Poems About: POVERTY

The downfall of human kind it would seem to me
Are greed and corruption, homelessness and poverty
And patriotism and religion and National pride
All of these things lead to war and they are World-wide. read more »

So many hidden stories
Forgotten and ignored
Poverty absorbs life
Hope bleeds gradually read more »

It is true poverty is a relative thing
A poor bloke buys his girlfriend a ten dollar ring
But to a pauper one with ten dollars is not poor at all
What to one seems big to another seems small, read more »

The World's many billion people controlled by the greedy few
But to every billionaire there is there are a million who
Go to sleep weak and hungry their wasted bodies thin
For days they haven't eaten their bones showing through their skin. read more »

Pranab k c
15/07/2011

Father is blind of one eye read more »

Our seeking went beyond
sheding of tears,
out of enough we lost
jugdment, pain of the past read more »

I grasped it, the tide of turbulence
I won it, the battle of belief
I fought it, the fear of fury
I taught it, the tips to taming read more »

The agony of scarcity destroys not only the harmony,
but also the unity and calmness of any unit.
That unit be a loving home of happy families or a nation
Whose joyful moments will be taken away. read more »

The community has no immunity from the systematic demise
Of inner city enterprise

This demise creates economic development for administrations read more »

In his suicide note
My poverty is to blame
No one else, he wrote read more »

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