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Other Poet's Anti- Poverty Poems:
The Beggar's Song
I always go from gate to gate,
soaked to the bone and all burned up;
All of a sudden I'll lay my right ear
in my right hand.
Then my own voice sounds to me
as if I had never known it.Then I don't know for sure, who it is that's screaming,
me or just somebody else.
I'm screaming about next to nothing, really.
Poets scream about more.Finally, I close my face
with both eyes shut;
which looks as if it's in my hands
with its whole weight, and resting.
That's so that they don't think
I don't have a proper place,
to lay down my head.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Soul
I suppose it is safe to say
that the soul is like that stuff that
keeps the still flame of a candle
afire until the wick of its center
burns down to that black mote
of string wedged in wax at its base.
Love's length is sometimes like that,
less stellar against ongoing time,
and even river banks get razed
by the flow they are supposed
to fence. Have you ever studied
the soul inside a person,
or do you sense it can't be seen,
how it craves to pillage places
where it can't find peace?
Willie James King
(Reprinted with permission - published in Wooden Windows )
The Prophet
(On Giving)
And who are you that men should rend
their bosom and unveil their pride, that
you may see their worth naked and their
pride unabashed?
Kahlil Gibran
