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Ghetto Poems - Poems about Ghetto

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Ghetto life
...Ghetto life I live in a nice place, an amazing capital – the end of my brain My past is not a flower garden, but not too bad – dreamy man I lived in another country until 2008 - was only sad mel......Read the rest...
Categories: ghetto, future, life, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member GHETTO PROPER
...Sitting on my fire escape reminiscing never forgetting my ghetto good TIMES! I remember those fetishesi often relished that and dis NEVER Dismiss any dimensions when it comes to dis VERNACULAR. I hav......Read the rest...
Categories: ghetto, 8th grade, art, discrimination,
Form: Alliteration
Strawberry Flavoured Lips
...I want to scream I want to cry I want to curl up I want to die With every waking moment I’ve awoken sad I can hear my thoughts And they are all bad With my thoughts taking over And I slo......Read the rest...
Categories: ghetto, death, heartbreak,
Form: Dramatic Verse
STUCK
...STUCK A poem for crackheads DAY BREAKS SUNBEAMS SLITHER THROUGH THE DRAPES. FIVE DAYS NOW I’......Read the rest...
Categories: ghetto, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nakba
...Dear Margot We have never met sixteen going on seventeen every child should have dreams yours stolen at nineteen I wish I knew, truly is it evil or hate? to steal the life of a child never ......Read the rest...
Categories: ghetto, evil, war,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Pirate in Retirement
...He’s late-stage Charles Bukowski, Hunching gnome-like over the bar, With weary eyes, and scruffy stubble. It’s sure he must have seen some trouble. But he’s got plenty of cash in his pockets, A......Read the rest...
Categories: ghetto, adventure, allegory, retirement,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member America Never Learns
...The powerful have bombs the students have voices enough is enough they say University campuses unite A map in the year of 1947 tells a story no one in the west really wants to hear thieves o......Read the rest...
Categories: ghetto, child abuse, evil, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Rispetto of the Ghetto
...Have you read Pavel Friedmann's "The Butterfly"? I discovered it in a Children's poem book he only rhymes with the words "high" and "goodbye" its imagery gives the ghetto a close look Only dand......Read the rest...
Categories: ghetto, butterfly, cry, flower, holocaust,
Form: Rispetto
Rays Of Light
...Rays Of Light Information contextual never absolute Naked in isolation relative and moot Inspiration celestial gifted from the throne Sending rays to light the dark — truth to stand alone......Read the rest...
Categories: ghetto, science, words,
Form: Free verse
UNDERBELLIES
...UNDERBELLIES What underbelly is this containing quiet grasping greed for my magical sword gifted to me by St Michael ? What underbelly is this that deciphers my Heart thro......Read the rest...
Categories: ghetto, 12th grade, courage, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member LIBERTY CITY
...Standing one in Liberty City They do not entertainment at the local bondage Structured homes ques blue and purple lilies Trees encapsulated in polluted environmental caskets ~ Solar......Read the rest...
Categories: ghetto, addiction, allusion, analogy, city,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rapid Urban Belt - Anacreontic Couplets
...Gilt-edged first light visions greet zestful horde in trendy street Luscious coffee bouncing bean set alight a dormant scene Pumpkin seeds dot fresh brown toast eager staff cool vibrant host ......Read the rest...
Categories: ghetto, art, celebration, character, city,
Form: Couplet
Wonder If Heaven's Got A Ghetto
...WONDER IF HEAVEN'S GOT A GHETTO Wonder if Heaven's got a ghetto, Where sinners & saints mellow, And unite with shinning hallow. The street glows golden yellow As we pray more grease to our el......Read the rest...
Categories: ghetto, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Closed-In
...This day in the deep country, the sky it is high, blue, and vertical, with no hand holds, nor anything for the eye to cling to. In the city we don't get 'big sky, we get pencil thin ray......Read the rest...
Categories: ghetto, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Who The Police Protect, Part II
......It went up on the internet, people argued in vain, some said, “Monster,” some said, “It’s good that ‘the rich’ know their pain!” Tyler ignored all the hoopla, knew nothing would be done, all......Read the rest...
Categories: ghetto, conflict, corruption, dark, evil,
Form: Narrative

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