Short Poverty Poems

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


Poverty Wallet

Poverty's not the man who suffers.
Poverty's not his life.
Poverty's just an empty wallet
that hugs his azz too light.
Form: Quatrain


Premium Member Drop Some Weight

He stands out there all day
  Strums the guitar for his pay
Your portfolio's grown fat
  Put a couple bucks in his hat
Form: Couplet

Poverty

It is in one's poverty of mind, heart, spirit and soul that one finds true wealth and a clarity of vision for the future.

Premium Member Condom Spoiler Alert

contraception dearth
                overpopulated earth 
                 kills infants at birth 

By
David Kavanagh
Form: Senryu

Homeless

The man who lost his money
got a horrible nasty shock
When the government called him homeless
and his money got to talk
Form: Quatrain


Poor Prime Minister

Shri Lal Bahdur Shasthri,
Not only one time Prime Minister of India,
But also a PM since his birth,
PM,poor man,I mean!

Premium Member Indian Summer

indian summer
first day of school
new hand me downs



Published in Bottle Rockets #39 2018

Posted on May 30, 2018
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Clerihew Wols

Alfred Otto Schulze aka Wols
poverty strickena desparate soul
N abstracted Tachiste by taste
died so young- what a waste
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Trickle Down Life

The old man gave the boy
half of his sandwich.
The boy gave the cur dog
half of his half.


John G. Lawless
1/6/2021

The Date

The fork goes on the left.
The poor go on the streets.
And the crock sits on the table
when the date has blessed defeat.
Form: Quatrain

Way In Way Out

Givers have many path ways
To walk a long
Holding the hands of recipients 
To find more treasures 
To make more payments

The Grape

The fork goes on the left.
The poor go on the streets.
And the crock sits on the table
when the grape is pressed to treat.
Form: Quatrain

The Untouchables

THE UNTOUCHABLES

devalued dignity, dirty rags and odours
poverty driven humbled begging
Jesus touched and healed a leper
Form: Haiku

The Habit Mind

The habit mind
Is the holocaust
Of technology automating
Rational enlightenment
For the slavery of time
And poverty of creation

The Children of Israel - Chapter 17, Verses 31, Holy Koran

And don’t kill your children for fear of poverty
I give them and yourselves what you need
Killing them is a great sin indeed.

Real Poverty

We get older
we learn more
we had enough of masked phases
true men are few
How ugly is poverty!
of humanity!!
Am I right?

Entrench

Some keen to keep
     The hunger 
                At the house 
As their business 
               Hunger based 
      entrench
Form:

Reappraisal

reappraisal says let go of the ropes, let God be God

8/31/18

Silent One's contest:  When plans don't go to plan, (Monoku)
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Obsession

One's obsession with material wealth brings his soul impoverishment! 








© Demetrios Trifiatis
      21 APRIL 2020
Form: Monoku

Premium Member A Preference For Peace

War-weary world
Sad, silent, suffering
Poverty, People perish
Destruction Despair, Death
Peace perfect peace
Live, love life!

Disappearing Funds

Money slipping
Fast as sand

Where did it go?
Do not know!

Spend, spend, spend some more!
And to lend? Below poverty poor!
Form:

Premium Member Litany a 7776 Form

An albertine goodbye

a delicate petalled rose
flutters slowly from on high,
upon the green sward,to lie-
dying without a sigh
Form: Didactic

Premium Member Soup Kitchen

My Yuletide joy is
To feed poor and hungry ones
Come in from the sleet
The parents humbly thank God
Children sing the song Noel
Form: Tanka

Widow of Zarephath

Flour and oil are running out
So are bread and butter
It’s been one pestilence of drought
Which causes wizened grass to flutter.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Island

Miniature Edens. Regularly insular but small hopes can't be everything in poverty. Big brains flee from atrophy.
Form: Verse

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