Short Dumpster Poems

eagles perch on leafy tree limb
overlooking territory below
guardians of the asphalt jungle and dumpster...

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Down in the dumpster 
Life is so unfair
Why the haves gotta
Look down on the nots

There's enough pies for everyone
To take a piece and survive...

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It’s not that it’s anything new,
It's all "I" and "Me", no "Us/You".
If we nominate Trump,
GOP’s in the dump;
I'll keep saying it until I'm blue....

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In her dumpster fades away
    posy of love-struck feelings.
I plucked from my heart's garden,
           now a barren land.


Date : 01/30/2016...

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You might as well shove dirt
in my face and dump me in a
dumpster, if your gonna treat me
like this! I'm not taken this!
I'm leaven you with your dirt and trash!

Goodbye....

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The city mouse hitched a bumpy ride
In a demolition dumpster
To the spacious country side
When he landed on the 
Ground, he ran so fast
Without a sound~
Quiet mouse
Loved the 
Ride  ...

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there is nothing like the taste of a first kiss
the sweet smell of bubble gum while still in the mouth
while hiding behind a trash dumpster in kindergarten at recess
kissing the boy of your dreams at age five...

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recess was more than play

for two youngsters in love

hiding behind the dumpster was the place to stay

everyday there's where we'd go

for one more kiss

and a little less recess    






karen croft
first kiss, first love contest...

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Rats argue with the seagulls.
An “eau de low tide” scent rides the fog.
As feral cats hiss at the sunrise
leashed dogs do their business
“tricks for treats” traitors.
The sound of traffic signals….”LAST CALL!” 

©7/13/2021 

Bite Size Poem #12...

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A gray and white cat sidles up 
	against the splotchy green dumpster
and meows despite himself.

The plastic lid slams hard at the end
of another long shift. It sounds desperately final
like the North Springs station, or the highest note

of a violin....

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I aint got no where to go
Down a lost and lonely road
I anint got clothes
No room n board to call my own
Just cardboard box to call my home
This little dumpster is my friend 
Puts the food in hands


!!! This about the homeless I help out along the way. !!!!...

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I threw out all of you
smashed all the CD's
trashed every sweatshirt that smelled of you
ripped up diary pages of admiration
letters and pictures burnt
only ashes that can't say 'I love you' anymore
and then you wanted me back
but I'm not going dumpster diving...

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I was going to write you a poem
but my cat lay in the road.
I scraped up his remains with a shovel
paced them in a plastic bag,
dropped it into a dumpster.

I was going to write you a poem
but in my fridge is a half can of cat food,
with a cellophane lid,
useless and taking up space....

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Poverty: a dumpster lid for a dinner table
Offensive to people who think your unstable
Vagabonds panhandle coins from the giver
Evenings confined to a bag by the river
Recycling of cans for a smoke or a beer
Thankful for warmth in a cold, rainy year;
You too,can make this scene;lose your job and lose your green!...

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At the playground today
I saw the park manager smoking a cigar,
and after a few puffs she squashed it out on the pavement,
"You know the dumpster really ain't that far!"
I was about to yell but then realized
I was feeding the ducklings (of all possible things),
while my baby what left
neglected and weeping on the swings!...

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Watching the protests grow larger and stronger
     burying hope in the stench of a dumpster

   Hearing speakers extol baby-burners
     they themselves as unhinged as murderers

   What has America come to when human butchery is praised
     with social media as their church, on such values our youth is now raised...

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The Poet was wasted. 
Like leftovers after lunch.  

A plate of wilted salad. 
A half eaten burger, soggy with ketchup.
A cold limp fry. 

He wanted someone to pay attention. 
Savor, digest and appreciate him.  

But they spat him out, 
cleared the plates, 
and threw him in the dumpster. 

E.G. Maynard. 
46 & 2. 


3....

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Falls into........
a wall
a stall
iniquity
the light
a sworm of bullets
a willing hand of love
water as ones blood
a battle within between two Gods
a bat 
a fist
a steelpipe
a broken bottle
a hand gun
a dumpster
as a person falls in and out
of darkness that enlightens
a grace from above
guarenteed life of the unfortunate...

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Meat and potatoes grind
In the dimly lit alleys of my mind
Under the lobster tails and lemon rind
Inside dumpsters filled with refuse enshrined
Childhood demons loosely confined 
Are darkly intertwined
With my dark shadow well defined 
Tagging wall with phrases unkind
They are always there to remind
Memories I’ve tried to leave behind...

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BOOM BOOM BOOM!
Sounds like bombs
Not mere fireworks
Joe said it was close

It was six p.m. on Tuesday
The week before 4th of July
The dogs were frightened
The cat is hiding now

We watched the video
It is gray scale, and fuzzy
Young male gets out of car
Throws two cherry bombs into our dumpster

Walks to the mail box
Where our video camera is aimed
BOOM!
Blowing it up...

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Spring cleaning my closet
The old toys are gone,
No room now
The age of playing done;
Now on the way outside
Out by the dumpster,
I  caught someone’s eye,
A little boy or girls mother;
She looked at me and smiled
Said “Can I take those off your hands?
They are in perfect shape
For my kids they would be grand!”
I handed them over..
no questions asked
better with a child
than in the trash...

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the eyes are mesmerized
they stare and stare
to look and to see...
	the ears hear
the oncoming sounds
drumming into your pores

filling your minds with trash
	the dumpster is full,
but indulging in more
as volume is 
all the way up

seeing and hearing
murdering, killing,
disasters, tragedies,
catasrophies, outrages,
fights, guns,
war, stupidity,drugs

do you blame your mind for how
it acts,

or are you taught how?...

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Creepster Hallows Eve guy was prowling around
Sliding into corners all over Tinsel Town
Some of the kinder homeless gave him a wink
One of the more generous offered him a drink

I cannot imbibe, he told the more-than-generous guy
Creepsters are not allowed beverages, I do not know why
He slithered under a dumpster and held his breath for a day.
They found his happy garbage-breathing corpse that very next Tuesday....

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James and Peter
Found a messed up cat litter
Close by at Peter's

A cat is amiss
The litter smells of cat's piss
The missus remiss

The miss is too slow
To clean the cat's messy show
The cat meows in woe

The cat runs away
A missus tries to find it
Away the cat goes

This goes to now show
That the house is a dumpster
And smells of cat's piss

James caught the cat now
As it tries to get away
The miss is happy...

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His boredom conquered discipline again;
a bridge thus built has no one else to blame.
A blazing dumpster fire bloomed from within,
like breathing, birth unnoticed when it came.
Audacious that a button made of cork
might detonate and on his soul impinge.
Believe not blood, instead apply the torque,
and so begins another drinking binge.


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Thought I’d try to use all the B words to describe one…...

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