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TransitionsTransitions and Contrasts: Just like the Seasons
Scorching, sweltering, drying, draining
The Candle of the Sky, now a supernova
Chirping birds cry out for drops of draught,
The strays of streets too, dying or suffering.
The poor farmer’s heart, broken,
Like...
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Categories:
poverty, absence, angst, change, emotions,
Form: Free verse
living in the shadows
Categories:
abuse, child, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Final Prayers
Chicago's new mayor just proposed
another plan to put a heavy load
on us beleaguered taxpayers --
We'd better start saying our final prayers
'Taxpayer-funded,...
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Categories:
poverty, business, chicago, people, political,
Form: Couplet
Red Gems
Red Gems
A middle-aged man in an old wheelchair
moves slowly and with determination.
On a crowded street filled with happy tourists’ feet
his arms look as if
they’d finished an Olympic race.
Since he has no legs, he cradles his...
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Categories:
culture, imagery, inspirational, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Side of the MoonAt a truck stop diner outside Atlanta:
His face expressionless,
His mouth mutely slack,
He sat at his small table
watching her as though in a stupor,
As she methodically ...
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Categories:
poverty, work,
Form: Free verse
ExpeditionBeyond ego's orbit, we set our sights,
On an expedition where compassion ignites.
Away from selfish dreams, we'll choose to see,
The world's shared sorrows, our true destiny.
In this cosmic voyage, we'll leave behind,
The...
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Categories:
education, future, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
december fieldsdecember fields
it only rains in these fields in december
for xmas is crying never comes here
people are too poor to care
for a fake invisible sky god
who may or may not exist
what exists is poverty and...
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Categories:
america, poverty, satire,
Form: Free verse
Las RamblasWalking about las ramblas at night you can see the desperation with a constant feeling of trepidation
People that never got much of an education not one qualification
Prostitutes selling their body to feed a habit...
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Categories:
poverty, cool, corruption, culture, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Foxes Of Britainjust like foxes they arise from dark places
they come to fight and scavenge
As they start to climb they become stronger in a pack.
the power they have goes over their heads
there's no way they'll...
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Categories:
character, corruption, poverty, power,
Form: Rhyme
Let Us Tackle It
Shattered dreams and promises that they cannot keep,
Many mouths to feed and tears as their children begin to weep.
To say that it leads to stress would be putting it mildly,
As the society suffers...
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Categories:
poverty, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Mister NobodyMy name is Mister Nobody,
Because nobody knows my name.
Just a shadow on the wall,
And just a ghost in this game.
Was abandoned as a child,
I grew up hard on the streets.
A vacant lot for my home,
A...
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Categories:
death, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Project LoveScreaming emotionally love is dark
So I tried to be there for you cuz the streets is hard
And can't nobody get it cuz it was you and me
Through the night tryna get rite making love to...
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Categories:
poverty, black love, change, courage,
Form: Rhyme
The Daring and Brave
When 'the situation is grave'
those who dare to be brave
~ find the road to riches well-paved...
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Categories:
money, poverty,
Form: Monorhyme
Povertys National Anthem
Slender man walking a dusty, country road,
Clothing on his back dirty, ragged, and worn,
Had been cruelly bullied, poked and ridiculed,
Felt like the dirt under his worn-out...
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Categories:
poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Sir Frowns A LotGrumpy, griping all the time,
Out of work without a dime.
Seen around the town a lot.
They call him Sir Frowns A Lot.
Used to work for the city,
Paid off, laid off, what a pity.
Caused his wife to...
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Categories:
anger, grief, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Poverty Poems
Definition | What is Poverty in Poetry?
Poems Related to Poverty
bankruptcy, debt, hardship, lack, famine, difficulty, scarcity, shortage, starvation, deficit, distress, privation, dearth, vacancy, deficiency, pass, meagerness, emptiness, inadequacy, indigence, depletion, reduction, impoverishment, pennilessness, insolvency