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Metaphor Poverty Poems

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


Before the brow grows cold

lazy bones, bound in poverty’s grip
in a garden, where hesitation weeds grow~
filled with s t r a n g l e d  d e
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Categories: poverty, encouraging, extended metaphor, inspirational,



Farewell to Poetry

I have inked my verses 
All day for so long 
Poured my soul in pages
But got nothing in return
For being a full time poet 
Poverty
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Categories: poverty, death, imagery, memory, metaphor,

The Downtrodden

Another man has passed away,
Another soul has passed away without casting a silhouette.
Another son is growing into another man,
Who will one day pass away like
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Categories: poverty, abuse, anger, class, extended

Cashing in

They're cashing in on our misery 
By making us go in circles
While they keep promising to deliver
On nothing cause nothing they've said holds water 

They're
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Categories: poverty, abuse, extended metaphor, leadership,

Homeless Freedom

for eveyday food
   thus he sells the whole body
     poor homeless freedom
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Categories: poverty, allusion, analogy, appreciation, extended



The Rich and the Poor

Rich man
it has comfort and is envied.
live in an amazing place
beautiful mansion...
Don't live in a hurry,
no distress...
eat the best
drinks what he wants...
Travel around the world,
but
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Categories: poverty, allusion, analogy, appreciation, extended

Bantu Poem, Shahiri Mussabwa 6

When a millionaire 
Wants to prey on you 
And you reject his offer 
_______________________

To do your own thing. 
You will become a living
Dead on this
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Categories: poverty, 12th grade, death, jealousy,

Life In My Land

Life in my Land
Life in my land is not by right
With greed, we are wound around
Hardened ruiners ravaging all we have
Like raptor they kill, devour
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Categories: poverty, fear, grief, metaphor, murder,

In the Fires of Retribution

Our final hour draws near
As the pillars of the earth
Are raised above the threshold
The human condition of primeval primitivity
It's tribal, and civilized devices
Our cherished, but
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© James Moon  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poverty, bereavement, heart, metaphor, philosophy,

Seed

The tiny seed wasn’t certain it wanted to sprout
It had been through such trauma above the soil
winds buffeting it this way and that 
striking sign
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Categories: poverty, abuse, fate, flower, life,

Human Beings Contrast

the beggars
              collect and eat
       
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Categories: poverty, abuse, allusion, evil, extended

Terminal Frost

The ground is hard 
from last night's snow
all creation has frozen, 
slick ice from a day of infernal sun

Twilight has bled away to pitch-black onyx
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Categories: poverty, allegory, allusion, america, analogy,

Cheeky Little Nile Bugalugs

-Cheeky Little Nile Bugalugs-


I could fall on a turntable and raise the roof. Let the beat drop, but what’s the point scallywags?

Crickets chirp unwanted truths
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© Mr Pickles  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poverty, deep, forgiveness, lost, mental

Nocturnal One

Night catches wing 
flies like dreams 
jumped in shifting revelations 
realities each new hue 
a shade with a difference  
a different order 
of a
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Categories: poverty, allegory, analogy, angst, art,

Premium Member Year of the Street Urchin

Another year of  
Homelessness, 
Joblessness, 
And abject poverty. 
Year after year
He wanders about the slums
Shoeless, 
Trudging through mud 
With bruised feet 
Life's uncomfortable; 
A
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Categories: poverty, endurance, imagery, life, metaphor,


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