Christmas Poverty Poems

Tonight we lay snuggled
And warm in our beds
While the homeless have nothing
To pillow their heads

Tonight we’re with family
Surrounding the tree
While those on our doorstep
Have nowhere...

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My Yuletide joy is
To feed poor and hungry ones
Come in from the sleet
The parents humbly thank God
Children sing the song Noel...

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The snowflakes fall and it is cold,
and the bright Christmas lights flicker;
the beauty outside I behold,
as the snow falls colder, thicker.

Walking I gaze at...

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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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Transitions 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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Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
A Christmas Carol
author Charles Dickens
worked in a boot-blacking factory at age twelve
after father was sent to debtor’s prison
campaigned vigorously for children’s rights...

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I am a stranger in an alien land,
Always searching  for eternal youth,
Controlled by an aristocracy with
Little time for honesty and truth.
The food banks are...

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He'll leave the baubles in the loft this year;
he so dislikes those sparkly plastic trees,
and real ones these days are far too dear.
The cost of...

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It is now that time of year again when people start feeling festive
Kids write lists of pricey toys making parents feel apprehensive
Computer games and the...

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beggar under bridge
builds crib from rags collected ~
slaves out of heart aches


21 December 2021...

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. for public domain

Let them feel the love that they don't feel
in a boxcar on a train.
Take their hands unsteady as they are.
Let them feel...

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huge Christmas gifts
conspicuous consumption~
boxes house homeless


11/20/2021...

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Dear Santa...

I've been a really good boy this year.
I've done everything I was told.
Even gone to bed when I'm supposed to,
though sometimes I've been a...

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christmas tree
holiday spirit
the fridge slightly bare




posted on March 2, 2021 (thought I posted earlier)...

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CHILDREN ARE HAPPY AT CHRISTMAS 

FOR THEM IT’S A TIME OF GREAT JOY

AND MOM BRINGS LOTS OF NICE PRESENTS 

TO EACH LITTLE GIRL AND BOY

FOR...

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