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Shantytowns Poems - Poems about Shantytowns


Premium Member It isn't though it is
...Nothing to see so little to hear speak and be silenced. Smells peculiar... Are my thoughts even mine? Everything is glorious in the shadows of night Bright lights that dim truth all sparkle and ......

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Categories: shantytowns, political, social, world,
Form: Free verse
Hunger Pangs
...It was unnerving a growling demon of deprivation, an enemy that lurks in shadows, but the eyes don't lie silver spoons do tarnish with lack of use they're tucked away from public eye ......

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Categories: shantytowns, allusion, black african american,
Form: Lyric



Safely Isolated Society
...Behind barbed-wire fences Of security-estate isolation The rich and the poor Divided the nation The lines were drawn The cartoons were sketched As luxurious green lawns In shantytowns far-fe......

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Categories: shantytowns, history, irony,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Cigarettes and Crickets
...In the concrete walls of the shantytowns, A young rose cracked through the cordons. The rose encountered a thorn, That perforated through its petals, To deflower and plant a seed, Of lust, love ......

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Categories: shantytowns, lost love
Form: ABC

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