indifferent politicians poems Archives

Voiceless | Carl Wade Thompson

55 people shot this weekend,
quick start to the New Year.
Seems like old news in Chicago land,
place where the random get killed.
What does this say about us,
that it happens on our watch?
Not far from home, another world,
but right here in our back yard.
Why are there no marches,
no talks on Capitol Hill?
Why does the President not react
when blood is spilled in his own burg?
Democrats, Republicans,
no one takes the mayor to task.
Emmanuel instead turns his back,
as the suffering reaches a screaming pitch,
a banshee’s call for the dead.
All I know is no one cares,
as long as non-whites are shot.
Just let them kill each other,
our very own urban onslaught.
I don’t know what to do,
so tired of the death.
Just have to bear it down,
until I watch next weekend’s news.

The Raze – Being a Lament for the Rohingya | Tara Lynn Hawk

August 25, 2023 / Best Poetry / ethnic cleansing poems, humanitarian crisis poems, indifferent politicians poems, original poem, poems about social justice, social justice poems / Leave a Comment

She
A pale ghost from
A stateless, segregated hell
Tear your skirt in half and tie your dying child on your back
With feet unshod you walk and walk
As the operations of clearance continue
If you can survive the rape, the fires
The bullets…the waves
The lady with the medal exclaims you are all just fine
As you lose your name and the graves multiply

More at https://www.taralynnhawk.com/.

Politics as Usual | J.K. Durick

August 6, 2023 / Best Poetry / abuse of power poems, consequences of elections poems, indifferent politicians poems, poems about social justice, social justice poems / Leave a Comment

Politics, too often, exists, survives in the valley of
its making, full of sound and fury signifying nothing
or little, which is fine if all the world needed was to
keep dangerous people busy with their own business,
they pose and party, form groups and apply pressure,
make speeches for the cameras in their mostly empty
chambers, vote and gloat, form committees, adjust
their thinking to keep their power, their place assured,

but, there’s always a but, when it comes to who runs
the show, there are problems all around us, ones that
get mentioned, but play out quietly in the background
in all the clamor and cluster of politics, think of all
the diseases that need to be cured, or poverty, or cities
falling apart on the evening news, the environment
and unemployment – when politics become about itself,
politicians on talk shows, politicians on junkets, on and
on, the art of the possible becomes impossible to take.

Waking | Eliza Mimski

August 6, 2023 / Best Poetry / despair poems, indifferent politicians poems, poems about social justice, poor government poems, social justice poems / Leave a Comment

It seems so long ago
that life felt fairly normal
Not waking up each day to
more horrible news
The government ruining this,
wrecking that
It seems so long ago
so very long ago

So hard to wake up
each morning, wondering
what new bad thing is
happening to
our country

More at https://elizamimski.wordpress.com/.

Closing the Door | J.K. Durick

July 26, 2023 / Best Poetry / being an outsider poems, indifferent politicians poems, partisanship poems, poems about social justice, social justice poems / Leave a Comment

A door when it closes makes a noise –
slammed, of course, it’s loud enough
to rattle windows, if shut more slowly
more subtly it’s an almost silent click.

If it’s a literal door and you see it close
from the outside, you would be tempted
to knock or ring the bell, but the more
figurative kind are harder to deal with.

When these doors close, through opinion,
through executive order, or a vote along
party lines, the closing is harder on those
on the outside, you would be tempted too,

tempted to talk, but out here you are alone
even in a crowd you are alone, closed doors
do that, they fill up space in your thinking,
a blank wall, a blank face, an answering silence.