screams in tyrants’ eyes,
It has reached the peak of mountains high,
It comes searing ‘cross the skies.

It lights the dark of this prison cell,
It thunders forth its might,
It is ‘the undauntable thought’, my friend,
That thought that says ‘I’m right!’

As far as I'm concerned the price of gas is too low
I offer you Senator a bill that will not only increase oil profits
For the oil companies
But also tack on a pay raise for ourselves
I don't know about you
But I do know what the American people who are struggling to stay warm
In the winter and fill their vehicles mean to me
What they mean to me and what they mean to you
Are a bunch of suckers to use and abuse
I don't care about them at all
What I do care about is my own wealth
And doing right isn't going to do that
Keeping the price of gas low isn't gonna put that shiny red porche
In my garage or a 50 inch plasma TV hanging on my wall
So by passing this bill to raise the price of gas from 3.30 to 4 bucks
By May and make these increases retroactive each and every year
At a rate of 18.5 percent each year
So you see fellow Senators in just 10 years we will all be very
Rich men and the poor will get poorer which is exactly what we do best
Thank you for your time

Trapped I am, trapped I've been,
Trapped again like you never seen,
Dead end job, nine to five,
I do what I can to try to survive.

I'm working class I'd always thought,
Better yourself I was now being taught,
Better yourself and you won't look back,
Gain new knowledge that you know you lack.

They never told me of the price I'd pay,
Losing friends as I moved away,
Away from all I was sure I knew,
Insecure I rapidly grew.

I don't know where I now belong,
For what felt right sure now feels wrong,
For working class I've had too much school,
For academia I'm just a fool.

For a better life I got a fleeting taste,
But as time moved on I've been laid to waste,
My life's imploded like shattered glass,
Who were the fooling I'm working class.

It's cruel, as cruel, as cruel can be,
To get a glimpse of what I could be,
I can't help myself for I must use my head,
I fear that i become again the brain dead.

Wounded warrior
rusted mind
no longer civilized
far from being kind.

Paces in his cage and
the borders that block his path,
gnaws on strangers;
takes pleasure in exerting his wrath.

Animals are hunted
and quickly put away.
Come any closer
and you’ll make my day.

Thinking less for ourselves these days
And working harder for a lot less pay
Our world seems caught up in a haze
When good life is all we really crave
Freedom creeping closer to its grave
Powerful forces making all a slave
Knowing less and less about our history
Making leaders more and more blistery
Leading us more and more into mystery
Really not forming our own opinions
Let us be cast aside so many minions
Closer and closer to chaotic dominion
Do movies, internet, radios, and television
Really bringing us so much division
True freedom is making one’s own decision

Don’t cause any pain
Free all those you rule or reign
Life is yours to gain

Give back some you take
Greed’s ambiguous mistake
Stain a heart with hate

Faces take much form
Good cheer and smiles do warm
Take back those which harm

Care is made with love
Rewarded you from above
Peace to make world of

All those gone astray
Will return to love one day
When fear goes away

THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN

Why can’t the peoples of the world just learn to get along?
To be the Universal Race to which we all belong.
I don’t care what faith you are or the colour of your skin.
All I know is that we’re all born from the original sin.

Everyone is someone’s love – Father – Brother – Son.
Such hatred in the world today and look at what it’s done.
Some get great satisfaction from planting bombs they make,
And death and devastation follow in their wake.

Families divided, with brother killing brother.
For every bullet they expend they leave a crying mother.
Thousands die for freedom or in the name of God,
And all the rest of us can do is lay them ‘neath the sod.

‘Why does God allow this?’, we cry out in our pain.
But this is not His doing. He has naught to gain.
Each side is certain they are right, and will brook no contradiction.
And that’s when all the slaughter starts, to force a valediction.

Why can’t the peoples of the world call every man ‘My Brother’,
And live in joy and harmony, with love for one another.
Why can’t we choose the ways of peace to forge a bond so strong?
Why can’t the peoples of the world just learn to get along?

Nothing is more precious as a sunrise
Casting light into pools of life so deep
Captured by atoms in every growing cell
If a grateful world would just surmise
Spreading the light all around will keep
Living up to humanity’s greatest potential
By helping the hungry be its biggest prize
Sunlight that every human being can reap
Something for everyone to keep so well
Bringing warm smiles to every child eyes
Knowing the comfort good meals keep
Sunlight causing a happiness to swell

Thoughts accrued in mystical dew
Sheep and cattle led to slaughter
Sister drinks with son of nephew
Blessed by priest with holy water

One by one they're put in order
Sitting, standing, laying, rolling
Roses planted along the border
Time at night is time for strolling

Moon comes out from hiding place
Sends the message bright and clear
Looks down earth with smiling face
It is here this brand new year

Ah...television. As we are exposed to this endless tirade/parade of visual rubbish, rather than merely beating one's head against the wall in a too consistant repetitive fashion, I offer up some side views of distraction (yes, just like TV) geared to somewhat ease the constant headache that we find ourselves ordealing with when viewing television.
'It helps to be smashed out of your skull.'-me
'I find television to be very educational. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.'-Groucho Marx
'In general, my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced on television.'-Erma Bombeck
'If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.'-Lily Tomlin
'Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.'-Ann Landers
'Television is the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.'-Clive Barnes
'Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your house.'-David Frost
'All television is children's television.'-Richard P. Adler
'When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.'-Andy Warhol
'Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to hear the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.'-T.S. Eliot
'I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.'-Orson Welles
'TV is chewing gum for the eyes.'-Frank Lloyd Wright
'Television has brought back murder into the house, where it belongs.' 'Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.'-Alfred Hitchcock
'Radio is the theatre of the mind; television is the theatre of the mindless.'-Steve Allen
'If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.'-John Lennon
'Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.'-Joan Rivers
'The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.'-Sophia Loren
'Television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.'-Les Brown
'If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.'-Maynard James Keenan (paraphrased)
'Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born.'-Norman Mailer on newspapers, television, movies
Turn off the TV