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Halloween Poverty Poems

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

Halloween In the West Virginia Hills

As 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,

October Ghosts

Mud casts no reflections in the nightmarish fog

There are ghosts in the corn fields after harvest

Resurrecting fear in the hearts of children

Masked apparitions, beggars of...

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Categories: poverty, candy, children, halloween, october,

Up Jones Creek Holler

Hidden among the trees up Jones Creek holler
In an old rustic log cabin with only three rooms
Where a family of twelve lives in squalor
Hidden among...

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Categories: life, mountains, poverty,

Shrill Cry

It was halloween night
I heard children shouting with glee
One odd looking man 
knocked my door
Filled my bag with goodies
and opended the door
He snatched the chocolate...

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Categories: poverty, confidence, courage, fantasy, heaven,

A Different Face of Halloween

Somewhere deeper inside a deep hole

They celebrate Halloween silently

In the form of a torn Sari, scarred faces

And the scalded hands of a beggar with half...

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Categories: dark, dream, poverty,

The Zombie Parade

Snakes came upon the garden bhour
waiting for the family for an hour 
a long journey was faced
a curse shall be placed
upon the house in the...

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Categories: poverty, addiction, allusion, america, betrayal,