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Poetry: Poverty

• 1 of 76

  by Lauri McGill-Galentine

  WHEN HE WAS YOUNG

  There were no streets to sleep in
  when he was young.
  Just wide-open spaces and green,
  green grass.
  The

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• 2 of 76

  by Te Ora

  Poverty my Crime

  Tiny glittering sequins
  Delicately woven beads
  Tiny little fingers
  Sewing 'til it bleeds

  Fine woven silks
  For

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• 3 of 76

  by Matthew Frieling

  Shattered Dreams...

  
  
  

  She sat sadly
  on the cracked sidewalk.
  Her vulnerabilities exposed
  like open wounds.

  She thought about
  her

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• 4 of 76

  by Laura Leigh Fields

  ~Broken and poor~

  I have no money,
  I have no food.
  I have nobody,
  My health is never good.

  I have no home,
  I sleep where I lay.
  I

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• 5 of 76

  by Amberlie Robinson

  I stand and turn off the television
  Turn my back on the cries of pain
  On the mothers cradling dying children
  And make

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Poetry: Poverty