Short Poverty Poems
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Poverty's not the man who suffers.
Poverty's not his life.
Poverty's just an empty wallet
that hugs his azz too light.
He stands out there all day
Strums the guitar for his pay
Your portfolio's grown fat
Put a couple bucks in his hat
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.
contraception dearth
overpopulated earth
kills infants at birth
By
David Kavanagh
The man who lost his money
got a horrible nasty shock
When the government called him homeless
and his money got to talk
Shri Lal Bahdur Shasthri,
Not only one time Prime Minister of India,
But also a PM since his birth,
PM,poor man,I mean!
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
Alfred Otto Schulze aka Wols
poverty strickena desparate soul
N abstracted Tachiste by taste
died so young- what a waste
Givers have many path ways
To walk a long
Holding the hands of recipients
To find more treasures
To make more payments
THE UNTOUCHABLES
devalued dignity, dirty rags and odours
poverty driven humbled begging
Jesus touched and healed a leper
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.
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)
indian summer
first day of school
new hand me downs
Published in Bottle Rockets #39 2018
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
The habit mind
Is the holocaust
Of technology automating
Rational enlightenment
For the slavery of time
And poverty of creation
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.
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?
Some keen to keep
The hunger
At the house
As their business
Hunger based
entrench
Form:
One's obsession with material wealth brings his soul impoverishment!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
21 APRIL 2020
Money slipping
Fast as sand
Where did it go?
Do not know!
Spend, spend, spend some more!
And to lend? Below poverty poor!
Form:
War-weary world
Sad, silent, suffering
Poverty, People perish
Destruction Despair, Death
Peace perfect peace
Live, love life!
An albertine goodbye
a delicate petalled rose
flutters slowly from on high,
upon the green sward,to lie-
dying without a sigh
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
Flour and oil are running out
So are bread and butter
It’s been one pestilence of drought
Which causes wizened grass to flutter.
Poor old Mickey Mouse
Minnie asking for a house
dreams in the trash
they being short on cash
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Miniature Edens. Regularly insular
but small hopes can't be
everything in poverty.
Big brains flee from atrophy.