Best Jobless Poems

You are now an outsider
No longer part of the mechanism
Not needed, surplus to requirement, redundant
Your mind slowly blunting at the bottom of the bottom drawer of life

The eyes of others betray derision and contempt
Fearful of catching your disease
Keeping a distance, loathing your weakness and inability
A...

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Unemployment line
Single file to soup kitchen...
Fear of homelessness

Unemployment line
Cries in emergency room...
Fear, no insurance

Unemployment line
Like a faith-healer's crusade...
Hope to help, heal, house...

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Jobless Jack, a real jerk, dances a jig,
He juggles, smuggles jewels in backpacks,
jawbreakers, jump ropes, jelly rolls and crack.
~~Jig be up,  Jack'll  jiggle in the brig.~~

Junk jingles and jangles, squeals like a pig
jerked and jacked from joints on his pickup routes.
Amid crates of...

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congressmen claim they’re
working for our happiness
while we crave for JOBS!...

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My cute little princess,
Wants to play in excess,
Diffiult to be at par with her,
As her capacity is intense!

Her innocent smile rejuvenates,
looks heart throbbing in every dress,
Boosts my energy,
Taking away the stress!

I wish to express,
She's a bliss,
To cuddle and caress,
I madly miss!
With her along my 'mind...

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A JOBLESS MAN

He strives daily 
Wakes up early
To provide for his family
On the table there's no food
Even the health of the young ones is not good
One needs medication
Another needs operation
There is nowhere to find money
"I am failing honey,"
He says.
Tears just fall
Fall from them all
Mother and...

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Once there was a pauper whose story was never told.
A man prey to conventions made so many years ago.
Now he was not ignorant and others would also agree…
He was just a jobless bugger with a respectable college degree.

He was an artist, a scientist and a...

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Gormedigim yuzler 
Hikayesini duymadigim  cocuklar
Ayna olsam ruyalaina

Bir  damlada yeseren hayat
Umudu heybesinde kusmus  
Dertlenmis  ofkesi  kusdili
Sevdasi nefesinde alinterinde
Doludizagin hayata isyan

Umit ettik ki gun dogsun 
Gelecege  is olsun  yarina
Cok aradim yirtim kendimi
Bulamadim bir is  yetemedim kendime
Aynada yansimis aslanin agzinda

Gormedigim...

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You see him on the streets sometimes,
other times he's nowhere to be found,
but regardless of whether he's seen by a collect few or by none,
he's somewhere, deep in thought, deep in prophecy, receiving visions from on high, for a single ma'am - a lone wolf...

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She has no job
Professes to not care
Has taught school for six years

I do not care what job I get she says
Anything but teaching.
I never want to do this again.
She was our teacher of the year a year ago

I mentioned doing a t-chart, so she can...

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After I lost my job 
I sat 
In my apartment 
For days
With the windows closed 
Staring at the walls 
Pretending 
I had someplace to go. 
  
I was always told 
You’re lucky 
To have a job 
But looking back 
On yesterday 
It was always...

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I never told anyone how my ears reverberate in a silent room.
The whirring drone ever present, a conquistador of my private spaces.
This is my cohabitation with an industrial generator.
But I’ve graduated from the torment. 
My attitude detours trance-like into pockets of thought.
It is either that...

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We have graduated from many prestigious tertiary institutions,
With flying colors,
Competent and resourceful,
But we are roaming around the streets, homeless, penniless and jobless.

We have been trained,
Under the scorching sun and in the rain,
In skill acquisition 
And entrepreneurship development (SAED),
But we are neglected, so we resort to...

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Hey poor boy from the far 80s 
Was it 16 or 17 when you got stuck?
You dug a hole so deep and fell in it.
Agreed it was warm , protective 
except that your whole adulthood was  blocked . 
You had your chances , you...

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A Nigerian, studying for years,
In higher institution,
Burning candles.

Graduated with honors, got no job,
Searching daily,
Fed up.

Tears rolling down, he is pained,
Remember him,
This I plead....

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