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Unicef Poems - Poems about Unicef

Innocence Destroyed Children Are Not Brides

...Often hidden or ignored, child brides and sex slaves are still a current global problem; as is child abuse in varying ways, including child labour. Heartbreaking and unacceptable. 

Girls Not Bride...
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Categories: unicef, abuse, child, child abuse,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberHalloween - Repost

...The hallowed evening is deafeningly here
Goblins and witches' loud shrieks are near,
Shelled corn raining down our outer wall
Our whimpering dog is cringing in the hall,
Some snotty-n...
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Categories: unicef, halloween,
Form: Couplet



Summer

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“SUMMER”



Where 
has Summer 
gone?

The world 
has lost 
Summer

Sweet 
little 
dream

missing 

all those other 
beautiful  
small dreams 

seen as toys...
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Categories: unicef, abuse, child abuse,
Form: Epic

Premium MemberYou Really Think I'M Done - In Trump's Own Words

...Impeached, indicted, discredited, expunged,
Forsaken and little short of being hanged,
Does the punishment truly fit the crime,
Inciting sedition and for that I need do time?

Are they crazy or ...
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Categories: unicef, anxiety, goodbye, humor, parody,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberKind Once Again

...human reason accords to climate

               change realigns direction

                              world health reunites bold vision

			                     sharing and caring become nor...
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Categories: unicef, society,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberHalloween

...Hallowed evening is deafeningly here
Goblins and witches loud shrieks are near
Shelled corn raining down our outer wall
Our whimpering dog is cringing in the hall
Some snotty-nosed kid bangs on t...
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Categories: unicef, halloween,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberUnquotable Quotes: Li 51 - Tongue-Teasing Epigrams

...UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LI - Tongue-Teasers

If you want to give someone a « taste of his own medicine", you must first obtain sufficient quantities of the same medicine in the market, and if it’s ou...
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Categories: unicef, corruption, judgement, planet, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium MemberHumanity's Shame

...Starving children die

Peacefully the greedy sleep 

Humanity's shame!*







© Demetrios Trifiatis
         10 July 2018


* According to UNICEF more than 15.000 children die each d...
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Categories: unicef, children, death, grief,
Form: Haiku

Clicktivism By Patrick Magee

...You’re probably wondering how I did it? How did I cure cancer? Science, medicine, the dark arts? No, I took a photo of myself without any makeup on a posted it to Facebook. Through doing that, I rais...
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Categories: unicef, internet, irony, spoken word,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberEach Stab Wound

...From each stab wound we unkindly inflict upon our planet it is our blood that is spilled!*   







© Demetrios Trifiatis 
    01 November 2016

*In its last report UNICEF declares that 2...
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Categories: unicef, environment, men, pollution,
Form: Monoku

Afghanistan

...Afghanistan…the land of occupation…?
From Britain…to Russia…to America…no love…a dove…?
Some military actions…referential contractions…
Moral destruction…resistance of fractions…
Country so poor…...
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Categories: unicef, inspiration, drug,
Form: ABC

Unsung Hero Audrey

...Unsung Hero Audrey

Audrey Hepburn, not just another pretty face
Eloquent little girl, fragile beauty, boundless grace 
Danced upon the stage and world
A young star started out with humble voice...
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Categories: unicef, africa, beautiful, blessing, celebrity,
Form: Free verse

Stop Child Labor Now

...Why subject them to danger and risk?
If they represent something so special
Why not attend to them with such brisk?
Especially, when things look crucial
Every child is an important element
It’s been ...
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Categories: unicef, abuse, africa, change, hope,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Choice Was His

...There stood that tall gumball machine
With those colorful round bubblegum balls
With the clear glass pedestal encasing circular rings
So you can watch the gumball fall

In his eight-year-old lit...
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Categories: unicef, father, son,
Form: Rhyme

Address To Miss Mosquito

...Address to miss mosquito(A free verse pun)

Miss mosquito why?why do all these?
your species-Anopheles breed freely,
And ours are hindered with impunity,
You multiply and feed on our haemoglobin,
Whi...
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Categories: unicef, health,
Form: Free verse

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