Bandit Poems

Premium MemberEverybody Is Destroying Haiti

Anmweyyy, anmweyyy
Everybody is destroying Haiti
Please stop, stop, quit. At last, give the country
A break, a rich season. There are too many bandits, vandals
Too many lootings, thefts, too many crises and scandals
On this impoverished and exploited island
Give Hayti a chance to live better. Give our land
A break with too much violence and injustice
Ayiti needs peace, love
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Categories: bandit, africa, america, black african
Form: Rhyme

Barstool Bandit

He’s a bandit on barstool a writer in possession,
The recreation of life lived hating his self image   A rocks on cause he just got his rocks off, 
That’s all he ever chases, 
A deserter of instincts, 
A man without his values 
His hurt inside is something that will grow, 
It’s his world unless
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Categories: bandit, adventure,
Form: Free verse


Premium Membergarbage can bandit

I sit on your garbage can and fiddle with a knob
Your back door shakes a bit, I search for a corn cob
Smash goes the lid to your aluminum garbage can
I am the man, I think now, I am the man!
You are in your kitchen, terrified to see that knob
Slowly move back and forth; my cousin
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Categories: bandit, animal,
Form: Rhyme

The boxer brownie bandit 2

I fear I've lost the light
In this storm of chocolate rain
Muddy waters cloud my sight 
Within this foul smelling haze 
But I know I'll make things right
I'll escape this hell someday
And my tights will finally stay white
Off this soiled path I'll find my way

They say the devils in the details 
Well I sure hope he
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Categories: bandit, funny, simple,
Form: Rhyme

The boxer brownie bandit

Who pooped my pants?
I ask in vain                                                
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Categories: bandit, funny, simple,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberCopenhagen bandit

Down to earth comedian who brings the house down with laughter
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Categories: bandit, fun,
Form: Monoku

Bandit

I should have done this years ago,
after all this time he would have apologized
I felt sure.

The séance went well,
I had formed a circle of one,
just me and my sleepy cat.
I simply sat there
conjuring up left over images
on a far away dirt road.

His baseball hat squashed flat
at the back of his head,
the hole in his neck
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Categories: bandit, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBandits From the Woods Nursery Rhyme

Always together, they played
Never alone, lost or afraid,
They trudged through the woods
And all the surrounding neighborhoods,
Piercing the darkness with shiny flames,
Their eyes never revealing their names.

Always together, they delighted
In the games – wonderfully excited,
They plodded on through the night
Beneath stars and moon so bright
Carefully seeking the best garbage cans,
With paws that were suitable for hands

Always
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Categories: bandit, animal, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThere Is a Masked Bandit

There is a masked bandit in the produce aisle.
This went over the loudspeaker in the grocery store.
It was my neighbor Whitey, who wants to hide his smile.
He has bad teeth, maybe not even one any more.

I use Covid as the excuse, he told me one time when I thought to ask.
I told him I would
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Categories: bandit, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAnna the Bandit

Anna the bandit and shady jane
set out to rob a railroad train.
So, they went for the gold.
Then botched the escape.
In for ten, no parole,
Makin license plates.
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Categories: bandit, cheer up,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSmokey and the Bandit

Smokey the Clown ran around,
With Bob the Burger Bandit.
Bob, the slob, needed a job;
But didn't know how to land it.

Smokey tried to get him inside,
A restaurant on the hill.
They hired Bob for the job,
Flipping burgers on the grill.

It wasn't long when all went wrong, 
And he was fired on the spot.
His belly filled with burgers
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Categories: bandit, anger, friendship, humorous, jobs,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberShopping Mall Bandit

How does he choose his victim?
The police are baffled.
Six cases.
Six different women.
One old, one extremely young, the others 33, 45, 68 and 84.
Most of these guys have a type. This one doesn’t.
They are a variety of ethnic groups, different hair color. 
Different body types, one with tattoos.
The shopping mall bandit has struck again.
Takes all of
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Categories: bandit, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIowa Corn Field Bandit

dark masked marauder
devoured sweet corn at night
crows left hungry
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Categories: bandit, animal,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberBelle Starr - the Bandit Queen

Belle hung out and consorted with outlaws,
So folks shunned her and called her a scoff law;
But things aren't as they seem,
And though not squeaky clean,
'Twas the men in her life who were outlaws.

Sam Starr was a Cherokee man.
They married and lived on the land.
To friends who were weary,
They gave sanctuary,
In their home out on Cherokee
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Categories: bandit, history,
Form: Rhyme

Jungle Justice

Get me a matchstick
And the rogue over there quickly pick.
Or you fetch me smoker’s lighter,
Whose flame is assuredly brighter,
Pouring me out some petrol
From our jeep long on patrol…
Jungle Justice is beginning to itch like lust,
Last week’s, a badgering must!
The fair-play funded by fire
And aided by vindictive tyre:
An impatient crowd’s justice,
Permitting no armistice:
Rather like our dirty
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Categories: bandit, anger, crazy, judgement,
Form: Rhyme

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