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.
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
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
30th Jul 2024 6:24pm
30th Jul 2024 6:24pm
The Madman Show: Freeing Underpaid Workers
The guy with a white sheet over his entire body roams the streets. He's a ghost to this world with no way to identify himself.
Today, he looks to the one supermarket that is notorious for not paying its workers enough.
"Hmm," he says aloud. To himself, he thinks about what he can do to wreck havoc upon America on this bright, sunny day.
*cue for a magical block appearing and him hitting it, raking all the money in from the supermarket that is all over the world*
Invitations to his party are sent to all these poor workers. And they come...
Today, he looks to the one supermarket that is notorious for not paying its workers enough.
"Hmm," he says aloud. To himself, he thinks about what he can do to wreck havoc upon America on this bright, sunny day.
*cue for a magical block appearing and him hitting it, raking all the money in from the supermarket that is all over the world*
Invitations to his party are sent to all these poor workers. And they come...
#poverty
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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
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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
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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
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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
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FATBOY300PLUS
Poem Published
26th Jul 2024 2:15am
26th Jul 2024 2:15am
Algorithm Two (PG-13)
This best-selling formula is popular with guys like Rick Ross, 2Chainz, Future, Migos, Trinidad James, and a host of others.
Unlike the rap of Dr. Dre's influence, where memorable music carries the most weight in a song; flash, cash, and overdone excess are the selling points in this newer music.
Here it goes:
Look what I got
Look at what I'm gonna get
Look what you ain't got
Broke Bruther!!
I don't want your girl
But you know that she wants me
Just to prove the point
I'm gon "touch" her!!
Yeah, chump, ...
Unlike the rap of Dr. Dre's influence, where memorable music carries the most weight in a song; flash, cash, and overdone excess are the selling points in this newer music.
Here it goes:
Look what I got
Look at what I'm gonna get
Look what you ain't got
Broke Bruther!!
I don't want your girl
But you know that she wants me
Just to prove the point
I'm gon "touch" her!!
Yeah, chump, ...
#greed
#money
#music
#poverty
#sex
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Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
24th Jul 2024 4:21pm
24th Jul 2024 4:21pm
Not Your Kind
She was just a lonely girl
tossed around in a gloomy world
she never knew right from wrong
How can you blame her (2x)
If she's not your kind
She never had a father
her mother never cared
she was all alone in this world
How can you blame her (2x)
If she's not your kind
Oh no,
no one cared
if she lived or died
Oh no,
no one cared
if she lived or died
People just don't care about the stones that they throw
Her miserable life is filled with tears
Never having a chance...
tossed around in a gloomy world
she never knew right from wrong
How can you blame her (2x)
If she's not your kind
She never had a father
her mother never cared
she was all alone in this world
How can you blame her (2x)
If she's not your kind
Oh no,
no one cared
if she lived or died
Oh no,
no one cared
if she lived or died
People just don't care about the stones that they throw
Her miserable life is filled with tears
Never having a chance...
#love
#lyrics
#poverty
#sadness
#tragedy
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congress
Poem Published
10th Jul 2024 11:30am
10th Jul 2024 11:30am
Anthem for doomed dawn
We are in the spirit of inequality fued
Dreamers didn't have any quality food
See us again maneuvering in solitude
Teach us critiques, keep the similitude
Free us from what you kept us deposited
Getting tired can only serve us pure hatred
Get inspired then you will get no regrets
Getting hired yielded cheapest labour at best
Getting fired only pays best when one has left
Setting fires across the streets for the unrest
Freedom fighters singing songs of freedom ...
Dreamers didn't have any quality food
See us again maneuvering in solitude
Teach us critiques, keep the similitude
Free us from what you kept us deposited
Getting tired can only serve us pure hatred
Get inspired then you will get no regrets
Getting hired yielded cheapest labour at best
Getting fired only pays best when one has left
Setting fires across the streets for the unrest
Freedom fighters singing songs of freedom ...
#freedom
#HumanRights
#inequality
#oppression
#poverty
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PAR
Poem Published
9th Jul 2024 6:17pm
9th Jul 2024 6:17pm
French Haiku
French Elections 2024
the stone in the hand
just another big window
the glass on the floor
the stone in the hand
just another big window
the glass on the floor
#corruption
#evolution
#greed
#politics
#poverty
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Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
24th Jun 2024 6:59pm
24th Jun 2024 6:59pm
Don't take love for granted
What happened to you?
You use to have the biggest smile on your face
You would always seem so positive & optimistic about everything
You were my inspiration, my confidant, my friend, my lover
You made me strive to become what I am today
Do you remember, we had nothing?
We struggled terribly
Barely any money for bills, food or decent clothing
I grew the company from just me to having over 100 employees
We made it!!
I was able to buy whatever we needed or wanted
We have three homes and enough money in the bank for the rest of our lives...
You use to have the biggest smile on your face
You would always seem so positive & optimistic about everything
You were my inspiration, my confidant, my friend, my lover
You made me strive to become what I am today
Do you remember, we had nothing?
We struggled terribly
Barely any money for bills, food or decent clothing
I grew the company from just me to having over 100 employees
We made it!!
I was able to buy whatever we needed or wanted
We have three homes and enough money in the bank for the rest of our lives...
#greed
#heartbroken
#money
#poverty
#relationships
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Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
20th Jun 2024 11:29am
20th Jun 2024 11:29am
The Unfortunate Child
There once was a little girl named Abigail Browning
Her parents were quite wealthy & kind
She had a doll whose name was Ashley
One day her father, a colonel in the army was ordered to go to Southeast Asia
Several months later he was killed in a native attack
Abigail's mother fell into a deep depression that proved fatal
Her only relative was an aunt, who just recently drowned on a beach at Coney Island
Abigail Browning was left in the hands of the family lawyer
He immediately placed her into a boarding school
Sadly, she was punished by the...
Her parents were quite wealthy & kind
She had a doll whose name was Ashley
One day her father, a colonel in the army was ordered to go to Southeast Asia
Several months later he was killed in a native attack
Abigail's mother fell into a deep depression that proved fatal
Her only relative was an aunt, who just recently drowned on a beach at Coney Island
Abigail Browning was left in the hands of the family lawyer
He immediately placed her into a boarding school
Sadly, she was punished by the...
#childhood
#fiction
#money
#poverty
#sadness
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