political-poetry

Below, find poetry focusing on politics, society, ideology and philosophy.

Pullman

Your body is a waste of space

dontcha know

We rush around you, on our merry way

stripping your bones of excess meat

It’s business, you see,

push and shove, tit for tat

The flesh we savour from your form

tastes like a job well done

It’s time to leave now

As we embalm you

Crack your bones into a smile

and turn out the lights

Misery

the pretty girl that makes you blush dies at the
end,

just in case you didn’t notice

you can’t escape with embers of hope -

like flowers and hugs and childish things

see us mangle the verse, paint pastel sheens grey and the end black. read it in the papers, white

tears will explode through your ribcage, or at least thrumming against you, a beat faster or slower than your heartbeat. this is a world without rythm now.

and you’ll sit,

and blame yourself

for wanting the girl to live

day poem

do you feel it, child?

the weight of the sun on your shoulders

it is the burden of us all

your bodies shall crackle and burn

even when the moon rises

Pluviôse III

“ambition,” they spit
“ambition is for businessmen
we have drained the keg of cider
there is nothing left to be done

the median has no interest

in that word, the disorder of it all

the hopes of a world too atomised

for the naked eye

despite our better efforts

reaction shall tear apart your soul

for nothing can be done

you understand?”

we would understand,
if we could

monochromic

the paint you dash

in panic and frustration

will be scraped away

rose-red turned to brick

turned screaming to grey

no matter what you do

we will spit at your naivite

and be safe in our hegemony

we know you still bleed

in black and white