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Education Poverty Poems

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


Premium Member Expedition
Beyond ego's orbit, we set our sights, 
On an expedition where compassion ignites. 
Away from selfish dreams, we'll choose to see, 
The world's shared sorrows,...

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© Jay Narain  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: education, future, poverty,



Las Ramblas
Walking about las ramblas at night you can see the desperation with a constant feeling of trepidation 
People that never got much of an education...

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© Josh Hicks  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poverty, cool, corruption, culture, drug,

Premium Member Chutes and Ladders
Ivy-covered sheepskin, firmly in hand
    the confident graduate, square-jawed and tan

  Pulled offers from prestigious start-ups all over the land
 ...

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Categories: career, confidence, education, poverty,

Premium Member Let
Let politicians claim virtue,
and abandon honest men.

Let the poor inherit promises,
and be comfortable servants.

Let the famous enjoy advantage,
and carry no favors in heaven.

Let physicians prescribe...

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Categories: poverty, imagination, integrity, life, philosophy,

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,



The Poor Man's Kid
She never got to know SpongeBob,
Or the thrill of Jerry and Tom, 
She never had the fun of quarreling with the maid,
Or hiding the bathing...

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© Jay Crown  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: africa, destiny, poverty,

Belly Fat
Pu Erh tea = shrinks fat cells & help promote weight loss (mornings)
  low-caffeine

* white tea = blocks fat absorption & increases metabolism and...

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Categories: poverty, beautiful, black african american,

Premium Member The Regressives
Punitively regressive are 'Progressives'
Defunding charter schools 
Crippling the academically aggressive

Denying school choice
to gifted students
from poor families ~
        ...

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Categories: education, political, poverty, school,

The Handsome Man
He was a handsome man 
hamming it up for the photographer
each flash inflating his ego
but cameras only capture the shell
what can be seen on the...

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Categories: poverty, beauty, celebrity, education, perspective,

Premium Member Who Is Happier
Different generations 
Different life styles
From deficiency to abundance
From neglect to care
From basic education to higher education
From man monopolization to women arising
From single income bearers to...

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Categories: poverty, education, god, happiness, pollution,

Premium Member Roots and Blossoms
Earth's organisms patriotically
and yet matriarchally wise
wonder if both of these could be true:

1. Poverty and prejudice breed violence.
2. Capitalism and patriarchalism feed conflict.

If so,
is the...

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Categories: poverty, earth, education, health, peace,

Esse
[I work at an office,
with a fixed salary
to feed a family:
without a denial to hardwork
I work tediously
my little ones attend school routinely,
We solely wish necessities
neither...

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Categories: poverty, 11th grade, allusion, education,

Higher Education
The 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,

The Waste Picker
She's a little girl aging nine or ten,
Short, serene, slim, with a look luminous;
Obtaining no formal education,
Possessing many a dream glorious;

At sharp five, every morning,...

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Categories: care, life, love, poverty,

Premium Member Balloon Heads
Balloon heads float amongst the breeze 
Filled with nothing, lack of education- they bawl 
Inequality from different ethnicities across the seas 

Seventy-two million children unschooled-...

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Categories: education, poverty,


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