Short Unlucky Poems

The crazy one, he knows
To whom woe befell
Unlucky liar he was...

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You never know that you are lucky
Unless you are 1 of the unlucky...

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Lightning
flashing danger
unrelenting fools
become unlucky conductors
gone to ground...

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How unlucky
a pinprick
from a needle
cast in a haystack
into world made smaller
than it seemed....

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A man with very bad luck
Purchased a lemon of a truck
It broke down on a date
The woman walked away
So in despair he failed in love...

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The parties are crazy as bats.
They speak and each bat gets the shats.
Unlucky for us
they'll merge and be thus:
Republ-dem-ican-ocrats!...

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I said to my wife, did you know?
If you drop a brick on your toe
It’s regarded as luck
But it hurts like F—K
I would rather be unlucky so...

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Here rests unlucky Peter Mcgraw
He was struck down dead by a meteor,
All of his life he'd had no luck,
He'd still be here, if he'd just looked up....

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Stop and smell the roses 
but be careful
for you may get stung. 
For those bees 
are not known for their taste 
so you could be the unlucky one....

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An unlucky young man from Michigan
Had a very unusual condichigan
He got sick from a hake
That he found in the lake
And now he can never eat fishigan...

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A PoetSouper trying so hard to rhyme ,
Took a chance at downloading on line .
The unlucky sod
Blew~up his I~pod ,
But his curses were verses sublime ....

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a calamitous catastrophe
mysterious malefic malady
cataclysmic and unlucky
disastrous deeds, seemingly deadly
hurricane shaking up land beside the sea...

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Cuomos goose up New York's scenario
Today Andrew; yesterday, Mario --
  They think they're ladies' men
  Each one a 'real gem' --
Andrew's the unlucky lothario...

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I espied it
  far off in the field
A four-leaf clover!
  I cried with glee

As I approached
  its leaves were three
What Fate lay in store
  for unlucky me...

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In forcing perfection by wracking my brain
Satisfaction gets harder for unlucky few 
I’m wrecking my being while going insane
As milking my soul gets harder to do...

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There once was a Merman named Harry
Who was in love with a Mermaid named Mary
So he wrote her a poem
And invited her home
Unfortunatly, she turned out to be Larry...

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comes from
Jesus and disciples
friends and foe
gathered together
for last supper


Author notes

Just a passing thought in thirteen words, seemed appropriate....

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some people unlucky,
some people afraid;

some people left out 
some are unmade

buring like anger
black cat comes near

bringing all of the pain all the fear...

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UNLUCKY 13

          My ardent ardor
                  sighed in vain.
             I left being silent.
 
 06/16/18

  'MagiCicada' Contest by Maureen Mcgreavy...

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One Friday morning
I looked at the calendar
It showed the number 13
In the afternoon
I drank 13 bottles of beer
I fell on the floor
And broke my head
And the day was unlucky...

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realising how life is given to kids,
nurturing like feeding a cat out of your palm.
Sometimes unfortunate, sometimes unlucky.
twisted fate crawls and switches off the light....

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To a charming and convincing sense they comport
so far from suspicion and nothing to report
beat the penal code
crime in silent mode
poorer is the unlucky victim they deport....

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All the tales I must write
For the unlucky ones who can't get the words right, 
I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to halt once I start
Metamorphosing their hearts and mine into art....

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Harvey was quite cruel, as hurricanes go
Thankfully I live far away from the blow
Sympathies go out
Unlucky folks, no doubt
Ordinary people whose lives are at an all time low...

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Once knew a man from Kentucky
Had a boil on his nose, quite unlucky
A state he was in
Not Kentucky, that's dim
Had to squeeze it, oh my, sure was yucky


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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