Poetry Blogs (soapbox)

Popular last 30 days

love Poetry depression pain sad heartbreak life hope relationships freedom

Popular last 12 months

love poetry life death hope depression nature pain relationships poem

When the devil drives

I’m going down to the river
With my wash day blues
I’m going to go to a nightclub
In a pair of dancing shoes
I’m going to make a banner saying
‘All lives matter here’
I’m going to scale the rock face
That has always been too sheer
I’m going to sail across oceans
To spread the words of peace
To point out we don’t own this Earth
We only have it on lease
I’m going to go to a bookstore
Be...

Read and leave comments (0)

🌷 (1)

Thursday 24th May 2018 8:41 pm

All lives matter banner blues bookstore dancing shoes nightclub oceans river soapbox

Light the Path Ahead

.

Into a new dark age
we go, marching,
careening headlong

[of soapbox poetry
there is no want
for many a voice
loudly rail and rant]

the terrain of our
condition and that
of our experience
has changed over
year upon year of
progress that has brought
us closer to the edge
of a generation that
lives on the horizon

itself

peering further on

beyond

to challenges invis...

Soapbox Poetics

Into itself, beyond vast darkness, remote lights beckon our tomorrow.

Into a new dark age
we go, marching,
careening headlong

[of soapbox poetry
there is no want
for many a voice
loudly rail and rant]

the terrain of our
condition and that
of our experience
has changed over
year upon year of
progress that has brought
us ...