Ghetto Friendship Poems

Friends are an indispensable part of our lives. As the pace of life gets faster and faster we are relying more and more on friends. Sometimes we share our darkest secrets with our closest friend. But life in ghetto can be pretty mean, where only taking is the norm without any giving. Ghetto friendship poems deal with the pain and misery of life in the ghettos.

Some ghetto friendship poems are touchingly pathetic. The anguish of ghetto life, where there is no security of life itself, let alone a friend can be heart breaking. Ghetto poems are written by people who know ghetto life first hand, who live in ghettos.

They are able to convey the wretched conditions of the ghetto life sincerely. Ghetto friendship poems are simply raw. The searing pain sometimes cut through. Ghetto poems openly confess that life in the ghetto is without any peace of mind. There cannot be anything called "life" in a ghetto. Homes are not secure, nor are the human being. There is nothing, that reminds anyone of the finer qualities of human beings.

But this is not to suggest that there is no life in the ghettos. In spite of all the odds people fall in love, perhaps get married and raise a family. There are some lasting friendships in the ghettos and quite a few poems celebrate this spirit of friendship.

Ghetto Quotes

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. Jean Genet

I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough. Neil Tennant

I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how. Lionel Blue

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

People in cars cause accidents. Accidents in cars cause people.

If you drink and drive your a bloody idiot and if you make it home your a bloody legend!

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

We are not accountable for the sins of Adam.

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