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Short Destitute Poems

Short Destitute Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Destitute by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Destitute by length and keyword.


Spouse
A destitute soul
your heart’s parasite
willingly chosen...

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Categories: destitute, marriage, satire,
Form: Triolet



Destitute
Once middle class
Shredding away the 401K
Destitution looms...

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© Cyndi Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: destitute, change, loss, money, poverty, society,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Hey Taxman
millionaires not to pay taxes, but give to the destitute masses...

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Categories: destitute, poverty,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Saved
My destitute heart,
Saved by the sweetest Angel.
I love you, Sandy....

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Categories: destitute, angel, best friend, birth, love, marriage, relationship,
Form: Haiku
Destitute
receding plumage
hope has gently walked away
declining prowess


March 28, 2023....

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Categories: destitute, poetry,
Form: Haiku



Destitute
rest of you in?
im going alone
swim

send
send me an angel
was the daniel book of?
was the love enough...

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Categories: destitute, faith,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Survival of the Species
Titanic's hard truth is, the destitute died and affluent survived. Date: 04/28/2019
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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: destitute, analogy, conflict, dark, death, discrimination, sad, sin,
Form: Senryu
Torn Apart
Destitute,
Attitude,
Restitute,
Substitute,
Latitude.

Artillery,
Weaponry,
Mercenary,
Pedantry,
Monastery....

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Categories: destitute, conflict, war,
Form: Monorhyme
Blinkered Soul
Detritus alleyway
A destitute
Blinkered soul
Regurgitating
Crippling, clichéd
Thoughts grounded 
With a loaded  tongue....

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Categories: destitute, angst, lonely, lost,
Form: Prose
Depression
dreary droplets drizzle downwardly destitute delicately defying dry delight
5/25/2017
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Categories: destitute, blue, dark, deep, depression, emo, sad, surreal,
Form: Cinquain
Orphaned
Paint a picture in 10 words exactly.


Destitute 
Derelict
Despondent
Huddled wrapped
Cornered, wind abates
Infant slumbers...

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Categories: destitute, caregiving, childhood, education, health, hope, life, people,
Form: Free verse
Dust Storm
parched barren earth thirsts unforgiving winds assault the destitute land TLH © 07-09-2012
Haiku or Senryu?...

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Categories: destitute, nature,
Form: Haiku
Intelligence
No one is destitute:
        of intelligence,
        capabilities...
        what exists,
        It's a lack of opportunities......

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Categories: destitute, allusion, appreciation, truth,
Form: Light Verse
Sang's Riddle
Sang's riddle
~~~~~~~~~~~
When does a man both rise and fall?
How can one resist yet heed the call?
Who is the destitute yet possessor of all?...

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Categories: destitute, confusion
Form: Terzanelle
Intelligence
No one is destitute:
        of intelligence,
        capabilities...
        what exists,
        it's lack of opportunity
AND COMMITMENT...!...

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Categories: destitute, allusion, analogy, appreciation, wisdom,
Form: Epigram
The Night's Sky
Darkness like a sheet,
Embellished with sparkling lights,
Covers the night sky,
The moon sits on this covering,
A lamp to the destitute.



February 26, 2022....

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Categories: destitute, beauty, imagery, nature, sky,
Form: Tanka
Lifeline
Religion levels the playing field,
money replaced by hope

For those destitute with hills to climb
salvation—heaven’s rope

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)...

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Categories: destitute, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Destitute
love the loser
in me
love the windy
city
but i been a kitty?
was he witty?

next to negativity
theres a lint tree
a duration of time
and a sublime
landmine
sign...

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Categories: destitute, hope,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member When I Am Old
When I am old and destitute
stooped, bald, and looking like a creep,
please, Lord, my one request do not refute –
do not force me to substitute
good wine for jug or cheap....

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Categories: destitute, age,
Form: Light Verse
From There To Here ..... (Diamente)
Hell
             drunk, destitute
          falling, crying, dying
    Devil, Monster, Warrior, Woman
     standing, laughing, recovering,
              sober, serene
                   Heaven...

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© Sue Mason  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: destitute, recovery from...
Form: Diamante
Premium Member Beached
weathered and beaten
the tides have cast me back to shore
forsaken and destitute
betrayal hurting far less
than the emptiness now felt inside



AP: 1st place 2023

Posted on November 13, 2022...

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Categories: destitute, age, anxiety, betrayal, loneliness, sad,
Form: Free verse
Ailing
A cool winters wind; 
A friendship in need;
A call one could not bare;
The worst kind of health scare;
Incomprehensible destitute now;
True allegiance, duly proved;
Recovery, slow but true;
Will the scars ever heal....

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Categories: destitute, brother, feelings, friendship, growth, sick,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Void of Loyalty
Non-selective, pay the price and take any willing prostitute
little food, little covering, that’s the need of a destitute
laid principles not so exact
changing rules as one transacts
towards him all guarantors are repelled by this attitude....

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Categories: destitute, character, life,
Form: Limerick
Homeless Angel
Before ever sleeping 
"This heartless rock is motherly lap!"
The homeless angelic child trusts 

And in the world of variety wastage food 
The food-less destitute child thinks 
"The world is place of Holy Fast"!


-November 20, 2018 Chattogram...

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Categories: destitute, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Temples
What does it mean,
To love You?
Which would this be:
Is it such, or untrue?
How may I wake,
To trust You?
What permeates?
My faith, destitute!

As aurum rightly shines,
For luster may come through:
I’d rather yield inside;
So, my prayer, ensues –...

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Categories: destitute, heart, how i feel,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs