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Best Life Sucks Poems

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Life Sucks
Life sucks.
Plucks you from your mother's belly
Weans, silks your skin, 
Fondly toys with you 
and grows you.

Life sucks.
Slyly beguiles you 
To mate, create,
Spit out your...

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Categories: life sucks, betrayal, death, gothic, life,
Form: ABC



Life Sucks
Once a year, I shed a tear
For the ones I have lost
You will never understand the cost
I say to myself “why am I so lost?”
For...

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Categories: life sucks, cry, dark, death of
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thirty-Eight, Cancer Poem: For Sharon
Thirty Eight ( Corny Cancer Poem) For Sharon

Hallmark has a million cards in their catalog
And not one of them says,
Life Sucks
American greetings had nothing that...

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Categories: life sucks, absence, best friend, cancer,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member - Party Games -
When your boyfriend comes home late at night
               Your chances are...

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Categories: life sucks, humor,
Form: Verse
You Dont Know What Its Like To Be Me
You say im happy,
you say my life is perfect,
you say im so lucky.
But you dont know,
you dont see,
im drowning in the sea,
im struggling to breathe,
Im...

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Categories: life sucks, depression, hope, imagination, life,
Form: Free verse



Vacant Eyes
You've seen that look before,
so many times that you lost count
It's the look of hopelessness,
the look of despair
Vacant eyes that no longer care
Who let the...

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Categories: life sucks, depression, hurt, pain, sad,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Sol Invictus
Hollow odes lament where waves crash depthless

Oh! How ocean lacking light spills woe so!

Lackluster grays wail unkempt longingness

Lone stander bleeds the dreams of times ago

...

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Categories: life sucks, allusion,
Form: Sonnet
Periodic Table
Helium Lithium, Beryllium
They all rhyme,
which is the only way I can remember them.
Au is gold,
O is oxygen,
I’m not trying to be bold,
but life sucks without...

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Categories: life sucks, education,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Little Lady
Listen.

Little Lady;
Mother Mary bore a baby,
Hence you came from mommy.

You were a little damsel, although childhood was just a delusion.
Playing with Barbie;
Jamming with Britney;
You want...

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Categories: life sucks, change, childhood, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Harsh Voice
HARSH VOICE

I sing the song eternal
A crackling, cackling broomstick sweep
Why?

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
A squirt of the old oil can
Clears up the voice...

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Categories: life sucks, arabic, introspection, , atheist,
Form: Free verse
Senior Citizens/Our Future
Life sucks
And guess what
It only gets worse
Years of hard work
And bosses you hate
No pension plan

Now Social security check is always late
No medicare 
Or decent housing
Nursing...

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Categories: life sucks, angst, health, life, social,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Just An Average Joe
When it comes right down to it, I'm an average joe
With a lifetime of contentment and friends that I owe
Without them life sucks
The happiness door...

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Categories: life sucks, simple,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Harsh Voice
HARSH VOICE

I sing the song eternal
A crackling, cackling broomstick sweep
Why?

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
A squirt of the old oil can
Clears up the voice...

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Categories: life sucks, arabic, introspection, , atheist,
Form: Free verse
True Life
I gotta life. 
You gotta life. 
He's gotta life.  
She's gotta life. 

I say I'm saved. 
You say your saved. 
He says he's saved....

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Categories: life sucks, angel, bible, blessing, care,
Form: Epic
Grey Thoughts
Life sucks, life is stuck
Don't be silent when you fall
It is when you can't go back
One more ing broken soul

Life swings, life is curved
Don't let...

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© Aida Jam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: life sucks, anger, crush, cry, divorce,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Book: Reflection on the Important Things