Best Bunk Poems

I once knew a woman called Terri
Who always was sipping the sherry
She got steaming drunk
And fell off her bunk
The medics described her as ‘merry’

WRITTEN BY JAN ALLISON


20th October 2016


Still in her old knickers grinning
Until the room started spinning
Feeling not all right
Spent from a great night
Her...

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My Many  Horn Haiku

when both knees would knock
would break my new precious clock
they crowed thrice each cock

each situation
mind needed explanation
remove word plantation

we were anemic
when they had a pandemic
would be systemic

with sugar coating
when we talked about voting
books to school touting

was a bunch of bunk
trump had...

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Up again at three,
Before the bellowing guards and shuffling feet, 
The fluorescent dawn still hours away…

Hands too soft for hard labor
Dig crusty scales of brief escape
From the corners of watery eyes.
Hope dims as focus returns.
From my perch I survey
A sea of black iron bunks.
Shallow snores,...

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HISTORY   IS   BUNK


Columbus discovering America?  Yeah, right !
Only after a  small  army of Vikings from overseas 
Traded and raided on the coasts for centuries; 
And Brendan had navigated from Ireland  to the Bronx;
Not to mention precolumbian wrecks...

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Dreams in the Bunk
By Sy Roth

An aching tired eats away, 
Slurping at his soul 
Yearning wakefulness from the darkness.

He heaved. 
Sigh in a soft world of crimson-waving flowers
Dancing away to his numbers etched on him, his scales.

The others turn, he with them
Intemperate mob 
Waring in...

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  I used to say the 's-word'
    even the t-word (turd)
  But after quite a long thunk
    I've now come up with -- 'Bunk!'

  Suddenly I'm the intellectual-type
    'cos whenever I have a...

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Sailing solo is unsafe
and it's not much fun
one winds up talking to oneself
before the day is done
but a bad day on the water
or so someone said
beats a good day at the office
(and I would know)
snug in my bunk bed
so gentlemen here's a tip for you
as...

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