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Loss Burlesque Poems

These Loss Burlesque poems are examples of Burlesque poems about Loss. These are the best examples of Burlesque Loss poems written by international poets.


The Myth of Hair Loss in Men
It is a myth I tell you.

Men don't lose their hair,
It just gravitates from here,
  to there.

I swear if I live long enough,
And decide...

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Categories: age, allusion, animal, blue,



A Nocturnal Incident Between Pub and Home
I left the pub one night in a bit of a tizzy
and saw some kind of being like a tin lizzie.
This turned out to be...

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Categories: anxiety, dream, violence,

Premium Member Burn Pit
Investing in securities
Involves the risk of loss.
But it pays to be bullish
Regardless of the cost.

You can’t beat the house
If you don’t take a chance.
The same...

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Categories: allegory, romance,

Virtue
Virtue

I wish
I could write
A love song
From the heart
About a mountain stream,
Were cynicism
Dare not enter
Not intrude
As sarcasm
Is banned
Sorry to say
Cannot have lived
That long
I know when hearts
Cries
For...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: age, animal, appreciation, aubade,

Dog Years

Man, it’s been four long dog years!
Forlorn doggone tears
of toil 
and trouble

It’s a flee collar fact,
this feels like forty years
of Sirius jaw smack:

Loss leader of...

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Categories: leadership, parody, perspective, satire,



Premium Member Conspiracy and Evil Surmising
I am a Victim, 
Lured by mascara, and by a pretext piety 
Induced through lust by immoral vermin 

I am a Victim 
Blindfold through cunnings...

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Categories: abuse, death, depression, divorce,

I Saw My Friend On Facebook
I saw my friend on Facebook
the other day,
More than forty years ago, we were close,
We took our kids to the zoo together,
and spent lazy mornings
talking...

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Categories: feelings, friend, friendship, friendship

Trumped: For Contest May 7
ATTENTION READERS:
In the interests of full disclosure, our recent sightings of Humpty-Dumpty were reported on social media. In addition, the most reliable eyewitness happened to...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: allegory, bullying, change, christian,

Twin Flames 20sixteen
From white to clear
It's clear flames have twins
The reddish orange
That starts from the ground up
Burning up
All it touches
From paper thin
To paper thin walls
To the elitus
Oh...

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Categories: death, grief, imagination, loss,

Is It Confusion
He called me Remxy,
Actually that's his previous one,
I know he was furtive,
about his cold feelings towards me,
he felt completely nothing for me,
yet ! he lied,
should...

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Categories: loss, lost love, love

Strain
more stress, more pain
its hot sunny, it never rain
I have loss, hardly a gain
for sure i am soon running in sane...

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Categories: fire,

Flee Market Feelings
Come one come all,
A bargain calls!
The first who buys,
Will take this prize:

Freshly beating,
Non-retreating,
Hard and strong,
And never wrong!

Broke and mended,
Well defended,
Steady measure,
Immune to pleasure!

Skipping soundly,
Somewhat roundly,
Partially...

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© A. Kross  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adventure, angst, funny, loss,

Premium Member Machismo
Does machismo make a real man
with its excessive ego of superiority?
If it is considered the vital part of masculinity,
how come disregard, vulgarity and obscenity are
highly...

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Categories: confusion, family, father, husband,

So Much For So Little.
Bitter colored Flying Sunken-roofed Cities

Rain death fall New Suits and Extinguished Eyes.

“I know that Wine will Flee Shouting”

But Sadness, while a thing,

Does not Make an...

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Categories: depression, life, loss, lost

Sickle Cell Bulimia
I was in a hurry
To weight only forty
Had no time for a drawn
out diet
So decided I would try it
Bought a sickle
Carved off my flesh
It didn't...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adventure, fantasy, funny, health,


Book: Shattered Sighs