Poems about Society Archives - Page 4 of 14 - The Cracked Door

11/24/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

The head of a rock
Hellbent on moving “forward”
Towards violence

Blast from the Past:

A generation
Who never knew war heralds
Trauma for the next

A day spent with friends
Talking about life in this
Strange place we call earth

Blast from the Past:

Sit by the fire
Contemplating cruelty
Man shows to others

Like a galaxy,
Oh the wondrous beauty of
Street trash in the rain

Blast from the Past:

Tick tock of the clock
With the faint trickle underneath
Of a gushing stream

New culture, the same
Old struggle to remain sane
In this crazy world

Blast from the Past:

Behind the walls
Of his culture yet taking
The whole system down.

Disguised flattery
Delusionally earnest
Disgustingly done

Blast from the Past:

Sickening theory
But reality is more
Sophisticated

In the gulf between
What we are and ought to be,
The satirist digs

Blast from the Past:

Satire reminds you
That your system’s an idol,
And that provokes you.

Each day that you work
Just brings you one day closer to
When they will fire you

Blast from the Past:

Earn your right to sit
At the table to listen…
Be silent and paid

Violence:

The continued quest
To win the competition to
Become carbon first

Blast from the Past:

You cannot have both
Dialoguing with evil
Violence would be fine

As my eyelids close,
The constant blares of traffic
Help to remind me
That the city does not join me
In slowly drifting to sleep

Blast from the Past:

A massive skyline
Peeks to seek, to spot, to scale
Manicured mountains

A midnight meeting
Woke up in the back of my van
To talk to the US

Blast from the Past:

A job will take all that you are willing to give it.

(An aphorism)