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Best Deadbeat Poems

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Deadbeat Dad's
All these years at home, me and my momma alone
Daddy on the run, headed for the sun, he must of been..
Because I obviously wasn't his...

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Categories: deadbeat, absence, abuse, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse



Angry At My Deadbeat Dad
TOMORROW WILL BE BETTER?!?!
 You said that on a million yesterdays!
 Look at the calendar, it’s laughing at you.
 Dude, are you SERIOUS?!
 You should...

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Categories: deadbeat, absence, dad, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To All the Heart Breakers -A Zombie's Valentine
Wouldn't you rather~

Wouldn't you rather be dead?
Maybe shoot yourself in the head?
Over my dead heart, I'd never want to be a zombie like you.
The sight...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deadbeat, anger, death, horror, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Benedict Donald
The White House harbors an orange traitor
Benedict Donald, science-hater
He never met a fact
He didn't try to whack
This prick puts the 'dick' in Dictator!

The obtuse ogre...

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Categories: deadbeat, anti bullying, community, political,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The United States of America
Our justice system is far from perfect, but it is what we’ve got
Just because you break the law, doesn’t mean you deserve to die or...

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Categories: deadbeat, america, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme



Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter  

They gave me a college education
But left me unemployed
But they say
Black lives matter
I won 7 Grammy awards
I didn't get a ceremony...

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Categories: deadbeat, history,
Form: Verse
Rabbit Dna

Hare trigger instincts
always served Roger well
He had an oh, no-no lettuce nose — 
a hyper-keen sense   when to leave
Roger was rabbit good
at knowing...

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Categories: deadbeat, parents, parody, truth, wisdom,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Please Pull Up a Chair
Dear Becca I’d love to pull up a chair
But I don’t have a moment to spare
I’m exhausted, just look I’m deadbeat
I wish god gave me...

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Categories: deadbeat, humorous, work,
Form: Rhyme
Wont Back Down Nor Give Up
I will not be another statistic
out on the street without a dime to my name
I will not be another out cast
Who can't go into a...

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Categories: deadbeat, courage, devotion, world,
Form: Free verse
An Alcoholic Father
My father drank himself half to death.
I tried to understand why.
But I became stumped and hurt every time I thought about it.
He became drunk and...

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Categories: deadbeat, addiction, childhood, confusion, dad,
Form: Free verse
One Last Thing
Sex is the sharing of the souls.
When I am inside you, you are inside me.
When our eye’s meet, our shame meets.

It’s ironic how I can...

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Categories: deadbeat, abuse, change, dark, loneliness,
Form: Romanticism
A Bright Young Fellow Named Ernest
A bright young fellow named Ernest
Went to med school to be an internist.
  But the sight of insides
  Gave him really bad vibes,
So...

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Categories: deadbeat, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Dad Was a Deaf Crab
Dad was a deaf crab
limerick



                    ...

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Categories: deadbeat, fun, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Class Reunion
A football star with super speed,
Our prom king, Kyle, has gone to seed.
No longer likely to succeed,
He's out of work and hooked on weed.

Behind you's...

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Categories: deadbeat, change, high school, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Last Chance Saloon
NOTE: I don't find the time, neither do I have much inclination, to write a great deal these 
days. However, the occasional new piece gets...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deadbeat, angst, cowboy-western, life, loss,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs