Short Poems About Poverty
#poverty
Short poems about poverty. 30 words or less, most recently published poems first.
prometheus5290
Poem Published
7th Oct 2020 1:11am
7th Oct 2020 1:11am
My CV in Economics is Experienced!
How can there continue to be inflation
in housing markets
when unemployment is rising
and not even accurate
of actual inability to afford living expenses?
in housing markets
when unemployment is rising
and not even accurate
of actual inability to afford living expenses?
#inequality
#poverty
382 reads
1 Comment
NewBeginnings
Poem Published
24th Mar 2020 9:53am
24th Mar 2020 9:53am
Privilege
a picky eater
is a privileged eater
to a hungry child
is a privileged eater
to a hungry child
#senryu
#suffering
#inequality
#philosophical
#poverty
740 reads
13 Comments
nikkimoe
Poem Published
5th Mar 2020 3:44pm
5th Mar 2020 3:44pm
Mine Just Melts
A limitless life
wondering what that's like
you could do anything you dreamed.
Cha-Ching.
Must be lovely.
wondering what that's like
you could do anything you dreamed.
Cha-Ching.
Must be lovely.
#money
#poverty
525 reads
6 Comments
kxdija
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kxdija .H
Poem Published
14th Jan 2020 4:36am
14th Jan 2020 4:36am
how the cycle goes
The poison passes
from hand to hand
till it lands
in the hand
of a struggling soul
who either sells
or
uses for their own
and births another addict
another habit
Brooklyn's own
broken soul
that's how the cycle goes
from hand to hand
till it lands
in the hand
of a struggling soul
who either sells
or
uses for their own
and births another addict
another habit
Brooklyn's own
broken soul
that's how the cycle goes
#corruption
#pollution
#ignorance
#poverty
#bittersweet
539 reads
1 Comment
SatInUGal
Kumar
Kumar
Poem Published
14th Jul 2019 5:02pm
14th Jul 2019 5:02pm
7/14/19 zen
Know you are
both poor and rich,
up on the hill,
down in the ditch.
both poor and rich,
up on the hill,
down in the ditch.
#money
#meditation
#poverty
488 reads
2 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
13th Jul 2019 00:45am
13th Jul 2019 00:45am
it doesn't help ..
I give money to the
homeless man on the street
out of guilt, not out of love,
and thus I still feel bad ..
homeless man on the street
out of guilt, not out of love,
and thus I still feel bad ..
#poverty
423 reads
6 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
12th Jun 2019 11:27pm
12th Jun 2019 11:27pm
I could have walked ..
bloke on the street asked
if I had any spare cash?
I said no, and felt bad; there's
my taxi home stash ..
if I had any spare cash?
I said no, and felt bad; there's
my taxi home stash ..
#poverty
492 reads
3 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
8th Mar 2019 11:28pm
8th Mar 2019 11:28pm
I don't understand economics ..
the second hand bookshop has gone,
only to be replaced by a charity shop
selling second hand books, I mean what's
going on ..
only to be replaced by a charity shop
selling second hand books, I mean what's
going on ..
#poverty
498 reads
10 Comments
Nari
Laura Jean
Laura Jean
Poem Published
8th Jan 2019 4:33pm
8th Jan 2019 4:33pm
Appalachia
There were
Abandoned
Blue Ridge
Mountains;
Shacks:
Horses
Chained to
Lilacs
Dripping out a
Bit of
Poison with their
Dulcimer
Playing
Capers;
Plotting the
Sunset.
Abandoned
Blue Ridge
Mountains;
Shacks:
Horses
Chained to
Lilacs
Dripping out a
Bit of
Poison with their
Dulcimer
Playing
Capers;
Plotting the
Sunset.
#beauty
#horses
#nature
#redemption
#poverty
563 reads
4 Comments
LobodeSanPedro
Poem Published
17th Dec 2018 00:57am
17th Dec 2018 00:57am
D.O.A
inverted tombstones
mirroring concrete gallows
Sam’s slave ships franchised
mirroring concrete gallows
Sam’s slave ships franchised
#oppression
#HumanRights
#greed
#inequality
#poverty
1511 reads
8 Comments
again
Poem Published
23rd Jun 2017 4:52pm
23rd Jun 2017 4:52pm
my lolly did surprize
#oppression
#CallToAction
#HumanRights
#inequality
#poverty
820 reads
0 Comments
again
Poem Published
11th May 2017 8:14am
11th May 2017 8:14am
150 Horse Powered f**k by again
#oppression
#CallToAction
#HumanRights
#inequality
#poverty
1145 reads
0 Comments
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