Most Viewed Political / Social Poems (810)

Prejudice is generated thoughts given strength by a folly of feelings and actions sometimes confirmed by differences, personal experiences,fear and ignorance. Historically our differences has divided us rather than united us, simply because we lack understanding and tolerance. Misconceptions has fueled it's existence into long standing through, class distinctions, self identification, likes and dislikes and material possessions. As much as we can admit, we are bound by heritage and tradition.
Prejudice can be good and bad, it gives us the latitude of choice but it should not give us the power to hate, to transport or take away freedoms from others that they can't control. Prejudice is primary based on differences and disallowed concessions to embrace change and unlikeness. We sometimes unknowingly project our prejudices on others by being so stern or steadfastly rooted in self-proclaimed truths that restricts us from considering other points of view or to embrace differences.
Prejudice impedes our ability to reach higher heights of social conscientiousness to cope with visual, intellectual or physical perceptions engulfed by perceived thoughts of how things should or should not be. We all can be enriched by learning from others and by shedding inward and outer conflict when we dedicate ourselves to being a bridge builder. Crusader's chart new paths and bring people together nurturing them into maturity not to abandon self-characterization or identification but to understand others or that which is different.

Cautiously I walk night hours on mean street
Pitbull stretched on chains waiting to attack
Courthouse stands behind reinforced concrete
Reminders of life we want to take back

Sirens erupt and shatter peaceful night
Screeching tires lay down rubber's foolish grin
An old lady pulls down her shades in fright
Lonely souls wait for darkness to begin

Loud are idle youth that travel in packs
Pretend to be brave and laughing out loud
Carelessly roaming and crossing wrong tracks
A fight breaks out inside a huddled crowd

Ends to vulgarity is violence
When jobless youth are loosing innocence

advantage taken of human need
as desperation laws do break
while US agri-business moves with greed
into the after-NAFTA wake
family fields of decimation
failing grains, lives at stake.

shy-of-heaven cross 8-foot-high
ribbons of discontent in wind blowing
not tall enough to carry all souls’ loss
walled-in people, walled-out hope growing
in the midst of such devastation
wondering just what seeds we’re sowing.

work-permits-limited limits survival, dreams
coyotes traffic in the middle
to feed on human flesh do scheme
free versus fair left to riddle
leaves one with no revelation
trading life for profit its current quibble.

permeable boundary where breath’s air
cut off again leads to plight
full value, full cost, full pockets, despair
from flames of injustice arises Phoenix flight
bold with rainbow-colored feathers, wings elation
as Justice GA 2012 prepares to fight.

where Arizona SB 1070’s fingers of injustice tread
hands join to make love a more powerful deed
diverse societies come with actions to spread
releasing the grip of fear and hate, the need
witness on racial and economic justice, immigration
for reason and love to rule, god speed.

empty hate’s coffers to redeem from sin
let the healing power of knowledge and love begin.

My skull is very small and the world is very large
Both are so fragile and so very hard to comprehend
Physical things filtered like washing sand in the surf
Counting the number of clicks it takes to pretend
To get what I need to know, not always what I understand
Is inventing what is right and proving what is wrong
Not waiting for anything like truth to come along?
Something is very sterile about the World Wide Web
Because it doesn’t smell like bacon or taste like bread?
Weeding out some unexpected truth from being told
Just move my finger…click….move it again…click
I don't need a mind that thinks I just need my finger
Now look at me and see how I’ve become an expert, too

Here's to you George W Bush, you were smart enough to lie so your buddies could get rich off a fake war.
(Saddam has weapons of mass destruction)
You knew that the United Nations would never support you and the French were a bunch of limp wristed wine sippers.
(Call them freedom fries)
So here's to you Mr. President, keep the war going, what do you care, you're out in two years anyways.
(Keep on smirking)
(Real Men of Courage)

Why is there no talk of a wall on the Canadian border?
You would think this would be in order
If it's good enough for Mexico
A wall keeping out the Canadians would be the way to go
I'm sure they're sick of their free health care
And all the elbow room so they can let out their hair
The cool temps gotta be a drag
And all those mosquitos that like to nag
Having to learn French and English would really suck
What is that kid doing on the five dollar bill, playing with a puck?
Give a polar bear, how about a loon
I'll stick with my Jefferson and Washington you goon
So why don't they need a wall up there
Maybe it's because they think the United States isn't fair
And they much rather just stay up there

Civil humans navigate existence scaredly
the less than live nefariously
Moral people desire meaningful life
alleged Almighty said 'let Evil be rife'

Faith believers make-up the majority
the mindless eagerly defy authority
So-called justice warriors snuffing history
behind unwarranted uprising no mystery

Colleges are about brainwashing young
leftist professors ONLY preach dung
Patriotic Americans begrudgingly sacrifice
eventually it's 'f*ck being nice'

Unarmed black men being sought
another blatant lie forever taught
Defund police latest insane rant
letting anti-Americans win we can't

Bitching and moaning is full-time
Scream injustice while perpetrating crime
Soros instructs his violent fools
peaceful protesters succumb to mob rules

Dethrone Trump whatever it takes
politicians depict the slimiest snakes
Our nations sovereignty under attack
You're racist if not black

Life's a party held for your good measure
For spoiled rotten brats who lives with ease
Still hoping to steal more family treasure
Picking fruits from a basket as you please

What causes all you lost souls to suffer
Existing in a world so filled with strife
Can you think of any streets much tougher
With people who don't value their own life

Once happy playgrounds now filled with anger
Ruled by bully gangs looking for some fights
Like watching neon signs flash with danger
With sirens and strobing red and blue lights

Stumbling home drunk after dark so raffish
Can be so proud of the life you lavish

thank you everyone!

Over there our soldiers
are putting their lives
on the line and dying
to keep our country
protected, safe and free
while deranged gunman
shoots at all in sight
killing six and wounding
ten plus others three
judge and nine-year-old girl
included among those killed
so indiscriminately
causing each soldier’s death
to be a travesty.

Loughner, the slayer,
pulled trigger on the gun
with Kelly’s and Palin’s
vitriolic rhetoric and display
shooting fully loaded rifle
crosshairs of sight of gun
the opposition to stifle
Ellinwood, puppet spokesman,
seeing no possible connection.
With such blindness
leaders chose to lead
while others serving justice
lie prone on cold ground
to their death to bleed.

While each silence is heard
no longer the brave
no longer the free
no longer do we live
where each vote is counted
in a true democracy.