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@rogriffi.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 3:15 AM

they sing the same song
and even they don’t believe
the nonsense they spew

#poetry #micropoetry #politicalpoetry

@rogriffi.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 9:01 PM

silver-haired mossbacks
refuse to relinquish
their tenuous grasp
on what once was
and never should be again

#poetry #WildWalkPrompt #PoliticalPoetry #BlueSkyPoets #prompt

@kateladew.com Oct 5, 2026, 11:59 AM

#vss365 #hurricane #PoliticalPoetry #BookSky #Poetry

Poem text by Kate LaDew:

I saved a spider from drowning in a glass of water

without knowing I was,
tossing whatever was between my fingers into the kitchen sink
as it uncoiled I opened a cabinet
retrieved a roll of paper towels,
and as deftly as a president in a room full of hurricane survivors
snapped off a sheet, in one motion
smashed the spider, gathered it up,
crumpled the paper towel and buried it deep in the trash
I've felt bad about this all day
the ghost of a living thing still moving between my fingers
my aversion to creepy-crawly things
overwhelming my need
to protect anything smaller and weaker than me
I imagine myself falling into somewhere
clear and heavy that knocks my breath away,
and, just when I'm sure this is the end,
feel my body rise, cold air rushing past,
gulping it in, wondering if maybe angels do exists,
ready to believe in everything, only to feel myself breaking,
swallowed up with force and it all goes dark.
maybe it's just a bug, maybe it wasn't adding much to society,
maybe it's no big deal because there's a million more like 'em in the world
and maybe I'll take a minute next time before I whip the paper towels out,
because maybe somebody out there feels that way about me, too.

@kateladew.com Sep 24, 2026, 11:56 AM

#vss365 #hunger #PoliticalPoetry #LitSky #Poetry #AmWriting

Poem text by Kate LaDew:

to keep the wolves out

they'll pick off the weakest,
the sickest, the poorest,
they'll force them to the edge
and bite with frothing mouths
and then, they'll see you
they are always hungry
bellies, full to the brim
empty to the bottom
they'll see you
they will see you
and when you're gone
they'll eat each other
so, wrap your arms around the barely there
the weak, the sick, the poor
squeeze until you lose your breath
hold so tight, there's no space between us
a jumble of hearts sharing the same blood
here we are, on the edge,
do we make a ladder of our hands
or wait for the wolves to find us?
do we stack our souls,
a bundle that can't be broken?
do we hold tight
and watch them devour each other?
or do we let go
eyelashes fluttering as the teeth sink in

@kateladew.com Sep 22, 2026, 12:23 PM

#vss365 #embark #PoliticalPoetry #Poetry #LitSky #AmWriting

it is beyond all comprehension that anyone could see this

and think good
and think yes
and think anything other than no no no
but you do not see
I push the images towards you
they were alive, they are no longer alive,
look
see
and you push them away
the way someone pushes away an unsatisfying meal,
picking out what you want leaving behind what you don’t
look
see
it is beyond all comprehension
so you do not comprehend
to do so would mean you’ve been tricked, duped, made a fool
we have embarked on a journey to save our country
yes
yes
yes
you would rather believe a lie than be wrong
I would rather not know the truth but can’t look away
because in the secret space of my heart, I believe god sees
and if he sees this, he sees me

@taicheuk.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 5:39 AM

#photoprint When the Pits Fell Silent #minersstrike #MinersStrike1984 #WorkingClassHistory #LaborHistory #LabourHistory #StrikePoetry #UnionStrong #Solidarity #WorkingClassStories #SocialJustice #PoliticalPoetry www.zazzle.com/when_the_pit... via @zazzle

@tristanrobertlange.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 12:41 PM

🇺🇸✝️ NEW POEM DROP

“all gods
under a nation—”

Two flags. One hierarchy. One devastating question.

Read domination by Tristan Robert Lange. 👇

#Poetry #Tittu #TittuPoetry #tristanrobertlange #PoliticalPoetry #Nationalism

@kateladew.com Sep 5, 2026, 12:24 PM

#Vss365 #reconnoitre #PoliticalPoetry #BookSky #poetry

Image: forest in black and white, black trees with white trees forming a swastika and the date '1933'

Poem text by Kate LaDew:

here was a giant swastika,

north of berlin,
they could see it from the air,
forestry students learning to survey,
great swaths of trees planted in an 'x'
with little dashes like hands crooking,
like a body broken and splayed,
this was 1992,
and pine larches can grow five feet every year,
so it had time, the swastika planted in 1937
to show loyalty to the party before the party was over,
was left, forgotten,
and, besides, you could only see it in winter,
yellow amongst the green,
and only from a very great height,
when the students landed, informed the authorities,
they were a little worried that, once the news got out,
it might attract some people who, 55 years later,
still wore party hats, waiting,
so they started cutting the trees down,
one by one, a few every day,
while people watched, overhead,
after a long while, the people watching radioed in,
it's done, the effect is gone,
no more swastika,
just a great swath of browning trees
in the middle of endless green,
and so, everybody left, mission accomplished,
and in the time it took them to reach the edges of the forest,
seeds from the larche's cones
bulletting the dead branches fell,
sank into the earth, waited

@tobbsjournal.bsky.social Sep 3, 2026, 4:54 AM

For more works by g.a.costa, visit:
https://cgacosta.substack.com/

#writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poetry #antiwar #politicalpoetry #politics #poems