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Best Bad Luck Poems

Below are the all-time best Bad Luck poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of bad luck poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Get Yourself a Big Black Cat To Cancel Out Bad Luck
If there should be a pot hole as deep as Satan’s pit
appearing as I’m driving, I’d run right over it!

My husband’s luck is worse than...

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Categories: bad luck, cat,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Reflection
**REFLECTION**

Running through a wheat dream
Clear skies, worms and flies, my face cries
Surrounded by silver streams
I stumbled into a valley where sleepness never dies
A manger on...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bad luck, abuse, death, for her,
Form: Epic
Premium Member I Slipped On a Teardrop and Landed
I slipped on a teardrop and landed in muck.
No inkling had I of my future bad luck.

The tear I had cried started out, oh, so...

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Categories: bad luck, friendship, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Heart of Gold
The beauty of life, which is often unseen
I guess each of us has some sort dream

Intertwined with our ambitions and hope
Sometimes it seems so impossible...

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Categories: bad luck, introspection, lifelife,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Vicious, Is the Unwelcomed Stranger
Conclusive is the board meeting by death’s merchants in Wuhan
the planet is rich, now placed in a temporary ban.
Grey hair is condemned in the statistics...

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Categories: bad luck, anxiety, bereavement, death, earth,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Girl With the Black Pearl Eyes

The heat of the street more than you can take
hem hiked high above your bony knees
spread slightly apart so you can breathe
sitting in the stifling...

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Categories: bad luck, abuse, addiction, drug, lost,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Owl Parliament, Eagle Owl Presiding
Owl Parliament is now in session, so be quiet please.
All whistles, hoots, growls, grunts and screeches need to cease.

As the largest of you all, I’m...

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Categories: bad luck, bird, , cute,
Form: Couplet
I Live With Only Life To Give Clean For Soup
I've gone too far to ever come back
bad luck stuck in a mental trap 
I’m going to start accepting facts
Suck in no air so lungs...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bad luck, anxiety, dark, deep, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sacred Dwellers
Sacred Dwellers

I am of Native American born
To be caretaker of Mother Earth sworn 

I heal with powers, a medicine man     ...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bad luck, animal, native american, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Making the Best of a Bad Situation...
Sometimes you have to make the best,
Of the bad luck thrown your way;
Get on with your life, to heck with the rest,
And just enjoy your...

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Categories: bad luck, funnyme, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Going For Pinktober
Their murkiness has begun, an agony may follow,
Yet, you can see their faint smiles with their eyes losing their glow;
There’s a cap on their head...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bad luck, dedication, health, october,
Form: Rhyme
She Wore Pineapple Rings For Glasses
She wore pineapple rings for glasses
and walked like jelly dances
I didn't rate her chances
She used to wee standing up
she cooked lemon a'la duck
won the lottery,...

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Categories: bad luck, fantasy, food, funny, crazy,
Form: Monorhyme
Colors - Black and White
Life is in pieces of black and white 
Like a chessboard 
The moonlight shines through darkness of night 
Like a barcode 
~
Noah chose a raven,...

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Categories: bad luck, color,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Why Oh Why Me
Why Oh Why Oh Me.

Oh why oh why do have so much bad luck
 My hands are tied
My feet are stuck
I’d be much better off...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bad luck, angst, sad,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Fire On Board
S.S. Forever is on maiden trip
Bad luck starts abusing with ardent grip 
There is a fire burning on deck
Could now become an instant wreck
Quick action...

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Categories: bad luck, fire, funny,
Form: Limerick

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