I'm just trying to Survive
...I'm really, REALLY tired.
I'm grasping at straws.
I've lost myself.
I'm alone so often,
I've got nowhere I can go.
I try to talk to people but I know I'm just bumming them out.
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Categories:
bumming, abuse, anger, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse
The Function of Each Body Part
...Cheeks were meant for kissing
Hands were meant for holding
Ears were meant for listening
Arms were meant for enfolding
Eyes were meant for ogling
Mouths were meant for stuffing
Hair w...
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Categories:
bumming, funny, humorous, joy, lust,
Form: Rhyme
She Don'T Really Need Ya
...You're stone cold in your heart man
Hard as solid steel.
And the love she has for you man
Is on the spinning wheel.
Cause you've been bumming around, slumming around,
You've thrown her...
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Categories:
bumming, angst, emotions, feelings, for
Form: Rhyme
Hearts Were Meant For Loving
...Cheeks were meant for kissing
Hands were meant for holding
Ears were meant for listening
Arms were meant for folding
Eyes were meant for ogling
Mouths were meant for stuffing
Hair was...
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Categories:
bumming, cute,
Form: Rhyme
All of Our Body Parts
...Cheeks were meant for kissing
Hands were meant for holding
Ears were meant for listening
Arms were meant for enfolding
Eyes were meant for ogling
Mouths were meant for stuffing
Hair w...
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Categories:
bumming, love,
Form: Free verse
Swan Lake Doom Dance
...In the midst of myself I see all a named through a blame of crystal ball garbage self imposed heaps of anarchic monumental fever itches slowly coalescing compost inflaming frolicking one step beyond ...
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Categories:
bumming, analogy, confusion, leadership, parody,
Form: Free verse
Daughters Disagree About Dictator
...Daughters had diverse ideas for sure
They both thought theirs was absolutely pure
One emphatically thought leader was the second coming
Other saw anti-Christ, out-of-control loser who is bumming...
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Categories:
bumming, america, usa,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To An Orphan Outcast
...A tiny runt who cannot run,
mom kicked me out because I limp.
The big dogs call me dumb, a gimp,
off-beat orphan, claimed by no one.
A Mowgli bumming all around,
Where is that warmer welcome m...
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Categories:
bumming, 11th grade, cat, dog,
Form: Ode
Cycling During Lockdown
...Long ago duriong my childhood Hon'ble M.L.A.s attended state assembly riding bicycles.
Officers of the govt departmens and staffs attended their offices
riding bicycles.
Policemen in groups we...
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Categories:
bumming, health,
Form: Free verse
Hammer of Sense To Dummines
...Take a hammer
Step up to the game
Whack a Mole?
Nope! Whack a Dummy!
You don't like staying home?
To bad, Jack! Put a lock on it!
You spend too much time bumming
Not sticking to essential st...
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Categories:
bumming, anger, courage, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Feeling Old
...When the snails had zoomed passed the finish line,
When all that I owned, were no longer mine,
When they had taken my habits away,
When they stopped calling me gramps and say hey,
When I'm se...
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Categories:
bumming, life, old,
Form: Couplet
You'Re Bumming Me Out
...i spoke too soon.
my heart, my moon
turned their back
with the sunrise.
a new day
in a different light,
clear as day
you are no longer in sight.
have i been feeding
this disinterest
with...
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Categories:
bumming, absence, heartbreak, hurt, i
Form: Free verse
Bumming Around For a Bum
...Bumming Around for a Bum
We were bumming around for a nitwit bum
When we found Trump who had been from,
Could not count;
To nothing amount;
Mum was word so did turn out to be dumb.
James T...
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Categories:
bumming, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Dialect Tickle Matt Arial Hiz Im 1st Sentence
...Courtesy of Marx (albeit Zeppo,
Harpo, Groucho, and Chico), whose
acts (along Seuss iz Zacks Fifth
Avenue) brought generations of
laughter to Vaudeville, and then
the Silver Screen adlibbed...
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Categories:
bumming, 11th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
In the Shadows
...I spy you standing in the shadows cast
by a flashing neon sign, bumming a smoke,
with your nose dripping as it does on coke;
your pale skin and red hair in sharp contrast.
And you're ogle...
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Categories:
bumming, 12th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Sonnet
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