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Reflections on Thanksgiving
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John Gondolf
| Sonnet |
november, perspective, poverty, thanksgiving,
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cruiser after cruiser
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cs parker
| Free verse |
abuse, america, poverty,
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Three Wishes
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Dedu Son
| Quatrain |
abuse, dream, peace, poverty,
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A Starving Child
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W.A. CHOLT
| Tanka |
child, conflict, death, poverty,
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The Shop Window
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Bernard Chan
| Senryu |
clothes, desire, money, poverty,
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Death By A Thousand Indignities
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Lawrence Sharp
| Free verse |
people, poverty,
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The Dilettante Diaries - Pouring Champagne on a Hot Wind and Lighting the Bonfires of the Vanity
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Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
| Free verse |
poverty, abuse, children, home, political,
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Poverty of Health
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Gerald Dillenbeck
| Political Verse |
poverty, earth, health, integrity, language,
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Propelling Power Of Hunger
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Carol Connell
| Free verse |
bible, god, longing, poverty,
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PEACE
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Speare Earth Poetry
| Narrative |
poverty, absence, africa, allusion, places,
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STREET
by Line Gauthier
street child
that look of
hunger in her eyes
posted on October 8, 2018...
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Senryu |
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Categories:
child, lost, poverty, youth,
The Injured, Desolate Jericho
by Elizabeth Wyler
Where silhouetted sentinels silently stand in vain
bleeding shades of layered shame on blight-lined highways below,
their ghostly shadows remind us of dreams we dared to...
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Villanelle |
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Categories:
poverty, america, city, community, jobs,
Southern Style
by Rhona McFerran
As a child, I was never bored
I spent hours gawking
going through my mother's
home decorating magazines
seeing things I'd never seen
that we could never afford
So full of...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
memory, people, poverty, society,
The Bug Jar Part 2
by Carol Connell
This is the continuation of the story written by my brother Bob of our growing up years in the chicken coop.
Because we had no rooms...
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Narrative |
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Categories:
poverty, family, friendship, love, memory,
The Bug Jar Part 1
by Carol Connell
This was written by my brother, Bob Contino. This is a longer more detailed version of my last poem posted, Chicken Coop Chronicle.
When I was...
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Narrative |
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Categories:
family, love, memory, poverty,
The Price
by unfamiliar flower
They say "stay in school kids!"
Wow!
How easy it is just to attend class
after class and class.
They went to school,
Not each one of them but most...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
poverty, children, corruption, money, people,
Chicken Coop Chronicle
by Carol Connell
Chicken Coop Chronicle
In chicken coop, sustained by God
there she and six children did dwell
sometimes with such antics pell mell
to many appearing quite odd
condition most would...
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Quintella |
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Categories:
poverty, appreciation, childhood, family, growing
Different Levels of Broken
by Mark Morris
Shelters are pit stops for those who ride scooters all day. They're never late for anything: no boss. Broken, but they're having fun. I wave...
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Prose |
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Categories:
poverty, angst, city, culture, fate,
My 9-Line Life, 5 To 17
by curtis johnson
Born the fourth child in a four-room brick house on a large farm in northern Mississippi where cotton was king and hard cheap labor was...
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Narrative |
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Categories:
america, childhood, poverty, racism,
Nero Fiddles while Rome Burns
by Billy Jones
They sit in Ivory Towers
Looking down as the smoke rises
seeing faces full of pain
They cannot fathom why
They hear the Children cry
hunger in their stomachs they...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
poverty, abuse, anger, betrayal, hope,
THE WEED OF OUR LAND
by Adetunji Olanrewaju
Long after our political matric
Green meant for Agric to make us thick
Become green for vices that make us weak
We are on the weed of...
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Ballad |
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Categories:
poverty, africa, anger, poets, political,
THE SCRAGGY FOWL
by JENNIFER PROXENOS
16th September 2018
THE SCRAGGY FOWL
The frightened scraggy fowl ran shrieking across,
The grass trodden path,
Only a squawk was heard in the aftermath,
Isaac’s gain, the chicken’s loss!
Young...
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Enclosed Rhyme |
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Categories:
africa, hero, poverty,
Old Houses
by Rhona McFerran
We lived in many houses
throughout my childhood
'though some were worse than others
none of them were good
Some had moldy odors
that (at best) were most unpleasing
others had...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
poverty, childhood, house, humor, humorous,
Ghetto Specific
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
Homegrown deprivation weeds of poverty
taste like grassroot famine
Detroit dark amber alert operatic style ...
Ms. Sing Hope
is an Ursa skydive dirt bier
Purchasing uninsured ash fault grief
from...
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Dramatic Verse |
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Categories:
metaphor, poverty, society, truth,
Shiver
by Brianna Hobson
We're too different says the wall paint
The only thing the
same is our last name
Reach down with your giraffe neck
to rescue me
Lucky you you...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
poverty, childhood, family, father, house,
Never Is Enough
by mark palmer
Quietly with cap to hand he begs on the street
With Cross legs he waits with a sigh,
Cold in the pouring rain, with his fingers...
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Narrative |
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Categories:
loneliness, lost, poverty, sad,
The rain came
by Akham nilabirdhwaja Singh
The rain came.
Eagerly all were waiting for it.
But a torrential fall
for a few days
rivers, lakes, ponds are in spate.
From the pond of the poor farmer
fishes...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
poverty,
Proverbial Monoku
by Reason A. Poteet
Moderation asks us to let go of the ropes and let God be God.
8/31/18
Proverbs 30:8b-9
"...give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient...
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Monoku |
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Categories:
poverty, 8th grade, angst, fate,
Untitled
by Darrell Hoover
Poverty drags me through the dust as a willing participant
Money flows through my fingers like water
I dig out slowly from the holes I have...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
poverty,
Dear Shari Todd written July 29 2015 hello 1u
by matthew harris
Dear Shari Todd – written July 29, 2015
While rifling thru outdated writing,
which virtual thumbing
wrought...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
poverty, 10th grade, father, father