Child Poverty Poems
These Child Poverty poems are examples of Poverty poems about Child. These are the best examples of Poverty Child poems written by international poets.
Is there hope?
where have we gone wrong
that it's right to let a child be homeless
where have we gone wrong
that people don't have enough to eat
where have we...
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Categories:
poverty, hope, humanity, peace, war,
Pharisee
Pharisee, pharisee, you come again
My night of hope screams for crumbs to eat,
I’m just a boy needing a few coins
Offering old tin cup to rich...
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Categories:
child, poverty, sound,
Neglected Ties
You shirk the weight of parenthood's call,
leaving your children to wither, unfed.
Are you a father, or mere specter of one?
A mother, or just a shadow...
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Categories:
poverty, absence, child abuse, mothers
Who Knew
Back when I was a child,
they said I was poor,
but I did not know it.
Until one of my teachers pointed at me and...
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Categories:
poverty,
Smuggler's BoatMigrants on the move from violence
their only possession
breath-space on a smuggler’s boat
secured with back-bent harvests
in pretzel-bent systems
weight of crates of strawberries
hoisted on hell-bent...
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Categories:
poverty, boat, death, hope, journey,
Facing Poverty If I went barefoot for a lifetime,
shoes would be pointless.
Toes ate board, concrete, grassland, shoreline.
Me, Tarzan to pedicurist!...
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Categories:
poverty, africa, appreciation, black love,
BROKEN DOWN ANGELSBROKEN DOWN ANGELS
It disny seem that long ago
Toddling and having fun,
Crawling then walking along the floor
And learning how tae run.
Potty trained and full eh...
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Categories:
poverty, abuse, addiction, dark, drug,
I Used To Be
Can I allay man's acceptance
of poverty which was not a dire circumstance before?
On those past days of summer the stale from bread crumbs fell...
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Categories:
poverty,
Funchal's Star
It was in the eighties, a winter day in Funchal,
the capital of Madeira, when a woman gave birth.
She was an anonymous, struggling woman
sailing the...
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Categories:
career, courage, inspirational, poverty,
Cry O GhanaO child of Mother Africa
The tortoise is still on the road
Realities cannot hold, dreams dying
Hopes turn to ashes every day
Cry O Ghana, O Ghana
Rich...
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Categories:
corruption, dark, poverty,
Growing Up Poor
Growing Up Poor
Miracle Man
1/26/2024
As a child
An empty oat meal box,
was my drum.
Two pencils,
fashioned my only sticks.
Didn’t have many suckers,
just my thumb.
But I had oodles,
inside my...
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Categories:
poverty, business, fate, future, life,
Rekha - Trigger warning
Standing upon the roof top,
watching her brothers walk to school,
Rekha reminisces about her playground,
full of childhood innocent smiles.
A sole kite decorated in orange and red,
floats...
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Categories:
abuse, child abuse, poverty,
The Soup by Picasso 1902-1903 New Poem 1256Poverty and hunger are bedfellows.~ The Poet~
Alluring, pleading
Yet it will burn,
Pangs of hunger
Immanent yearn.
Desperate child
So forlorn
For the poverty
To which she was born.
Minds...
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Categories:
poverty,
HelpOn the poor side of the city,
there’s an innocent child crying.
The rats and roaches are crawling,
on the bed where he lies dying.
There’s a family of...
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Categories:
poverty, poetry,
Categories:
abuse, child, poverty,