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I was like you
And not like you
The Moon was ever present for you
Not for me
The Noises of the night sit and stare back at...
The streets become my home, from avenue to avenue I'd rome
I’m the man living on second avenue you see on your way to work
I...
Thinking education in America akin to Patagonian Pumping SpidersBack flipping through flaming hoops,I imagined our precious...
A piece of bread is all I ask
A drink of water is my desire
People see me yet do not stop
To ask if I want a piece of bread...
Just Stay Here
“Just stay here,” she said.
“I’ll be back soon,” she said.
But she did not come back,
she left me by the...
Privilege not a Right
Higher education is a privilege not a right.
I know what it is to be hungry at night.
I know what it...
My cologne has a striking resemblance to the city’s dirty laundry.
Only difference I cannot contain my secrets to a hamper...
Sometimes we are lost and scarred
We are hiding from the way we are
And when our lives start to hurt the most
We ask for...
Hungry children sit
Crying out for all to hear,
Listen closely dear.
A sad simple lullaby,
Humble little children cry.
When I was just a little girl.
I used to hide all my pain from the world.
Everybody used to always help me,but i would...
I treasure every moment,
Every second with you,
I smile, then I laugh,
When im around you,
My heart beats faster and faster...
Walk up in the school one day with my shoes on fleek
ain't got to be ashame,cause i'm balling i n this...
Fear, cry with me
Hold me
Twisting my soul
And tasting my tears.
Hiding underneath
Its breathe
Homeless children
Appearing...
My snakeskin eyes are full of haze
The dams that held strong, the tears give way
My heart is heavy, but with nothing inside...
His feet were hard and calloused
Probably because he had no shoes
Torn and stained courdaroy pants
Worn for the past 2 weeks...
Here and there, the unheard resides
A face so unsual
A face no one can describe
A face, ignored
Abandoned in the cold forest...
We're out having an awesome time then something goes wrong. So we the teens out here feeling strong and find out that the...
Your worst days are upon you
There are time you don't know what to do
Life feels as if its quite short instead
No bed, no...
for anyone who has ever said
people are poor because they’re lazy
On any given day in Southern California,
coming off any...
(poems go here) My life is God’s Poema
His workmanship, personified
However, the voice that is instructed to know the words...
Dreams are for sleeping, and sleeping is nice.
We wake up to start our life.
Theres no hope for dreams when we open our eyes...
They say they can help themselves,
Can they?
I was six years old, living on the streets in a shopping cart.
Could I help...
What is it like to wander?
To live in the cold of night,
To wake and not know what today will bring you,
To know as people...
the first time i saw her
i couldn't help but stare
i could tell she had layers of clothes
she wore her socks over her pants...
This wasn't suppossed to happen,
this is not how I thought it would be.
I'd pictured a life careless and free,
a happy...
Their here, their there, their everywhere
You may not see them, but their everywhere
They need your help, though many turn...
I know one day as I ponder on where I’ve been, where I am now , where my future shall end
That I shall triumph in the mist...
Dear Sir, as I walk to school everyday I see you outside laying against your cardboard house. I see your shoes are worn and...
Music is emotion, it soothes my soul. It feeds my dreams to reach my goal.
If you're hungry and have no food, it does more...
She sat by herself, so misunderstood
Nobody knew why she felt the way she did, her life seemed so perfect
So misunderstood...
Nobody never knew that I was once one of you.
I had a dream of a happy home.
Nobody never new the pain of how it ended....
They lay with no bed,
They lay with no sheet,
They stay on the floor,
They stay with out heat,
They sleep with no dream,...
You might have a place to go home to everyday
As well as a place to sleep at night
But who’s to say homeless people
Are any...
Hollow. Inside the mind inside the soul, lies a lonely heart,so weary and cold. She mourns, she roars, shes nothing but that...
imagine a child not being with his mother
or a sister not telling the boy she loves him and seeing him in a pool of blood...
It must be nice to have so much cash
Have nice houses and a car to flash
Spend and spend, its forever endless
Stay popular...
Messiah: Just look to the sky's open your eyes to a world possibility its a brand new day go out and play have fun so just...
Living day by day, street by street
Cherishing the little things we get to eat
Fighting for life, even when it's not the...
What is the meaning to inspire
Is it for ones to hire
Or just to get one's attention
So one can feel like their in detention...
I can hear what you say but
My mind is so distracted
Thinking about living in a room full of strangers
Thinking about if I...
They're everywhere
On every street corners asking for help
Begging and pledding asking for nothing But food
Many pass them...
The bright rider urges on his steeds
Fleeing from the dark night's misdeeds.
I lift up a wearied eye
To spy on darkness nigh...
Ch
chan
change
Look at all the homeless on the streets
Rattling their cups
---Can you spare some change?
From young to...
Life is truly a gift
Many people take it for granted.
Life is not easy for the homeless
It is no time for recess.
Donate...
No one here
No one there
No one anywhere
Shame has shown
Make it known
It starts at home
Fear came in
Life begins
We start...
can you see them
the ones that stand outside of a supermarket begging for money
can you see them
the ones lying in a park...
I walk by a man on the side of the road
hungry, alone, broken and cold.
Yet, somehow in my twisted self righteousness I...
why can't i standam i not a manwith will to do as i pleasenot placed to minutely apeasewith my sleeves rolled uphumbly i try...
Change is big
Change is wearing a bright wig
and its telling us to be nicer to each other
but people disregard because...
Everyone hopes, both you and me
what we don't understand is what we cannot see
Every day there are more and more people...
As like a bottle tossed to and fro,
Is ignored from others so,
A life in need of love
Is not forgotten from above
He lives...
You pass them on the street
Trying to beat the heat
But they're out there all day
all they want is some spare change
You...
Millions pass by yet I am alone,
Watching, waiting for a single one to think;
"I'll give you a home."
But they are too busy...
There’s a woman I knew,
Who sat on the corner of the street.
Though I was the middle of December
She had nothing on her feet...
You are not alone, the world is too big, and there's too much to give for anyone to have to be hungry, dirty, made to feel...
I'm a homeless but I'm not homeless
I roam the morning
I wander the night
I sat in the corner
But I'm not a mourner
I...
Looking around the world was like looking at a wound . So terrifing alot of pain , so awful that i could not look at it the...
I saw a man sitting on a ledge. His head was low and over the edge. He held a sign with seven bold words. Not the kind...
Lonely face while he walks the streetWater from my eyes like sea salt-laden galesThe last they heard from him was a tweetAll...
I am a person.
I am not different from you.
Yet,
You look at me like I’m garbage.
I’m not.
Why does this have to happen to...
Blisters on his feet,
what will he eat?
He has nothing but his warm heartbeat.
Dirt on his sole,
A shirt with a hole,
and a...
cold beneath my body
I'm glued to the ground
my body too heavy to stand
walk
and yet you expect me to
fly
invisible bruises...
come and look
into this child
eyes can you
tell the life she
live is a lie
living each day
like its alright
never let her...
This is the start of something new,
A poem for me and you,
This poem will be meaningful,
It's going to be beautiful,
It'll...
Without a house, you are called a bum
You're a "hobo," the homeless, and looked down upon.
Regardless of your story, not...
Living under a rock, where so many people claim I reside, is quite comfortable.
I don’t need to worry or waste my time on...
Two copper pennies
Clink in a jar.
It's not enough for food.
Not enough to go far.
Your empty stomach
Curves like those...
This poem isn't made up to help others. It's from personal experience to help you all understand. Also, a quick note, it was...
(poems go here) nuthin lke collard greens
green beans
tomatoes
bake potatoes
its a treat to eat
and so cool
to have some...
I am like them, just without hunger
I wonder what this world would be as one
I hear the voices of those younger beggars
I...
Young when I first met you
I didn’t understand your depth and pain
You were nothing but melancholy and blue
I unfortunately...
Money is given not earned,
Dumpsters serve as restaurants,
Fountains as bathtubs,
Shoes are their tires,
Makeshift shelters...
Explosions of galaxies
fill the night air.
Prayers of a hundred hands kneel before the sky.
And I'm weary, Lord.
I need...
I wasted most of my adult life with a drug abuse, I was just a teen when I was first introduced, I always stayed afloat or...
Don't leave me alone like everything else has,
Your departure is approaching
While i drown in tears.
11:11, I'll wish...
Always near the highways, sometimes right in the heart of city.
You use your hats, hands, bags, a bowl, even socks to...
"Don't have a big head, the world doesn't revolve around you."
There's no I in team, that's all that I knew.
There are ...
Home is where my heart lives
Home is where my heart breaks
Home is all that heals my aches
If it were not for my home than
I...
As the rich get richer
the poor are gettin poorer
we are all one spieces
like a horse is a horse
they get it they look out...
No where to go,
No food to eat.
What happened to living?
Making a better life for myself?
This country that they've fought...
the earth cries,
each soul of are's
get hurt for what others
setup,
tears for faith
take us to heaven
and make mistakes to...
What to change... so much to fix in the world,I could use some patching up, I admit.But just fixing myself... makes my toes...
She held back her tears and forced the hurt awayNot even faith and strength could keep those hopes and dreams to...
I woke up one morning to a very dark day
I couldn't go home my parents they went away
the streets aren't so friendly
theres...
The world we live in
Is it real? are we real?
Do we exits? are all this part of
Our imagination. Is it because
We been here...
Thousands of people are living on the streets and we walk by them everyday, not paying any attention to them. We want...
Darkness, hopelessness and Despair,
Freezing at night yet no one cares,
The feeling that you have no rights,
And the fact...
Can't you tell when the madness sets in,
a feeling so ill, I almost lost my will,
I wish that time would just stand still
I'...
Have you ever stood there with the light shinning with a hint of dark?
The light shining the rain falls from the sky
You...
She huddled in the bus shelter chilled to the bone so far away home and completely alone the people in their houses so warm...
We're out having an awesome time then something goes wrong so we the teens out here feeling strong and find out that the...
On the street,
there's a different beat.
Hunger and cold.
There's family, community,
predators and foes.
There's those who'...
Silently
Quietly
Still
Motionless
I need Shelter But I continuously stare at all this openess
I can't find food, nor can I...
(poems go here) things you say
makes my day
hope we can play
you have class too
NICE TO KNOW YOU
Master, Master feed me faster;
Liars blood the garbage bastard
Fetus of a forest howl
Taste of Garbage fear and foul
Cry of...
I watch them enter, I watch them leave
I stand there hoping with an open hand
In return they end up avoiding me
I remain...
Around my neighborhood
Around my street
From the city in which i live in
to the shoes on my feet
Poverty is at an all-time...
Everyone hopes, both you and me
what we don't understand is what we cannot see
Every day there are more and more people...
Your ideas made me, desgined me.
The paper was my womb and the ink nourished me.
When i was ready, you P U S H H H H ED me....
I want to change the world. But I am just one person, what good can that do? What can I bring to the people who are hungry,...
We live in a world where young children go hungry everyday.
We're all jolly and happy throwing away food instead of...
Where I'm From I had no house, car or mom,
Where I'm From I had to ration my food,
Where I'm From holding a sign that...
Around goes the World
It goes upon wheels
Death is a thing
that every man feels
If life were a thing that money could buy...
1. I have always wondered how long it takes
2. for a pixie to slowly construct a pixie stick
3. A pixie that slowly breaks...
our country is falling apart
do you remember when it start?
you see all the big houses and all the money
every thing that is...
Sometimes I get angry
Frustrated looking out
So I decide to look in just to find my soul again
I know it ain't easy
but if...
The sun rose and the town continued on with its normal behavior
Children sang and danced
Men went to work
Women mended the...
Up and down the sidewalks,
under roofs blanketed in white,
the people walk past windows
staring at what’s inside.
Through...
When I hear music, I head record players and old cassettes.
I hear Meet The Beatles! humming softly in the background.
When...
Dear God,
Thank you for the day.
This one was good.
I found some half eaten sandwiches.
Some kids left them at the park....
I don't even know you. Your life story? I haven't a clue. where are you now? Where should you be? shouldn't you be right...
They weren't born this way.
They had a life just like you
You can end up right were they are
Homeless, looking for a job,...
Life as it is, is broken
hopeless and wrecked
but no one has spoken,
loud enough for the world to hear
or is it ignoring, or...
What Would You Change Scholarship Slam
How could the world be so cold?
Yet we act so naive,
People are out in the streets...
We pass them on the streets
The dirty and hopeless
Too busy to take notice of
The misery in their eyes
Issues outside of our...
There are many dogs
So many breeds of them
Some are dying in shelters
It doesn't matter their breed
Every dog deserves love...
I walk through the night,
Searching in the cold.
Trying to be their light,
Offering to hold.
I can see their silhouette,...
most of us have experinced proverty. or you may be at that point in life where you feel that you are "poor". but the...
There is no greater felon, than that of the innocent bystander:
He who sees...
Does no wrong.
Does no good.
The person who...
I love you, I love you too,
do this, Well This is what ill do,
I hate you, i Hate you more
then i banish you, away from me...
How can anyone Love?
Is it a Right, Everlasting?
The tender sows Love in faith that he will reap
And the tree bears fruit...
Comfort. Family. Friends. Joy.
Sound familiar?
A bed. Warm socks. Food. Money.
Sound familiar?
...Wait. Stop.
What makes a...
I am sitting in class
Looking forward at the teacher
From the corner of my eye
He is sitting there
Staring on at us, not...
They say destiny is written
when you’re born in Humble st.
That there’s nothing you could do
or worst than it.
They’re...
Young, foolish, no matter the cause or pause
I found myself competing for space as I wrap myself in blankets of lice, and...
Take the fire deep within,shower the glory of all who depend
take notice of those who may not notice themselves
be the flame...
Homeless and single as a bill
Their treated like roadkill
When inside they are very ill
They cry for help and food
But still...
Why is my mommy dead?
I nudge her but she won't wake up,
Is it beacuse she gives us all the food?
People walk by but no one...
The mental state of a young black kid is contended
The fast life he has seen on the screen is addictive
Having money and...
She sits there waiting
Body shivering against the cold bite of wind that is relentless on her skin
Her eyes are downcast...
Living on the Coast of Space when all its glory ended
A new ghost town never to be mended
Lives in more pieces than when...
A gnarled hand grabs my sleeve.
Lightly, hesitantly, but desperately.
I'm pulled to look;
Forced to see what I've been...
The way he smiled,
It got to me.
Leftover mangu,
Extra salami,
Say cheese.
Straight to my heart,
Chills through my spine....
The streets become my home, from avenue to avenue I'd rome
I’m the man living on second avenue you see on your way to work...
I felt like giving up
Each and everyday
A shower of sadness floods my soul, in the dryness of my pain
Each and everyday
I...
(poems go here) things you say
makes my day
hope we can play
you have class too
NICE TO KNOW YOU
If I were a bird how high I’d fly,
Along the horizon of the infinite blue sky,
If I’d be a cat,
Would spend the late...
Ever wonder why everybody cannot be as fortunate?
Burns a whole through my brain, its scorching its
Stories behind faces...
The homeless are viewed as uneducated,
people who lack any motivation.
The term used to describe the homeless inlclude lazy...
clear a path of derivation
set your eyes on starvation
unclear of the message thoughtfulness
people are close and...
Just the thought of going back home feels like a blessing.
It’s November 15th and not many Dominican-Americans are in the...
Why did we have to treat them like that like some type of animal pushing them away and not giving the a dime or a penny...
If Addiction Could Speak.By: Kiya B. Welcome, it’s a pleasure to meet youI’ve actually been waiting for you to get ahold of...
Everywhere I go the whispering is my shadow,
He is my unofficial friend Mr. Camo,
We have known each other for awhile,
but...
(poems go here) nuthin lke collard greens
green beans
tomatoes
bake potatoes
its a treat to eat
and so cool
to have some...
On my commute to school,
A man stands there between traffic.
i am so curious, what should I do?
Why does this image have to...
I can only take so many tests
And do so much homework
I can only read so many books
And care about so many grades
People...
Fortune tellers have never appealed to me
Last resort to find your bicycle
It's more that materialistic drama
I can not seem...
Poverty
Stricken with the bitterness of man's heart
Blackened by the seed growing with fear
What may end may only be the...
When you are young,
Only one or two,
Everything makes sense to you.
Circles with circles,
Draw inside the lines,
A scrapped...
Should I be counted in the world as important?
Hiding from the scoffers, liars, cheaters, and hypocrites around me; I am...
Close your eyes and imagine you have nothing.Nothing to call yours,nothing to hold onto,nothing to remind your self of who...
He sits under the stars late at night
Up against a brick wall
Breathing slowly
Waiting for the feeling of the liquor from...
I’m part of a group – The Midnight Bike Riders Trying to Fly.
We ride every night and whirl the wheels that move us
Until...
You were home to many people, but Hurricane Sandy took that away. I hope the Red Cross can work with volunteers to rebuild...
The land of dreams
but I'm home to schemers
lost dreamers through cold
realities of life hoping just to see the day
no...
I want education
to create my own foundation
because how much i learn
will determine how much i earn
street;a place full of lessons .
one should test for him/herself no need to mention..
but let me tell about it without any...
(Fast sad lane of reality, other stories don't match with family, left lost on the streets with insanity, none realized the...
For it is not I that speaks of love,
It is not I that vocalizes the words in a praise or hums to a song.
The creation of...
I never thought this would be me
Lost, confused and finding it hard to breathe.
Drowning in the thoughts that I never before...
I am no Englishman
But I conduct constitutional statements beyond imagination and time
I am no senator
But within my own...
It rained last night, and i saw him there. Not a care i saw him there. Not a care I saw him wet, I saw him cold, wrapped...
in poems i wrote
my expressions i say
i'm going through finacial crisis
that's a struggle in itself
during this stretch...
Suffrage, Hunger, Sadness
These people are mad
Taking these children from their mom and dad
Children crying, People lying...
Some say we have to live today like if it was our last
To live for today, forget our past
Some wish that day comes soon
They...
Soft quip murmured unto silence bound with air. Tearing a jagged line like fog through its belly. A sun shines ignoring its...
You don't have to live this way,
It doesn't look really fun,
You don't have to live this way,
So get your butt up off the...
I'm waking up to this world with no fear ready or not cause your heroes here to fight off the sickness that is near like a...
His wrinkled hands shake
as he takes the tray from my hands.
His eyes tell the story,
of a life of suffering
I will never be...
When I say "homeless," what do you see?
Someone dressed in dirty clothes, out on the street?
Someone with a cup, asking for...
One day I was homeless...
I was a stranger, someone showed me kindness, love and hope. Someone believed in me and was...
Merry Christmas, they said
It was thrust at me in a weird way
There wasn’t even tissue paper in the bag
Like a last-minute...
Be strong little warrior
my mother said to me.
Things will turn up, they will get better,
Trust me, you will see.
We may...
His name is "Mr. Brinker"
He staggers up & down the street
He is known less than human
To most people he meets.
He...
Driving past on a highway,
I look at the sun, what a beautiful day
Then something catches my eye,
And that something, makes...