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Child Poverty Poems

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


Cry O Ghana
O child of Mother Africa
The tortoise is still on the road
Realities cannot hold, dreams dying 
Hopes turn to ashes every day
Cry O Ghana, O Ghana

Rich...

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Categories: corruption, dark, poverty,



Premium Member Growing Up Poor
Growing Up Poor
Miracle Man
1/26/2024

As a child
An empty oat meal box,
was my drum.

Two pencils,
fashioned my only sticks.

Didn’t have many suckers,
just my thumb.

But I had oodles,
inside my...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poverty, business, fate, future, life,

Premium Member Rekha - Trigger warning
Standing upon the roof top,
watching her brothers walk to school,
Rekha reminisces about her playground,
full of childhood innocent smiles.

A sole kite decorated in orange and red,
floats...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abuse, child abuse, poverty,

Premium Member The Soup by Picasso 1902-1903 New Poem 1256
Poverty and hunger are bedfellows.~ The Poet~ 

Alluring, pleading
Yet it will burn,
Pangs of hunger
Immanent yearn.
Desperate child 
So forlorn
For the poverty 
To which she was born.
Minds...

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Categories: poverty,

Help
On the poor side of the city,
there’s an innocent child crying.
The rats and roaches are crawling,
on the bed where he lies dying.

There’s a family of...

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Categories: poverty, poetry,



Premium Member Living In the Shadows
 

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Categories: abuse, child, poverty,

Premium Member Mister Nobody
My 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...

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Categories: death, poverty,

Premium Member Poetry
Poetry doesn't always come to me tiptoeing in a veil of imaginatiion, 
or raging like a turbulent storm!!! 

It does emerge when waking up, I gaze...

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Categories: poverty, poetry,

Poverty Unkind
In a World brimming with wealth and grandeur,Where opulence dazzles on every corner,A tale unfolds of disparity and strife,
Where poverty thrives, tormenting countless lives.
Inflation, a...

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Categories: poverty, america, life, sad, together,

I Must Be Black
Because once a time in a round mud hut
at the edge of the bottomless of pits,
I know that a three- or four-year-old roars with his...

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© Bantu West  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poverty, anger, black african american,

The Girl, Part I and 2
This is two parter. The first dealing with the abuse of the mother. The second part is about her child, growing up in care

The Girl,...

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© Nigel Gray  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poverty, abuse, child, emotions, mother

Premium Member The Devil of a Deal
Where will tomorrow take us
Only God alone can tell
A brighter future a cloudless day
Or an earthly living Hell 
How much of its our doing
How much...

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Categories: poverty, business, corruption, depression, evil,

The Willow
Beneath the broken willow tree, lies a girl helplessly
Passersby look at her with disgust in their eyes
Her shorn hair, her torn shoes and her worn-out...

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© Asra Aymen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poverty, child abuse, death, poetry,

Jump In Joy
JUMP IN JOY
I slept under punches last night,
Smiled to the hypocrisy of guns on my face,
Wondering how many night and days I should live,
And you...

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Categories: poverty, africa, child, children, community,

Premium Member In the Forgotten Places
Another hungry, homeless child will die
Parents have no job, no food, no insurance
Undernourished pregnant woman cry,
The Feds give only lip-service assurance.

Most people think it can’t...

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Categories: fear, perspective, places, poverty,


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