Category: Poems about Society

Poems about society

07/22/25 A New Landay Poem for a New Day

Photo Credit: This time it’s me! Feel free to check out my new photography on Shutterstock

My plane departs towards a new world
A long long time ago, I left my own world behind

Everyone I meet here welcomes me
Cultural cousins of the ones I just visited

Kindred spirits but islands apart
Many here cannot afford to see their fellow kin

A short flight, but they might as well be
A world away from this island that makes up their home

A world I can traverse on each of
My many flights as I hop around to see what’s here

This one is a landay poem, which is made up of 9 syllable then 13 syllable couplet. They are supposed to demonstrate contrasts.

Blast from the Past:

Tossed into this world
You will receive everything
Will it be enough?

07/10/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: Debal Das

Shipwreck out at sea
A relic of social decay
Now a world for fish

Blast from the Past:

It is painful to
Think all the progress we’ve made
Might one day recede

07/09/25 A New Novem Poem for A New Day

Photo Credit: Denis

now an error
no progress saved
nothing, just none

what bad Wi-Fi
when even one
webpage can’t load

This is about a bad internet connection. It’s also my attempt at a novem poem. These consist of three three-line stanzas, where each line contains three words. Two of the words must be one syllable and the third two syllables. In the first line, the two-syllable word must be the third word, in the second line, the second word, and third line, the first word. Also, each stanza must have at least four words that start with the same consonant sound.

Blast from the Past:

The waves crash softly.
My phone beeps persistently
Till I throw it over

06/21/25 A New Haiku Sonnet for a New Day

Photo Credit: yogendras31

Lush streams flow water
Down the side of the hill to
The creek far below

Covered with green plants
And flowers as it curves through
The valley it formed

It almost wants to
Be beautiful, except it
Is littered by trash

The urban build squelches the
Beauty of the land itself

(This is a haiku sonnet, three haikus and then two final lines to make up a type of sonnet.)

Blast from the Past:

The once vibrant marsh
Polluted by trains, lanes, and
Industrial sludge