Religion Poverty Poems

Poverty-
Now you are knocking the sophisticated door of poetry
Like the day-breaking light you have touched everything
Filed to wood, pond to port, road to road your...

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Please stop sharing memes promoting hatred or flaring communal violence. 
Do not revile anyone. Instead, observe silence. 
Crimes against humanity transcend the boundaries of religion,...

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Ashes and Thirst

Evil comes in all shapes, and all sizes. 
We have all heard this many times... before. 
But how truly large, or small can...

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All 

As I look back these days, 
over the years that have gone by... 
faster than I thought they were moving
at the time I was...

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An unsupplied Nigerian family,
Often cited in advisory homily
And likened to the ones in Galilee,
Though unable to mark its Golden Jubilee,
To God began a supplication,
Veritably a...

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Call it as it is!
Not mistaken.
Not uninformed –  
They just don't care! 
Death in record numbers
at our Southern Border;
Death in the streets
of large cities...

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Lighter is its economy, floats slower than a feather,
wasting resources, capable of becoming marketable leather,
pollutes the air for citizens to suffer bad weather,
expecting Yams from...

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What Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch

What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child...

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They tell them the reality of yesterday is their tomorrow
Save the cries for different versions of sorrow
The world is hash but there is a God...

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Just because we have been on the street for an unknown time,
With faces as pale as wax,
Watching poverty sing,
With a sweet voice caroling like a...

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"Kevin"

Drug buy,
for one it went good.
Drug buy,
for one it went bad.

You see Kevin,
wore high heeled sneakers.
You see Kevin,
was his junkies' keeper.
 
But one day;
the junkie...

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My dad, born today, the 17th of February
   bucked fate head-on, courageous and daring

Raised in a home on a block so poor
 ...

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PEACE 







We make war 
That we may live in peace.


Show me who won't love to take 
good tidings home to their people, 
That they may...

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Of soldiers
And patients 
Of the committed 
And convicts
All their prayers
Fall beneath the floorboards or reach the surface
As roaches 
of the empty room
who scatter when the...

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Star light star bright
first star I see tonight
I wish I may I wish I might
Find a place that has a  room

Now I lay me...

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