Life Poverty Poems

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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Written: January 30, 2024
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I will craft melodies...

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Growing Up Poor
Miracle Man
1/26/2024

As a child
An empty oat meal box,
was my drum.

Two pencils,
fashioned my only sticks.

Didn’t have many suckers,
just my thumb.

But I had oodles,
inside my...

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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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A shadow falls across
the path he’s yet to walk;
like the one that follows;
torments, bedevils, then
all the lightness swallows.

A shadow falls across
his thoughts each day he...

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You 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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Our country’s strong,
we all know that,
said the politicians,
to the diplomat.
There’s no such thing,
as economic depression.

Then they scurry on by,
so they won’t have to gaze,
down the...

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"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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"The gift I got was a lesson of life about gratitude, friendship, and more I was taught." Gratitude poem by Max Burchett

by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett


I...

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poor & rich folks blame life circumstances, they are their daily rhythmic songs. 

September 27/2023...

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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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Those dingy streets are filled, 
with lost souls forgotten.
Their hopes have long faded, 
and each dream lies rotten.

Each life holds a story, 
that will never...

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At a truck stop diner outside Atlanta:
His face expressionless
His mouth   mutely slack
He sat at his small table  watching her
  as she...

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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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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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