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Poverty Poems – Bread, Light or Heat
Bread, Light or Heat is one of my poverty poems, a description of some of the hard choices people have to make when cash is in short supply. Bread, Light or Heat – Poverty Poems The fridge stinks of emptiness, the stench fills the room every time his forever hopeful kids open it to…
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Equality Poem – Robin Hood, Where Are You?
Robin Hood, Where Are You? is an equality poem highlighting the global inequality crisis affecting billions of people. The wealth gap continues to grow. Robin Hood, Where Are You? Dear Robin I know you’re dead a few hundred years, some say, you didn’t even exist, are but a fantasy figure made up for pure…
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Resistance Poetry – Daisies and Dandelions
Daisies and Dandelions is my contribution to resistance poetry, a reflection on inequality, solidarity, resilience, and hope. Daisies and Dandelions Says the daisy to the dandelion: “Why do we never get potted? I’d love my petals warmed by glass-magnified sunrays, laze on solid-wood sills, have dainty hands water me with a copper can, be…
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Crime Poetry – Tightrope
Crime statistics show a couple of common denominators right across the globe: poverty and instability in the home. Tightrope is my stab at crime poetry. Tightrope To strangle timehe etchedhorizontal lineson cell walls,tripping overa limp pencil,drawingthe tightropehe wishedhad choked himnot stretched outin frontfrom day one.He asphyxiatedday 7049charting anotherrope,wiping outthe last glimmerof white wallhe’d soon…
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Refugee Poem – Displacement / a Sijo
Displacement is a refugee poem, using the Korean Sijo poem form. In 2018, 68.5 million people were forced to leave their homes. Displacement – Sijo
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Poverty Poem – Landfill Lives
Approximately 15 million people across the globe live off trash. Landfill Lives is a poverty poem, an attempt to highlight this horror. Landfill Lives scavenging for scraps no spellings or subtractions again todaywhen you’re poor but don’t want to sell your body or beglandfill treasure hunting callsto feed mother, father, sisters, brothersshacked up in a…
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Capitalism Poetry – The Big Race
The Big Race is my contribution to capitalism poetry, a reflection on the value and ethics of free market rules. The Big Race Race day brings swarms of 7.7 billion runners, limpers, jumpers, hoppers, one-leggeds, joggers, sprinters, crawlers, wheel-chair-bounds, and dead-weights. Mixed weather at the starting line, with sweltering heat, biting frost, piercing hail,…
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Empathy Poem – Juxtaposed
Juxtaposed is an empathy poem, reflecting on human fragility, vulnerability, and the lottery of where and when you’re born. Juxtaposed into an ocean of terrorising sirens and deafening alarm bells, unproclaimed fireworks, not-warned-about bombs, not just scares. In lieu of architectural bonanza, rubble, dust, and a distinct stench of sewage, a shitty stink of…
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Solidarity Poem – Pooling Resources
Pooling resources is a solidarity poem, a reflection on eight billion individuals inhabiting or co-inhabiting the same planet – together. Pooling Resources con’verse co’habit co’llaborate co’suffer co’produce co’work co’grieve con’join co’mmunicate co’here con’figure co’incide co’inhabit co’invogorate com’bine com’prehend con’valesce co’harvest con’celebrate co’nnect co’share co’care inter’act inter’twine empathize