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Poverty Free Verse Poems

These Poverty Free Verse poems are examples of Free Verse poems about Poverty. These are the best examples of Free Verse Poverty poems written by international poets.

The Chalk Beneath My Fingernails

-The Chalk Beneath My Fingernails-

I walk a path where roads dissolve,
Where rivers rise and hopes revolve,
Through jungle mist and dusty lanes,
With every step, I carry...

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Categories: books, children, class, poverty,

MAKE POWER LOVE AND IT CAN BE SHARED

What truly is power
Is it control or the silence that follows it?
Is it born from bullets and broken promises
Or from the love we dismiss as...

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Categories: 12th grade, africa, poverty,

Vermeer’s milkmaid

scrupulous maid
     content, playful face

balanced poverty
     ultramarine touch

bread baked right
     blushing thoughts

rolled up...

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Categories: art,

My Inner Voice Told Me

A plethora of complex verbiage clogs and clutters solemn university tombs,
gem encrusted sequestered  vaults  impervious at least almost, 
when immediate accessibility enjoins the...

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Categories: care, character, dedication, deep,

THE EMBERS OF MY MEMORY

My heart of stone quenches its thirst in the dirty hands of misery.
The tears of my family tree run down the scarred faces of their...

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Categories: 12th grade,

TO YOU, THE TRAITORS

To all those house *******, alienated by the darkness of the Republic,
You have forgotten the horrors of slavery and colonization,
To believe in the delusions of...

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Categories: 12th grade,

What I was made for?













What was I made for?
I was made to be God's poet
Every day
Writing some poetry
With my poems
I hope to send
A message to the world
That is in...

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Categories: inspirational,

What if?

What is more painful than pain? 
It’s the anxiety of pain that is to come

The pain of a needle being injected is nothing 
In front...

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Categories: angst, anxiety, depression, destiny,

Life's Weakening

You know, can you imagine life of some 
Not chosen but for few their choice 
Life's weakening priority of mankind's being 
Even in themselves they...

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Categories: change, character, conflict, creation,

Life's Burden

Less food, less warmth, less time to rest—
less light in long nights, less room to dream,
less comfort, less voice, less chance to speak—
but never less...

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Categories: poverty,

ORANGE

A face, like sundown leaning on rusted steel—
boasting through storms he promised to end.
Lies? They cracked like paint in late May heat.
But some talkin’ copperheads...

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Categories: political, poverty, truth,

Pecco Ergo Sum I sin therefore I am

Pecco, Ergo Sum
(I sin, therefore I am)


Not an aimless ride on Sunday morning,
But for a faith oblige I am tied to attend 
“Sinners!” the priest...

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Categories: anxiety, faith, religious,

Pecco Ergo Sum I sin therefore I am

Pecco, Ergo Sum
(I sin, therefore I am)


Not an aimless ride on Sunday morning,
But for a faith oblige I am tied to attend 
“Sinners!” the priest...

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Categories: anxiety, faith, religious,

Cry of the broken

Your timing, O God, is flawless, they say,
Mercy spills from Your eternal edge.
I cling to that truth, yearning for solace,
Yet it slips as I bleed...

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Categories: angst, anxiety, faith, poverty,

For A Better Tomorrow

         there's little sunshine these days,
       and despair blows like a...

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Categories: dark, hope, horror, life,