Poems About Poverty Seeking Honest Critique
#poverty
Poems about poverty seeking honest critique. Honest feedback has been requested for these poems.
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
95 reads
6 Comments
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
85 reads
9 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
93 reads
0 Comments
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
173 reads
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
142 reads
4 Comments
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
123 reads
0 Comments
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
118 reads
10 Comments
ThePalestRider
Poem Published
17th Aug 2024 9:20am
17th Aug 2024 9:20am
Cracked Concrete
Overpass loaded past its weight
Skybridges tumbling to the ground
Rusty rails bearing no freight
Empty warehouse making no sound
Walking through pockmarked roads
Signs covered in peeling paint
Dreary colors by ghostly abodes
Reeking of atrophic taint
Dead bulbs under setting sun
Where is the streetlight?
Muzzle flash of pride and guns
Blood staining the starless night
Another lost to this urban decay
Young eyes see through chain link mesh ...
Skybridges tumbling to the ground
Rusty rails bearing no freight
Empty warehouse making no sound
Walking through pockmarked roads
Signs covered in peeling paint
Dreary colors by ghostly abodes
Reeking of atrophic taint
Dead bulbs under setting sun
Where is the streetlight?
Muzzle flash of pride and guns
Blood staining the starless night
Another lost to this urban decay
Young eyes see through chain link mesh ...
#city
#corruption
#dark
#poverty
#rhyming
92 reads
0 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
12th Aug 2024 11:41am
12th Aug 2024 11:41am
Deprieved Fiend
Ghetto calling
So hungry
So thirsty
So tired
On fire
Calling your name
Rancid stench
Glass shard womb
The atmosphere suffocates
The voices
The fear
Monkey climbing up your leg
If the shoe fits, curl up and die in it
So hungry
So thirsty
So tired
On fire
Calling your name
Rancid stench
Glass shard womb
The atmosphere suffocates
The voices
The fear
Monkey climbing up your leg
If the shoe fits, curl up and die in it
#addiction
#poverty
#support
203 reads
8 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
29th Jul 2024 7:38pm
29th Jul 2024 7:38pm
Living the 'merican Dream
Checkout at the market
There she is
21 years old
Dropped out of high school at 16
Baby in one arm
Five year old at her feet
Two different fathers
They both left as soon as they knew she was pregnant
She lives with her mom & grandfather
The purchase:
A six pack of Blue Ribbon
A six pack of Schlitz
Two bags of No Frills Potato Chips
A bag of Cool Ranch Doritos
A box of Ring Dings
A can of Cheeze Whiz
A box of Hot Pockets
One can of baby formula
A box of Tampax Pearl ...
There she is
21 years old
Dropped out of high school at 16
Baby in one arm
Five year old at her feet
Two different fathers
They both left as soon as they knew she was pregnant
She lives with her mom & grandfather
The purchase:
A six pack of Blue Ribbon
A six pack of Schlitz
Two bags of No Frills Potato Chips
A bag of Cool Ranch Doritos
A box of Ring Dings
A can of Cheeze Whiz
A box of Hot Pockets
One can of baby formula
A box of Tampax Pearl ...
#abuse
#children
#ignorance
#mother
#poverty
113 reads
6 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
28th Jul 2024 9:07pm
28th Jul 2024 9:07pm
A Monday in July at 6:45 am (Part 1)
A steamy summer morning. Haze covering most of the city. I decided to head south on the most famous street in the world at one time, the Atlantic City Boardwalk.
I walked across the Boardwalk towards a walkway that led down to the beach near the LandShark Bar & Grill. An older couple with two young children were enjoying the ocean before anyone else. They had free reign. Just them and the seagulls. The waves were already looking quite menacing. That's a great thing. Later on today I'll be here, swimming, riding waves and thrashing all about.
I headed back onto...
I walked across the Boardwalk towards a walkway that led down to the beach near the LandShark Bar & Grill. An older couple with two young children were enjoying the ocean before anyone else. They had free reign. Just them and the seagulls. The waves were already looking quite menacing. That's a great thing. Later on today I'll be here, swimming, riding waves and thrashing all about.
I headed back onto...
#beach
#city
#historical
#nonfiction
#poverty
129 reads
11 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
28th Jul 2024 12:42pm
28th Jul 2024 12:42pm
Wrong side of the street
Paradise is here
Two blocks down you won't go near
Most avoid with fear
Two blocks down you won't go near
Most avoid with fear
#haiku
#money
#poverty #rhyming
#poverty #rhyming
163 reads
12 Comments
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