cruelty poems

Destroying Everyone and Everything | Rodrigo Alcantara - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

Destroying Everyone and Everything | Rodrigo Alcantara

I’m astonished at their
sheer cruelty, depravity,
hypocrisy, coldness,
the lengths they will go to
to mislead their followers
so they can get more power,
make more money.
At what point is enough enough?
When does this cruel push for riches end?
They’ll stop at nothing because
this is about much more than just money,
it’s about that horrible thing(s) that
happened to them as children and
that they have to punish the rest
of humanity for forever.
Go see a psychiatrist instead of
destroying everyone and everything else.

Health Care | Anya Verhausen - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

Health Care | Anya Verhausen

how damaged do you have to be
to want to deny people health care?

who hurt you so much in your past
that you have to hurt others?

why do you only feel better when
you’re damaging other people?

who told you greed and lust for power
was a good character trait?

why do you believe in horrible things
while pretending to be pious?

when will you stop hurting other people
just so you can feel better for a moment?

why don’t you just look inside for once
and fix all your wretched bile?

Melissa |  Roy Pullam - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

Melissa | Roy Pullam

We danced around
The AIDS
That was killing her
She so thin
Her skin transparent
A cough
That rocked her body
A boyfriend
She loved
His indiscretion
Writing a death sentence
For her
She did not cast blame
Accepting her lot
Living with the shame
A family
Unable to accept
Unable to forgive
Citing the Bible
For the scarlet death
She would surely face
God’s punishment
For women
Who lay
Out of marriage
I hugged her gently
Knowing the frailness
The reed
That was her body
The last time
I would see her
Death at 24
Joining the other four
He so callously infected

The Great Santini | Stan Morrison - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

The Great Santini | Stan Morrison

twenty-five years in the us army
still got that little boy haircut
wearing fatigues to the commissary
while keeping important contacts
run your household like a drill sergeant
your sadistic fantasy career and life path
canned images of honor, glory and respect
“clean that latreen with a toothbrush, soldier
you’ll be cleaning it every day for a month”
obscene defense budgets for war toy games
parades, holidays for those who gave their lives
for the failures of old men driven by greed
wear your dress uniform to simulate greatness
honoring a lifetime of service to our country
my hero!

Current Events | Stan Morrison - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

Current Events | Stan Morrison

days blur and lose their names
nights coagulate into darkness
leaders lack vision and direction
heroes can’t provide any cover
the plastic oceans all lifeless
flooding coastlines with debris
famine, cholera, dengue, ebola
stubborn bothersome third world
luckily all my stocks are now up
our arctic oil wells are gushing
finally, nothing to worry about

Poverty | Krushna Chandra Mishra - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

Poverty | Krushna Chandra Mishra

What a testing tool this poverty is
to keep the chaff out from the grains
to let the foolish world admit
all is not that gold in shining
and silver screens may not
always be behind all dark clouds
and between the moon and the bread
there always hangs hunger
as the poor never afraid of falling
from a cliff where death reigns
if there is the scent of food brewing
and if elsewhere amid junkyards
and in bio-undegradable polypacks
rotting for days and turning poison
food is visible to the eyes of those
starving emaciated shrivelled bodies
in skinned skeletons as they romp
the land not knowing what looks
life-giving is very soon going to
be spinning out death for them.

Poverty equates in hunger and death
telling nothing really matters
in this tyrannical world where
when the people die hypocrites
in slinging mud on every face are heard
when all is set for nothing to be clearly seen
to fix and find and fine the fools
who in cunning hide in havens
of safety that confusion breeds.

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