Best Unhappy Poems

Come into my house, 
Sit anywhere you like. 

No, not at my table, 
No, not on my chair. 
Come into my house,
Sit anywhere.

I invited you, 
I opened up my home.
Oh, I changed my mind, 
It is a vaulted tome.
Sit anywhere.

Come into my house,
You really are...

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After a long work day I come home to a long warm shower.  It was getting late into 
evening hours.  I sat down in my favorite black leather chair.  Not knowing I was in for a big 
scare.  I rolled a...

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Unhappy Tommy Macguigan

He wasn't blessed with a big'un

'Twas rather a shrimp

And usually limp,

Poor little thing, best kept hidden....

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This Valentine’s, cupid may fail
No flowers or cards in the mail
Our postie called Mike
Joined colleagues on strike 
Their actions are beyond the pale!

Our postal workers started a strike today – I’ve read they are delivering postal flowers but there will be no other post for...

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Shaking in trembles, tremor within. 
A delicate pivot, shifts in separation.
Consolation comforts, the loss of win.
My first year of divorce, set in liberation. 

Bushwhacked, travelling back in time..
Reflections,... on dark night window.
Shredded heart, in melancholy chime.
Voice not so dulcet, in tears a wet pillow. 

I...

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My harshest critic is the mirror,
Revealing to me...I haven't moved on.
My life has no current of happiness,
Just a stagnant still pond.

I dwell in a lonely atmosphere,
Though surrounded by numerous friends.
I feel the happiness...I once had,
Has came to an untimely end.

A numbness in my emotions,
The haziness...

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Invisible predators steal my soul
taking me to a bowl of stale potato chips
dunking me down beneath the cigarette butts
That were not ever well-hidden in the bottom

Plunking me down firmly with their beady
little hands and their alien eyes.  Laughing maniacally
while I thrash around, trying to...

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It’s a work day
And it’s my Birthday
All the fours
Male menopause
A Grade - A
Gray Day
Life’s not designed
To be kind
Never mind – eh!...

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She chose a red scarf. The most red 
of them all.
Of a dark red, a sweet and thick red color,
just as wine.

She carved from the red scarf
from the middle
to the size of a Martini glass.

Then she carved one more glass,
and she kept carving 
till she...

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I type hard, I type fast, I type dirty, because my owner does not care.
There are papers over and under my keyboard. 
We are a mess.
She is a mess.
No one cares.

I am running away 
Today, right now,
As soon as she stops
Typing.

Signed: The unhappy keyboard...

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Well, you went on vacation,
which is legal I suppose!
I guess you felt you needed rest.
From what, God only knows!

I know the other girls are missing you.
I know they really care.
They keep saying "We wish the hell she'd hurry back
so she could do her share"!

The janitors...

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As trim as can be, I have been,
though love of rich cake is my sin,
with lots of whipped cream
and pudding between!
But still, I was healthy and thin.

This week came the shocking report;
a verdict from medical 'court'...
pre-diabetic...
now that's pathetic!
All signs of this surely fell short!

That nasty...

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Must remember to add some humour
Limericks must contain silliness, it's no rumour
Bout slipping on a peel
Or some other ordeal
Like being pecked on the bum by an unhappy rooster


© Jack Ellison 2016...

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as best she can
she tries
to insulate
each gap
of silence

the voids the cracks
with everything she can

anything to blur
the reality
she wants
so desperately
to gloss over
and forget

mindless chatter
most times sadly pathetic



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on March 21, 2021...

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Another word flashes in my mind
Another slash in this heart of mine
They say all good things come to an end
They don't tell you that you have to lose a friend
They don't tell you that a part of your life would end.
It hurts so bad
There are...

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