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Shantytowns Poems - Poems about Shantytowns

Shantytowns Poems - Examples of all types of poems about shantytowns to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for shantytowns.

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 ......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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 ......Read the rest...
Categories: shantytowns, lost love
Form: ABC

Book: Shattered Sighs