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 GhanaO 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,
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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Categories:
poverty, business, fate, future, life,
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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Categories:
abuse, child abuse, poverty,
The Soup by Picasso 1902-1903 New Poem 1256Poverty 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,
HelpOn 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,
Categories:
abuse, child, poverty,
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...
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Categories:
death, poverty,
PoetryPoetry 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 UnkindIn 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 BlackBecause 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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Categories:
poverty, anger, black african american,
The Girl, Part I and 2This 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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Categories:
poverty, abuse, child, emotions, mother
The Devil of a DealWhere 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 WillowBeneath 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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Categories:
poverty, child abuse, death, poetry,
Jump In JoyJUMP 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,
In the Forgotten PlacesAnother 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,