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Best Deadbeats Poems


The Quick Fix
...Give us the quick fix
The easy way out
A heady dose of
Instant gratification
And we'll forget about 
The intellectual annihilation
Of sixty second news 
On BBC Three
Then prime-time karaoke
......

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Categories: deadbeats, life, people, social
Form: Verse
Premium Member Angels Amongst Us
...The homeless are forced to beg on the streets:
their shame cuts deeper than the eye can see.
So, before you label them deadbeats:
ask yourself, what if that beggar was me?

But for the g......

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Categories: deadbeats, 8th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Quatrain
What Burden
...I sing because I'm happy, I sing because I'm free
 Because the burden of slavery is no longer on me
 I've seen the thunder and the rain
 But like a plant outside, only growth I've gained

Stopped by ......

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Categories: deadbeats, anger, art, beauty, black
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member The Princess And The Plebs
...

She always thought she was a cut above others

The most beautiful, the richest , the best

A self confidence unbearably arrogant and explosive

When with her, peoples patience were put to t......

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Categories: deadbeats, giggle, humor, judgement, self,
Form: Rhyme
Hey Buddy
...

Hey buddy,
can you help a brother down on his luck?
Hey kind sir,
can you help a fella get propped back up?
I’m just a slightly dishonest publican,
who was sticking it to tax evading ......

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Categories: deadbeats, corruption, funny, humorous, parody,
Form: Light Verse
Losers
...LOSERS


If there’s something I can’t stand it’s all the losers around  -
And man, there’s a ship-load of ‘em out there, having a ball.
Amazing how the world gets by when so many surround
Us as usele......

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Categories: deadbeats, philosophy, me, autumn, me,
Form: Quatrain



De-Un
...I'm not Deranged just Derailed,
Deraptured with the Devolution of Angels,
The Devilization of a Nation,
Decorum Demands that I Devalue individualism,
Some Decadent, Dilenquent, Despot shouts 
"O......

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Categories: deadbeats, urbanhair, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sure Cure For a Sick Nation
...Alas, we've elected bozos on both sides to again guide the nation!
(Some folks are sobbing in their ale, others are filled with jubilation!)
To rid this great nation of such knaves, here is what I ......

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Categories: deadbeats, political, satire, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Deadbeat Dad Named John
...I know a deadbeat dad named John ,
who knew he had a daughter from the
time she was born, everywhere we were
he tried to have a relationship with her .
Finally that day came he gave her a call .
......

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Categories: deadbeats, abuse, anger,
Form: ABC
The Best Medicine
...Creative writing is for those 
who like to make us ponder,
their meanings can be hidden,
cause our feeble minds to wonder,
esoteric pieces puzzle,
leave us with uneasy feelings,
better that we ......

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Categories: deadbeats, humor,
Form: Verse
Courage and Common Sense
...A rock and a hard place between,
It seemed a limited choice,
But a burning bush he had seen
And lo it was he found his voice.

And though unpopular indeed
With constituents one and all;
Courag......

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Categories: deadbeats, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Friendship
...School is over and we're on top of the world,
Our futures ready to be unfurled,

Who knows where we'll be in twenty years;
Married and with successful careers?

Or deadbeats living on each othe......

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Categories: deadbeats, friendship, life, loss, people,
Form: Couplet
There But For the Grace of God
...The architects of cardboard town, will never shoulder blame.
From brick and stone built luxury, they sit immune to shame.
Whilst on forgotten streets the homeless, dwell in paper waste
Constructin......

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Categories: deadbeats, people, philosophy, political
Form: Rhyme
The Best Medicine
...Creative writing is for those 
who like to make us ponder,
their meanings can be hidden,
cause our feeble minds to wonder,
esoteric pieces puzzle,
leave us with uneasy feelings,
better that we ......

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Categories: deadbeats, humor,
Form: Verse
Premium Member House of Predators Blitz
...Looking at people
Looking Straight Up
Up to no good
Up to something
Something is awry.
Something is wrong
Wrong if I stand up
wrong if I speak out
Abusers are sitting.
Abusers are seated
Se......

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Categories: deadbeats, child abuse, god, how
Form: Blitz

Book: Reflection on the Important Things