Poems About Homelessness Seeking Honest Critique
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Poems about homelessness seeking honest critique. Honest feedback has been requested for these poems.
oldmanG
Poem Published
2nd Jan 2025 2:27am
2nd Jan 2025 2:27am
Home no More
Home no More
The sticker slapped upon my door
Informs me that we have a home no more
Gather up the wife and children with not much more than the clothes that hang off of us
At least it’s summertime I guess we won’t freeze sleeping under the night sky
But the season will change and we don’t have enough blankets to keep us warm
So we go to the shelter that is overflowing
With despair and broken human beings
In the darkness the vultures prey upon the few objects that we still own so we are back out on the cold...
The sticker slapped upon my door
Informs me that we have a home no more
Gather up the wife and children with not much more than the clothes that hang off of us
At least it’s summertime I guess we won’t freeze sleeping under the night sky
But the season will change and we don’t have enough blankets to keep us warm
So we go to the shelter that is overflowing
With despair and broken human beings
In the darkness the vultures prey upon the few objects that we still own so we are back out on the cold...
#children
#despair
#family
#homelessness
#inequality
77 reads
2 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
30th Dec 2024 11:57am
30th Dec 2024 11:57am
Draws Down, Face Up
A homeless man in New York found a manhole in the Bronx that was just out of the way enough to offer him some privacy, so he routinely used it as a toilet. One day he lost his balance and was found dead at the bottom of the sewer. Draws down, face up.
#death
#fiction
#homelessness
#ignorance
#satirical
76 reads
13 Comments
Kementic1
Poem Published
25th Dec 2024 00:30am
25th Dec 2024 00:30am
Propaganda
Make America Great Again is that same tired old line
that I ain't buying this time
Selling us another bill of goods
while people go hungry, homeless and shot at in our hoods
Poisoning, land theft. rape and murder are the real parts of the story
of America's so-called glory
We have a 34 count Felon as President Elect
come on now y'all what the heck
The MSM would have you believe a Zebra is a Panda
bc they have sold out and want you to fall for Right Wing-Propaganda
that I ain't buying this time
Selling us another bill of goods
while people go hungry, homeless and shot at in our hoods
Poisoning, land theft. rape and murder are the real parts of the story
of America's so-called glory
We have a 34 count Felon as President Elect
come on now y'all what the heck
The MSM would have you believe a Zebra is a Panda
bc they have sold out and want you to fall for Right Wing-Propaganda
#deception
#homelessness
#politics
#poverty
#power
129 reads
0 Comments
shadow_starzzz
Poem Published
13th Dec 2024 00:19am
13th Dec 2024 00:19am
Disgust
#homelessness
#poverty
96 reads
5 Comments
Abracadabra
Poem Published
28th Nov 2024 5:19pm
28th Nov 2024 5:19pm
Life Expectancy
In doorway forty three
she clings to cardboard skirts
though homeless is no crime
forgotten is what hurts
But who should rescue
her shortened years
and from their warm beds rise
when barefoot holy
winter's empire
descends unseen
to claim ill fated lives
she clings to cardboard skirts
though homeless is no crime
forgotten is what hurts
But who should rescue
her shortened years
and from their warm beds rise
when barefoot holy
winter's empire
descends unseen
to claim ill fated lives
#homelessness
#inequality
#poverty
120 reads
1 Comment
GabyCamargoMiaw
G
G
Poem Published
19th Oct 2024 7:27pm
19th Oct 2024 7:27pm
Lost Boy
Among the shadows where the silence breathes,
A lost boy walks, torn like autumn leaves
With haunted eyes, echoes of pain
Looking for shelter down the pouring rain
Once a dreamer in a world so vile,
Now, a wanderer with nowhere to hide
He's endured the harm of many hearts unkind,
Yet his spirit wishes for a chance to rise
Through nights of darkness, inhaling your fear,
Crystal ghosts haunt you; I feel you near
Each scar a story, each tear a song,
In a world that feels so painfully wrong
Stolen...
A lost boy walks, torn like autumn leaves
With haunted eyes, echoes of pain
Looking for shelter down the pouring rain
Once a dreamer in a world so vile,
Now, a wanderer with nowhere to hide
He's endured the harm of many hearts unkind,
Yet his spirit wishes for a chance to rise
Through nights of darkness, inhaling your fear,
Crystal ghosts haunt you; I feel you near
Each scar a story, each tear a song,
In a world that feels so painfully wrong
Stolen...
#addiction
#drugs
#healing
#homelessness
#support
267 reads
3 Comments
Cookie
Poem Published
14th Sep 2024 9:22am
14th Sep 2024 9:22am
Man on the Street
Swallowed whole like Jonah
I reside in the guts of this
Beast, I can feel the heat of
its heart beat.
I can see the distension
in trembling and quivering
insides as I move around
on my feet.
I walk beside choked arteries
and down various tubes,
hanging gardens somewhere above
but here just waste and ooze.
I find a quiet cavity
and curl up on some bony surface
to snooze
but I don't get much sleep.
I reside in the guts of this
Beast, I can feel the heat of
its heart beat.
I can see the distension
in trembling and quivering
insides as I move around
on my feet.
I walk beside choked arteries
and down various tubes,
hanging gardens somewhere above
but here just waste and ooze.
I find a quiet cavity
and curl up on some bony surface
to snooze
but I don't get much sleep.
#homelessness
#LifeStruggles
#poverty
#power
#vulnerability
96 reads
0 Comments
ExercisingDemons
Poem Published
17th Aug 2024 7:32pm
17th Aug 2024 7:32pm
Poet on a Road who Shoulda known Better than to ask for a Hug
BEAUTY sewn into flesh and bone of my demons is
often ignored or overlooked by those holding
bible books, hoping
for halos gleaming
UGLINESS honed by those in 'blessed' clothes preaching is
often swept into holes,
mine stays violently bleeding
KINDNESS shown by us messes
erodes each season,
these acts
often deplored or mistook by brashly bold, those
liable to poke the...
often ignored or overlooked by those holding
bible books, hoping
for halos gleaming
UGLINESS honed by those in 'blessed' clothes preaching is
often swept into holes,
mine stays violently bleeding
KINDNESS shown by us messes
erodes each season,
these acts
often deplored or mistook by brashly bold, those
liable to poke the...
#beauty
#homelessness
#LifeAsAWriter #sadness
#LifeAsAWriter #sadness
196 reads
2 Comments
sugaroses
Poem Published
4th Aug 2024 7:57am
4th Aug 2024 7:57am
Cold
She is cold
So cold tonight
With no ghosts
And no blankets
And no memories
And no dreams
She is cold
So cold tonight
Listening to the rustle of the leaves in the wind
She is cold
So cold tonight
She pretends to be a tree
So she doesn't freeze in the wind
She is cold
So cold tonight
Trying to explain to her heart
Why he won't hold her how he lied
To you heart
And that's why your broken
The heart says what is a lie
It is a dream that he forgot when he put you down
Why didn't he fall in love ...
So cold tonight
With no ghosts
And no blankets
And no memories
And no dreams
She is cold
So cold tonight
Listening to the rustle of the leaves in the wind
She is cold
So cold tonight
She pretends to be a tree
So she doesn't freeze in the wind
She is cold
So cold tonight
Trying to explain to her heart
Why he won't hold her how he lied
To you heart
And that's why your broken
The heart says what is a lie
It is a dream that he forgot when he put you down
Why didn't he fall in love ...
#homelessness
139 reads
2 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
28th Jul 2024 11:20pm
28th Jul 2024 11:20pm
A Tuesday in July at 6:28 am (Part 2)
On my second day out on the Atlantic City Boardwalk, I headed down towards the Claridge Hotel and Brighten Park. As seen in the picture. The Claridge was once a Hotel/Casino from 1981 to 2014. Since 2014 the Claridge operates as a hotel.
Brighten Park which is adjacent to the hotel sits right off the Boardwalk. This park is home to the Korean War Veterans Memorial which was decicated in July of 2000. Sadly, as I was admiring the wall and statues, about six or seven people were shooting up on the concrete steps. Horrible to see & witness. These were a mix of older & younger...
Brighten Park which is adjacent to the hotel sits right off the Boardwalk. This park is home to the Korean War Veterans Memorial which was decicated in July of 2000. Sadly, as I was admiring the wall and statues, about six or seven people were shooting up on the concrete steps. Horrible to see & witness. These were a mix of older & younger...
#addiction
#city
#homelessness
#nonfiction
#TruthOfLife
136 reads
5 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
28th Jul 2024 12:31pm
28th Jul 2024 12:31pm
A Downward Spiral
So many need help
A downward spiral happened
Whose to blame for this?
A downward spiral happened
Whose to blame for this?
#addiction
#choices
#haiku
#homelessness
#poverty
124 reads
11 Comments
Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
25th Jun 2024 3:23pm
25th Jun 2024 3:23pm
AGAINST THE WORLD
It's me again the story teller of words ✍️ that will have you thinking about the very words, I write ✍️ and speak with truth and genuine understanding of what is truly, happening in the very world 🌎 of today's society. For the world as it is now isn't the world, that you and I remember as the world of yesterday, as it's has been changed. YET in so many ways 😞 it has change right before our very eyes, 👁️ making us feel like a lost soul just wondering, how did we get here in this day and time ⌚ For we have become an extension of...
#corruption
#deception
#homelessness
#LifeStruggles
#murder
179 reads
0 Comments
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