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Best Poorer Poems

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


Premium Member Prejudice
I hate 
your brownness 
your whiteness, 
your blackness
your freeness
I don’t care about niceness
I’m more partial to meanness 
 
I’m all the things bad
ugly and cruel
my...

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Categories: poorer, character, prejudice,
Form: Personification



Peasants With Pleasant Rags
You see us everywhere you go
Every corner of your street house our offspring
Every bridge in your city has become our refugee camp
We are the people...

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Categories: poorer, morning, poverty, rain, storm,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Imagine a Dead World
Imagine if all the krill 
Beneath the ice shelves were dead.
Millions plus millions of krill
Fodder for ocean’s creatures:
Penguins, walrus, whales.
In the end all will die...

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Categories: poorer, creation, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If I Ruled the World
If I ruled the whole wide world there's so much that I would change
I wouldn't be Mr Popular and they'd think me somewhat strange
First thing...

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Categories: poorer, conflict, environment, hate, international,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member How Do I Tell You That I Love You
How do I tell you "I love you",
when all that's left to listen is a cloud?

And the tempest has blown away,
all that our hands built.

How...

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Categories: poorer, hope, i love you,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Rose Colored Memories
It’s easy to remember the good times
Never thinking about the pain
Rose colored memories of sunshine
We forgot about the rain
Times were so much harder then
Sometimes not...

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Categories: poorer, nostalgia
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mind Pollution
Mind pollution
The manipulation and control of the masses 
Is a world government agenda and constitution
Throughout time.

Newer technology and the information computer revolution
Are powerful weapons to...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poorer, angst, corruption, discrimination, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Everyone a Goodnight
Well they are here again
Knocking on my door
Monopolizing my television
Decorating my neighbors homes
Blitzing me at every store 
And corner in every city and hamlet
Between here...

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Categories: poorer, christmas,
Form: Free verse
The Divorce
He had a few drinks the night before,
enough to mistake the waiter for a door.
T'would help him remember
he thought to himself,
the fun to be had...

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Categories: poorer, divorce, freedom, funeral, funny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Social Climber
life is a ladder
and i am a social
climber
climbing one step
after another
but life is hard
so i have to move
faster
if i want to get
further
for the rich is
getting...

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Categories: poorer, encouraging,
Form: Classicism
The Times They Are Yet Still a Changing and Moving Onwards
Cometh the end of each and every 
December

January so to with it as well bringeth a 
new year to start a fresh once all over
again...

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Categories: poorer, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wildflower
A wildflower grows on the cobblestoned streets of this dingy town,
Among the dirt and debris left behind by the seasons.
A misplaced beauty working her way...

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Categories: poorer, beautiful, flower, longing,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Bones of a Feast
Trash night
our street is lined with
overflowing garbage cans
because you have to pay x-tra
to have unlimited pick-up
the poorer class stack their trash to overflowing
the mouths of...

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Categories: poorer, community, humanity, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If I Had Wings
If I had wings I'd outdo unfortunate Icarus
and soar up to the highest stratosphere.
Buoyant, I'd defy gravity and glide
over the loftiest snow tipped mountains,
or slide...

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Categories: poorer, flying,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Put the Kibosh
Poor getting poorer; rich man getting fat.

Wake up, America, and

Put the kibosh on THAT!


April 4, 2017 for the Form K - Kimo Contest of Broken...

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Categories: poorer, political,
Form: Kimo

Book: Reflection on the Important Things