Best Slum Poems
Below are the all-time best Slum poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of slum poems written by PoetrySoup members
Slum Suvivorin my tepory shelter
out in the cold
no one knows what
each knight will unfoled,
you get so hungry
you can allmost hear your stomache...
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Categories:
slum, lifelife,
Form:
Rhyme
Slum Suvivorin my tepory shelter
out in the cold
no one knows what
each knight will unfoled,
you get so hungry
you can allmost hear your stomache...
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Categories:
slum, life,
Form:
I do not know?
Breaking BadBreaking Bad
Criminals
dance with slum lords
they shed fake tears
victims they shout
from Ivory towers
Mock and attack
they of dark cloth and deceit
possesses no real God
they whoreship only their...
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Categories:
slum, abuse, art, bullying, kindergarten,
Form:
Quatrain
The Dark Side of CanadaI do not have to go far away
but just look within canada to see
there is starvation ...
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Categories:
slum, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Summers EverlastingSand in sheets
scuffing skin and reminding
last nights attire reaks like bonfire
a hundred days like this
a sea of endless laughs...
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Categories:
slum, nostalgia
Form:
Free verse
Biography (Thesis Statement)I rose not like flower or like tree
Not like eagle's hubris in the sun
Old skin shed in the divided city
Last clone of a manhood almost...
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Categories:
slum, history, life, philosophylife, me,
Form:
Verse
AmericaThought you folks might like to read this. Someone sent it in an email to me.
The following is a poem written by Judge Roy...
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Categories:
slum, sad, god, evil, god,
Form:
Rhyme
Super MoonIt is not a fact
That the super moon arrived
after many years
And will again be seen
After so many years
It came just the other day
With...
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Categories:
slum, beauty, image, moon,
Form:
Free verse
Merry ChristmasMild sun of winter
Spreads a love touch everywhere
Of happy Christmas
In the slum a child
Smiles in a red hibiscus
Petals of Jesus
Blankets offered...
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Categories:
slum, christmas, jesus,
Form:
Haiku
JoziI run uphill for some way,
mostly on an easy pavement,
and partially on a jarring dirt track,
I resentfully enjoy a route
against which I am free to...
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Categories:
slum, urban,
Form:
Free verse
White PrivilegeThese words that I write will cause quite a stir.
Taken out of context can be seen as a racial slur.
I grew up and live where...
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Categories:
slum, racism,
Form:
Rhyme
Christmas is HereAnother Christmas day has come,
Greeted alike in city and slum.
The King of kings is born on Earth,
To offer the world the gift of mirth....
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Categories:
slum, birth, celebration, christmas,
Form:
Sonnet
With NoneI swear don't believe what you hear
live life strong never ever in fear
here is a tissue wipe that tear
you will make it I will make...
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Categories:
slum, america, death, emotions, environment,
Form:
Lyric
Mother AfricaReflections
Perchance refractions
On mirror of civilization
Unveiling deep furrows-
Nausea of despair!
Ugly shadows of innocence
Haphazard ruins
Harbingers to Africa.
Mother Africa
Unleash black juju
Denounce anaemic gods and
Sing blues to negritude
Dream with...
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Categories:
slum, africa,
Form:
Free verse
Proletarians To the ForeArm to arm, sinews clutch
One another, makes friend and crutch;
One crimson call, which guidance brought
The feeble, stern: the working lot
To stand much greater, taller, strong
Filled...
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Categories:
slum, class, work,
Form:
Free verse