Best Dumpster Poems

Sanity meted in batches
With healthcare served up in patches
It’s a dumpster dive
Just staying alive
To rely on raccoons playing with matches...

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So, Justin Trudeau's gonna retire
(something Canadians did desire). 
But he's left a big mess,
and Trump's causing stress!
It's a political dumpster fire!
...

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Her hands gnarled and knotted
slumping as she walked
some called out when she was spotted
her shout name was Lady Dumpster
as she staggered along, she talked
folks tried to help her—she balked

When she was a girl, she was plump
family lived near the dump ground
her dad called her “the...

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Once the police began to ban
all social gatherings, we decided
to reignite the ritual of barbarism
crucial at the core of survival

without compassion or cause of
duty, simply to have something
destructive to do that didn't land
us behind the grid to be silenced.

Cruelty gets harnessed in fists
compressing the void...

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Douglas Dempster the Dumpster King
Hates to be called Doug Dumpster
But he's to blame if that's his name
Denying it is a real stumper.

Mashes the trash, burns it to ash,
Recycles all that's allowed;
A self-made man with a garbage can
That ought to make him proud.

Dougy Dumps whines and...

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I threw out all of you
smashed all the CD's
trashed every sweatshirt that smelled of you
ripped up diary pages of admiration
letters and pictures burnt
only ashes that can't say 'I love you' anymore
and then you wanted me back
but I'm not going dumpster diving...

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Down in the dumpster 
Life is so unfair
Why the haves gotta
Look down on the nots

There's enough pies for everyone
To take a piece and survive...

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What a poor dateless chap was young Chad.
Dumpster fires were the clothes that he had.
Pants that hung in the back
showed the world his azz-crack
and not one single shirt wasn’t plaid....

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Dumpster Fire Poetry Contest
Margarita Lillico

Sally's husband's infidelity trashed
Into a lit dumpster, their marriage dashed
A wife is left saddened
And the ashes blackened
Because he lit the wrongful flame and crashed


N/A

Note-Sometimes I think readers don't understand me. First line husband
has an affair. Lines 2-4 marriage is on the...

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“FAKE” Dread Locked Dumpster Diver

Not by choice this average
     bonehead configured Earthlinked
     Bozo went kicking, and screaming
     into refuse bin
naturally (no questions asked,
     nor guffaws uttered) with chin
clamped tight,...

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The world's been in the dumpster forever
An intolerable state of affairs
Isn't it about time we changed our ways
It's badly in need of repairs

Let's start a pact to end our disputes
Some think it's beyond possibility
Need somebody to step up to the plate
Us humans have great adaptability

Think...

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Dumpster-Diving Deity

By Mark D. Stucky
Dirty, broken, and forgotten,
discarded as worthless junk
at garage sales and trash collections,
were treasures I have rescued.
Where others saw rubbish,
the eye of this beholder
saw creative potential.
After repairing, cleaning,
and polishing or painting,
the old items were resurrected
into new lives and new homes
with myself and...

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The Dumpster Hero

There once was a fire in a dumpster
But nobody knew where the pumps where
Then a girl found a hose
To the challenge she rose
But the hose coiled back and it thumped her...

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My friends, I am at the end of my rope - 
all because I'm an incredible dope. 
I thought two girlfriends was better,
but, when I sent them a letter, 
I put each one in the wrong envelope....

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You get to a point where 
you can’t read them anymore
and consider yourself a grown-up.

But it wasn’t until I was fifty-two 
that I threw them away. 

How long could they hide
in a high school brief case
next to a box of sweaters 
in the attic?

So…into the...

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