Poems about Poverty
#poverty
Poems about poverty, here you'll find poetry about poverty, debt and hardship. Poems about struggling to survive due to lack of money. Poems about personal hardship and poetry about inequality in society, and life in slums and ghettos.
oldmanG
Poem Published
11th Nov 2024 7:28am
11th Nov 2024 7:28am
Chasing Green
Chasing Green
Done chasing green hoping it frees me
Focusing on living in the second
As you learn that time is more precious than
A bank account given to a grave
Traveling on a time chart setting goals that will be to suffering like a drop in the bucket
Money sits in misery surrounded by sycophantic bitches
Far away but in this world we live in
On a paddy field the climate water is rising
Young girl goes back to show her family she did her part
Daddy knows it’s not enough but he...
Done chasing green hoping it frees me
Focusing on living in the second
As you learn that time is more precious than
A bank account given to a grave
Traveling on a time chart setting goals that will be to suffering like a drop in the bucket
Money sits in misery surrounded by sycophantic bitches
Far away but in this world we live in
On a paddy field the climate water is rising
Young girl goes back to show her family she did her part
Daddy knows it’s not enough but he...
#family
#love
#poverty
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a_methyste
hlightdroid
hlightdroid
Poem Published
5th Nov 2024 9:04pm
5th Nov 2024 9:04pm
I hear you
I hear you girl
I am your fall from the fifth floor
There is nothing to wait me on the ground
Because I do not wear a golden bracelet
On my forearm
I remember how we chuckled as children
On the terrace of our house
With nothing to separate us
I have only two questions in my head
Who invented the golden bracelet?
Why did you go that far?
I am your fall from the fifth floor
There is nothing to wait me on the ground
Because I do not wear a golden bracelet
On my forearm
I remember how we chuckled as children
On the terrace of our house
With nothing to separate us
I have only two questions in my head
Who invented the golden bracelet?
Why did you go that far?
#poverty
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Kinkwizard_95
Poem Published
18th Oct 2024 5:37pm
18th Oct 2024 5:37pm
Pot t’ piss in
Ain’t got a pot
T’ piss in
No I ain’t
Nor a bed
Or credit card
To lend
My friend
T’ piss in
No I ain’t
Nor a bed
Or credit card
To lend
My friend
#LifeStruggles
#poverty
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dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
17th Oct 2024 1:32am
17th Oct 2024 1:32am
history shows us
put up as many glass offices
as you like
the city will always be old
bloke who shuffles in the dark
looks positively
victorian but hey you build as many glass
offices as you want ..
as you like
the city will always be old
bloke who shuffles in the dark
looks positively
victorian but hey you build as many glass
offices as you want ..
#poverty
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Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
11th Oct 2024 10:49am
11th Oct 2024 10:49am
Fritz Lang's Dystopia
They built this shiny cell
For you to live in
Adorned with their icons
Painted with their lies
They don`t trick me
For I am not like you
You`re a robot
Living in Metropolis
They paved this golden path
For you to follow
Your grave is waiting on
Step by step you fall
They don`t trick me
For I am not like you
You`re a robot
Living in Metropolis
"We are the mechanism
Wheels in the gears of society
We are indifferent
Servants of the gods of anxiety"
Wake up they`re selling you...
For you to live in
Adorned with their icons
Painted with their lies
They don`t trick me
For I am not like you
You`re a robot
Living in Metropolis
They paved this golden path
For you to follow
Your grave is waiting on
Step by step you fall
They don`t trick me
For I am not like you
You`re a robot
Living in Metropolis
"We are the mechanism
Wheels in the gears of society
We are indifferent
Servants of the gods of anxiety"
Wake up they`re selling you...
#corruption
#dystopian
#money
#poverty
#scifi
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Everavalon
Poem Published
1st Oct 2024 12:54pm
1st Oct 2024 12:54pm
Elitist
Fixed with obedience
To feed is to bleed
in the folds of the paper
Are the words of their creed
The greed of the elitist
the needs of the frail
Beneath all of our bridges
is just salt in a pail
they’ll dredge you of honour
They’ll mar you of shine
They’ll keep you compliant
As they feather the line
When you lose all that matters
When you’re nipped of your vow
When you’re stripped of your patience
And you’re gripped in the now
The rule of the system
Overarching and grey
The grit of the...
To feed is to bleed
in the folds of the paper
Are the words of their creed
The greed of the elitist
the needs of the frail
Beneath all of our bridges
is just salt in a pail
they’ll dredge you of honour
They’ll mar you of shine
They’ll keep you compliant
As they feather the line
When you lose all that matters
When you’re nipped of your vow
When you’re stripped of your patience
And you’re gripped in the now
The rule of the system
Overarching and grey
The grit of the...
#corruption
#dark
#greed #poverty
#greed #poverty
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Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
15th Sep 2024 12:10pm
15th Sep 2024 12:10pm
My family
My one regret is the bloodline I derived from
I’m not a pedigree or a monkey’s uncle
My father is a penniless swami
My mother is a peace creep
We live up the river,
near a civil war battle ground
When there is a downwind,
the water has a polluted, toxic smell
There are no fish in these waters
A few years ago, I needed a pair of glasses
Never received them,
No insurance, no money!
My mother bitch slapped me a few times,
thinking that would help straighten my eyes out
Now I have short eyes!
Fuck, she’s dumb.
My...
I’m not a pedigree or a monkey’s uncle
My father is a penniless swami
My mother is a peace creep
We live up the river,
near a civil war battle ground
When there is a downwind,
the water has a polluted, toxic smell
There are no fish in these waters
A few years ago, I needed a pair of glasses
Never received them,
No insurance, no money!
My mother bitch slapped me a few times,
thinking that would help straighten my eyes out
Now I have short eyes!
Fuck, she’s dumb.
My...
#family
#fiction
#poverty #satirical
#poverty #satirical
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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
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Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
4th Sep 2024 11:29am
4th Sep 2024 11:29am
A boy and a gun
She came home from her job
Not a great job, but a job
Her husband has been unemployed for 3 years
Says he's looking for the right job to make a name for himself
They don't have enough money to feed themselves and their 8 year old son
They live in a one room apartment that has a horrible smell coming from the ceiling and the side wall near the closet
They all share the same bed
Mom sleeps in the middle since the boys father has been known to touch him inappropriately
There were numerous verbal & physical fights in the apartment
It was usually...
Not a great job, but a job
Her husband has been unemployed for 3 years
Says he's looking for the right job to make a name for himself
They don't have enough money to feed themselves and their 8 year old son
They live in a one room apartment that has a horrible smell coming from the ceiling and the side wall near the closet
They all share the same bed
Mom sleeps in the middle since the boys father has been known to touch him inappropriately
There were numerous verbal & physical fights in the apartment
It was usually...
#abuse
#DomesticViolence
#family
#poverty
#violence
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14 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
1st Sep 2024 8:27pm
1st Sep 2024 8:27pm
f**ked up & ready to die
Fifteen dollars to her name
Can’t survive, it’s all the same
In need of food for her kids
Drugs & booze the way she lives
No ambition to get a job
Unless it’s slobbing on someone’s knob
How much lower can you go
You’ll be remembered as a filthy ho
You must fight to live
You must fight to live
You must fight to live
Inside your fucked up selfish mind
Sleazy strip malls is where you hang
Beware the rats with long sharp fangs
Behind the store to get your fix
Fever ignored, getting real sick
...
Can’t survive, it’s all the same
In need of food for her kids
Drugs & booze the way she lives
No ambition to get a job
Unless it’s slobbing on someone’s knob
How much lower can you go
You’ll be remembered as a filthy ho
You must fight to live
You must fight to live
You must fight to live
Inside your fucked up selfish mind
Sleazy strip malls is where you hang
Beware the rats with long sharp fangs
Behind the store to get your fix
Fever ignored, getting real sick
...
#addiction
#children
#drugs
#poverty
#rhyming
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Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
22nd Aug 2024 11:10pm
22nd Aug 2024 11:10pm
WE THE PEOPLE ARE FED UP
ARMY OF STRONG OF MEN'S FOR WE ARE in economy MODE in the dark deepness of the hard times to come, with high prices and inflation, but yet I can't really understand, for the life of me. WHY some people's are still on the plantation. 😞 STILL believing that they are looking out for you as the Democrat party.😏 But yet I know some of those would disagree, 😕 with me yet you are entitled to your own opinions. For sure there is a question that can answer your questions, it's call the archives of research on everyone, that has ever been in politics even way back, when many...
#deception
#HumanRights
#LifeStruggles
#poverty
#war
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Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
22nd Aug 2024 11:58am
22nd Aug 2024 11:58am
She was the woman with no name
She was the woman with no name
She came in when they were leaving their offices to go home for the day
Some of the staff tried to be polite and say hello in passing
She never said a word back
She would look at the floor and nod slightly
She was there to clean, that's all
She knew the truth
The truth was that none of these people would give her the time of day if she was outside the building
None of these people would ever be caught dead in her neighborhood
They all made more money in one day then she did in a week
She liked it best when they...
She came in when they were leaving their offices to go home for the day
Some of the staff tried to be polite and say hello in passing
She never said a word back
She would look at the floor and nod slightly
She was there to clean, that's all
She knew the truth
The truth was that none of these people would give her the time of day if she was outside the building
None of these people would ever be caught dead in her neighborhood
They all made more money in one day then she did in a week
She liked it best when they...
#disappointment
#dreams
#job
#poverty
#sadness
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