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Best Breadwinner Poems

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Breadwinner
Aspirations and desires he set out to reach,
One day he will make it and they will all be rich,
From a young age, he carried the...

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Categories: breadwinner, depression, endurance, poetry, solitude,
Form: Lyric



The Breadwinner
You come home from work tired,wornout, beat.
Your body aches all over from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet
The radio blaring,...

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© Robert Ray  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: breadwinner,
Form: I do not know?
Breadwinner
For many years, you were our family's breadwinner.
Your money paid for our breakfasts, lunches and dinners.
Because of my mental impairment, you continued to support me...

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Categories: breadwinner, anniversary, cancer, dad, death,
Form: Rhyme
My Journey As a Child By Richie Kharis
I came into the world with my hands folded.
Yet they welcomed me with laughter and danced the sorrow away for tomorrow.
Soon, I could no longer...

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Categories: breadwinner, child, growing up, journey,
Form: Narrative
Why Kill - Inspired By Jallianwala Bagh Poem By Tom Cunningham
I don't understand why people kill
That too without feeling bad about it
Why are wars needed?
How does it matter if area of a country is small?
Why...

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Categories: breadwinner, violence, war,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Where Red Waters Gather
I live in a state shaped by glaciers long ago
In the middle of the heat, we want it to snow
The breadwinner of many homes is...

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© ... Gigno  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: breadwinner, dedication, history, native american,
Form: Rhyme
Hong Kong Starlet Yin Choi Yee
`      HONG KONG starlet YING CHOI YEE..
Which is that flat?
What and where are you that you come from.
What breed? Are...

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Categories: breadwinner, dark,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Holding Back Tears
HOLDING BACK TEARS

Being a single mother is rarely appreciated,
when it is a very demanding, challenging, complex
responsibility to take on and carry on for years.
Who wants...

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Categories: breadwinner, mother,
Form: Free verse
Sanctuary II
It has been twelve years
Every one of those years
I have been turned away 
by officials of the city
Twelve long years 
of being on the housing...

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© Phatt Matt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: breadwinner, anger, art, betrayal, change,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Back To School
They all look happy after school
He suddenly lose all that glow after school
He now sees reality flashing as the school time end
It’s time to back...

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Categories: breadwinner, age, childhood, cry, death,
Form: Acrostic
Oh Dystopia a Tree 4 a Carpark
The long hard journey through
past to progress

These day's has far few many stops to make along it's tried and tested daily route to commute

As cutting...

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Categories: breadwinner, slam,
Form: Free verse
This Is Nigeria
This is Nigeria where every thief is honest;
Where every politicians are good yet, they are probe.
This is Nigeria where every students are wise.
This is Nigeria...

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Categories: breadwinner, africa, art,
Form: Ballad
This Is Uganda
This is Uganda
My motherland
My home that I love so much
Boom, boom, boom,boom
Another prominent leader has been shot dead
Who is it?
Abiriga, the yellow man
Panic here, panic...

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© Emanzi Ian  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: breadwinner, environment,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Would You Still Love Me
How strong is your love? 
          Should a rather cruel fate befall me; 
  ...

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Categories: breadwinner, change, devotion, faith, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Greatest Performance of My Life
THE GREATEST PERFORMANCE OF MY LIFE

Ahhh… I had performed so many characters in my life.
A mother, then a single mother with all its encumbrances
of being...

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Categories: breadwinner, life, me, perspective,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs