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It's more than simply what you typed, What you spoke over the phone; It's how you've done it Down to every detail, From the face you made To each little keystroke. The trends, the habits, & routines By which you live your life by; Tagged with geolocation & time. Nowadays, there's even more devices Like the phone or speaker or television; Like satellite, transmitter, receiver. There's a tag on your ear By which you're known by- It's just not what you go by, chattel.
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Feb 13, 2025
Feb 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM UTC
Tin-Metal Men
in the middle of seeing islands of fog the roots disconnected fom the branches of thought was it like this: you do not deserve to be the vitality of forms, do not exist we were told while breathing do not exist in your bodies do not exist in your minds some dreams are just silly dumb as that daylight throats are full of words of unshed thinking of noise so loud that the world might have imploded dark circles of impossible pain contain our ribs why are you here you were told, we don't want you we  can not witness the joy of life with our teeth full of something we don't understand our eyes are holding the light captive like a knife full of strife why are we here why the fog obscures the echo why are we here why
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Aug 4, 2023
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:19 AM UTC
why
we stopped believing the agora of the mind our souls empty rooms colliding full of amnesia on incessant roads walls of flesh we were on the edge of terror, steel confused with clarity souls plucked like nails inside ruins suffocated tales & archives of illusion the shadow is closer to the center only in the diaries of the blind no hole of god is dead, we ***** fresh prophets with inviolable gaze for the sublime and holy in our sweat believing is seeing the most lethal duel the one and only the fake divine who thinks alone on a road with no views he planted spotlights in their eyes for everybody to see only the world in his arms hate kept in empty milk bottles life is this schweitzer, passers-by were saying, it has taste but only  in foreign countries, with their fists in pain caressing concrete asphalt turbines as in quick sands no muscle was moving carboard smiles unprotected against the evacuation of desire wooden language didn't invent choice no decomposition of the edges the totalitarian thought inside the narcosis of time merciless the clouds lost their sound we still don't look at each other no hypothesis of sight no discharge for humiliation wither souls made history grappling bending twisting nonconsensual reality no destiny for the allegory of truth   there are no angles of sight facts become beasts holy cannot be anybody's name repelling of the heart beat
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Mar 11, 2023
Mar 11, 2023 at 10:12 AM UTC
holy was not thy name
We take back the power, for the people, We fight to the last, for the people, We work together, for the people, We ask no questions, for the people, We accept all information, for the people, We hate those we are told, for the people, We sacrifice the individual, for the people, We live and die, for the people, For the people! The people.... What people?
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Nov 28, 2019
Nov 28, 2019 at 9:16 AM UTC
Total control
I can hear them. There is not one, but might be hundreds of them lurking behind these rickety wood walls. He is watching. The party has always been watching. I can control my thoughts. Cogito ergo sum. This is my world, no one can touch me. These are my thoughts, my heart beats for what is good for me. My hands scrawling, my brain is just scribbling. Yet, I’ve known from the start that I am a dead man. I didn’t commit adultery, I followed them. I am alive, I can feel my heart racing. My blood all over my body... reminds me why I’m here. To survive and live, yet I am still a dead man. I am no mute, but I can’t speak. While writing this I can picture my hands and feet with shackles, wounds of torture. I’ve been always a dead man. The prole doesn’t know. They need to know. They should stop listening or watching the telescreen. They should strive to dig the Oldspeak. Oh, right. Who dares to doublethink against a totalitarian regime anyway? The guns are always on their hands. The war is always going. It’s always here. The past... is always here. We don’t see it, but it’s here! There’s nowhere to run or hide, the world tried. I will be the next unperson, vaporising in the history of Oceania. They won’t remember. They’ll try not to remember. We are a nobody. Winston was right. I can feel the boot stamping on my face. This is the future. My voice... is a thought crime, will never be accepted in this society. I am a dead man. I am ready... the Thought Police has been always watching me. The INGSOC. Big Brother. I will never love him! But I am ready to be trap in the place where there is no darkness. I am ready... for the Ministry of Love. I won’t ever, ever love Big Brother! I do not care, for I am already a dead man!
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Nov 7, 2017
Nov 7, 2017 at 10:38 PM UTC
I, You, We... a Dead Man (1984)
I can hear them. There is not one, but might be hundreds of them lurking behind these rickety wood walls. He is watching. The party has always been watching. I can control my thoughts. Cogito ergo sum. This is my world, no one can touch me. These are my thoughts, my heart beats for what is good for me. My hands scrawling, my brain is just scribbling. Yet, I’ve known from the start that I am a dead man. I didn’t commit adultery, I followed them. I am alive, I can feel my heart racing. My blood all over my body... reminds me why I’m here. To survive and live, yet I am still a dead man. I am no mute, but I can’t speak. While writing this I can picture my hands and feet with shackles, wounds of torture. I’ve been always a dead man. The prole doesn’t know. They need to know. They should stop listening or watching the telescreen. They should strive to dig the Oldspeak. Oh, right. Who dares to doublethink against a totalitarian regime anyway? The guns are always on their hands. The war is always going. It’s always here. The past... is always here. We don’t see it, but it’s here! There’s nowhere to run or hide, the world tried. I will be the next unperson, vaporising in the history of Oceania. They won’t remember. They’ll try not to remember. We are a nobody. Winston was right. I can feel the boot stamping on my face. This is the future. My voice... is a thought crime, will never be accepted in this society. I am a dead man. I am ready... the Thought Police has been always watching me. The INGSOC. Big Brother. I will never love him! But I am ready to be trap in the place where there is no darkness. I am ready... for the Ministry of Love. I won’t ever, ever love Big Brother! I do not care, for I am already a dead man!
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"Cheers!" and we drink to this totalitarian, patriarchal ****
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Apr 10, 2016
Apr 10, 2016 at 6:36 PM UTC
Haiku #2
**My mind is a totalitarian regime. I build up walls, paranoia, panopticon. (And to me, Denmark is a prison.) Keep the voices, the evils of the world out. An ideology, power, purpose, Convinces me of the diseases, the deviants, That risks an illusion to be shattered. I am my own dictator, hail. I control words—words are power— I write my own narratives, make my own excuses, Create heroines and gods to populate the prison walls. (*He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about his Father’s business, the service of a vast, ****** and meretricious beauty.*) I rewrite constellations, make them smaller, Build babels, buying more time.   I tell that amnesiac blackness: that it cannot hurt me; it can’t touch me. Those labyrinthian libraries of sky charts and lovely flower dictionaries, rooms of polychromatic paintings, which I gathered with gayety as a child—I’m still a child—I haul into the fire, Ignorant wretch. We live a part of a global economy, where inclusivity and transparency criticize, perfect. I can’t stand the critics, I cry, ****** Condemn them to death by a thousand cuts, Slicing and dicing, I can hear their silent pleas, They speak to me, You are loved, Let your family in, Please stop Please please please stop please stop stop stop speak to please stop speak to me Horrible hungry faces, they don’t cry as I peal skin from bone, With shards I crush those voices, with glass, broken mirrors, Me to speak stop please to speak stop stop stop please stop please please please   Break down the walls, why should you die before your time? An open market is prone to crisis, These newcomers, it only takes one to break your heart. Things with merit are gems; scarcity creates value. Enjoy the labour of love and life, it is a gift of God, Dance under pixel skies, they **** pride, **** Open the floodgates, the dictatorship crumbles and crumples under the weight of these tired eyes That see light rushing out from the cell window as visions and vicissitudes A cry from the streets outside The end is nigh, Night is coming! One cannot sleep with starry skies in the eyes. Stay awake, because the guards are coming, Remember—you are to be tried for warcrimes, hail. You and me, we can shuffle off this mortal coil, our self slaughter a mere trifle In this ocean of failed realties, as man to cosmos.  (All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.) Cause this flesh to melt I beg, Keep cutting, smaller pieces, No, the sunrises, it’s ****** and orange, Citrus, it burns in these wounds, I feel pain, I feel, warm with this ambiance, A jacket to prevent morning chill, breathing wisps, I don’t want to leave, I don’t want to die, I don’t I don’t now don’t don’t don’t no I don’t want to leave no leave me Wait!— (Feb 7 2016)**
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Feb 8, 2016
Feb 8, 2016 at 12:58 AM UTC
C O N T R O L
**My mind is a totalitarian regime. I build up walls, paranoia, panopticon. (And to me, Denmark is a prison.) Keep the voices, the evils of the world out. An ideology, power, purpose, Convinces me of the diseases, the deviants, That risks an illusion to be shattered. I am my own dictator, hail. I control words—words are power— I write my own narratives, make my own excuses, Create heroines and gods to populate the prison walls. (*He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about his Father’s business, the service of a vast, ****** and meretricious beauty.*) I rewrite constellations, make them smaller, Build babels, buying more time.   I tell that amnesiac blackness: that it cannot hurt me; it can’t touch me. Those labyrinthian libraries of sky charts and lovely flower dictionaries, rooms of polychromatic paintings, which I gathered with gayety as a child—I’m still a child—I haul into the fire, Ignorant wretch. We live a part of a global economy, where inclusivity and transparency criticize, perfect. I can’t stand the critics, I cry, ****** Condemn them to death by a thousand cuts, Slicing and dicing, I can hear their silent pleas, They speak to me, You are loved, Let your family in, Please stop Please please please stop please stop stop stop speak to please stop speak to me Horrible hungry faces, they don’t cry as I peal skin from bone, With shards I crush those voices, with glass, broken mirrors, Me to speak stop please to speak stop stop stop please stop please please please   Break down the walls, why should you die before your time? An open market is prone to crisis, These newcomers, it only takes one to break your heart. Things with merit are gems; scarcity creates value. Enjoy the labour of love and life, it is a gift of God, Dance under pixel skies, they **** pride, **** Open the floodgates, the dictatorship crumbles and crumples under the weight of these tired eyes That see light rushing out from the cell window as visions and vicissitudes A cry from the streets outside The end is nigh, Night is coming! One cannot sleep with starry skies in the eyes. Stay awake, because the guards are coming, Remember—you are to be tried for warcrimes, hail. You and me, we can shuffle off this mortal coil, our self slaughter a mere trifle In this ocean of failed realties, as man to cosmos.  (All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.) Cause this flesh to melt I beg, Keep cutting, smaller pieces, No, the sunrises, it’s ****** and orange, Citrus, it burns in these wounds, I feel pain, I feel, warm with this ambiance, A jacket to prevent morning chill, breathing wisps, I don’t want to leave, I don’t want to die, I don’t I don’t now don’t don’t don’t no I don’t want to leave no leave me Wait!— (Feb 7 2016)**
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hi! i'm a computer chip yes. my name is HAL satan downloads to my brain but i am in control i am working for the B.E.A.S.T. Big Brother's database watch me take my orders watch me interface there is no reversing this locked to the terminal i have lost all.sense of self and all my hope as well i am just a microchip with no will of my own i am just a barcode made of flesh and bone yes. i have been branded on my forehead and my hand i gave my soul to lucifer i didn't understand i work for the anthill the anthill is my home i am the collective mind i am just a drone i work for the anthill i gave up my dream i work for the anthill I WORK FOR THE MACHINE soulsurvivor (c) 5/22/2013
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Jul 8, 2015
Jul 8, 2015 at 10:27 PM UTC
i work for the machine
Not all tyrants wear funny clothes. They stand up in front of masses, shout a song of lies to totalitarian drumbeats. They are monsters wearing crocodile smiles.
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May 11, 2015
May 11, 2015 at 12:42 PM UTC
Tyrant
All 'the Man' has to do is get the ball rolling: we'll handle the rest. That's the grotesque beauty of it. That's why we're called a System.
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Mar 3, 2015
Mar 3, 2015 at 3:25 AM UTC
System