Poverty Poems

 These are our poems about poverty. We used all five of our senses to describe what poverty feels, smells, sounds, looks and tastes like.

Poverty, by Mona

Poverty sounds like beggars, screeching, crying and sewer rats.
Poverty feels like rattling bones, skinny arms snapping in my fingers.
Poverty looks like screaming, see-through ghosts.
Poverty smells like old rotten garbage.

Poverty, by Ray

Poverty sounds like stinking juice.
Poverty feels like tears rolling down.
Poverty looks like black and grey dirt.

Poverty, by Ruhanara

Poverty sounds like an automatic door slamming.
Poverty feels like an ant crawling all
Over your back.
Poverty looks like smelly ,dirty and old
Victorian houses in 1840.
Poverty smells like rot.

Poverty, by Shah

Poverty sounds like a rodent just died.

Poverty feels like a spike-ball rolling towards you.

Poverty looks like a dirty slime ball.

Poverty smells like a passed out pizza.

Poverty tastes like a wet dog in a sauna.

Poverty, by Shobna

Poverty sounds like a big, hairy, scruffy dog
In the lonely, spooky, streets doing nothing.

Poverty feels like a cold, wrinkly, weak, dusty,
Sad lion in the rusty jungle.

Poverty looks like splashing, lonely, dull waves on the ocean where it is cold.

Poverty smells like old, smelly gas spreading in a park as you are walking along.

Poverty tastes like dry, sticky, gooey boogies in your dirty nose.

Poverty, by Alice

Poverty sounds like a gigantic dinosaur, limping and crying tears over the sand.

Poverty feels like a dead leaf with rotten holes all over it, the poor leaf all rusty, slimy, dried out, and passed the date leaf.

Poverty looks like a nearly dead person without any blood or meat, all sucked up by a vampire.

Poverty smells like a dirty, smelly breath, the body smells of dirty socks that hasn’t been washed.

Poverty tastes like coconut hair with some shrivelled up, cut up dry skin.

Poverty, by Zuned

Poverty sounds like a fox crying in a big forest.
Poverty feels like a cold, wrinkly old man’s face
With lots of spots on it.

Poverty looks like a sad tiger fighting a lion.
Poverty smells like the most smelliest socks in the
World.

Poverty, by Salam

Poverty sounds like a poor dragon in a desert roaring,
Scorpions living there.

Poverty feels like sand covering him all around
And getting in his nose so he can’t breath.

Poverty looks like a poor dragon looking very hungry and very sad.
And he looks like a dead cat.

Poverty smells like a dead dragon, he smells like hotness all around him.

He smells like a scorpion and he smells like hot sand.

Poverty, by Tasnim

Poverty sounds like a donkey so lonely
With no friends.
Poverty feels like tears crashing from your eye
And dropping on the hard floor.
Poverty looks like a dark, dark cave.
Poverty smells like rubbish in the bin
that was never thrown away.
Poverty tastes like five banana skins in a bin that stinks.

Poverty, by Fahmida

Poverty sounds like a rusty garbage rolling over.

Poverty feels like a rattling bone a soft, rusty,mouldy and wrinkly.

Poverty looks like a sad potato crying with invisible tears.

Poverty smells of cold wind.
Frosty a hungry tummy,
Filled with rotten pickles, gas in your tummy.

Poverty taste likes nothing except of blood,
No meat no muscle, just a juicy bone.

Poverty, by Sinead

Poverty sounds like a dead cat
Lying in the middle of the road,
With blood dripping from its small black ears.

Poverty feels like a
Lonely, sad cloud
Floating in the sky.

Poverty looks like a black and white tree
With no leaves on it.

Poverty smells like
A rotten, stinky bin
With a dead rat in it.

Poverty tastes like
Rotten, mouldy, green
Cheese that is 5 years old.

Poverty, by Tahir

Poverty sounds like a lonely person,
Crying with no friends.

Poverty feels like a lonely cat lying on a rock.

Poverty looks like a tree in the desert with no leaves.

Poverty smells like a rotten egg.

Poverty, by Zasia

Poverty sounds like a cute, lonely and little
Bug that is trying to find some friends.
Poverty feels like a small upset puppy.
Poverty looks like a dark big animal.

Poverty smells like a smelly dustbin with slippy
Bananas in it.

Poverty, by Masum

Poverty sounds like a dead mouse
Lying in the middle of the road
With blood dripping from its little
Black ears.

Poverty feels like a unicorn
With a dead rat.

Poverty looks like a chicken
With no head.

Poverty smells like lava
With blood.

Poverty tastes like a
Unicorn lava rat.

Poverty, by Meju

Poverty sounds like a crying cat that is lost in a forest and has no other cats or friends to play with.

Poverty feels like fat bones, skinny toe, slimy body and goofy teeth.

Poverty looks like a dark forest, slimy wood and a slippy ground.

Poverty smells like rotten eggs and it has some cheese inside it.

Poverty tastes like garbage with some slippy and slimy eggs inside it.

Poverty, by Anika

Poverty sounds like an old, dusty car.

Poverty feels like old cheese, out of date, green and goey.
Poverty looks like an old, skinny cat which has a flea.
Poverty smells like a rotten egg with runny mud over it.
Poverty tastes like a snail on your teeth and slime on the
Teeth with goey stuff around it.

Poverty, by Rummena

Poverty sounds like a squeeky rat,
Getting rolled down a hill,
Inside a dustbin truck.

Poverty feels like rattling bones falling off a skeleton,
It feels hard and dusty.
Also rotten and crocked.

Poverty, by Syeda
POVERTY SOUNDS LIKE A
BOY CRYING FROM FARAWAY,
A MOUSE SQUEAKING AROUND
LIKE A BUG AND A CHICKEN
THAT SOUNDS LIKE A CAT.

Poverty, by Aaron

Poverty sounds like a boy crying and singing at the same time.

Poverty looks like dusty, black cave with a boy stuck in it.

Poverty tastes like a slimy bogies and a dirty apple.

Poverty smells like an ugly, dirty snake in dirt with a pig.

Poverty feels like a dead rat crying for help.

Poverty, by Siobhan

Poverty sounds like deafening silence.
Poverty feels like lots of wrinkles everywhere
And tears dropping down your eyes into a puddle.
Poverty looks like a grey and black sky.

Poverty smells like rubbish that has been in the bin for ages and has not been chucked out.
Poverty tastes like mouldy cheese that has in the bin for ages.

Poverty, by Stephen

Poverty sounds like screams of dying children and crying.
Poverty feels like no hope of surviving and bittersweet
Sadness.

Poverty looks like a black hole in open space.
Poverty smells like sour milk with out of date cereal.
Poverty tastes like mouldy bread with rotten cheese.

Poverty, by Hamida

Poverty sounds like a mouse dying in the forest.

Poverty feels like slimy worms on your face.

Poverty looks like a big, live monkey.

Poverty smells like a slimy dog and spits all over the dog’s face.

Poverty tastes like dog’s pooh on your cake.