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Great Depression Poems - Poems about Great Depression


Premium Member Hopping a Freight Train in Wheeling
The freight train puffs a veil of smoke into the night. The iron rails rumble. Be still. Now. There it is, the engine's call, fading To the distance. Between shadows, a lean figure grips tight to the rolling steel, His pack worn low on his back, and now he's gone Wholly, into the night. I stand alone by the coal yard, I do not...

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Categories: great depression, loneliness, night,
Form: Free verse
Salat Days
Salat Days by Michael R. Burch (dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.) I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ... though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing, dangling his long thin legs, watching the sweat bees drone, talking about poke salat— how easy it was to find if you knew where to...

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Categories: great depression, age, america, appreciation, depression,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Great Depression
Born in the latter part of The Great Depression Don't know how my parents managed with eight dependants I was the last in '35 But we all survived Growing veggies in the yard avoiding senseless obsolescence...

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Categories: great depression, depression,
Form: Limerick
The Great Depression
The Great Depression began around 1930 and it was world wide. It was so bad that about forty thousand people committed suicide. It began when the Stock Market crashed on October the 29th of 1929. The Great Depression sent many people to the unemployment lines. The Great Depression lasted over ten years. Life was rough, that much is painfully clear. That...

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Categories: great depression, grandmother, october, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
The Great Depression and Halloween
Sometimes a great depression rises up from with in my being ...

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Categories: great depression, courage,
Form: Free verse



Diary of a Great Depression
At my own admission I've grown black hearted, Find it hard to cry for the dearly departed. I've started with myself and made no difference... my reflection ain't healthy I've been plagued by ignorance. An insignificance to that shown by my people offering deliverance. Belligerent my mind state, no room for benevolence. I'm gonna times fate...

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Categories: great depression, depression,
Form: Lyric
Great Depression
The sun sets on the dark streets Tears leave eyes as they begin to grieve Life is hard for all But they struggle on, trying not to fall Food is scarce and people starve Words of emotion in walls are carved Houses are taken and the streets become home Bankruptcy evident from too many loans Whole families looking towards the sun Remembering the times...

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Categories: great depression, history, teen, work,
Form: I do not know?
Great Depression
No Money Bills past due Unemployed Depression overcomes, spirralling tears...

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Categories: great depression, depression
Form: Tetractys

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