Best Unemployed Poems

There were reasons we shouldn’t be together,
There were reasons we should have stayed apart,
But no reason could ever reason
With the passions brewing in our heart.

She was married to the mayor,
The richest man in our town,
I was an unemployed musician
For whom success had never come around.

She...

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unemployed old men
waiting for winter to come
Santa jobs again...

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The dollar store around the block, I didn’t have a buck
McDonalds had a happy meal , I was out of luck
The ATM was putting out, my PIN was incorrect
My bank account was overdrawn, I couldn’t write a check
My car was running empty and my credit...

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Unbelievably
Numbing
Experience;
Monotonous
Planning;
Lost
Optimism;
Yesterday,
Everyday…
Demeaning...

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Rummaging through my overfed desk 
of retired rubble a powerless and
defenseless button bounced soundless 
to the floor to tread on the brown  
ocean of shag safely surrounding it.
It had no immediate individuality, 
just rigid and round as if carved 
from hard bone. Almost art-like,...

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We're unemployed we're jobs seekers we're graduate in the streets leaving our hometown for a greener pasture.
We're enthusiastic eloquent and full of vim to conquer and make our dreams a reality. Our reality is shattered we live in anguish. 
We clamored for a better tomorrow...

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An old cow Bholi and it's cub were  running
Hard to save their lives from the flogging 
A young boy having stick with lather laced 
Was chasing them, showering flogs with mighty hand.

Bhola:
Mom, why we are beaten so bitterly?
What are our faults today?
My young blood...

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Today they tell me
   I no longer have money--
      Congress, why is this?

A. Green

Workers all over the country who have been 
laid off are no longer receiving benefits. Guess
they want us to starve....

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stomach rumbles,hush
peanut butter and bread works
hazy days of that...

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For crying out loud America!.
Because of you I'm unemployed!
I can no longer threaten you with violence..
And I'm really very annoyed.

It's my job to make you fearful..
I'm an extremist and  political threat..
But you are shooting each other in mass numbers..
And that was my job.. or...

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Looking in the mirror
A stranger in there
Watching TV late
Absently stroking hair

Playing solitaire at noon
Eating breakfast at four
Getting dressed at six
Crying out; no more

Taking out the trash
Avoiding neighbor’s eyes
Having one more drink
Telling yourself lies

Looking for a job
Desperately seeking pay
Feeling like shoe dirt
Hoping for a better day...

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The early sun burns through my window
Pointing its accusing rays on me
“Late! It is late! ” It seemed to say
Urging me awake from a slumber
That bears down a heavy load upon my shoulders
Such that I cannot rise from where I lay.

“Late! It is late! ”...

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Being suddenly unemployed I leave winter behind and welcome the chance to open the new door to spring....

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His oars (mind, arms, and legs)
were insufficient as propellers to earn a living.
In the underground´s nasty passageway;
or was in his life´s nasty passageway?
Anyway! There, he, like an imbecile, sat,
another torn mendicant, holding up his hand to indifferent passers-by, 
asking for a gaze or just a...

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Regina city councillors under fire
For ad campaign’s not looked at prior
How someone did not think to inquire
Check the news if you think me a liar

This province had some odd news breaks
Like the Tim Hortons with the snake…
The moose in the school for hoof’s sake
But this...

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