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Workhouse Poems - Poems about Workhouse

Workhouse
...How is this free verse poem. Perfumef handkerchifs Hiding thete smells SEND THEM TO THE WORKHOUSE THEY ARE SPOILING MY MEAL Urchins and vagabonds Scavaging for food SEND THEM TO THE WORKHOUSE......

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Categories: workhouse, abuse, christmas, england,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When the Twig Snaps
...Brittle and broken, the eucalyptus snaps loudest. Pulverized by constant wear of boots on dusty trails. Debris of lifeless memories detached from vital source, scattered broken on apathetic eart......

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Categories: workhouse, death, eulogy, farewell, life,
Form: Free verse



In This Place
...Work is the twin of rest; Work represses me from tasting the sugar of the day, Represses me from witnessing the launch of the moon, Represses me from fun, from the chaff, wraps me in grief, Eve......

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Categories: workhouse, depression, emotions, work,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Marley Plays the Bottom Line - With Apologies To Charles Dickens
...Oh, don’t flatter me with presents from the Ghost of Christmas Past. Tis the season for nostalgia, but those feelings never last. It’s a gift-wrapped empty promise not worth tuppence on the stree......

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Categories: workhouse, allegory, christmas,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Victorian Poverty In London
...Victorian Poverty In London. . Slumming it in adverse poverty In Victorian London’s Limehouse White Chapel and Bethnal Green Dingy doss houses packed to the brim Narrow dirty streets with co......

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Categories: workhouse, community, conflict, poverty,
Form: I do not know?



The Man From Darwen
...The Man from Darwen Came there a man from Darwen, In the heart of the Lancashire Hills, A Town of industrial landscape, Coal Mines and large Cotton Mills. These times of hardship and struggle,......

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Categories: workhouse, history, tribute,
Form: Ballad
Focus and Balance
...It's hard to stay focused If your mind is never still You'll never find your inner peace If you don't meditate on your will The will to practice with your whole being You will never fi......

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Categories: workhouse, meaningful, spiritual, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Bonds
...I was raised in a prison of darkness along walls of cement have I groped the hearts here deep scarred and callous no dreams of a child had I hoped Starved for a......

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Categories: workhouse, abuse, anger, betrayal, character,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Victorian Poverty Crime and Squalor
...Born into a life of poverty crime and squalor where hunger and cold winds bite and disease is rife and it was a daily battle to stay alive and find some food to stay alive. Uneducated illiterate cau......

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Categories: workhouse, childhood, dark, grief, history,
Form: Free verse
Bonds
...I was raised in a prison of darkness along walls of cement have I groped the hearts here deep scarred and callous no dreams of a child had I hoped Starved for ......

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Categories: workhouse, allegory, angst, care, child,
Form: Verse
Diddled
...George is in his eighties and he’s seen it all before He was born in the depression and was wounded in the war He hadn’t been a hero, but George had done his bit His legs had both been broken when......

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Categories: workhouse, politicalold, money, old,
Form: I do not know?
Christmas Day In the Workhouse 4
...It’s Christmas day in the workhouse Just another grey day to endure We are being treated to pot noodle So Oliver won’t be asking for more......

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Categories: workhouse, funny, holidayday,
Form: I do not know?
Christmas Day In the Workhouse # 3
...It’s Christmas day in the workhouse Just another grey day to endure We have been promised nouvelle cuisine So Oliver will be asking for more......

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Categories: workhouse, holidayday,
Form: I do not know?
Reprimand
...I'm in charge here I am your chieftain.....your Lord and Master the head of proceedings...the king of the castle...the cat with the cream, the orchestrator, the pivotal p......

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Categories: workhouse, inspirationaleducation, may,
Form: Narrative
The Workhouse
...Children of darkness do not play under the Bluebird sky nor do they feel the sunshine of a summer's morning on little backs and faces.. instead they toil from dawn to dusk in rooms of darkness ......

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Categories: workhouse, sad
Form: Couplet

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