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School Poverty Poems

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


Premium Member Rekha - Trigger warning
Standing upon the roof top,
watching her brothers walk to school,
Rekha reminisces about her playground,
full of childhood innocent smiles.

A sole kite decorated in orange and red,
floats...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abuse, child abuse, poverty,



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,

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 In the Place Where Nothing Grows
He has no poetic garden to gaze upon
no outside to the inside of this room
Soft breaths of brothers 1, 2 and 3
like the breeze on...

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Categories: poverty, character, family, growing up,

Jump In Joy
JUMP IN JOY
I slept under punches last night,
Smiled to the hypocrisy of guns on my face,
Wondering how many night and days I should live,
And you...

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Categories: poverty, africa, child, children, community,



Premium Member Invisible Barrier
Do we perform countless roles in our life?                         
we do…and we try to perform...

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Categories: childhood, children, poverty, uplifting,

Looking Up To the Hills
All day long, from 7:15 am today, needs come
To my gate, with either "pastor " or "vaderrr"
Justin & John T needed breakfast before work
They did...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poverty, beautiful, bible, emotions, identity,

Tan a Yu Yaad Covid-19
LAWD GAD!!!
WEY YU SEY?
WI BOUT TO EXPERIENCE ANOTHER EPIDEMIC!
NO SAH!!!
WE CAAN TEK IT NO MORE
SO GWAAN BOUT YU BUSINESS
CAR-RONIA…CORONIA…COVID-19
WHATEVER YU BE!
WI HAVE 999 PROBLEMS BUT...

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Categories: funny, poverty, sad, school,

Premium Member The Regressives
Punitively regressive are 'Progressives'
Defunding charter schools 
Crippling the academically aggressive

Denying school choice
to gifted students
from poor families ~
        ...

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Categories: education, political, poverty, school,

Premium Member Rich Poverty
Rich Poverty

What fools the rich are,
to think they are better than the poor.
To not be able to cry for help,
or eat scraps off the floor.
To...

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Categories: poverty, america, deep, humanity, inspirational,

Premium Member Where Will He Sleep Tonight
She's tucked in bed of floral white
To mommy's hand, she holds on tight
No hunger pangs disrupt her night
In dreams she sees candied delight 

He finds...

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Categories: child, pain, poverty,

Esse
[I work at an office,
with a fixed salary
to feed a family:
without a denial to hardwork
I work tediously
my little ones attend school routinely,
We solely wish necessities
neither...

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Categories: poverty, 11th grade, allusion, education,

Premium Member Airy and Emmett Street
Airy Wells and Emmett Street were working class kids,
Just shy of a high school diploma.
Airy’s mom had a habit of drinking too much.
Emmett’s father was...

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Categories: addiction, death, poverty, relationship,

Higher Education
The fancy degree from a world famous school
set in a frame that’s worth more
than the paper on which it’s printed
all the awards
the accolades
none of it...

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Categories: poverty, celebrity, childhood, education, food,

School Pictures
Stumbling through school
a ‘kick me’ sign on her back
toilet paper stuck to her shoe
with superglue
Told to be silent unless spoken to
and never fight back against...

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Categories: poverty, bullying, childhood, growing up,


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