Short Poverties Poems

 glass bottle vase
takes prideful place,
reflecting sunbeams
upon poverties face...

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Moist brown rice bountiful bowl
drenched in salt tears cold.
Seasoned with the sweat of toil
clean water sun boiled.
Overflowing dish
enough food
a dream!...

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Ghost, 
Of poverty.
Sits upon a dusk chair,
Secluded as a forgotten smile.
Secluded as the pale rose,
Beneath the dusk chair of,
Poverties Ghost.
Where words,
Never,
Leave the seclusion of their, own tuneful misery....

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Progress of Pilgrims
David J Walker

Poverties refugees 
In portions of wealth 
for the making
Sunbaked promises 
	Cotton spun gold
Such are the 
stories told 
For the taking 

In the slim shadows of
Mills that turn wind 
into water 
soil into fodder for
		cattle

forgotten graves 
mark the progress of
Pilgrims on a
Caliche highway to heaven...

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