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Best Give The Shirt Off Your Back Poems

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Premium Member I Feel Ashamed
I am hungry, what will it be?
Ham, turkey or that nasty bologna?
I am hungry, chickpea mash?
Spam or that disgusting Hash?
I am hungry, mountain oysters anyone?
Fish...

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Categories: give the shirt off your back, caregiving, food, health, hope,
Form: Burlesque



My Brother
Friends and family can remember you, 
over the years for your kindness,
generosity and faithfulness, a true 
gentleman…

Friends have told how they keep 
coming back to...

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Categories: give the shirt off your back, death, friend,
Form: Verse
The Lover No More
Logic tells me one thing,
my heart tells me another,
this confuses often,
why am I such a lover.

It's not just women I love,
everyone knows,
anyone has problems,
I am...

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Categories: give the shirt off your back, life, me,
Form: Rhyme
Mankind
6/26/22


Easy or difficult to see right
Got rest with ease or a struggle to sleep at night
Always rude or someone that actually treats life
Like it's precious,...

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Categories: give the shirt off your back, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gregory
Gregory
You made  yesterdays news, invoking fears
You were found on the streets
Discarded and left to die alone
Thrown away like a piece of garbage with little...

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© Grace Daub  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: give the shirt off your back, addiction,
Form: Free verse



I Have An Ugly Friend
I have an ugly friend
Who scares me once in a while
On the outside he's quite happy
Enthusiastic with a smile

He's filled with positive thoughts
And will give...

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Categories: give the shirt off your back, 12th grade, depression, emotions,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Help Someone
Life is what you make of it.
You can be in the arena or in the sidelines to sit.

Help a fellow brother, let them know you...

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Categories: give the shirt off your back, daughter, depression, devotion, faith,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs