Best Bumming Poems

I spy you standing in the shadows cast
by a flashing neon sign, bumming a smoke,
with your nose dripping as it does on coke;
your pale skin...

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For most of his 
Bumming around days
He was lost 
In dead end jobs
Once in the gym
He became a silhouette of youth
Weaving like a cobra
Slipping
Countering
Learning how...

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Seagulls Take Flight 


Rose strolled alone on a warm sandy beach

as salty sea foamy waves crept to reach

net her toes as the wind rose 

She...

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New Free Verse -YEAR
 
We are all gathered here
For what it's worth
It won't hurt
Let's just call this Free Verse
Dust off some dirt
Convert in my converse
My...

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In my New England town
our local Democratic Party runs everything.

Some would argue these local celebrities
and self-promoting treasures
to posterity
rather over-run everything,
and surely we could find some...

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Courtesy of Marx (albeit Zeppo, Harpo, Groucho, and Chico) 
whose acts brought generations of laughter to Vaudeville and 
then the Silver Screen adlibbed, linkedin, and...

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7/19/2019
This darkness is all I know, 
a widow's wardrobe of funeral clothes.
It hangs curtained under my eyes, 
the seed inside me grows allowing the little...

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A tiny runt who cannot run,
mom kicked me out because I limp.
The big dogs call me dumb, a gimp,
off-beat orphan, claimed by no one.

A Mowgli...

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The Government's poor depressing me.
Depressing me with looks.
Their lack of spirit just angers me.
My happiness gone to crooks.

They're vagrants at the corner stop
with cardboard signs...

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Think I'm just gonna bum around today
If you don't mind that old expression
Literally, I'm gonna goof off and waste time
Feeling lazy in a state of...

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Cheeks were meant for kissing
Hands were meant for holding
Ears were meant for listening
Arms were meant for enfolding

Eyes were meant for ogling
Mouths were meant for stuffing
Hair...

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Merry-go-round of pain
is driving me insane

people call me lazy
I just say its crazy

at times I hurt like hell
but hardly to I yell

it came with age
life...

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There’s a high-class hobo drifter
bumming rides throughout the land
Grip the Grifter ... 
watch it society women, don’t shake his hand!
If Grip get a hold of...

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Cheeks were meant for kissing
Hands were meant for holding
Ears were meant for listening
Arms were meant for folding

Eyes were meant for ogling
Mouths were meant for stuffing
Hair...

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Cheeks were meant for kissing
Hands were meant for holding
Ears were meant for listening
Arms were meant for folding

Eyes were meant for ogling
Mouths were meant for stuffing
Hair...

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