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Best Homeless Person Poems

Below are the all-time best Homeless Person poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of homeless person poems written by PoetrySoup members


The Homeless Poet
A homeless poet

A few days ago, I was walking home with my dollar store notebook in my hand as I walked. I was deep in...

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Categories: homeless person, for him, heartbroken, home,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Our Environment
We are all a product of our environment
Under different influences
Each one of us could have been a terrorist or a man of God
A President or...

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Categories: homeless person, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Fire On the Ohio River
My boat rocks gently under a reddening sun,
is it wrong to wish for a Viking burial,
to ponder a last journey West
into the dying light?

Strangers have...

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Categories: homeless person, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beacon Street Blues
What sort of homeless person would I be
Would I cart all these books everywhere with me
Would I scream and shout to keep the world at...

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Categories: homeless person, blue, horror, poverty, spoken
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Subtle Beauty
My best recall is that I saw her for the first time at a Starbucks store several weeks ago. Approaching the door with two large...

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Categories: homeless person, america, humanity, love,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Spreading Happiness
S - tart by finding your own happiness in life

P - oliteness to others is always important

R - emember birthdays and special occasions

E - ye...

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Categories: homeless person, happiness,
Form: Acrostic
Everyone's Prayer

Everyone's Prayer

Let us all join hands and pray for eachother today.
Some of us are sick. Some of us have problems.
Some of us are married. some...

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Categories: homeless person, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
The Echoes In the Cosmos
THE ECHOES IN THE COSMOS

In silence of sleep, I slept.
From the warmth of cava manifested remembrance.
The dreamlike state I was in is where the echoes...

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Categories: homeless person, destiny, dream, faith, future,
Form: Epic
Premium Member We Are the Last Disciples
We should all know that we come from a chaotic past,
To an info-tech age moving way to fast.
In our lives sometimes we are at our...

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Categories: homeless person, faith, friendship, hope, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
A Runner's High
One epic Saturday morning
The heavens and winds subduing
To permit my soul to freeing
The escaping on the road enjoying
When I heave and legs pounding
Heart throbbing and...

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Categories: homeless person, health, sports,
Form: Rhyme
The Street People
Not all persons who roam the streets are homeless and not all homeless people roam the streets;
Whatever are the circumstances which result in a person...

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Categories: homeless person, humanity,
Form: Narrative
What Life Means To Me
Breathing in and savoring the aromatic
fragrance of an opened Princess Diana rose.
  Being there and watching my daughter
being born.
   Feeding a homeless...

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Categories: homeless person, thanks,
Form: Free verse
Mom's Malaise, Part Three
For all of this apparent tragedy in her life, and truly it all only set the stage for my
mother’s soul growth in this experience, what...

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Categories: homeless person, giving, history, inspirational, mom,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Let God Be All Things
	
        Let God Be All Things
	Written: By Tom Wright
	2/13/99
	
	Let me be your day's illuminating light
	and when complete, I'll...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: homeless person, inspirational,
Form: Couplet
Written In Beige
Written In Beige

Against the bleak bank wall he leans
as the sidewalk moves sideways
across his tangential thoughts.
People pass, the dull parade,
the money-grubbers and hoarders
in their shiny...

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Categories: homeless person, identity, metaphor, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis

Book: Shattered Sighs