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Best Bummed Poems

Below are the all-time best Bummed poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of bummed poems written by PoetrySoup members


Life......Bad To Good.....
The first few days, I was just bummed out
I missed my girls, but knew what it was about
Days turned to weeks, phone calls rang through
Hearing...

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Categories: bummed, children, lost love, me,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Above Under
Verse 1: We held hands and I fell under your spell...you are the hell from above
My heart has turned to ashes, but I rose again...

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Categories: bummed, deep, desire, emotions, universe,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Canopy and Economy
Sun and traffic - day economy.
Six a.m. drive to plywood mill. Too tired
to be angry. Each day a step
toward death. What is being accomplished? The
small...

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Categories: bummed, baby, day, history, jobs,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Dante's Divine Comedy Iii Canto Translation
“Through me you enter the city of woe
Trough me you enter the eternal pain
Through me you go to people lost below.

Justice inspired my highest factor...

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Categories: bummed, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Ode To a Mistake Men Make
Yes I did it, it was me
When I had to go pee pee
I never put the seat back down
Now my woman wears a frown
Her white...

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Categories: bummed, men, satire, silly, sleep,
Form: Rhyme



Doa
Dark Side of the Sixties

peace brother hey man i just scored some bennies it’s really far out i’m speedin like a mother wanna buy some...

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Categories: bummed, addiction, dark, drug,
Form: Prose Poetry
No Electronics
What to do with no cell phone or computer for a day....
Sit at home, be bummed how things didn't go your way?
Or go outside and...

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© Lynn Dolly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bummed, fantasy, history, computer,
Form: I do not know?
It's a Really Obscure Poem, You Probably Haven'T Heard of It
Oh, you’re cool. Deck.
With your battered copy of Naked Lunch
tucked away in your thrift-store
		-satchel, it’s definitely a satchel-
that holds your cigarettes,
the ones you bummed last...

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Categories: bummed, funny, parody, satire, social,
Form: Free verse
My Superpowers
My Super Power Is Contest
Sponsor: Lewis Raynes


I have many powers handed down from generations,
   My father gifted me many obscure competent abilities,
 ...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bummed, children, flying, future, silly,
Form: Quatrain
Ostracized Not Secularized
There was a man who was thought to be numb,
Some even said he was dumb,
But he tried to live a good life,
Married a wonderful wife,
And...

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Categories: bummed, funny
Form: Limerick
Premium Member I Wanted To Get Away
I Wanted To ‘Get Away’   
By Curtis Johnson

Without naming the company, one of my favorite commercials use to be the one featuring ‘embarrassing...

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Categories: bummed, character, chicago, christian, class,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Black and White : Image Number 1
The hands
are quick 
to pick
the keys
to play
the tune
"Chop Sticks"
No sharps
or flats
Go left
Go right
Move up
and down
white keys
to pound
to make
the sound
of glee!
The blacks
are bummed
they missed
the fun
to make
a...

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Categories: bummed, music,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Birthday Blues
When I was a child my birthdays came
As seldom near as never.
While now it seems they’ve speeded up
And are coming at me ever.

I’m sorry to...

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Categories: bummed, funny, me,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Far Out
Let me rap to you about where I'm from.
Sidewalks are broken, weeds grow through the cracks.
The people that use them are like the sidewalks,
broken and...

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Categories: bummed, culture,
Form: Free verse
Sagging Balls
I stripped down to my skivvies
Revealing all flab
Something is sagging
I think it's my BALLS
MAN! am I bummed
Can't examine the rear
Who would laugh
but the kids drinking...

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© Bart Jonas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bummed, angst, life, time, old,
Form: Epitaph

Book: Reflection on the Important Things