Archive for Social Comment

1. THE FOX AND THE HOUND • by G Westall 3 Comments

   you said i was your paramour
   so irresistable you had to chase
   across fields and shallow rivers
   catching me deep amongst the trees
   my fight was just flirting and i
   let you take a gullet of blood
   because you found its scent alluring
   the days grow cold and dim without you
    

   G Westall spends more time thinking about poetry than writing it. He [...]

   Nature, Other, Romance, Social Comment
   
   

2. ON THE DRIVE INTO WORK IN SILICON VALLEY • by Steve Lucchesi 4 Comments

    
   Car is warm,
               A womb in motion,
   music soothes and thoughts are free.
   Trees awaken, colored with subtle soul
               as the sun makes promise of
   life beyond language and symbol.
   Some fearing, others not hearing the promise
               drive deaf and blinded
   to be birthed
   into dry antiseptic halls of commerce
                           where demands of ambitions
   are conscience.
   There, possibilities of the unformed day
   are [...]

   Other, Social Comment
   
   

3. FACELESS • by Katherine McIntyre 6 Comments

   They don’t look at you;
   specters aren’t concrete.
   They only see a torn T-shirt
   bought from Pennies,
   your threadbare scarf
   and an old pack of Poptarts
   crumbling at the bottom of your bag.
   No, they don’t realize
   you’re clinging to your mother’s old Timex
   although ol’ Mike’s Pawn Shop would
   procure temporary reprieve from the
   rolling thunder in your stomach.
   They glare at sidewalks to ignore you,
   every [...]

   Other, Social Comment
   
   

4. TIANANMEN SQUARE • by George McKim 8 Comments

   we met in tiananmen square
   in a wet, anemic daydream
   you wore a long dress
   made from newly formed continents
   i was naked      except for a necklace
   made from constellations
   and power tools
   we danced
   your breath formed small pink clouds
   in the hieroglyphic night sky
   we drank the dark star elixir
   with open skull delirium
   we climb the great wall
   i hear you
   in the distant [...]

   Social Comment, Surreal
   
   

5. BRACEROS • by J. B. Hogan 10 Comments

   Beneath the desert sun they worked:
   thin bodies bent double in dusty rows,
   with bronzed and calloused hands,
   thinning cotton with short-handled hoes.
   Mid-morning sun, eye-burning, strength-sapping heat
   rising in waves off the ground,
   thinking of lunch time beans and tortillas,
   jars of jalapeños, the afternoon ahead.
   Working fiercely for a dollar an hour,
   saving it for a cheap radio or new straw hat,
   all [...]

   Inspirational, Literary, Poems, Social Comment
   
   

6. FLEEING UNDER COVER OF DAY • by Dennis Misurell 8 Comments

   From across the street, I stare at you
   pacing up and down
   the metal runway of the U-Haul,
   a gang plank to nowhere.
   You scurry,
   traverse your bridge too far,
   and lug the remains of your American dream,
   crammed into corrugated prisons.
   A modern day Joad,
   shaking dust from your ARM’s,
   and the whirlwind of leverage you created.
   Flipping mortgages was financial eggs over easy.
   You had [...]

   Other, Social Comment