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Best Third World Poems

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Premium Member Third World America
I lived in Shenzhen, China, for my 6th and 7th grades - China was AMAZING.

In China, blond hair is unusual, I stood out like neon...

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Categories: third world, 11th grade, angst, city,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Children of a Lesser God
I’m tired of knowing
That because of my race
Because of where I live
Because of my last name
I’m part of the band…
The children of a lesser God

I’m...

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Categories: third world, god, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In My Opinion
Everything that’s happening this year
was all planned out.
That’s what Agenda 21 (declared as false online)
 is all about.
Documents related to the plan
are out there in...

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Categories: third world, political,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Small Gifts God's Work
small gifts - 
contributing to other's happiness? 

# show me a man or woman of simple mind
people who we commonly term as slow #

point out ====>
people 
of simple...

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Categories: third world, god,
Form: Free verse
The Circles
Looked at the outside of steel window
Around in the dark, awesome feelings into the mid-night air
What the news was brought in the feelings!

Eyes of the...

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Categories: third world, deep, father, feelings, history,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The World Around Us
Awaking blithe each morning,
with eyes upon the World,
I wonder, are we mourning
with ebon flags unfurled –
or are they but a warning,
some draped like snakes and...

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Categories: third world, earth, environment, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The United States of America
Our justice system is far from perfect, but it is what we’ve got
Just because you break the law, doesn’t mean you deserve to die or...

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Categories: third world, america, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
A Better World
A vision of humanity, a world without brutality, a beautiful fantasy, not a reality.
A vision of a world where the truth isn’t ignored and everyone...

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© Wes Martin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: third world, care, conflict, death, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When You Wear a Dirty Shirt
When you wear a dirty shirt,
You're a book getting judged by its cover.
People think you're really poor, or nutty,
Or that you have a menial job.
Or...

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Categories: third world, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If I Were the President
If I were the president,
in our fatherland, no citizen will be a bastard
and mutual respect, our networking web.

If I were the president
the people will be...

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Categories: third world, leadership, patriotic, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Poverty and Power
Do you know a child
That will get up to play?
What if they died before tonight?
In the third world children are piled,
Thousands of them die every...

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Categories: third world, africa, care, change, children,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member For the Children of Yemen
Who'll speak for the children?
I see the images
emaciated bodies
skin on bones
hopeless eyes
ravaged souls

Who'll speak for the children?
while super powers play
the death toll speeds ahead
nobody speaks
third...

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Categories: third world, war,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Sins of the Fools
Sins of the Fools 

Whichever God their dice shall chose
judgment rendered all the same
guilty of crimes against humanity
its a sin and not a game

No one...

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Categories: third world, allah, america, angst, murder,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member They Call This Social Justice
Once our land stretched from coast to coast
and the drums of the people beat proud
we were mighty and we were strong
    ...

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Categories: third world, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Imagine
can you imagine yourself a young girl from Nighastan?
who is thirteen, and never stepped foot in regular school?
toiling day and night, taking care of siblings...

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Categories: third world, imagination, poverty, power,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs