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Best Charity Poems

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Premium Member The Lake of Charity
The Lake of Charity

The hill stood tall and stately,
Wind soughed through its sparse trees.
Below a lake spread, at times calm,
At times quite horribly stormy.

He knelt...

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Categories: charity, appreciation,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A World of Charity
The sparkle of charity is alive and well
It’s the grounds for cohesion and solidarity
Making spiritual gardeners of us all

Goodwill marries kindness
Sharing bounty with open heart
And...

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Categories: charity, community, integrity, society, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ungrateful Child
I woke up that day with tears in my eyes,
after I heard about your father's demise.
Guess you've never understood,
the point of being his blood.

I remember...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: charity, anger, death, death of
Form: Rhyme
A Need To Be Somewhere Else
I’m the one who needs to be somewhere else, 
I cannot stay in one place.
The grass is green where I’ve never been
and never have shown...

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Categories: charity, moving on,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Because I Love You
I saw the bitter tears of unhappiness
Running down your agonizing face,
Ravaged with pain,

And I became a sponge of compassion
To absorb them.


I heard the howling 
Of...

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Categories: charity, friendship love, humanity, society,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Penny For Your Thoughts
So many pennies,
lost in the system,
rejected, neglected,
dejected -
cursed by '99' price tags,
a charity box favourite,
nobody wants nor waits for.

So many forgotten pennies,
lost on the streets...

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Categories: charity, analogy, metaphor, political,
Form: Free verse
Cascading Love

By the breath of God frost is given ...
Hast thou entered into 
the treasures of the snow? ...
Out of whose womb came the ice?
and the...

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Categories: charity, love, snow, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 'beach Buddies' Collect 'stuff' - For Contest
Twice a month on our tiny little Isle
A group of heroes go that extra mile
Wearing protective clothing they clean the beach
Removing vast amounts of rubbish...

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Categories: charity, appreciation, beach, beauty, care,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Plague
as the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to...

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Categories: charity, society,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Captain Tom
You will have probably heard this story, it's often been told
About Captain Tom who's ninety nine years old
He's a Second World War veteran who's served...

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Categories: charity, tribute, western,
Form: Narrative
For Only Love
Only love transcends the infinite skies,
Through portals of passion that resonate…
Vibrations amongst wings of butterflies,
Reaching distant dormant eyes to dilate.

My love shall find your hibernating...

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Categories: charity, hope, inspiration, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member You'Re My Inspiration - Dedicated To My Amazing Mum
How do I begin to describe you
Such an incredible person 
Yet even now you doubt your abilities
You lost your own mum when you were eight...

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Categories: charity, mother, mum, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Thousand Goodbyes
One Thousand Goodbyes

Years ago
a stranger became a friend
with little time left
she let me into her reflections
her child and husband dead
tragedy would strike again
her time on...

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Categories: charity, art, death, funeral, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seven Children
With shining eyes, the prettiest
advances leading all the rest.
She skips with glee beneath blue skies,
the prettiest with shining eyes.

The second, with a warming smile,
comes dressed...

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Categories: charity, children, daughter, time,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Built On Rock: His House By the Sea
“And the rains descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not; for it was founded...

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Categories: charity, religion, house, house,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs