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Bums Poems - Poems about Bums

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Premium Member The Gathered Outside My House--Pick A Line and Run With It Poetry Contest
...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The atmosphere was thick with souls whose identities were full of holes. The gathered outside my house filling in their blank spaces with anger, hatred, bo......Read the rest...
Categories: bums, political,
Form: Free verse



Living in the Land of the Lost
...In the Land of the Lost, on my floor;folks crazed A wod jane does yell trash in flush room.; felt miffed My nerves tense, on this floor -I’m on edge;feel brash Here 8 months there is no hope in s......Read the rest...
Categories: bums, anger, angst, crazy,
Form: Rhyme
Don't Throw Them to the Wolves
...We have a choice, On how many children will turn out, And by throwing the parents under a bus, For the Wolves and Jackals to fight over, The outcome for the children will always be the same. W......Read the rest...
Categories: bums, appreciation, baptism, birth, childhood,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Old Church Revisited
... The space is smaller than what was measured by memory, the stained glass windows much less vibrant compared to what glowed brightly in the light of back then. The pews have been worn down ......Read the rest...
Categories: bums, memory, nostalgia, religion, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Down And Out in London
...Down in London Washed away in the gutters spent, Like the vagrants and bums without a cent, Everyone in a hurry, somewhere to go, Someone to love them , most with a home. Eyes to the ground a......Read the rest...
Categories: bums, dark, depression, fear, london,
Form: Rhyme



God Bless Me
... I drop a penny, into the Army’s kettle, call me a Christian. I love my neighbor, from behind a border wall, Call me a Christian. Talk of abortion, and I will have to shoot you down, Ca......Read the rest...
Categories: bums, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The final frontier post consciousness
...The final frontier – post consciousness as imagined by cogent, fervent, intelligent, lucent, occident, reticent, and uneminent nonestablishmentarian. The following disquisition initially des......Read the rest...
Categories: bums, absence, adventure, angel, atheist,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shame Died Today
... Consumed by doubt, down but not out Swig of whiskey tickles the throat rags for a coat Down on his luck, surviving on pluck Bums another ......Read the rest...
Categories: bums, drink, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Going to Semaphore Beach
... Hot summer afternoons and the call of glistening water lapped a child's mind with a want. Just home from work we would pester our father until he relinquished and took us to the beach. ......Read the rest...
Categories: bums, beach, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
A Reluctant Wind
...The bums and the heroes of revolution asleep As drawn to the cosmos a light travels deep He asked for no quarter playing outside the game His legion in shadows he’d never explain Each son......Read the rest...
Categories: bums, art, music,
Form: Rhyme
Kick the Bums Out!
...My job as your next President and benevolent dictator, is to live it up in the White House and not bother Americans at all. O and yes.... defund and term limit all congressmen and senators, ......Read the rest...
Categories: bums, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Search of a Great White Butt Ox
...We embarked on an adventure That was quite quixotic A scientific dream quencher Searching for exotics We started where we thought made sense Out on the sunning docks Where perhaps there’d be ......Read the rest...
Categories: bums, humorous, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Clearly God Grades On a Curve
...("Eye of God", 2018, original encaustic mixed media - wax, pigments and mirror) Clearly God Grades On a Curve After several hours of working hard finishing up siding a small sheep shed,......Read the rest...
Categories: bums, encouraging, god, humorous, inspiration,
Form: Narrative
Apocalypse Now
...The streets are deserted, not a single soul is about even the winos and street bums are nowhere to be seen. There are no cars on the road or any planes in the air it’s so eerily quiet you ca......Read the rest...
Categories: bums, world,
Form: Free verse
Friday Afternoon
...A busy Friday afternoon Exploding plane, but not an exploding cigar, as days of fun have long since gone. The Byzantine Empire never left Russia, either that or they were incapable of keeping se......Read the rest...
Categories: bums, age, anti bullying, child,
Form: Blank verse

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