Poems about social issues

Take This Down

Love is love.

So She Covers Her Lovely Face

This erasure poem was published in Euphony. The found text is from Billy Sunday: The Man and His Message, by William T. Ellis in 1914.

As We Slide Off the End of Last Year

I wrote this poem in early 2017, after the 2016 US Presidential Election. Carrie Fisher's & George Michael's deaths were also on my mind.

USA After Newtown, Connecticut

"A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can't defuse a bomb. But we are not helpless. We can sing the truth and name the liars." S. Rushdie

Scarlet Lady, I Call You To Me

Last fall, I got to sail on a Virgin Voyages ship called Scarlet Lady, and I've been obsessed with her ever since.

Pendulum Takes a Question from the Audience About Guns

Pendulum considers us foolish and selfish to keep going the way we are with guns in the US.

LEGO Feminists

LEGOs allow scope for endless poems.

To Politicians After Uvalde

I was inspired by a Jimmy Kimmel monologue. Share this with any "leader" you think needs to read it.

I Shoppe at Disneyland with Walt's Daughters

This poem about Walt Disney was published in Crack The Spine.