Best Wino Poems

A stupid and 
futureless wino,
was heavily drunk as 
you know.
He fell in a gutter
and shouted "its 
better.
This home is the 
best for a wino"...

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Oso the One-eyed Wino

By Gary L Thomas

...has a doubly unique perspective on this
Flat world. The depth that passes as distance
From an objective makes him subject to
Prevarications, half-truths and subtle innuendos
And makes him the lone wolf of the bear-den.
Burdened with this yoke and joke of butts...

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revised from 2014

He looked like an old antique with leathered skin - creased and tan,
His lips trembled as tried to speak - his words were hard to understand- 
His eyes were a beautiful blue, but held only his fear,
Nothing around him was clean, and on...

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~~~~    Wino ? - Why No !   ~~~~

I like a glass of wine, now and then,
While relaxing, feet up, in the den.
I'll quit after one
'Cause spillings no fun
When two often becomes five or ten....

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He drifted into town one day.
We didn't ask his name
Or where he came from.
(Some guessed way up north.)
They called him Chico the Wino.

We didn't muse or ponder
That he was some mother's son --
Jack or Joe or Jim or John --
Who went over there
And couldn't go...

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Shallow tracks he left
now most dissipated by winds of time.
"Britches" searches these tracks for good times,
but recalls only those,
which taste of persimmons before first frost.
He represented things a son didn't want in a dad.
"Britches" often wondered about mitigating circumstances,
and while reluctant to indict;
he reasoned why...

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I need a glass of hard drink to brush the teeth,
A jug of wine to complement a wheat bread,
An alcohol to bath all day long,.....
I'm a vagrant...in my mansion street,
No wife to cook for me,sons and daughters to make me a father cared,
Wardrobe full of...

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The Merger of Clowns
where the two are out 
performed by amatuers
Sorrow the pains of
birdseeds that
were thrown at the
frowning two
cursing and swearing
they ruined the moods of
many in attendance
there boozey breathe also noticed
by there challengers
in song the lose
it dance they have been defeated
the balloons were pitiful
and there...

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