#politicalpoetry — Public Fediverse posts

Sugar Bliss

colonial history
the bitterness
of sugarcane

Ignorance sweet bliss
Stranger at the door

fugitives from injustice
a blue door
in the desert

Federales
Invasive nativist
North of the border

currency exchange
a tamal for a candy bar

Tamal or Tamale
Wages are the same
Molasses trickles up

By: @extraspecialbitter
And
@NaraMoore

#Poetry #Rengay #PoliticalPoetry #Political #Politics #Protest #NMPoetry #PoetryCommunity

Sugar Bliss

colonial history
the bitterness
of sugarcane

Ignorance sweet bliss
Stranger at the door

fugitives from injustice
a blue door
in the desert

Federales
Invasive nativist
North of the border

currency exchange
a tamal for a candy bar

Tamal or Tamale
Wages are the same
Molasses trickles up

By: @extraspecialbitter
And
@NaraMoore

#Poetry #Rengay #PoliticalPoetry #Political #Politics #Protest #NMPoetry #PoetryCommunity

Sugar Bliss

colonial history
the bitterness
of sugarcane

Ignorance sweet bliss
Stranger at the door

fugitives from injustice
a blue door
in the desert

Federales
Invasive nativist
North of the border

currency exchange
a tamal for a candy bar

Tamal or Tamale
Wages are the same
Molasses trickles up

By: @extraspecialbitter
And
@NaraMoore

#Poetry #Rengay #PoliticalPoetry #Political #Politics #Protest #NMPoetry #PoetryCommunity

#ScribesAndMakers 25: Do you do any activism through your creative work?@solarbranka

#PoliticalPoetry
Below are links to a sampling.

• #AO3 - Midnight Machetes: Three Political Poems for Our Times:
• #PIXIV - Protest Poetry:
• Fedi - Blessed Are...:

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 25: Do you do any activism through your creative work?@solarbranka

#PoliticalPoetry
Below are links to a sampling.

• #AO3 - Midnight Machetes: Three Political Poems for Our Times:
• #PIXIV - Protest Poetry:
• Fedi - Blessed Are...:

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 25: Do you do any activism through your creative work?@solarbranka

#PoliticalPoetry
Below are links to a sampling.

• #AO3 - Midnight Machetes: Three Political Poems for Our Times:
• #PIXIV - Protest Poetry:
• Fedi - Blessed Are...:

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

Blessed Are...

••⋅☾ #和歌 / #短歌 ☽⋅••

Bedraggled
Vain rooster crowing
Sunk costs
The sheep applaud
Blessing perversity

••⋅☾ #WakaPoetry / #Tanka ☽⋅••

Western Dove
Calming the Sea
Fleeced flock
Trappling hooves
Welcome the storm

••⋅☾ #連歌 / #Renga☽⋅••

#Wss366 #NMPoetry #PoetryOnTheFly #Political #PoliticalPoetry #LinkedPoetry #Poetry

Blessed Are...

••⋅☾ #和歌 / #短歌 ☽⋅••

Bedraggled
Vain rooster crowing
Sunk costs
The sheep applaud
Blessing perversity

••⋅☾ #WakaPoetry / #Tanka ☽⋅••

Western Dove
Calming the Sea
Fleeced flock
Trappling hooves
Welcome the storm

••⋅☾ #連歌 / #Renga☽⋅••

#Wss366 #NMPoetry #PoetryOnTheFly #Political #PoliticalPoetry #LinkedPoetry #Poetry

A poem about War, Democracy and Trump... https://medium.com/@witheredstumpsoftime/a-2-part-poem-02e29dd7c939
#poem #poet #poetry #trump #war #democracy #politicalpoetry

••⋅☾#片歌☽⋅••

Candle flame
Monk's dying wish
Incense on the pyre

••⋅☾#katauta☽⋅••

#MastoPrompt #Monk
#PoliticalPoetry #PoetryOnTheFly #NMPoetry

••⋅☾#片歌☽⋅••

Candle flame
Monk's dying wish
Incense on the pyre

••⋅☾#katauta☽⋅••

#MastoPrompt #Monk
#PoliticalPoetry #PoetryOnTheFly #NMPoetry

••⋅☾#片歌☽⋅••

Candle flame
Monk's dying wish
Incense on the pyre

••⋅☾#katauta☽⋅••

#MastoPrompt #Monk
#PoliticalPoetry #PoetryOnTheFly #NMPoetry

@extraspecialbitter

••⋅☾#片歌☽⋅••
Back hiding
Orange lizard
In the big house
••⋅☾#katauta☽⋅••

#PoetryOnTheFly #PoliticalPoetry #NMPoetry

@extraspecialbitter

••⋅☾#片歌☽⋅••
Back hiding
Orange lizard
In the big house
••⋅☾#katauta☽⋅••

#PoetryOnTheFly #PoliticalPoetry #NMPoetry

@extraspecialbitter

••⋅☾#片歌☽⋅••
Back hiding
Orange lizard
In the big house
••⋅☾#katauta☽⋅••

#PoetryOnTheFly #PoliticalPoetry #NMPoetry

I wrote this poem a couple of years ago in solidarity with immigrants everywhere. I am Danish but have made Scotland my home. Not everyone is welcomed by all. But we are all earth inhabitants. 🌍

©️ Saraphir Camille Legind

#poetrylovers #IAmAnImmigrant #immigration #politicalpoetry #protestpoetry

This powerful poem comes from Lenora R. Elliot. It is a conversation between a mother and daughter. Please allow yourself to feel while you read.

https://interregnum.ghost.io/in-schutzstaffel-times-jan-2026/

#poem #poetry #Trump #ReneeGood #FuckICE #politicalpoetry

Adapting The Hangman without its ending isn’t restraint—it’s surrender. Ogden’s poem is a warning that only works if the rope finally tightens. Stop at the riddle and you don’t provoke thought; you dodge responsibility. Mood is not meaning. Consequence is.
#TheHangman #MauriceOgden #UnionStation #Bluegrass #PoetryAdaptation #BystanderEffect #ArtAndResponsibility #PoliticalPoetry #LiteraryCriticism
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/the-anatomy-of-omission-narrative-decapitation-and-the-ethics-of-moral-allegory-in-union-stations-the-hangman/

You cannot rely on Trump. You cannot outsource morality.
A political poem calling out blind reliance, transactional power, and the danger of mistaking deals for values.
#Poetry #PoliticalPoetry #Trump #NATO #EU #UN #GlobalPolitics #Ukraine #Accountability #PowerAndGreed #ArtAsResistance

You cannot rely on Trump. You cannot outsource morality.
A political poem calling out blind reliance, transactional power, and the danger of mistaking deals for values.
#Poetry #PoliticalPoetry #Trump #NATO #EU #UN #GlobalPolitics #Ukraine #Accountability #PowerAndGreed #ArtAsResistance

You cannot rely on Trump. You cannot outsource morality.
A political poem calling out blind reliance, transactional power, and the danger of mistaking deals for values.
#Poetry #PoliticalPoetry #Trump #NATO #EU #UN #GlobalPolitics #Ukraine #Accountability #PowerAndGreed #ArtAsResistance

You cannot rely on Trump. You cannot outsource morality.
A political poem calling out blind reliance, transactional power, and the danger of mistaking deals for values.
#Poetry #PoliticalPoetry #Trump #NATO #EU #UN #GlobalPolitics #Ukraine #Accountability #PowerAndGreed #ArtAsResistance

You cannot rely on Trump. You cannot outsource morality.
A political poem calling out blind reliance, transactional power, and the danger of mistaking deals for values.
#Poetry #PoliticalPoetry #Trump #NATO #EU #UN #GlobalPolitics #Ukraine #Accountability #PowerAndGreed #ArtAsResistance

When wealth hoards power and poverty pays the price, I can’t stop asking: how do they sleep at night?
#Poetry #SpokenWord #ClassInequality #CostOfLivingCrisis #EatTheRich #PowerAndGreed #WeThePeople #PoliticalPoetry #Justice #HumanDignity

When wealth hoards power and poverty pays the price, I can’t stop asking: how do they sleep at night?
#Poetry #SpokenWord #ClassInequality #CostOfLivingCrisis #EatTheRich #PowerAndGreed #WeThePeople #PoliticalPoetry #Justice #HumanDignity

When wealth hoards power and poverty pays the price, I can’t stop asking: how do they sleep at night?
#Poetry #SpokenWord #ClassInequality #CostOfLivingCrisis #EatTheRich #PowerAndGreed #WeThePeople #PoliticalPoetry #Justice #HumanDignity

When wealth hoards power and poverty pays the price, I can’t stop asking: how do they sleep at night?
#Poetry #SpokenWord #ClassInequality #CostOfLivingCrisis #EatTheRich #PowerAndGreed #WeThePeople #PoliticalPoetry #Justice #HumanDignity

When wealth hoards power and poverty pays the price, I can’t stop asking: how do they sleep at night?
#Poetry #SpokenWord #ClassInequality #CostOfLivingCrisis #EatTheRich #PowerAndGreed #WeThePeople #PoliticalPoetry #Justice #HumanDignity

A poem confronting inequality, political greed, and the cost of looking away. A sharp critique of leaders who protect wealth while the vulnerable fight to survive.
#PoliticalPoetry #TruthToPower #Inequality #Corruption #Justice #HumanRights #Accountability

Tony Harrison has died. His poem 'V.' is a masterpiece of political poetry. It's a stark elegy set in a vandalised Leeds graveyard, where graffiti sparks a fierce dialogue on class and division. Its raw language is not obscene, but essential—a cry of shared anger that remains powerfully urgent.

#TonyHarrison #VPoem #Poetry #PoliticalPoetry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA3AL14d05k

🕯️ Eulogy for a Mayor (Eric Adams)
A farewell to vibes, rats, and the Empire City’s most unserious leader:

We gather not to praise the man,
but to return the city he borrowed
and forgot to sign back in.

He wore Armani like a badge
and spoke of rats like prophets do plagues.
He danced in nightclubs
while the shelters burned.
He tweeted vibes,
while rent raised the dead.

#NYC #EricAdams #PoliticalPoetry #Satire #ThisIsNotLeadership #EshuElegbara

Graeme Eddolls contemplates hope, struggle and reinvention in the face of structural oppression. 'Those doves will fly again'.

https://interregnum.ghost.io/defunct/

#poetry #oppression #hope #struggle #politicalpoetry #art #radical #leftpoem #left

Cee Smith offers a poem on bravery, pain and facing things head on. A humble reflection on interactions with those fighting for Palestine against the genocide. Illustrated with original artwork by Donna Jean.

https://interregnum.ghost.io/headlining-bystander/

#poetry #poem #solidarity #palestine #politics #politicalpoetry

Iona Soper contributes a powerful poem which remembers their time in a Scottish delegation to Rojava.

https://interregnum.ghost.io/a-theory-of-thunder/

#rovaja #kurdistan #Kurd #poetry #poem #politics #art #poems #poemaday #politicalpoetry

Iona Soper contributes a powerful poem which remembers their time in a Scottish delegation to Rojava.

https://interregnum.ghost.io/a-theory-of-thunder/

#rovaja #kurdistan #Kurd #poetry #poem #politics #art #poems #poemaday #politicalpoetry

Iona Soper contributes a powerful poem which remembers their time in a Scottish delegation to Rojava.

https://interregnum.ghost.io/a-theory-of-thunder/

#rovaja #kurdistan #Kurd #poetry #poem #politics #art #poems #poemaday #politicalpoetry

Iona Soper contributes a powerful poem which remembers their time in a Scottish delegation to Rojava.

https://interregnum.ghost.io/a-theory-of-thunder/

#rovaja #kurdistan #Kurd #poetry #poem #politics #art #poems #poemaday #politicalpoetry

In our first publication as part of Art & Poetry month, Sam Button offers a political poem reflecting on the contiguous tyranny of the new regime governing the United States of America.

https://interregnum.ghost.io/the-unfurling-of-the-flag-of-the-united-states-of-america/

#poem #poetry #politics #politicalpoetry #uspolitics

When the leopard
Wants to lick your face
Past forgiveness

#Hiaku #FreeHiaku #Senryu #Poetry #PoliticalPoetry

https://medium.com/@witheredstumpsoftime/oh-joe-whered-ya-go-1b81c53409e4
#politicalpoetry #poetry #poem #politics #uspolitics #democracy #joebiden

Here are two political raps I wrote in 1990. https://medium.com/@daisybrain/stuck-between-iraq-and-a-hard-place-08966d5ab132

#politicalsatire #politicalparody #politics #politicalrap #politicalpoetry #warandpeace #nonviolence

Jackie Kay in Conversation with Josie Long
19 Nov, Bishopbriggs Library – free

Jackie Kay will read from her latest poetry collection MAY DAY, & discuss political activism & finding one's own political voice with writer & comedian Josie Long

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jackie-kay-in-conversation-with-josie-long-tickets-1073020746939

#Scottish #literature #poetry #politics #politicalpoetry #activism #JackieKay

Writing workshop. PWYC. Politicking the Poem
With Ellen Chang-Richardson | September 24, 2023
Witness, process, comment, and critique and join the long tradition of political poetry.
Come prepared to channel fire through your fingertips. http://rachelthompson.co/workshops #WritingWorkshop #WritingCommunity #PWYC #poetry #poem #politics #PoliticalPoetry #PoetsOfMastodon #PoetryCommunity

#poets of the fediverse I beg you to use this as a prompt for some #politicalpoetry or #activerse #trans #angst

RE: https://todon.eu/users/RadicalGraffiti/statuses/110172527419874004

S.U.V. motorcade
to Trump-branded airplane
to S.U.V. motorcade
to Trump Hotel and Tower ...
next, he's fingerprinted and charged

* * *

flanked by his lawyers
the silent old man looks
small ... and smaller

- from Poetry in the Moment, by Chen-ou Liu
http://chenouliu.blogspot.com/2023/04/tuesday-as-usual.html

#Haiku #PoliticalPoetry #PoetryCommunity #ChenChenWrites #TrumpIndictment #TrumpArraignment #Accountability #DemocracyWins