Childhood Poverty Poems
These Childhood Poverty poems are examples of Poverty poems about Childhood. These are the best examples of Poverty Childhood poems written by international poets.
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,
PovertyYou hurt, poverty, but i don't hate you
You have mental illness, and misery and pain are your diagnosis
You're an issue in life! unbearable in...
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Categories:
poverty, absence, africa, childhood, confusion,
Old Wood StoveWhile in an antique shop, I came across a wood stove
The cast iron, covered in rust, had seen better times
I admired it as it stood...
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Categories:
poverty, childhood, family, growing up,
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
Take Me Out of Waiting On Ghetto's DreamLaziness ascribe my tryouts to stream;
I keep struggling to swim, through poverty.
Take me out of waiting on ghetto's dream!
Waiting on turns, enrage hope's light agleam...
Shinning...
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Categories:
poverty, anxiety, art, childhood, freedom,
Halloween In the West Virginia HillsAs kids growing up in the hills of West Virginia,
We were poor, but no one was any better off.
Halloween was a time we looked forward...
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Categories:
childhood, halloween, mountains, poverty,
Invisible BarrierDo we perform countless roles in our life?
we do…and we try to perform...
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Categories:
childhood, children, poverty, uplifting,
The Time StopsTime froze for a second,
But life didn't come to an end.
People just stopped at their places,
Capturing their moments was me
Before time races.
Mom stopped with a...
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Categories:
poverty, beautiful, childhood, happy, life,
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 Ghost On the WallThe ghost haunting the wall stood tall
He manifested in the shape of a man wearing a top hat and tails
I christened him Tom
I would talk...
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Categories:
poverty, childhood, dance, imagination, loneliness,
There Was a TimeThere was a time long ago when I felt inferior
For we didn’t have the niceties when I was a lad,
Our home was furnished of the...
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Categories:
poverty, childhood, destiny, memory, motivation,
A Hungry Child WondersA hungry child awakens from restless sleep
With sad feelings running way down deep,
Wondering why she feels so hollow inside
Why the baby woke up last night...
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Categories:
poverty, child abuse, childhood, hurt,
A Bridge To SomewhereAnchored in the solid granite cliffs
On either side of the tree-lined gorge,
Above the C&O tracks and rickety shacks
Of farmers and miners and naked children
Playing in...
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Categories:
poverty, culture, hope, metaphor, perspective,
Higher EducationThe fancy degree from a world famous school
set in a frame that’s worth more
than the paper on which it’s printed
all the awards
the accolades
none of it...
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Categories:
poverty, celebrity, childhood, education, food,
I Remember WhenI remember when the days were longer
Or at least it seemed they’d never end
When times were tough, and we struggled
Through day after day of troubling...
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Categories:
poverty, change, childhood, life, mother,