Category: Poems about Society

Poems about society

02/25/26 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: Specna Arms

Given a weapon
Told to fulfill his “International Duty”
Tore villages to pieces
To return as pieces in a coffin
For a broken mother

Blast from the Past:

Killing the “bad guy”
As if only destruction
Will curb deviants.

02/23/26 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: Moritz Karst

Watching laundry spin
Rolling up, only to fall
An endless cycle

(Or at least for 30 minutes, but after that load is done, there always seems to be another load.)

Blast from the Past:

Pleasure comes and goes
Followed by melancholy,
An endless cycle

02/19/26 A New Haiku for a New Day

Chill under a tree
Sitting and cracking open
A nice coconut

(The sun bear I saw today had the right idea for how to spend a rainy day here in the Bornean rainforest.)

Blast from the Past:

Retreat from the noise
Of a cluttered world crammed in
A barrel of greed

02/14/26 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: Joel Muniz

There on the front line
In between the heartless system
And the humans it hurts

Blast from the Past:

Why do we let our
Human lives be confined by
Our inhuman worlds?

01/28/26 A New Poem for a New Day

Photo Credit: Ioana Mohanu

The boy saw his laundry
That his mom handed to him.
He lounged for his favorite shirt,
But she said, “Keep it clean.”
“But I want to wear it.”
“If you wear it now, it will dirty again.
You must keep it clean as long as you can.”

He ran to his room
And put his laundry aside,
And looked at the shirt on his chest
Evidently becoming dirty.
To keep them all clean,
He knew what he must do,
Waltzing into the hall
Knowing that
He’d never wear clothes again.

Blast from the Past:

Brains are like lettuce:
Both go bad if I do not
Use them frequently.

01/23/26 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: Anastasia Egorowa

As my youth simmers,
Some parts harden into me
After the dew fades

Blast from the Past:

Young kids stare amazed
Fingers typing, “Dupe dupe dupe!”
At the typewriter