Angst Poverty Poems
These Angst Poverty poems are examples of Poverty poems about Angst. These are the best examples of Poverty Angst poems written by international poets.
Food LinesFood prices rise, the people despair
Of long lines of vehicles for miles
Overwhelmed by need
Desperation tires their minds
Linda, single Mom, grips steering wheel
Inwardly asks, "How did...
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Categories:
poverty, 6th grade, 7th grade,
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...
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Categories:
poverty, absence, angst, change, emotions,
Din of DecadenceI posed no questions
before my erroneous conception
I never asked to be or not to be
Serenading deserted streets with dirges
exploring absence in back alleys
reciting...
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Categories:
poverty, angst, class, humanity, loneliness,
Captive“Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only...
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Categories:
angst, pain, poverty,
Vagabondsalkali streets
bleed with the dreams of
humanity, angels in
bootlegged Blahniks
flutter wings of
dubious intention
a silent wisdom of the gods
spills empty pockets ...
gilded pillars of
Olympus, brought to
ruin by...
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Categories:
poverty, america, angst, appreciation, beauty,
IllusionsDripping darkness, doubt, despair
Melancholy, secrets kept
From the heart who knows only
To breathe and believe, to see
What is good and kind and alive
To give – what...
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Categories:
poverty, addiction, angst, anxiety, conflict,
I Remember Yesterday, I Remember YouI remember yesterdays
...
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Categories:
poverty, angst, anti bullying, children,
The Old BillBill Shakespeare is wanted for hate speech,
His study’s surrounded with tape.
The local police were slow to react,
He may already have made his escape.
There’s a chance...
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Categories:
poverty, absence, angst, anxiety, celebrity,
Woman of the Wasteland III of IIIFrom ruined halls of a corrupt little apartment
I flee with my children, trailing after me
No more the hard hand of hate
On my...
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Categories:
poverty, abuse, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Praying With OthersSome days it gets to me
Requests for prayer, currency
One can try quiet neutrality
But stories are hard, dependency
Here: crystal, Meth, Tik, or glass-y
U pray today, they...
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Categories:
poverty, angst, christian, places, pollution,
Festering WoundOn the banks of river folks gathered solemnly
Where in repose lay the body of his father;
Dry dead-wood was stacked in layers they built,
Fire was crackling,...
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Categories:
angst, death, memory, poverty,
The World I Should EnjoyHis wisdom did his happiness destroy,
Aiming to know that world he should enjoy;
And wit was his vain, frivolous pretense
Of pleasing others, at his own expense
...
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Categories:
angst, fate, places, poverty,
The Weeping MoonWitnessing the blood baths, the massacre
Of God’s people, children’s bodies everywhere,
And octogenarians expire slowly and quietly in horror.
The undistorted and the vivid images of terror,
The...
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Categories:
poverty, abuse, anger, angst, environment,
One Day AwayI was asked why I always
Give kids on my streets few shillings
Even though
The street has no memory
It will kill me when it...
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Categories:
poverty, analogy, angst, endurance, fear,
Wasted WineTonight I lay in bed in dread
of returning in the morning
to the beige building on that dead end street
that floods like the...
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Categories:
poverty, angst, career, destiny, life,