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 NightTonight 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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poverty, christmas, december, holiday, jesus,
Let Us Tackle ItShattered 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 PlaceYou 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 2This 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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poverty, abuse, child, emotions, mother
LetLet 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 WillowBeneath 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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poverty, child abuse, death, poetry,
Life In My LandLife 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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poverty, fear, grief, metaphor, murder,
Jam Today - Thoughts On Budget 2022The 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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england, money, political, poverty,
Ashes and ThirstAshes 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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Categories:
poverty, abortion, america, anxiety, funeral,
Woman of the Wasteland III of IIIFrom 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 StopsTime 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,
Degrees of PovertyDegrees 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 ManHe 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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poverty, beauty, celebrity, education, perspective,
Ukraine Rain - the Holodomor 1932-33The 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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Categories:
poverty, deep, forgiveness, lost, mental