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Best Livelihood Poems

Below are the all-time best Livelihood poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of livelihood poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Last Organ Grinder
He can turn the crank, to tunes of happy song,
One that his crowd has cherished for long,
But something has so terribly gone wrong
For someone has...

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Categories: livelihood, emotions, farewell, music,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Making Friends
I walked out to a cottonwood
Who lives out in the hay
And since he had no livelihood
Decided I would stay

A root of his became my chair
He...

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Categories: livelihood, friend, tree,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Too Far Gone
How sad when things are too far gone -
when pleasures once you knew
are things no more to smile upon.
This plight for some is all too...

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Categories: livelihood, sad,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Food For Thought - With Chris Green
Lyrics start 0.05 - timed to the music

Pack your bags dear, there’s a Croc near
And he’s creeping, through the night
With his eye on - on...

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Categories: livelihood, food, health, scary,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Rise and Fall of Forests
RISE AND FALL OF FORESTS

Deforestation and mechanization,
Have vanquished,
Tribes and animals,
Have been banished.
United the world must stand,
Against those,
Who grab green land.
Corporations brazenly,
Partake in this nab,
Their only...

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Categories: livelihood, green,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Wrath of Zeus
The Greek gods were egotistic, arrogant, jealous,
Said to be excellent lovers, fanatics, and zealous
About everything and anything, lounged around
Adorning places like Marathona, the Acropolis
The Parthenon....

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Categories: livelihood, beauty,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Flower-Blest Testimony
Exuding purity, while honour bestowing
“Sampaguita” I am, my country’s national flower
Jasminum sambac --- such is my scientific name
beautifully functional with my fragrance
oozing through a branded...

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Categories: livelihood, appreciation, beauty, blessing, christian,
Form: Personification
God We Blame You
GOD we blame you for the evil that we do. Why don't you keep coming to our rescue? Just wipe it all away, make everything...

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Categories: livelihood, forgiveness, freedom, future, happiness,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member A Mix of Emotions and Nature
The emotions and nature intertwine setting our mood,
Plan each day accordingly for the changing of one's attitude.

The silence within is quiet 
   ...

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Categories: livelihood, emotions, feelings, nature, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Lovely Spring
Stressless and cheerful is the childhood ,
We had nothing to do but only to play  ,
Screams and laughs tastes of livelihood ,
For like glistening...

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Categories: livelihood, abuse, addiction, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
The Village On the Water Ii
Gradually the crystalizing dawn -- more hardened  
    Than folded steel --- more sharper than 
  The blade that cuts!...

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Categories: livelihood, appreciation, creation, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Essay
The teacher stood in front of the class,
“Today, she said, “I’m giving you the same assignment I give every year!”
“Please write what you want to...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: livelihood, student, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
God - Good, Bad Or Neutral
Not a single person is happy on earth
Still we praise God for his bountiful love and worth
If God were all powerful as everyone affirms
Why doesn't...

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Categories: livelihood, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Taking Care of Business
There are things one must do in this world to survive,
If one's to get through this life and contrive,
Not to lean on the goodness of...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: livelihood, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Peace
Hello Mr. Peace, my friend
How timely on your part
Nobody else can bring to me
The joy that you impart

You’ve been a perfect gentleman
Since I was just...

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Categories: livelihood, love, peace,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs