Current Events Poems

Poetry about current events are relevant to our particular lifestyles. Some may choose to write about suffering and injustices that are occurring in the world and others may write about politics. Taking an interest in world around you is a way of showing that you care about the other living things that inhabit the world together with us. Sometimes it hard to get a handle on what is truly happening with the television news and radio. With the advent of the internet we have multiple sources to tap into in order to get a more accurate picture.

Poems about Current Events

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Darfur
By Fortesa Veselaj
The colors of their faces,
The tears that they shed.
The writing on the walls,
Their parents nearly dead.
They sleep with their eyes open,
They cry with their eyes closed.
They ..........
Votes: 19,  Rating: 4.58 , 1 Stories
Poem About Michael Jackson, Icon
By Randy Pela
You taught me the ABC's and my 123's. Your musical genius will go down in history.
Your nickname was the King of Pop, You Never Stopped Until You Got Enough.
People of all ages learned to Rock ..........
Votes: 35,  Rating: 4.46 , 1 Stories
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Feelings About War
Blood starts drippin’ from the soldier’s wound
Seeps like sewage ‘neath the politician’s room

Deep in the house, white fades to red
And the freedom we’re fighting for seems to be ..........
Votes: 31,  Rating: 4.45
America The Beautiful
America the Beautiful is that what we say?

America the Beautiful of 2008, we have shamed our country with war and hate. Loss of life from war to guns how can we be number one?

We say we ..........
Votes: 10,  Rating: 4.4
Oil Spill in The Gulf of Mexico, Dead Zones
By Laverne Little
Here we go again with another severed vein
You keep cutting them again and again
Where in the world does this cut lead
Like any fluid that pours – it lets the earth bleed
Call the ..........
Votes: 16,  Rating: 4.38
Daddy Broke Her
By Marinela Reka
There she lay in a room so low
Only in that room, little did she know
She saw no sunlight, she saw no snow
No place to explore no place to go
Never seen the beautiful Sandela
Nowhere ..........
Votes: 18,  Rating: 4.33
Portrait Of A Politician
A canker
Who cankers the very wood
Wherein he stays.

A climber
Who sucks
The marrow of those
Who nursed and nourished him
With pills and potions of power.

A snake ..........
Votes: 9,  Rating: 4.33
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War And Fighting
By Kylie duke
Hurt, pain, suffering, people are dying
What’s going on we're both crying
Guns, hand grenades and bombs too
People running scared they don’t know what to do
Most people run, most people ..........
Votes: 21,  Rating: 4.24
Help Save The World
By Aima Sohail
The world is losing it's trees today,
Do you think that's OK?
Fights, Arguments and civil wars.
Pollution caused by our own cars.

A hundred trees are cut in one day,
Just to make ..........
Votes: 19,  Rating: 3.95
First Lady Michelle
By Ashley Marquita Nelson
She is a mother
She is a scholar
She has the style that made Barack want to holla'
She is the full package
Complete with poise, class
She carries no extra baggage
Like Africa, she ..........
Votes: 16,  Rating: 3.94
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