In January 2003 I created a poetry form I call "Kabirism(s)" named after the famous Persian saint Kabir whose pithy verses had a way of prodding people into observing their material life and urging them to focus more on their spiritual one in order to obtain Self-realization. However, I discovered in 2018 that there is an Indian website using this term to describe some of Kabir's statements so I have changed my terminology to "Kabir-like poems."
Two examples of Kabir's pity statements are in the book The Bijak of Kabir. Stanza 324 states: "Dying, dying, the world keeps dying, but none knows how to die. No one dies in such a way that he won't die again." There is also a strong attention getter in the Introduction on page 11, "Son of a slut! There I have insulted you. Think about getting on the good road."
It is my intention with these Kabir-like poems, not only to get people to think about the purpose of their lives and whether or not they might be wasting some of their time with mundane thoughts and activities, but to remind myself, when I get too focused on the external world, that there is an internal one. My poems have been taken off the website and have been published as a book titled Kabir-Like Chastisements: To Get on The Return Path Material To Spiritual in August 2021. It can be found on my author page on Amazon at www.amazon.com/author/enlight