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The Genius Of The Crowdthere is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average / human being to supply any given army on any given day / and the best at ****** are those who preach against it
Charles Bukowski43
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EyesImagine your eyes speaking. / Are you one of those blind followers? / One of those who just let their eyes see good to feel good? Avoiding injustice, poverty, sadness, racism. Imagine what your eyes would tell you.
@Thoughtskeeper3
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You Learn (by Jorge Luis Borges)*The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. / Fortunes were smaller then as well.* / (The Elderly Lady)
@st6429
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The Awakening AgeO ye who travel the meridian line, / May the vision of a new world within you shine. / May eyes that have lived with poverty's rage,
Ben Okri 17
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YellowI am greed, want. / She is need, lack. / I am anger and frustration.
@michaela-s8
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PovertyEmaciated bones / Shivering in shrunken clothes. / Wrinkled faces,tired eyes
@heliza-rose10
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LIFE'S PARALLELSWhat is joy without sorrow? / What is peace without war? / What is wisdom without foolishness?
@ozioma-ogbaji18
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A Dying Filipino Breed“Being a farmer is like being a priest; / you take a vow of poverty / and make a pact with the Lord
@psalmiseta39
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povertyI hope my life is never so desolate / that it lacks art or poetry; / that would be the only poverty
@chelsea-sa34
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PovertyPoverty's everywhere / I don't like charity / You don't like charity
@moemoe7
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writer's blockshe was a poet, / and he was her pen. / in him,
@aarxn53
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PovertyThere's something like that. / It does exist, doesn't it? / Poverty, is *earning less than ₹ 47 a day.*
@prabhu-iyer9
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Wealth and PovertyWealth and Poverty, / Are of different Worlds, / But exists on the same Planet.
@Michi-Kitagawa093
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.if only stars would fall on Sundayyou make a wish / upon a star / but little do you know
@_nishnish22
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HYMN OF INEQUALITYWhirlpool of whirling quaint / Inequality brewing in the / Winepress of smithereens
@ralph-akintan65
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The Mathematics of PovertyThe poor keep moving / as if relocation / could reframe the algebra.
@magicpoet0122
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Poverty :(Poverty / Blurred Pigments of Red and blue / Bring to mind the police
@shandel-pruitt31
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Horus the YouthThe all seeing iris imperial city / The swiftest of stylus this side of the ‘sippi / The trippiest spittin’ Promethean hippy
@michael-marchese18
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STARGAZINGI'm gazing up, I'm gazing high. / Let me watch the stars tonight. / It mightn't give me better grades,
@theKataleya20
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[ The Homeland Of Your Algebra ]In your vision you are the only thing with bloodshot eyes. / You always wear a robe / that speaks seven languages... and a bank of fog is at your feet
@third-eye-candy26
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EqualityWhat is your Quantity? Are you large or extra large? What is your Quality? Is It Unique or Is It blick? / Okay now, I let you talk / it's my turn to evoke the york
@Allan-Mzyece22
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Poverty's ugly facesThere are many faces of That is called poverty ... All poverty's faces are ugly Simply because that's the way with it ... No one likes poverty ,but It's over there ... As long as poverty prevails,then There are poor people Anywhere and everywhere ... _______________________________________________________________
@mohammad-skati1
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povertypoverty, / the one thing that is always kept in the dark / there are a lot of rich people in this country,
@manqoba15
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