Son Poverty Poems

I give my all ,  when I write these words , your probably sitting back , thinking this guy's, really had the nerve ,...

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Shining Son.
Mum, can you see me?
Can you see what I’ve done?
Do you understand I wouldn’t,
Be here, without you mum.

Dad, are you looking?
Smoking your Player’s fags
Rubbing...

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Superhero strobe lighthouse helm hexagonal 
        Sixty degree angle glass captain bridge
      ...

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The boy stood weary by the river
his head throbbed with the fever
Out of want and nothing to do
He spied the bag half buried 

It seemed...

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I might wash up fine now 
I might dress well now
But I'll still be a son of a farmer
Son of a laborer who has to...

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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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I know you don’t know Gikomba, Gikosh
It’s where we go to shop
For everything second hand and camera
Shirts, purses, suits, girlfriends, even senators
You must get there...

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Degrees of Poverty

“How will my vow of perpetual poverty
Cure the absolute poverty-stricken?
Or shall I give to the relative poor,
So they may exercise a standard of...

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The blind fiddler plays
enrapt in his tune;

His wife sits
warm in the melody
of a strange hearth;

Their baby child
does not cry;
hunger is a constant song;

The eldest son...

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What is justice to those who are not apart of society?
I say this with a clear mind with no need for a test of sobriety
A...

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Sometime before I was old enough
to be this vessel of seawater reflections
          she began to dissolve.
Husband...

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'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me',
Isaiah foretold, 'He's anointed me
     to bring relief to the poor,
   ...

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Father God is rich
Eternally rich in Grace
Yet His Son was poor

Born poor for our sake
So everyone's good enough
To receive His Gift

Divine Poverty
Blessed are the poor...

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Christmas comes around once every year 
Feeling of happiness, toasting good cheer
What does it now mean? I ask myself
Material things replacing god's wealth?.

What about people...

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You stank, and  poo was once revealed when pants were pulled in playing field. Hard round briquettes, quite dry, like dung with straw sun-hard...

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