Long Homelessness Poems
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Miracle of HypocrisyI was listening to Cornell West,
who described our catastrophic tolerance of disvalues for others,
situations we would never tolerate for ourselves,
disvalues like homelessness and hunger,
but also like random violence,
abuse and neglect,
lack of caring,
as a "conspiracy"...
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Categories:
homelessness, abuse, culture, earth, integrity, nature, psychological,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Dillen's Continuing Dmv AdventuresI wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.
Background Review:
One of my health care employees, Dillen, has wicked ADD, borderline intelligence, not qualifying for disability supports,...
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Categories:
homelessness, betrayal, culture, health, humanity, language, political, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Insecure, Illuminating Ill-Tempered, Invigorating Icicle I Once WasI’m stronger than I realize,
I’m not alone
And I’m not a failure
I am focused on the prize -
God’s Kingdom today, though I’m on my own
Feeling like a Jailure
I was brave enough
Life can be quite rough
I was...
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Categories:
homelessness, appreciation, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Backhand
"Backhand"
You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall
To make sense of it all
as a child, the grief stolen
all too swiftly and replaced...
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Categories:
homelessness, child abuse, mother daughter, strength,
Form:
Free verse
But Just Where Is God(Musings of a poet with huge doubts and a fragile faith)
Introduction: Is God A Joke Or Human Vanity?
When close friends die and other’s thoughts are suicidal,
When mankind’s soup du jour is loneliness with anguish
When mental...
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Categories:
homelessness, god, mental illness, perspective, , atheist,
Form:
Blank verse
The GiftFrom the window of my chic city office, lost in thought, I gaze out.
The pedestrians scurry like frenzied ants below, caught up in their bustling state of holiday insanity.
In his haste to cross the street...
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Categories:
homelessness, allegory, holiday, hope,
Form:
Prose
Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RINGLegacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
uninvited GUESTS linkedin as the themes of mein kampf.
Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer
avails left and right alm
seeking succor Out Of Human Bondage
invisibles shackles bind head,
shoulders, knees and...
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Categories:
homelessness, abuse, age, angst, anxiety, city, depression, earth,
Form:
Free verse
Was Versus NowI’m stronger than I realize,
I’m not alone
And I’m not a failure
I am focused on the prize -
God’s Kingdom today, though I’m on my own
Feeling like a Jailure
I was brave enough
Life can be quite rough
I was...
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Categories:
homelessness, anxiety, courage,
Form:
Rhyme
The Global Bankers and Me" Good evening gentlemen, at last we meet.
I am so honored to bask in the presence of your company.
Meeting all of you global bankers has always been my fantasy,
so seeing you all before me now...
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Categories:
homelessness, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Please don't leave me I love youHe reignited my creative passion when he reentered my life
His can sense to the core how I am feeling and asked me right away to be his wife
Though it's been 45 years we have known...
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Categories:
homelessness, loss, lost love, love, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Fraudulent
"Fraudulent"
A writer writes of people
walking lonely dark streets
begging for bread, shelter and cold without all
like he’s been there
trudging up and downhill knocking on doors
that judgmentally remain closed after glimpsed twigging -
a monumental fail,...
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Categories:
homelessness, depression, family, friendship, home, loneliness, lost, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 143-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Prodigal Aquarius Paradise RestaurantDate: September 2050
Damian stood at the front door
Ushering everybody out to the waiting
Limousine. "Come on my People
Be quick about it wifies!" Sidney
And Saderi were willing to go along
For the...
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Categories:
homelessness, best friend, birth, husband,
Form:
Alliteration
Half a Dozen Plus Years Ago the Following Became a Near RealityHalf a dozen plus years ago the following became a near reality
Countdown to homelessness –
mars this earthlinked sole Harris - son
panhandler would would register
pyrrhic victory won.
10…9…8…3..2..1…
Found me linkedin at the end of...
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Categories:
homelessness, age, america, anger, angst, anniversary, anxiety, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Love You MessagesWhen the StraightWhite Patriarchal President
sent out his Praise and Thanks Message
"We love you"
to those who would cathartically enjoy beheading
VicePresident St. Peter's Pence
loves homophobic St. Paul,
This felt like too much tolerating
an unconstitutional intolerable
absence of basic...
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Categories:
homelessness, health, love, peace, political, power, race,
Form:
Political Verse
I Got Friggin Heebie JeebiesI got friggin heebie jeebies
Cuz buzzards circle o'er me
eyeing these lovely bones prithee
id est Roy L. T. Canard, Si
hence impossible mission
to be lovey dove vee.
Vague remembrances of dream
which recurred with frequency
transfixed by...
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Categories:
homelessness, angst, anxiety, betrayal, community, environment, faith, how
Form:
Rhyme
The Grim ReaperTHE GRIM REAPER (JUST ANOTHER DAY AT THE OFFICE)
The Grim Reaper; again awakens from another well-earned day of sleep
From within the bowels of this cavernous earth, from his cave, so deep
His cloak and scythe;...
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Categories:
homelessness, death, humorous, tribute, write,
Form:
Epic
Re: viewing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not liveRe: viewing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not live
The following poetic account
written more'n a dozen
dirty dancing decades ago,
while I (a socially
withdrawn Homo Sapiens)
one indigent Yahoo
groveled...
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Categories:
homelessness, abuse, america, angst, bereavement, children, confusion, daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
Poetic Prognostication Proves Itself Pathetic Pablum Part OneDespite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer avails two alms
seeking succor asper Somerset Maugham.
Mom mee whiz able to sic cure human bondage,
boot metastatic carcinoma snatched such balms
when tethered in utero umbilical connection,
etched bromide, which...
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Categories:
homelessness, anger, confusion, crush, faith, humanity, imagery, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Ruing the Emotionally Prosperous Papa Razz Zee Life I Did Not LiveRuing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not live
The following poetic account
written more'n a dozen dirty dancing decades ago,
while I (a socially withdrawn Homo Sapiens)
groveled along (on a secret...
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Categories:
homelessness, 10th grade, 6th grade, absence, abuse, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
What Does It Mean To Be ManWhat does it mean to be man?
To wake up every day,
and know you have to pray...
just to be alive.
To find another plan,
and convince yourself you can...
and to strive.
What does it mean to be man,
When...
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Categories:
homelessness, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Protest PoetryPrepared for the H.C.I.D. Protest
My paperwork is bad. I'm a lost cause. Help from this may never arise. My expectations are low.
Situations may differ from soul to soul.
Asking the kangaroo court, for help with their...
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Categories:
homelessness, analogy, anti bullying, conflict, corruption, freedom, how
Form:
Narrative
Homelessness and Genocide Narrative Poem#1 Apr 21, 2015
I felt nearly dead but I was alive as I remember sitting in a room labelled "CityU of Seattle Library, looking at rows of White Cubes with my books in them and...
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Categories:
homelessness, abuse, anti bullying, christian, community, writing,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Homeless PoetryHOMELESS POETRY
These are poems about the homeless and poems for the homeless.
Epitaph for a Homeless Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is...
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Categories:
homelessness, america, child, childhood, children, home, mom, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Husband For Sale(tongue in cheek
by this moldering geek.)
Thy marriage doth incurably ail,
even strangers would vouchsafe
(with nary any cavil),
and perhaps even avail
herself (sight unseen),
...
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Categories:
homelessness, 12th grade, best friend, care, dad, hello,
Form:
Free verse
Homelessness - You Have the Power To Help Us If You LikeYou all walk past me and you don't bat an eye,
Not even when you can see the pain in my cry,
You tar me with the same brush as them all, that you cant deny,
But ignoring...
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Categories:
homelessness, abuse, allegory, betrayal, community, heart, inspiration, political,
Form:
Rhyme