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Short Livelihoods Poems

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


Claim Payments Delayed
BP explosion;
livelihoods devastated--
claim payments delayed...

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Categories: livelihoods, angst, business, depression, loss, people, recovery from...,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member A STILLED POND
A STILLED POND

Once a wet playground,
A ducks' and frogs' Disneyland!
Now quiet and stilled:-
Winter is no friend to ponds;
freezing out their livelihoods:-
...

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Categories: livelihoods, imagery, metaphor, middle school, nature, weather, winter,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Dumb Lawyer Joke Limerick
Five dumb lawyers moved to Buenos Aires 
Those attorneys simply couldn't care less
   They didn't speak Spanish  
   Their livelihoods vanished
Verdict: "Our law schools didn't prepare us!"...

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Categories: livelihoods, career, education, judgement, silly,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Who Gives a Dam
Russia's done it again
    This time they've blown up a dam
  Flood waters cover the land

  Farmers' livelihoods wiped out
    Stranded Ukrainians shout --
  Help! as the 'civilized world' checks out...

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Categories: livelihoods, cry, endurance, people, war,
Form: Rhyme
Canary In the Coal Mine
Caged in shadows
the canary breathes
amidst the clutter and din
of coal miners
who toil to extract
livelihoods
from veins underground
fortunes told
with its demise
too late for those who seek
fresh air and light
as families above ground
gather and wait
under a pale sun
for news
they feel in their veins
will come....

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Categories: livelihoods, bird, environment, grief,
Form: Verse



Legacies
Halls of steel and concrete, 
massive Cyclopean towers 
of immodesty where moguls
bask in gross extravagance. 

Children in neglect, 
souls with haggard faces, 
ekeing out their livelihoods 
with hopes and modest means.

Versions of prosperity;
the rich man pads his pockets while 
the poor man haunts his tenement,
struggling to smile....

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Categories: livelihoods, introspection,
Form: Quatrain
Legacies
...for Hart Crane


Halls of steel and concrete, 
massive Cyclopean towers 
of immodesty where moguls
bask in gross extravagance. 

Children in neglect, 
souls with haggard faces, 
ekeing out their livelihoods 
with hopes and modest means.

Measures of prosperity;
the rich man pads his pockets while 
the poor man haunts his tenement,
struggling to smile....

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Categories: livelihoods, writing,
Form: Quatrain
Legacies
...for Hart Crane


Halls of steel and concrete, 
massive Cyclopean towers 
of immodesty where moguls
bask in gross extravagance. 

Children in neglect, 
souls with haggard faces, 
ekeing out their livelihoods 
with hopes and modest means.

Measures of prosperity;
the rich man pads his pockets while 
the poor man haunts his tenement,
struggling to smile....

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Categories: livelihoods, visionary
Form: Verse
Legacies
...for Hart Crane


Halls of steel and concrete, 
massive Cyclopean towers 
of immodesty where moguls
bask in gross extravagance. 

Children in neglect, 
souls with haggard faces, 
ekeing out their livelihoods 
with hopes and modest means.

Measures of prosperity;
the rich man pads his pockets while 
the poor man haunts his tenement,
struggling to smile....

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Categories: livelihoods, dedication
Form: Verse

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