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Best Waster Poems

Below are the all-time best Waster poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of waster poems written by PoetrySoup members


Council Girl Waster
Knocking on the door, can your mate come out to play?, 
or is she grounded for yet another sunny day?.
Meeting up with your mates, hanging...

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Categories: waster, childhood, children, culture, growing
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member The Lowest of the Low
You may see me out on the streets
Lying curled up in a foetal position my sleeping bag in a shop doorway
Trying to get a few...

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Categories: waster, career, drug, identity, life,
Form: Free verse
A Thin Line Between Love and Madness
Wake not the passions you cannot tame:
A thin line there is between love and madness;
Lest you soon have yourself to blame,
Dear beautiful but an impatient...

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Categories: waster, love, magic, passion,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Nay Greet For Me Lass
Nay greet for me, I yet live   
ne'er was I a bairn to ye
mind me ere  I once were   ...

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Categories: waster, death, friendship, tribute,
Form: Verse
I Wonder
(What Should I Believe?)

I sit here wondering,
 About the sum of life, its delights, its strife,
 Its pleasures fleeting, its joys receeding,
 With grief impending,...

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Categories: waster, faith,
Form: Epitaph



The Show It Is Over
The show it is over another one gone
Never ever again I decry and bemoan
 Five days of eating the turkey and ham
Curries for me and...

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Categories: waster, introspection
Form: Couplet
The Abstract Coin
Gone forever, the used ones
Never can it be set aside for future use
As food, fuel or money can be
Can it be stored like a pea?

Like...

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Categories: waster, mother son, time,
Form: Rhyme
Working In Benefits Street
The pen hits the paper
Like the needle hitting that groove
It just makes you, wanna move...
Get up, go, no one likes a waster

The pitch, how oh...

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Categories: waster, career, culture, jobs, society,
Form: Free verse
Talking To Myself
I’m like an empty land…
Honestly, waiting patiently for sunshine and rain
In need of a helping hand
Naturally, going nowhere in particular – am I sane?	

Perhaps, I...

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Categories: waster, deep, depression, desire, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
N - Fifth Part of Expense Series
Never-ending aftershocks of yesterday’s tomorrow has settled in my mind’s eye…there’s so much out there to look forward to…I’d rather not die, but indeed, I...

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Categories: waster, angst, beauty, betrayal, change,
Form: Acrostic
Big Issue
Here once again he pesters me, steps into my world where I’m set
fair, imposed upon  by his misfortune, extravagance forced to regret.

He always seems...

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Categories: waster, abuse, drug, identity, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Going To Sea
So ya want ta sail, me hearty,
and ya set ta see the world.
Just sign away ya life, Jack,
and stow ya gear forward.
There's room enough in...

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Categories: waster, boat,
Form: I do not know?
He Who Loves Here and Now
History is a loudmouth dunghill hen,
Who so hid hind it were left to cavil,
He who loves here and now’s a happy man.  

Past, a...

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Categories: waster, happiness, history,
Form: Villanelle
Oga At the Top
Oga at the top
Then you open your mouth
Like bullfrog in the muddy pool of your career
In the myopia of your great vision
You vomited manifesto which...

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Categories: waster, abuse, betrayal, corruption, hilarious,
Form: Free verse
Slowly Dissappearing
Why is it that people think that they are going to live forever? 
When a child is born into this world,
It’s a precious moment,
We are...

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Categories: waster, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs