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Hope Poverty Poems

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


Premium Member Home To Elysium
This is a poem I wrote about the struggles of mainly coal miners the industrial revolution and the hardships and luxuries of both the poor...

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Categories: deep, destiny, discrimination, poverty,



Struggle til we die
They say we struggle til we die,
If that's the case I don't want to fight to stay alive,
Feels like a crime,
Stealing money from our pockets...

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Categories: poverty, 12th grade, community, corruption,

Premium Member These Three Remain
This is what the wicked are like— always free of care, they go on amassing wealth. Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poverty,

Premium Member Spendthrift
"When it comes to money, you can't win. If you focus on making it, you're materialistic. If you try to but don't make any, you're...

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Categories: poverty, money,

The Poverty of the Night
When the sun goes down
She comes to town
Gazing all around
Yet no one has found    
fireflies lit the darkest night
cry of cricketers in...

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Categories: poverty,



Premium Member Refugee by Max Burchett
"He was a refugee in his own country, my home too. How can that be?" Refugee poem by Max Burchett

by Max Sebastian Burchett

I met a...

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Categories: poverty, addiction, death, drug, life,

A Graduate With No Future
A graduate with no future
A promise was made from the start 
It was with words of hope 
We felt a future filled with prosperity
From the...

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Categories: poverty, africa, community, corruption, for

Help
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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Categories: poverty, poetry,

Transitions
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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Categories: poverty, absence, angst, change, emotions,

Premium Member Betraying and Sabotaging Haiti
Everybody desires something from our beloved Haiti.
Everybody is stealing from our embattled country.
The same individuals or goons, who are complaining,
Are the ones conniving, backstabbing and...

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Categories: poverty, corruption, desire, discrimination, evil,

The Old Mill Is Gone
The streets are filled with crying men,
filling the gutters up with tears.
As we walk from our final shift,
that’s fed us for a hundred years.

Eleven hundred...

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Categories: poverty, poetry,

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,

The Table
The lesson was don’t speak with a mouthful,
And not at all when grown folk speak.
My pitiful plate burns on my lap,
So too does my sister’s...

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© Bantu West  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poverty, age, change, children, growth,

Let Us Tackle It
Shattered dreams and  promises that they cannot keep,
Many mouths to feed and tears  as their children begin to weep.
To say that it leads...

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Categories: poverty, truth,

Premium Member Povertys National Anthem
Slender man walking a dusty, country road,  
Clothing on his back dirty, ragged, and worn,   
Had been cruelly bullied, poked and ridiculed,...

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Categories: poverty,


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