Street Urchin Poem by john mcleish

Street Urchin



o what poverty
bairns se manket
picking through bins
tinkys, in bare feet

Wretched wee things
in rags run aboot
street urchins, orphans
begging fur food

john mcleish
Friday, March 5, 2010
Topic(s) of this poem: food,poverty
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