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Sweatshops Poems - Poems about Sweatshops

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Premium Member Chinamerussica
...(Medley: My Countries 'Tis O Thee) My countries misery creeps and all losers be of thee, I cringe And where our fathers lied and pilgrims took thei......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshops, america, analogy, anxiety, confusion,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Legislators Are the New Mill Owners
...JUSTICE They stare out at us unsmiling from tintypes of the first photographs, from the tea-colored pictures of thin, ragged immigrants, huddled in cold bare rooms in tenements, children cl......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshops, anger, angst, feelings, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Darth Picasso
...The head of a gargoyle rests in one hand the scent of olive oil aloft in the wind While elves make mischief in sweatshops subterranean guilt storms man's conscience 'ga......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshops, art, dark, religion, sin,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rant
...This town, this Silk Road had no toll to pay yet from the east caravans again fill its pharaonic marble and glass temples. Monolith malls rise its clefts, eco-wilderness morph into mult......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshops, culture, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Lost
...11/9/21 If I crossed the line Then I apologize Almost lost my mind A lot of times Mental and physical battles being fought Still lost Smoking pot And drinking lots Another day and nigh......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshops, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Shipwrecks
...My people are shipwrecks, they have faces long crushed by tanks. Many are landlocked, a few were too oceanic they got broken by dry-docked hearts. Most were blitzed by smokescreens. The trees......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshops, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Inequality
...One-eighty billion dollars one man has, they say. It is outrageously obscene when once you know half the global populace earns two bucks a day. Due to lack of healthcare; they have no way to pa......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshops, discrimination,
Form: Villanelle
Just Because We Invent
...60% of the world wealth is owned by Billionaires Which leaves the rest of the world To function on forty percent of the world's wealth, "getting a rich man into heaven" Is like trying ......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshops, inspiration, international,
Form: Narrative
Child Labour
...that silken gown when pressed hard against the nostrils one is assailed by the sweat of child labour he is just eleven and not in school when other children are in school the poor ......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshops, abuse, africa, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Wake Up Humanity
...We’re complaining about life and throwing food away, But there’s nearly 800 million people going hungry in the world today. Over 150 million children involved in child labour worldwide, And Innoce......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshops, africa, humanity, pain, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Fire
...Flames lick the sole of my foot Immersions of melting soot Reagents are called and are few Engaging sweatshops of New The intensifying heat Can only touch darkness seeps Three in a day they say......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshops, earth,
Form: Sonnet
The Smell
...The smell What is that smell? Can’t you tell, It’s just some tory twit, Crawling up to the masters well, To see if he can fit, They whinge an whine about the time, When we all worked for ......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshops, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Irony
...Love to the USA Sweatshops in Haiti Twenty machines in row Sewing T- shirts that say I LOVE the USA 12:23 noon 7/ 6/ 2013 granddaughter brings home from 4th July parade bobbles, cand......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshops, irony,
Form: Tanka
Pollution
...Use me as an example. Floating on sea's of vanishing waters , soaked up by those who care not for the amount of pollution tossed in to it. It's importance ignored for profit. Use me as a sponge......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshops, natureme, me, time,
Form: I do not know?
Our Smoldering Factory Town
...Our Smoldering Factory Town free trade, a brick around It’s gurgling, swollen neck. Surrounding gray quiet smolder, evokes, Once thriving factory smoke A Crumbling horoscope once paid it's wor......Read the rest...
Categories: sweatshops, political,
Form: Rhyme

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