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Best Illiteracy Poems

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If the Gods Aren'T Sick, Then Crazy They Must Be
I felt the touch of the breeze on my face from my sleep
Oh! With the morning sun, i woke with a flip
And there staring at...

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© White Sage  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illiteracy, africa, allegory,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Sequoyah
"Talking Leaves" fasinated Sequoyah
A Cherokee who accomplished great feats
In noble deed stands tall like a sequoia
Though lame fought beside Jackson no defeat  

Success in...

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Categories: illiteracy, courage, history,
Form: Sonnet
Alive Not Dead
My people I have seen seas of pains
With series of painted assaults and
Hatred from elites of illiteracy
My people no not again my people
For it is...

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Categories: illiteracy, abuse, africa, anger, anxiety,
Form: Lyric
Hunger Pangs
America unlocked
Is the monster
under stairs
stirring? 
The bottom class
 wondered
as upper class
called them higher.
Master like playing games
 stoking darkened fears
enjoyed teasing
emancipated 
Kept them
second guessing
what step
would be...

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© Ts Lewis  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illiteracy, freedom, political, power,
Form: Free verse
You Also Can
Nothing is preventing you from being the best,
Not even illiteracy dares to question your quest,
       Don’t sit idle ,...

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Categories: illiteracy, inspirational,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Poetic Apocalypse

It's the apocalypse of the antipoetic,
some are apoplectic, instead of apologetic,
this is no diplomatic 'dead poet's society',
but the anxiety results in notoriety,
increasing dubiety for word...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illiteracy, analogy, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
A Meandering Cocophony of Thought That Evades Fate
A Meandering Cocophony of Thought that Evades Fate

Contractual obligations toward your future self
Non-Factual invocations that deprive you of your health 
Actual comparisons between poverty and...

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Categories: illiteracy, fate, life,
Form: Rhyme
Let's Learn
Maybe what’s good is not my saying
But what I said is not bad

I can write; I can do
I can confess; I can avoid

What I ignore...

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Categories: illiteracy, life,
Form: Free verse
Poverty In Africa
POVERTY IN AFRICA
Nzongi N.Mwero
Large population live in slums,
Youth unemployment looms,
Illiteracy looms,
Poor health standards zooms,
In Africa poverty has rooms

A protein starvation diseases on the rise,
Due to...

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Categories: illiteracy, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mama Africa
What have you done 
To yourself mama
What have done 
To yourself Africa
You don't know who you are
Your superiority
Turn into inferiority
For you are into mental slavery
Because...

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Categories: illiteracy, africa, black african american,
Form: Classicism
Prayer Poem Dedicated To Malala of Pakistan
Prayer Poem Dedicated to  Malala of Pakistan


Malala has dedicated her childhood to championing education for girls like her in Pakistan. As she lies in...

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Categories: illiteracy, inspirational, life, girl, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Is the World Insane
(A SHORT COMMENTARY ON THE 21ST CENTURY CIVILIZATION)  


This story goes on to throw light on the 21st century civilization. And in that political...

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Categories: illiteracy, discrimination, , western,
Form: Alliteration
Road To Exile: Boko Haram
Road to exile.

Boko Haram immigrants of hell,

nurtured to torture,

Bomb-tore people like vulture.

 

We all scared for our own fear,

Death,

that makes us all victim.

Just for a...

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Categories: illiteracy, death, faith, fear, people,
Form: Blank verse
Boat of Poverty
Why this boat?
Could it be the boat of destitution?
Conveying Epidemics, Hunger, Rags,
Malnutrition and Illiteracy.

Descend from me!
Banish from my world!
You cursed word!
You that called education a"Privilege"!
Patrimony...

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Categories: illiteracy, adventure, africa, black african
Form: Narrative
The Black Society
Welcome To The Black Society
Welcome to the dead society
I hope you make through it this poem
I hope I make through this poem
I hope gunshots don't...

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Categories: illiteracy, africa, character, freedom, identity,
Form: Epic

Book: Shattered Sighs