Very powerful and thought-provoking.  The perspective your speakers take in "A Fall to Poverty" and "A Mere Stick of Dynamite" is very instantaneous, of the moment, not being able to see the future, ignoring the possibility of a future.  They speak in the words of the lost, the abandoned, the forgotten.  How low will people be allowed to go.  Great commentaries on very controversial and sad social truths.  A BRAVO for speaking with such force.  "The Old Oak Tree" stands out in contrast to the other two, with its more transcendental language, and the point of view of a long-living entity for whom the daily struggle of humans is nothing but another accident of the landscape.  I think the three pieces work together like ying and yang.  (note: i struggled a bit with the lack of division in your poems, but i fought through it because i did not want to miss out on reading them just because of formatting.  However, most readers might appreciate breaks here and there.)  Great works!!!

I invite you to take a look at my submissions if you can:
http://www.webook.com/project/josafatPoetryVote209

A yes vote from me.

http://www.webook.com/project/Animal-Cruelty

Excellent Work Here. Voted...

http://www.webook.com/project/Top-3-Poems-of-Assorted-Interest

Very nice. :)

http://www.webook.com/project/In-Times-Of-Love-There-Were

I found these difficult to read and feel that they could have been spaced better. Apart from that they were quite good.

Good luck.


http://www.webook.com/project/Three-for-the-competition


If you have the time.

Three very good poems - a yes vote.
Best wishes,
Mike.

http://www.webook.com/project/Verse-Macabre