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Underclass Poems - Poems about Underclass

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...The underclass falls into things Appreciating food when it comes along Grateful for a cup of coffee or a hot roast beef sandwich They do not beg any more Their relatives are tapped out Do-good......

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Categories: underclass, usa,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Underclass
...On this day 11-21-24 I'm going on record to say suicide is not an act of selfishness and cowardice It is not an act of self-hate but an act of pure self-love a love so pure that it drowns out ......

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Categories: underclass, journey,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Meaningless Words
...Take elsewhere on your tongue Ponder seldom being wrong Slip away where near is rare Battle lions in their lair Educate the underclass Run fingers over broken glass Tell time again and again ......

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Categories: underclass, art,
Form: Rhyme
Conspiracy Theories, Part II
......Okay, but what about those guys who claim that they’re ‘being replaced,’ powerful men targeting them, disparaging them for their race, claiming the state wants poor peasants easy to control a......

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Categories: underclass, confusion, corruption, evil, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member HONEY SWEET QUEEN DREG-
... Honey sweet honey food of love, nectar sugar well amix amino antioxidants. fruit of relationship Sweet + ......

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Categories: underclass, analogy, appreciation, character, metaphor,
Form: Diamante



Premium Member To the One I Lost Poetry Contest
...We became us, me and Pascal Perhaps slightly out with my rationale But I was 18, prone to cause a fuss Me and Pascal, we became us Difficult goth girl, RPG devotee Liked the same rock club yo......

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Categories: underclass, lost love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Graffiti
...I shall declare my presence, don't trample on me or scrub me out no more, I exist.* Graffiti Poetry Contest Edit added after judging to add clarity *Voice of the underclass à la 1980s inner c......

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Categories: underclass, art,
Form: Other
Magic Roundabout La Ronde Ii
...She wears curtains in her eyes Uses them like a surgical knife Draws them closed each day To cut and blank out her daily life And she slides in the needle That helps her to find The matching op......

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Categories: underclass, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bullingdon Boys
...The club recruits fresh people—in session plenary. Of wealth, generosity, enthusiasm, and education. Sang a Peppa Pig song when we looted the—treasury. Bullingdon boys with elegant loo......

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Categories: underclass, allusion, anger, bereavement, character,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 5
...Mitchell: Good sirs, my word was fair. No discrepancy stains the pages of my ledger. The fifth tier is a sub-basement beneath the cellar floor of the temple’s vestibule. Any woman who is not tagged w......

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Categories: underclass, allegory, society,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Flightless Birds Trapped In a Gilded Cage
...Flightless Birds Trapped In A Gilded Cage. . Fledgling innocents incarcerated in a gilded ornate cage Budding pretty flowers Within the blossoming of youth Of tender sensitive age . Born int......

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Categories: underclass, childhood, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Pledge of Egregiousness
...All white Westerners and Western ideas are inherently evil Indigenous peoples are all naturally kind and good 24/7 White Western governments are all systemically racist It is biologically imposs......

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Categories: underclass, bible, freedom, satire, spoken
Form: Free verse
Urban Sly
...The floral crepe falling like snow In the still humid heat of Atlanta Distant chirps of new born flight Interrupt the cloudless sky I am surrounded by the slow morn crawl Uncharted steps of th......

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Categories: underclass, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
Grenfell Now Stands As a Monument
...Grenfell tower ruptures the horizon, London's skyline is scarred like a blackened diplodocus or a charred monument for a laconic London bridge still burning But look, linen wraps its i......

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Categories: underclass, social,
Form: Free verse
Wheel On a Stick Part 9
...The Cinematic Film Treatment as a stand alone element in the aesthetic revolution we are now not witnessing Happily Married An anthropological graphic novel fantasy shot against a contrast......

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Categories: underclass, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

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