Best Cardboard Poems

Discarded in yesterdays trash
Cardboard boxes never last
New things arrive in them
Old things stored in them
Rotting boxes on a voyage
Leftovers to those with out any coinage

Tom O’Seary had come down on his luck
Just couldn’t seem to make a buck
An elder at church who snuck a shot...

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I built a cardboard house
that came with four large flaps.
And when they're folded over
the roof it over-lapse.

I have to crouch inside it.
It's not made very tall.
But when I go to stand up
the roof gives way and all.

It hasn't got a window.
It's dark without a light
and...

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We are all looking for the one thing to inspire
We are all on the same path, different stops waiting for the universe to conspire
embedded in our souls from the birth of our understanding 
The want, the wish to be great, self-made breathing exorbitantly in our...

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Weaving, stumbling from one job to another
  His roadmap reeks of discontinuity
And that is why his home's a cardboard box
  He's squandered each and every opportunity

A fancy lady passerby, mercy in her eyes
  Once offered him her hand, if he could just...

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A paper road and car of clay,
A garden made from pencil shaves;
With fields of crayon flowers drawn,
Beyond the shoebox house and lawn;
Old wax paper forms the boat,
That sails under a cardboard moat;
A fence made out of new toothpicks,
Erasers used as driveway brick.
A crafty home in...

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Some guys along the freeway exits stand
with cardboard signs that read: Will work for food.
The sympathetic folks reach out and hand
these guys some money if they’re in the mood.

And other poor souls don’t just stand. They live
inside of cardboard shanties that they rig.
Some beg for...

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(Where the streets are full of pity)

Last night! I met an old boxer
in an alley of cardboard;
he seemed glad to see me,
shouted me over for a fight!
I told him!
“Hey I’m not in your league”
“Young man.” He said. “That’s alright.”
“So! I suppose you’re going to leave...

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My mother truly was a most creative creature,
And our backyard was just a child’s dream place to play in,
From swing set whose design could access high tree branches
Ensconced in sandy playground, purposed child’s own welfare
Protecting kids from what one could call ‘swinging error’.

A huge elm...

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To raw, outstretched hands,
austere in benevolence,
the homeless beseech....

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Trapped in a cardboard box for many years. Heartfelt tears of remorse and sorrow began to take its toll. What was your sorrow about? Why sis… You glowed with regret and hung yourself out to dry. 

You needed me. I needed you. We needed each...

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HIM

I didn't ask to be born
neither did you.
And of all the shoes I've worn
you've walked very few.

My first job was to gather eggs
I was four then.
The welts on my legs
were for bringin' in

less was expected.
Five, eight, twelve
eighteen came uninspected
beatings delivered by unintrospective

role model.
Family values passed...

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“Brother can you spare a dime”,
Was scrawled on the cardboard sign
When I looked at him a little closer
His face looked an awful lot like mine

I reached inside my pocket
To take out a buck or two
Inside my hand just found a hole
That my fingers passed right...

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THE CARDBOARD MAN

He spent a year in Vietnam
Oh what a horrible shame
He returned home, but his mind stayed there
He hardly knew his name

He walked the halls of the nearest VA
But treatment didn't help
A cardboard box became his home
That is where he slept

You may see him...

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Verse 1

His coat is torn his 
shoes are thin
The cold cuts deep beneath his 
skin
Little boy coughs small 
hands that shake
Winter's breath is much to hard 
To hard to take. 

Verse 2

Sidewalk echoes silent 
prayers
People pass but no one 
cares
Cardboard kingdom borrowed 
time
Every step is...

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The children come to visit
   once or twice a week
   and they are fine, I'm sure,
   but not the ones I seek.
Though tall and fair and handsome,
   not who I'd choose to meet:
   those grubby-kneed...

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