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Sad Burlesque Poems

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


if you go down to the park today
If you go down to the park today,
You will not find an educated tramp in your way,
Wanting to pass the time of day.

Park benches free...

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Categories: addiction, allusion, analogy, break



A step backwards in the thought process
Some of us grew up with words that made us think,
Words that on the blackboard came alive,
To change our lives.
The day soon came when pencils...

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Categories: addiction, age, allusion, autumn,

Blitzkrieg Bop
Blitzkrieg Bop shaked one fertile ground
In Germany where people sat on the ground
Under the heat of the sun
Open bodies laid under the gun.

Blitzkrieg Bop became...

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Categories: dance, death, war,

Who You Are
“Insults are like the flow of
 water, you get many
 from your parents when 
you became a poet 
or an author.”

“Try to do what you...

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Categories: funny, self,

Loves Tragedy
Love’s tragedy

Once I loved a dolphin and kept her in the swimming pool
I wore a frogman suit we spent hours splashing about
but noticed she was...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: absence, beach, best friend,



Garments
Garments

Opened the wardroom’s door, suits and jackets worn
so long looked like sad copies of me.
Gave all my clothes to the salvation army, which gave
them to...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: best friend, butterfly, funny

Premium Member Any More You
The me that you see’s just a face that I wear.
You have no idea what’s really on my mind.
The me of my soul regards you...

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Categories: allegory, romance,

Premium Member Sad Hannah - the Barn Dance Wallflower
It was Saturday night at Community Hall.
There was popcorn and pretzels and birch beer for all.
She sat off in the corner, her hands on her...

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Categories: allegory, loneliness,

I Have To Go
I have to go now.

Never thought this day would come
 perhaps, 
 it was inevitable.

Our days together
 always
 seemed so conditional.

You with your unkept dreams
...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: absence, angst, appreciation,

Premium Member 50 Words For Poe: Rasputin
"50 Words for Poe: Rasputin"



The Rat was buried in the Pet Cemetery
His name was Rasputin

She had been fond of him for some time
feeding him morsels...

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Categories: dark, death of a

Alova
Alova ... 
she’s the leaven princess 
of oven bosom tear oppression

Her violet Persian neutering rug
has the sterile stench of
cougar mating feral aggression

It’s her purple passion
to...

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Categories: identity, international, love hurts,

Plucky Unlucky

Ain’t nobody here, 
but us plucky chickens
Ghetto goose-stepping,
every fare-thee-well welfare day!

Ain’t nobody here,
but us unlucky chickens
Urban legend has it,
that we been KFC set free

Now ain’t...

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Categories: discrimination, satire, truth, word

You Are To Me
When you are sad, I will dry your tears
when you are scared , i will comfort your fears
when you are worried, i will give you...

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Categories: beautiful, best friend, courage,

Dont You See It
Don't you see these tears 
don't you see the hurt 
this little girl is no longer a little 
yet she is still utterly sad

I keep...

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Categories: betrayal, blue, depression, father,

Mask
Nobody could hear my cries at night 
for I designed this mask to hide the lies 
nobody could see the pain 
for I designed this...

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Categories: confidence, confusion, corruption, deep,


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