Best Panhandler Poems

Misery gazed through beer-stained blur,
Despair in faded jeans;
enslaved by his habit, his outstretched claw
beseeched me donate to his cause.

A ghost begged another ride on his...

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I CAN’T BREATHE

I am being suffocated by causes.
Will we march Quixote-like
enraged by the spinning of the windmills?
We protest the wars carrying placards
while expecting others to...

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Someone on the subway’s playing a butt tuba,
whoever this boob is, his flagellant notes stink.
And when some, borrow or rob, panhandler gets off,
I fine-tune my...

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Black plastic jellyfish float on the breeze,
detritus of homeless, drunk as you please.
Reminders of illness, and other things lost,
price of a forty the true smallest...

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Whereas if it is meant to be 
Can we see God's Holy face
 is it in his pleasantry die
It reaches far from beyond
 mileage bigger...

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I imagine little house on the prairie
(bordering Lake Woebegone),
a place to hang cloak
most bucolic, edenic, idyllic...
apropos place for this poetic cowpoke,

who at present day trumpets
himself...

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Chorus x 2
It’s okay if my ego wears jacket
it’s nice if my resume plays drums
I’m endowed, dazzling and full
so let the world know my hands...

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We had new neighbors move in next door
Something strange about the clothes they wore
All tattered and they never looked clean
Yet at night they were both...

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The Good Samaritan

Man born of woman is born of a few days and full of trouble;
Many people have good and bad inside them
Do you honor...

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"Loneliness has never earned a day's pay.
     What I've learned, first of all, is that loneliness chooses it's own weapons. ...

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She's just a mall goth skank in Courtney Love's flesh. Digital jail bait. Open wound scissor sisters. The cure is deep inside. Divinity embedded within...

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Trusted (non Trumpeting) Flora And Fauna Emerge Out...
Of Hibernation To Rejoice Arrival Of Spring 2019

Accordingly, other than
meteorologists plenti schooled
ascertaining onset of temperate air
more particularly otter...

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Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice

Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted   
to post poem...

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I wouldn't be scant. Its codfish lies to pull ferociously all up in its cube. The forks stomped the ponies. Why did your 
goodness lift...

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a lone man just shaking his head
Constantly stumbling
His mental status;
Causes disclaimers;
Some say he’s got dementia;
Needless to say;
To say the least;
He’s often found on the streets;
Walking...

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