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Down On His Luck Poems - Poems about Down On His Luck

Premium Member fool of a poet
... the times I've been here, words in hand mind-sculpting verse of phrases, grand that speak of that, the cruelest school those moments, rife, I've played a fool ... laid bare ......

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Categories: down on his luck, analogy, introspection, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Angelica
...I didn't get to know her, not even her name. She asked for money, and I only had a quarter. She was a young lady with eyes of hunger whose face was hidden behind what seemed to be weeks of dirt. ......

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Categories: down on his luck, christian, poverty,
Form: Narrative

Premium Member PETER GARGANO KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS WHITE MAN WITH A GRAY BEARD
...THIS ALL BEGAN 1994 MY FOUR TEAR OLD DAUGHTER HAD SLEEPS OVERS WITH CIRO GARGANO STEP DAUGHTERS EVERYTHING SEEMED FINE ONLY I WAS NOT AWARE OF THE STRIP CLUB MY ABUSIVE EX ATTENDING FREQUENTLY WITH P......

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Categories: down on his luck, allah,
Form: Naat
Premium Member white
...the languid petals of addiction fall in a silent way drugs to wipe clean the scribbled slate of the mind adrift and alone on the ocean of the bathroom floor down on my luck down on my k......

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Categories: down on his luck, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Picture the Duck
... If you’re down on your luck just picture the duck In order to sup he goes bottom-up ......

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Categories: down on his luck, bird, food, giggle, water,
Form: Couplet

Premium Member WANNABE ACE ROTHSTEIN THE CARNIVAL BOSS
...YOU CLAIM TO BE ACE ROTHSTEIN A BOSS COMMITING HIEST ON DISABLED ELDERLY PERSONS BREAKING INTO MOBLE HOME GOLF CARTS AND MEDICATION BOXES RETRIEVING ANTIDEPRESSANTS HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE MEDIC......

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Categories: down on his luck, allah,
Form: Epyllion
Gilgamesh
...The house used to be warm when they were all home Not the house is gone and I'm all alone A stray on the street with no where to go I wish I could tell them I miss them so Trudging through all......

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Categories: down on his luck, angst, art, dog, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Stay In Bed
... Two guys at the corner of Fifth and Grant, were looking pretty far down on their luck. Because their beat-up old station wagon, just got T-boned by a Ford pickup truck. The light was green fo......

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Categories: down on his luck, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mr excessive force
...He enters the neighborhood bitter from cold cases old grudges and gripes his musty breath is shallow stone cold coming from his angry nostrils transferred yet again for bad behavior after suc......

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Categories: down on his luck, america, anxiety, dark,
Form: Ballade
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 ......

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Categories: down on his luck, drink, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
The Angel and the Gambler
... We sail on the waves of celestial artistry, with being as our compass- magnetic, sensitive to the touch of love's poetic instrumentali......

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Categories: down on his luck, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Glimpse Into The Writer's Head
...A girl rotting A girl alone She is still for hours She is still forgotten A girl downtrodden A girl down on her luck She is drunk on misery She wakes hungover on woe A girl runs on d......

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Categories: down on his luck, confusion, deep, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poor Old David
...Words I’ve heard my whole life Poor old David, poor old Michael, poor old daddy If you’re from the heart of Appalachia, these are… Words that mean the person is down on their luck, Lost in the ......

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Categories: down on his luck, angst, appreciation, emotions, family,
Form: Free verse
The Intricate Mysteries of Being
...The Intricate Mysteries of Being An albatross flying across the Antarctic A telescope monitoring the intergalactic A horoscope sharing interplanetary plastic Let’s elope while we still think......

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Categories: down on his luck, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Cape Mendocino
...Cape Mendocino The westernmost tip of California hard to reach except by Google earth the usual method of exploration these days. The Point Arena Library where I hung my words upon the P......

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Categories: down on his luck, allusion, animal, care, community,
Form: Free verse

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