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Best Give A Damn Poems

Below are the all-time best Give A Damn poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of give a damn poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Real Men Wear Pink
I stand about five feet eight
I'll admit, I'm a tad overweight
Drive an old pick up truck
Not one to pass the buck
At the moment have a...

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Categories: give a damn, character, funny, humor, perspective,
Form: Rhyme



Trapped
My spirit and soul are trapped in this vessel of flesh. They scream to escape and to be liberated and soar on the breezes of...

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Categories: give a damn, culture, discrimination, emotions, feelings,
Form: Bio
Premium Member How Time Stole My Body
I am old. Old I am.
And frankly I don't give a damn.
I take bright pills for all my ills
And little rugrats call me gram.

Teeth are...

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Categories: give a damn, age, funny, old, silly,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member With Poppy Red I Paint It Black
Feeling rife with satisfaction, I paint it black,
hours, minutes, seconds, let it bleed as tears go by.
Time waits for no one, she’s so cold -...

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Categories: give a damn, addiction, death, sad, suicide,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Gone Are the Winds But Long Live the Words
~	
Heavy in the wind,
was sound of a phrase-
Rhett Butler's curse word   ~
blew open the door
to eminent change
      ...

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Categories: give a damn, spoken word, words,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse



Had It Up To Here
I've had it up to here with rappers saying they have more bars than a prison
I'm sick of celebrities saying they're a bigger star than...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: give a damn, celebrity, fun, funny, rap,
Form: Free verse
You Said I Was Ugly
You Said I Was Ugly

You said I was ugly, and I don't really give a damn or care
Why did you pick me, don't you know...

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© Theresa Cw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: give a damn, anger, angst, character, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
I Was a Butchers Boy.
I was a Butchers boy. 
I delivered peoples meat. 
I went round on a bicycle 
to save my aching feet. 

Some people liked our Pork...

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Categories: give a damn, childhoodme, boy,
Form: Rhyme
Begging Change From Society
The busted fire hydrant on the corner sprays water down like rain.
Water gushes down the dirty gutter, relieving this humid pain.

Sipping iced tea in their...

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© Susan Berg  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: give a damn, life, people, social, urban
Form: Rhyme
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: give a damn, humorous, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ode To a Former Wild Life
Ode To A Former Wild Life


Drank too hard, rode my horses too fast
didn't give a damn if my body did not last
Midnight was a bell...

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Categories: give a damn, change, goodbye, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Kiss Me
Kiss me love. 
Kiss me baby, I don't give a **** about what they say.
I don't give a damn what they think and am not...

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Categories: give a damn, beautiful, beauty, crazy, cute
Form: Lyric
Premium Member This Lucky Moonsong Mine
Nestled here beside you, night fell without a single care,  
though pins and needles may soon claim arm's clutch.
Precious time all mine, drunk on...

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Categories: give a damn, fire, kiss, moon, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Beautiful -- To My Love
I want to drop off the end of the world
You have tied your puppet strings around me
You act as my master and I am...nothing
Do you...

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Categories: give a damn, me, love, me,
Form: Free verse
Living In Solitude
She lives in solitude
She can’t be like the multitude
            She loves to withdraw into...

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Categories: give a damn, adventure, appreciation, career, devotion,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things