Short Homelessness Poems

Sand
Surfing
Ride the waves
Desert's mirage
No waterslides
Within southern California
Life in a bus stop...

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The man who lost his money
got a horrible nasty shock
When the world called him homeless
and his government a rock...

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The would be no homelessness
no poverty, no delusion
if men would but make their homes underground.
Tell me, what is the moral of this story?...

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its everywhere
here and there
so your be aware
so many need care
you pay a fare
to be there insome town
lay on the ground
its a long less
HOMELESSNESS...

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if your on the street
than you know this beat
they come out late
thats no  misstake
and its cool
cloths and food
for homelessness
jod well done
the
MIDNIGHT RUN...

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Nobody is born bad
War
Poverty
Homelessness
Lack of love
Lack of compassion
Lack of education
Lack of jobs
And lack of care
Drives people to take desperate measures to survive...

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God helps those who help themselves
Hidden here a kernel of truth: "no free lunch!"
But if I seek a shelter in real or fancied homelessness
"A stitch in time saves nine," - not my bikini (thanx a bunch)...

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Humanity hungers
Hope seems to be lost today
Homelessness a problem.
Heaven's door far away
Heavier the heart lost
Happiness floats or flees
Heir of all things arms wait    ...

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Downtown city lights
with breathtaking ambiance 
hides in her darkness
disparity ~homelessness
ensnared in her masquerade...



Inspired by numerous sightings of homelessness while traveling by train....

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Unemployment line
Single file to soup kitchen...
Fear of homelessness

Unemployment line
Cries in emergency room...
Fear, no insurance

Unemployment line
Like a faith-healer's crusade...
Hope to help, heal, house...

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little orphan girl
wandering the streets
after being thrown out of a group home

little orphan girl
trying to figure it out
without the skills to do it

little orphan girl
dressed in a woman’s body
no help coming because of that gown....

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ocean sounds
I pass a conch
from my ear to hers
 
monsoon dusk
the flood carrying
my shattered dreams


long rain
the homelessness
reopens the school


holding tight
to the hand of my child--
on the iPad
my mother talks and talks
of returning roles...

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Oh, the piggy loves you
The piggy loves me
The piggy is homeless, 
yessiree. 

Give the pig a cookie
Give the pig a bed
Or maybe a sarcophagus, 
in case the piggy's dead.

Punch'm in the snout
Poke'm in the eye
Take the piggy home 
and dump'm in the sty...

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He stood erect.
I don't know
if he would have kissed his mate
     or patted his childrens' heads
when he set out from camp
     to procure food.
But they were happy
when he returned provisioned.
I bought him rice and tuna at Wal-Mart.
This is homelessness today....

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The abrupt dissonance caused a mental breakdown 
Father was never in his life
The streets played the role of caretaker 
Homelessness became his ultimate attire 
Often, a square peg in a round whole 
The grinding lead to a friction like no other 
Bottom is reality, top is but a dream...

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Poem therapy . An addict

The history of Christianity until now

The history of Islam until now.

Logic

Of humanity

All says the goodness 

All says health 

So

So

Not a narcotic smugler

Not addict of men

Not ruin of families

No divorce for women

Not homelessness

Not injustice...

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I had a chance
To do things different
And the same
And I believe
I can’t do either
Because
They have
Already been done
So I just want
To go back
To homelessness
And staying at
Friend’s houses
And now I 
Am
Going
Home

(Excerpt from the ebook "Jail Poetry Vol. 1" Available !!NOW!! @ Amazon.com)...

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The Retreat:  Part 3

Opening Bell

And you thought YOU had it bad
Cancer
Homelessness
Divorce
Estrangement
Family Death
Pet Death
Molestation
Rape
Depression
Sex Worker
Sex Client
Bad Taste
Bizarre Taste
You people are really ed up
Ok I am too
Let's un—-k ourselves silly
And begin.

(3/24/17)...

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The world collapses
Diseases kill
Meaningless wars
Starvation
Homelessness
Cancer is growing
We either hate our neighbors
Or just don’t know
Fire builds fire
Revenge is the cause 
You can’t wound with your hands
You kill with kindness
And heal with compaction
Hatred no solution
The world collapsing
and we don't know what to do...

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covid-19 deaths,
unemployment on the rise...
so is homelessness.

the pain very real
our ship of state is living...
a complete nightmare.

no relief in sight
not quite a happy new year...
lifeline held hostage.



Date written: 12/27/2020...

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music lingers
streetlights
shine stars
man and woman
sleeping in shadows
the library’s closed
an intimate voice
on the radio
as I drive home
midnight
the spell is cast
midnight
as I drive home
on the radio
an intimate voice
the library’s closed
sleeping in shadows
man and woman
shine stars
streetlights
music lingers
...

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We have imagined a place like this,
sun-bleached,
prairie comfortable,
creaky,
chewed mellow by light.

We have hammered together
a structure of
easy happenstance.
A wickiup somewhere
between your homelessness
and mine.

We are inside this steeple of fingers.
A make-do space that serves
for what we have not cared
to cling to,
but love now to enter....

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There's construction on 400
Bed rolls under the junction
Lights passing overhead
Eyes shut but never rested

With the film money rolling in,
New homes are built
With the overpass covering,
some are sheltered from the rain

Underneath 85,
Just south of city lights
are those still trudging through life
Bed roll, holding dog close for the warmth to survive...

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Social issues affects many people from all walks of life. 
A nation of destruction from past to present days from addictions, excess bank fees, church burnings and shootings, Covid 19, human trafficking, famine,, food shortages, childhood traumas, mental illness, no affordable housing, homelessness are the results of causes and effects of social issues beyond one’s control....

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talented and afraid
I float in a blue sky
a single cloud exporting me
to the place of my dreams

the tempest will come later
leaving me without a clue
fumbling in the wind I ride the waves 
of homelessness and reach the ground

hurricane passing I take a breath
in the water of my tears
the salt make my eyes to peer at the sky
and I see the cloud of my life passing by...

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