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Sorrow Poverty Poems

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


Silent Night
Tonight we lay snuggled
And warm in our beds
While the homeless have nothing
To pillow their heads

Tonight we’re with family
Surrounding the tree
While those on our doorstep
Have nowhere...

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Categories: poverty, christmas, december, holiday, jesus,



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,

One Soul - 4th Place
You were born from the shadow of broken dreams
Tempered by the sound of coarse screams 
You were raised climbing your own mountains 
Crawling under the...

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Categories: courage, poverty,

The Girl, Part I and 2
This is two parter. The first dealing with the abuse of the mother. The second part is about her child, growing up in care

The Girl,...

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© Nigel Gray  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poverty, abuse, child, emotions, mother

Premium Member Let
Let politicians claim virtue,
and abandon honest men.

Let the poor inherit promises,
and be comfortable servants.

Let the famous enjoy advantage,
and carry no favors in heaven.

Let physicians prescribe...

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Categories: poverty, imagination, integrity, life, philosophy,



The Willow
Beneath the broken willow tree, lies a girl helplessly
Passersby look at her with disgust in their eyes
Her shorn hair, her torn shoes and her worn-out...

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© Asra Aymen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poverty, child abuse, death, poetry,

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,

Jam Today - Thoughts On Budget 2022
The budget though
I have to say
Does sound a bit so
Jam today

Jam for some, for
Others sorrow
Nothing left for
Jam tomorrow

© Gail Foster 23rd September 2022...

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Categories: england, money, political, poverty,

Premium Member Ashes and Thirst
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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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poverty, abortion, america, anxiety, funeral,

Woman of the Wasteland III of III
From ruined halls of a corrupt little apartment 
I flee with my children, trailing after me 
No more the hard hand of hate 
On my...

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Categories: poverty, abuse, allegory, allusion, analogy,

The Time Stops
Time froze for a second,
But life didn't come to an end.
People just stopped at their places,
Capturing their moments was me
Before time races.

Mom stopped with a...

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Categories: poverty, beautiful, childhood, happy, life,

Premium Member Degrees of Poverty
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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Categories: poverty, bible, christian, heaven, money,

The Handsome Man
He was a handsome man 
hamming it up for the photographer
each flash inflating his ego
but cameras only capture the shell
what can be seen on the...

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Categories: poverty, beauty, celebrity, education, perspective,

Ukraine Rain - the Holodomor 1932-33
The Ukraine rain fell long and hard
From clouds above on high,
But what were shed 
Were tears of red
To spill on fields awry.

As storms of rage...

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Categories: history, humanity, poverty, red,

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


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