Bread of Misery

Edwin Olu BestmanFebruary 3, 2020

Bread of Misery written by: Edwin Olu Bestman   While poverty enters the front door of her heart, Happiness crawls away Sadness slaps her on her lowe...

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Harlotry

Kiraita StephenJanuary 6, 2020

Harlotry written by: Kiraita Stephen   The growing seedlings set themselves to this abominable pretense They look fine from far, and far from fine once...

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Coiled

JahArt KushiteDecember 30, 2019

Coiled written by: JahArt Kushite   coiled in arms of poverty situations turning into severity the grip is inescapable the pain unimaginable watchin...

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Cracked Concrete Can Still Grow Weeds

Kerri CaldwellNovember 26, 2019

Cracked Concrete Can Still Grow Weeds written by: Kerri Caldwell @KerriCaldwell19    This is who we are now – we like bent and disturbed, ruined...

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The Homeless Have No Friends

Charlie BottleAugust 30, 2019

The Homeless Have No Friends written by: Charlie Bottle @CharlieBottle   I am nobody, invisible, unseen, of the lowest varna, I am stratified, dise...

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Oh Could I Raise the Darken’d Veil

SpillwordsJuly 21, 2019

Oh Could I Raise the Darken'd Veil written by: Nathaniel Hawthorne   Oh could I raise the darken’d veil, Which hides my future life from me, Could unb...

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Watercourses

Aurora KastaniasJuly 3, 2019

Watercourses written by: Aurora Kastanias   Primeval drops concealed in meteorites cascading on a coagulating planet where temperatures dove, just e...

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For Those Who Don’t Know Chocolate!

Amirah AL- wassifDecember 27, 2018

for those who don't know chocolate! written by: Amirah Al Wassif   for those who don't know chocolate the children of poverty and the sleepers in th...

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Christmas As A Kid

GrendadDecember 14, 2018

Christmas As A Kid written by: Grendad   I hated Christmas as a kid And Santa Clause for what he did. He never brought toy car or boat Just socks or ...

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Let’s Fight Poverty

AidaNovember 29, 2018

Let’s Fight Poverty written by: Aida   Our third world country suffered most from hunger, homelessness and being jobless. Poor, unsanitary dwelling ...

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And In The Meantime…

Steven M BairdNovember 16, 2018

And In The Meantime... written by: Steven M Baird @SMBairdOrd   And now there is this. The absence of. The angry pissings at the Motel Fatigado: us a...

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Somewhere…

SamLDNNovember 7, 2018

Somewhere... written by: SamLDN   "Somewhere", spoke the grey lips in the wall. Somewhere before sunrise, before the first bird crows to dawn and t...

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Side Of Life And Death

Eliza SegietNovember 4, 2018

Side of Life and Death written by: Eliza Segiet translated by: Artur Komoter   People on the right, Jews on the left. Her sister was caught into ...

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Song Of The Daughter Of A Mortuary Worker

Archana Bahadur ZutshiOctober 19, 2018

Song of the Daughter of a Mortuary Worker written by: Archana Bahadur Zutshi   I am married, now that I have a husband to keep me warm, I no longer s...

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