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Mystery Poverty Poems

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

Sunday's Cold Feet

Sunday's cold feet

My mind can go out for a journey
It will relate to things I've seen and fill in the gaps how I would if...

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Categories: poverty, betrayal, humanity, introspection, mystery,

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,

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,

This Lost Highway

Shadows stretch out across this lost highway. 
Cool winds dance dying leaves as the sunsets cast.

At the edge of sky, hues of gold and Crimson...

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Categories: poverty, allegory, allusion, art, beach,

The Land Beyond

there is a land beyond your eyes
but you must stare at the sun
the whitish glare but a disguise
it is one that hides another one

there is...

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Categories: mystery, poverty, spiritual,

Whitechapel, London 1888

Wanton women of Whitechapel
Desperate and destitute
Weakened from want
Shrunken stomachs barren of bread
Dying from disease in dingy dosshouses
Selling themselves on the streets for shillings
to buy beer,...

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Categories: poverty, death, england, history, london,

The Poverty In His Mind

"The Poverty in His Mind"



The poverty in his mind
watches the words
ticking in time
like arms and legs 
locked in hot rhyme
some Salvador Dali melting
killer metronome

the daily...

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Categories: poverty, dark, for her, for

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,

Fake

Fake
Smile
Make believe happiness
Laugh
Make believe joy
Both
Make a perfect mask
Kindness
Make believe peace
Loving 
Make believe wanted
Both 
Make a perfect suit...

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Categories: poverty, dark, depression, loneliness, love,

Poortown

I grew up in Poortown 
A mile down the road 
From hard topped streets 
Where Miss Eleanor lived 
She sat on the front porch 
Smoking...

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Categories: poverty, america, community, growing up,

Collective Recognition

Modern day Empire
The same as old,
Man doesn't really have time
Just Inventions and different clothes. 
Still craving our nature the two split purpose,
Consumption and reproduction
All else...

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Categories: poverty, age, analogy, beautiful, mystery,

It's Not Over

Don’t say it’s all over (cause it’s not)
“Sorry” won’t cover it…so don’t go on your knees and pray for my forgiveness 
Oh baby…don’t listen to...

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Categories: poverty, absence, angst, beauty, betrayal,

See Poverty

From the West to the East
Up the North, down the South.
Kobo and Naira rob Nigerians" thought.
Their presence of mind is taking to rest
And thus seizes...

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Categories: poverty, depression, mystery, natural disasters,

The Warped-Up Road

The hues of affliction caught my glimpse 
Maddening horror scratching my doorstep 
Clashing with severe torture,
Scorching away my destiny...my confidence 

Hallucinations take hold 
Risk shoved in a deserted briefcase 
Pluck...

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Categories: poverty, adventure, allegory, angst, confusion,

Boat of Poverty

Why this boat?
Could it be the boat of destitution?
Conveying Epidemics, Hunger, Rags,
Malnutrition and Illiteracy.

Descend from me!
Banish from my world!
You cursed word!
You that called education a"Privilege"!
Patrimony...

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Categories: poverty, adventure, africa, black african