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Best Social Welfare Poems

Below are the all-time best Social Welfare poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of social welfare poems written by PoetrySoup members


The Eagle Gives Chase
The common vulture shows it's greedy face
and that's what our culture must soon erase.
My countrymen, I spy, with quickened pace,
the eagle gives chase, the eagle...

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Categories: social welfare, 11th grade, political, slam,
Form: Rhyme



A Peaceful Army
A PEACEFUL ARMY

Special soldiers went to war
Some being not so young.
Enlisted to do their duty,
But would never fire a gun.

They wore a different uniform,
Which displayed...

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Categories: social welfare, war,
Form: Rhyme
Lost Generation
In the rough, cold pavement they sleep 
Prone to the elements that drain them deep 
A harsh concrete jungle where they live 
Their lives subsist...

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Categories: social welfare, poverty, truth, youth, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Distinction Leaves Its Mark 2
Sewing machine, long idle, gathered dust;
it's now a desk which seems a breach of trust.
Clothes made at home had always been a must.  
Married...

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Categories: social welfare, 11th grade, family, farm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Secret Desire
SECRET DESIRE

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Categories: social welfare, desire, love, passion, silence,
Form: Rhyme



That One
He is noticed
and
it has nothing to do with 
runny nose reminders
torn pants
or the fact that his mother is social welfare user

they see him
surrounded by the...

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Categories: social welfare,
Form: Free verse
Confessions
If there comes a day
when the preacher's politicians
control the state
Phinehas will rise from his grave
round up the gays
and send them down 
to Guantanamo Bay
to entertain...

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Categories: social welfare, devotion, education, faith, funny,
Form: Free verse
Rizwana
                       RIZWANA

 
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Categories: social welfare, character, image, meaningful,
Form: Acrostic
Balance
The world of business 
is riddled with traps
I tried to start
an intenent business

So good were their words
we make money 
when you make money
the promise of...

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Categories: social welfare, inspiration, international,
Form: Narrative
The Church
I don't really want to cripple the church
I realize that the Pope and the church have problems
Imagine in his position
all the expenses of the church

The...

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Categories: social welfare, inspiration, international,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Man of the Land
Born poor in a working class family,
Lula da Silva moved to Sao Paula
in search of better life and his father.
Challenged by life, he was supported...

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Categories: social welfare, political, power,
Form: Free verse
The War Games
The war games
  
Yesterday afternoon in Finland, as happy people walked about
content in their world of social welfare and full employment
a train loaded with...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: social welfare, absence, patriotic, river,
Form: Sonnet
The Saga of Suzanne the Snowflake and Cyril the Racist Ware Squirrel Part 3
continues ....
(for it 'twas by him that she was awoken). 
'Dont listen to hate, or give in to fear, 
He said with a countenance kindly,...

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Categories: social welfare, allegory, analogy, england, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
not a slave
Not quite a slave 

After war number 2 when the time was hard and
oil was undiscovered, hidden under deep waters 
when our town stank of...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: social welfare, abuse, allusion, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse

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