Short Slum Poems

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


She Had Standards

I tried
to tell her
not to resort
to slum
dating
and living

but she just
did not see
the queen
she was
inside.


Hiaku

Haiku 


palace is static; 
slum at its feet is dancing 
in its carnival………

© Ramakrishna Chowdary Jasti
04Aug2014
Form: Haiku

Premium Member The Downpour

downpours in midsummer lavish houses with creek view a flooded slum
Written: January 14, 2022
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

The Life Truth

Don't think you have owned the place
You'll leave it in the time race
Other people will come
And live in your slum
So always have a smiling face
Form: Limerick

Let's Give Fire

Hey hey! let's give fire
to the palace, villas
hold the gunpowder to set 
to burn down the house, rouse
who are poor
slum houses to keep hot,  sought
to keep them warmth in winter, in dance & songs
yes we should set
on the principle hot.
Form: Verse


Premium Member Christmas Fuzz

Little drummer boy with a rum-tum-dumb
Beat out a melody in ghetto slum
Fuzz drove slowly by
Saw Santa in sky
Consumed donuts as he fell on his bum

Written 11-29-2022
Contest: a Funny Christmas or December Holiday Limerick
Sponsor: Tania Kitchen
Form: Limerick

Pound For Pound

from bank to skill
  and labor to love
 for sake of pleasure
and from rooftop to tile
   my list compiles a pile
  as high and long as a miracle mile
 from brain to agility
from slum to nobility
 I am willing to bet that
   pound for pound
     I am better by the pound

My Shy Wife Was a Princess of Babazoa

My shy wife was a princess of Babazoa

                               Her dessert was cream lizard from Samoa

                                        She inherited a princely sum

                                    And went to the Big Gabazoa slum

                          And bought chilled bum for her sweet Burmese Boa
Form: Limerick

Dead Rascal

Alive and given a destiny
Love of parents was in mutiny
Grew up in a cold slum
Had a choice, every Sunday the church would come

Life was lived on the highway
His spirit died he lived without The Way

He is the "man", but with no brain
Playing stunt on top of a moving train

The devil dashed him the final blow
See his sober dead body like a cat's mew
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member View From Train


crumbling slum buildings
            a persistence of loud cars
air and noise     and pollution
                 old home with a garden-
woman pushing carriage
  small kids riding    bicycles

________________________
June 26, 2016

Poetry/Choka/View From Train
Copyright Protected, ID 16- 804-421-0
All Rights Reseerved.  Written under Pseudonym.
Form: Choka

Unimagined

In my pain, I have gained
In my shame, I got a name
In my loss, I never was lost
In my penury, I went through the refinery-
              there my destiny was revealed

 And who would have thought all along that a slob from the slum could have the 
guts to leave the ruts to be a king with a ring on a throne and cant be dethroned 
by any imaginable human effort.

Slumber

Whispers...
Slumber...?
Slumberrrrr,
Don't leave...
Be my light...
My sigh...t,
And fight
Not...the
Powerrrrr...
That I...she...
Hol...dsssss...
Pity my...her...
Cowar...dice...
Have mercyyyyy...
On my...her...
COWARDICE!
Come near...
Slumberrrrr...
Milky Slum...berrrrr...
Slow...whispers...
By my...her...
Side...in...in
The lakes...
Offfff Hell...
Form:

8pm

(Series: Half of the dream broke with her)


Let my lines possess you to tipsiness,
Scatter your night - make you slum,
& when the night comes
Look at the sky & smile
I long to find my other half - just like the moon.
Let me rest my life on your chest 
Break the silence with my feelings.
I’m a pulse - but you’re a throbbing pulse 
That revive the corner of my prisoned soul.

Premium Member A Joke

A racist and Christian walk into a bar
the Christian says you are racist
the racist says you are not a Christian
the both have a good laugh
up on the TV Screen
babies being slaughtered
they sip their fancy drinks
and go cheers
no white kids right?
nah
just deported slum
or foreign folk
no one cares
lets have another drink
and laugh at those less than us
they are so woke

The True Messages

The round tip dances
On a white paper

To express the feelings
Of the deepest

Blue and blue
Or love and joyful

Every dance to compete
To reach popularity

But every words
Should bring messages
From pieces of a peace

Seeing, and empathy
Struggle and the great words

A wall of the slum,
A kid of the war,
A rally of the street,
They are the true words
True messages
© Nur Holis  Create an image from this poem.

Witchcraft

[on pollution]

I breathe smoke,
sleep in slum
hunt flesh;
over my hideous ribs
play glossy  blossoms 
sprinkling perfume of sweat.

Hey! Handsome!!
I greet you;
Sweat’s sweeter than wine,
Skin thirstier than spine,
Smoke thicker than blood,
Hunting ’s life.

Drive fast swirling smoke;
Come, cuddle and kiss ,
my silky bob!
Who says I’m ugly witch?
Under your glistening arms
I’m the fairest.

Premium Member Pray For Respect

I strongly pray for peace and shared respect. But I'd much quite prey on the nasty scum. Who are the ones who plant seeds of reject? I strongly pray for peace and shared respect. To stop the wreak ruin on people's, swept. No reason to turn to physical slum. I strongly pray for peace and shared respect. But I'd much quite prey on the nasty scum.
Written: March 13, 2023
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Triolet

Bad Medicine

Searching for spirits untold
Held captive by something so bold
Begging to please, to be set free
To take away the grips
That were once pretty

Seeing the world 
in black and white
Living in a slum of grey
But the spirits take her 
from day to day

Something religious and something evil
Can fool the mind
To find it gleeful
Insanity perches on its brink
The world ending in a song of drink
Form:

Premium Member Scum Rises To the Top

I am slimy scum
I'm a rotten bum
I rule America
Sucking on my thumb.

I am rather dumb
I make people numb
I'll turn America
Into endless slum. 

If I'm feeling glum
Unhappy I become
I praise the Ku Klux Klan
Then I get giddy some.

Beat my kettledrum
Rat-a-tat-tum-tum
Shriek racist epithets
Ad-infitum.

My ultimatum
Needs uranium
Blowing up the world and grin
Ain't it worrisome. I win!
Form: Rhyme

The Drummer Alcoholic

Steadily beats he a drum,
Heavily drinking stiff rum;
Zestfully tours he a slum,
Masculine tunes does hum.

Later, his fingers are numb,
Not excluded his half thumb;
Decides he then to sit his bum
For an unfinished chewing gum,
To him released by a chum,
When he couldn’t from him a plum…

Later, shall workout the sum 
Of how to get back to doting mum;
A drummer alcoholic,
At times, a workaholic
Form: Rhyme

Stymied

Stymied at the cross roads
choices left to be made,
past succumbed to rot and erode
stifled by a loss in trade.
A trickle left in amble
as climates seem to change,
movements toward a scramble
a time to evolve and interchange.

Sins of others selling soul
scurry power to a slower pace
slum-dogs roam out of control
to fill the vacuum and the space.

A slain shroud of refined mystery
confined pages of a mono history!

Premium Member Going Back

 
I will turn back the pages of my life back to when we lived in a row house one of many- though mom made ours pretty with lace curtains and flower window boxes I loved it there but we moved away after Susan died that was my big sister I went back not long ago to see our old home the area is now a slum with rundown, boarded up homes I wish that I had just kept my memory and never gone back

Slum Hopes

The men didn’t sleep even after dark, 
clanging steel and creating sparks beneath moonlight
working away at the shackled houses
She stood in the room with her back to the empty window
looking at the little feet protruding from the blankets 
like little fireflies, steadily glowing because they did not know.
She guarded them. She listened and hoped 
the noises would not enter their dreams
on this last night they had.

With None

I swear don't believe what you hear
live life strong never ever in fear
here is a tissue wipe that tear
you will make it I will make it to the next year

There is just simply more to come
there is more fun no more need to run
put down the gun raise up out the slum
you were born gifted so don't be dumb

If you're hungry you should be able to come and get some
we throw away so much when there are people with none. -TA
Form: Lyric

Poor In the City

Working, renewal in the city of Delhi,
Humayun's to the signature development everywhere,
A phase never has seen,
Money forced poor and Halcyon life,
The lilt in a polluted atmosphere
Dirty-minded carbons moving in slums,
Strong tin doors in the slum, In terror.
A whole day on street, for half an hour meal
Rich faces are in dream whole night,
Dusty faces with beautiful minds.
Below to the poverty line,
But above the lifeline.

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