A beggar clump adorns a dump, his pencil box in hand -
With sightless eyes upon the skies he’s lying there unmanned.
He’s fallen down in Shantytown, his knees too weak to stand,
With no relief and bitter grief too dark to understand.
The Bowery blight is hid from sight, it’s covered up and bland,
And Robin Hood and Brother Hood lie buried in the sand.
Categories:
shantytown, life, social,
Form: Rhyme
Fallacious finances
In a shell game
Destined only to get or gain
Until human worth lies as
Consumers with stimulated fantasies
In greed drenched dreams
About fortune or fame while
Regarding their way of life in
Yankeedom as the untimate Utopia.
Fictionalized futures foment
In this falsehood worldwide
As others await their turn to a
So-called stimulus
Connecting to their shantytown
Orbit as they dream of destroying Utopia.
Categories:
shantytown, social
Form: Acrostic
Rising sun out of the east,
Falls on the early morning on Riverside,
A shantytown just yonder of Laiser Hill,
A posh estate under Ngong Hills,
And there on shanty Riverside,
They wake up like they always do,
It is another day that may brim with trouble,
Still it is another day nonetheless,
And so they hurry along like they always do,
They might earn a dollar or less today,
And just barely feed the little mouths tonight,
But at high noon high the little mouths will wait,
Maybe the noon high will go down easy today,
Let their hungry tongues patiently wait,
Till Mummy, maybe Daddy comes home,
With that dollar or less for tonight,
If not it will be just like like last night,
Little tummies grumbling in the night,
Little limbs trembling in the cold,
That is life in shantytown.
Categories:
shantytown, life, people, places, sad,
Form: Free verse
I’m back where I don’t want to be
My second home
Which is anything but a humble abode
Well, maybe I deserve this
This shantytown
Where everyone seems happy
For they know no better
But I know and I have seen outside these propped doors
And I know my skin does not have to stay this light
Because there is sun
And there is color in the world
Besides the patterns on your repulsive color
Categories:
shantytown, confusion, loss, sad,
Form: I do not know?