"ageism" poems
abolitionism
absenteeism
absolutism
abstractionism
absurdism
academicism
academism
achromatism
acrotism
actinism
activism
adoptianism
adoptionism
adventurism
aeroembolism
aestheticism
ageism
agism
agnosticism
agrarianism
alarmism
albinism
alcoholism
aldosteronism
algorism
alienism
allelism
allelomorphism
allomorphism
alpinism
altruism
amateurism
amoralism
anabaptism
anabolism
anachronism
analphabetism
anarchism
anecdotalism
aneurism
anglicism
animalism
animism
anisotropism
antagonism
anthropocentrism
anthropomorphism
anthropopathism
antialcoholism
antiauthoritarianism
antiblackism
anticapitalism
anticlericalism
anticolonialism
anticommercialism
anticommunism
antielitism
antievolutionism
antifascism
antifeminism
antiferromagnetism
antihumanism
antiliberalism
antimaterialism
antimilitarism
antinepotism
antinomianism
antiquarianism
antiracism
antiradicalism
antirationalism
antirealism
antireductionism
antiritualism
antiromanticism
antiterrorism
aphorism
apocalypticism
apocalyptism
archaism
asceticism
assimilationism
associationism
asterism
astigmatism
asynchronism
atavism
atheism
athleticism
atomism
atonalism
atropism
atticism
autecism
authoritarianism
autism
autoecism
autoeroticism
autoerotism
automatism
automorphism
baalism
baptism
barbarianism
barbarism
behaviorism
biblicism
bibliophilism
bicameralism
biculturalism
bidialectalism
bilateralism
bilingualism
bimetallism
biologism
bioregionalism
bipartisanism
bipedalism
biracialism
blackguardism
bogyism
bohemianism
bolshevism
boosterism
bossism
botulism
bourbonism
boyarism
bromism
brutism
bruxism
bureaucratism
cabalism
caciquism
cambism
cannibalism
capitalism
careerism
casteism
catabolism
catastrophism
catechism
cavalierism
centralism
centrism
ceremonialism
charism
charlatanism
chauvinism
chemism
chemotropism
chimaerism
chimerism
chrism
chromaticism
cicisbeism
cinchonism
civicism
civism
classicism
classism
clericalism
clonism
cockneyism
collaborationism
collectivism
colloquialism
colonialism
colorism
commensalism
commercialism
communalism
communism
communitarianism
conceptualism
concretism
confessionalism
conformism
congregationalism
connubialism
conservatism
constitutionalism
constructivism
consumerism
controversialism
conventionalism
corporatism
corporativism
cosmism
cosmopolitanism
cosmopolitism
countercriticism
counterculturalism
counterterrorism
creationism
credentialism
cretinism
criticism
cronyism
cryptorchidism
cryptorchism
cubism
cultism
cynicism
czarism
dadaism
dandyism
defeatism
deism
demonism
denominationalism
despotism
determinism
deviationism
diabolism
diamagnetism
May 12, 2017
May 12, 2017 at 12:16 PM UTC
a momentary distraction
a brief respite from the pain
a decision to last a lifetime
and how it can never be the same
so drown the day in darkness
shut yourself inside the house
and when it comes to call on you
stay still, and quite as a mouse
because hope is a waking dream
and i'm too terrified to sleep
no matter how bright the old lights shine
they never give off any heat
Dec 4, 2016
Dec 4, 2016 at 2:28 AM UTC
A farce melanin melancholic soul floating through a void of intertwined paragons.
Trying to be a single entity and not being subdued by the stereotype that is ageism which is ingrained and embedded in the plethora of knowledge which is - the brain
Trying to destroy this boundary in her psyche which has covertly limited her growth and expansion
But this thought is slowly manifesting to those around her
This retrospect thought will only spread through an act of malicious behavior which is inevitable and scornful
Oct 18, 2015
Oct 18, 2015 at 6:42 PM UTC
Can you really trust me
Within this old dead skin
Crow-eyed and wrinkled
Hair graying thin
Moving forward
Ever nearing
The wickedness
Of that bitter end...
Is it casual or systematic
When age becomes a sin?
Nov 16, 2017
Nov 16, 2017 at 6:31 AM UTC
poetry, only poetry is immune to the whole
mozart gig,
it's immune to the wizard kids,
only poetry is immune to the age old ageism
of being given a status genius so early
on in life - i mean - what sort
of feelings could little mozart have
other than demonic mischief so early on in life?
where was the emotional catastrophe?
given a. he was a son of a musical composer,
an b. he probably had a tiger mommy too
- monkeys also learn to climb trees with
as much prodigious ambition as an elder
flute player giving instructions to his son* -
less idealistic poets bite the shingles...
if poetic genius is anything like that of musical
genealogies...
it's idealistic... but after keats, shelley or hart crane...
it's still the same old cold grit regime of realism.
*you have to attack the big boys...
it's synonymous with attacking snobbery
and the historical claustrophobia
of: only a few ******* were apparent, the rest
of us were statistics.
Nov 18, 2015
Nov 18, 2015 at 1:18 PM UTC
Children, fresh as bib lettuce,
Green and tender,
Stand before me in my rocking chair,
Pearled new teeth,
Wisping hair, golden, brown,
Embarking up a stair way
That I am going down.
"Papa, can we go out to play?"
I look out the window
To see the kind of day
Before I say,
"Would you like to take a walk?"
Jul 10, 2019
Jul 10, 2019 at 11:26 AM UTC
ageism
mob mentality
of the boys
you were
faith
in these
the footprints
of a left-handed
boy
doubt
unicorn sickness
as so
rumored
gentility
duster
of my father’s
bookmark
identified
by her picture
day
invite
final resting place
god already underway
Apr 23, 2014
Apr 23, 2014 at 3:59 PM UTC
I am afraid
Afraid to grow old
To have my hair turn white
And my hands grow gnarled
I am afraid
Of time
Shaping me
Making me
A different person
Changing me
I am afraid
To forget
The time
Long gone
I am afraid
Of running
Out of time
-jt
Oct 20, 2019
Oct 20, 2019 at 2:24 AM UTC
Data
What will happen to us all tomorrow? Now there are so many topics that are illegal and against the law. Things like racism, ageism, bullying and a thousand other things ending in ing and ism. But what about people being spied on by America? Even their friends and allies. Isn't that bad and illegal? Like social stereotyping by law enforcement using stop and search tactics on one racial group? How did we get into this position of spy agencies siphoning up all our data? Phone calls and records, emails and photo attachments. What next? We're all on CCTV. Next they'll want to know how much crap role we use.
Feb 20, 2018
Feb 20, 2018 at 2:33 PM UTC
He was not born old
He was not born obsolete
You're looking at you
Sep 12, 2021
Sep 12, 2021 at 12:55 PM UTC
i don't know anything
but i'm young
i have an excuse
you're older
you say you know better
but you know nothing
what's your excuse?
you say you know me better
but if you really did
then you'd never want to see me again
see, i don't know anything
because i'm young
so just excuse all of the above
i just told you my excuse
or so everyone says
when they justify what i do
what other young people do
then turn around and fault us for being young
i don't know if i like it
if i'm supposed to feel relieved or insulted
sometimes both
you see, there's the kind, comforting "you're young, you'll learn"
the exasperated, tired-of-you "oh my god, you're young"
the condescending, i-know-better-than-you "you're so young"
the i-wish-i-was-you, "i can't believe how young you are"
the unsolicited, let-me-give-you-some-advice "you're young right now"
and then the hesitant, i'm-not-qualified-for-this-and-i'm-bullshitting "you're young...you know..."
i might have missed some
let me know
i just know that ageism is a real plague to our society
it's time things change
Hahahaha I'm kidding. Maybe. Not really.
Call me young.
I am.
There's nothing I can do about it.
I'm going to stay young for as long as I am young.
What good comes out of growing up too fast?
So call me young.
Until I'm not.
I will use it as an excuse for as long as I can.
Aug 13, 2024
Aug 13, 2024 at 12:43 PM UTC
Ingmar Bergman scenes and Jewel’s poetic dreams figurative memes spilled like ashes across the page to be holy, unheavy, and alive is a granted feeling of being on high
Like God, he told me, only words get washed away if not kept sacred
Inside the blood and the host
irrevocably so
Whatever blindness calls itself
There was nothing left to be said
And so I dropped that filthy knife
Hot with the stain erased spilling on its face cooled by a star
I am not in the creator’s mind
I found the him within me
The ageism and the orientation of today’s world is met with chaos from the stories of so many...
How do we move on from such loss?
I don’t need new age *** or dates with the illusion of a soulmate that follow what the tarot’s say I need to make me happy today
I lost someone, I lost something, and that is enough to feel it.
We are not here to deny another’s pain
Death’s foreshadowing pretenses could never prepare for a dream
Filled with the hollowness of holiness and shallow breath
Makes a night of manipulation evaporate
A year later, I sang as I carried myself away
I went the mile
I walked to the depths
3 years later to the date
April 20th
The day I released all of the hurt I chained
To my self worth as a bad dream
As an epiphany of the love I wanted
Like a little girl
Lost and waiting on the front porch looking out towards the sky wondering when the truth of my own love would come
Someday..
To lose hope in intervals treading for reciprocity was the garden gate I needed to find myself anew
What I once feared was in me, was never in me and I yet the idea was at the same time
Strong diligence makes the heart grow that much more aligned to what creates your will, your beautiful will; a peaceful manifesto of a great new world
Mar 15, 2021
Mar 15, 2021 at 4:27 PM UTC
The youth work faster
But the elders know how
to avoid pitfalls.
Oct 23, 2020
Oct 23, 2020 at 10:30 AM UTC