Wino Poems - Poems about Wino

I need a glass of hard drink to brush the teeth, A jug of wine to complement a wheat bread, An alcohol to bath all day long,..... I'm a vagrant...in my mansion street, No wife to cook for me,sons and daughters to make me a father cared, Wardrobe full of dresses,but one has become as tempered silicon to my wrong, Having...

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revised from 2014 He looked like an old antique with leathered skin - creased and tan, His lips trembled as tried to speak - his words were hard to understand- His eyes were a beautiful blue, but held only his fear, Nothing around him was clean, and on occasion he shed a tear- Once he had a good name...

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A stupid and futureless wino, was heavily drunk as you know. He fell in a gutter and shouted "its better. This home is the best for a wino"...

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Oso the One-eyed Wino By Gary L Thomas ...has a doubly unique perspective on this Flat world. The depth that passes as distance From an objective makes him subject to Prevarications, half-truths and subtle innuendos And makes him the lone wolf of the bear-den. Burdened with this yoke and joke of butts his one Eye tears more than any other. Being a-lone visionary and...

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He drifted into town one day. We didn't ask his name Or where he came from. (Some guessed way up north.) They called him Chico the Wino. We didn't muse or ponder That he was some mother's son -- Jack or Joe or Jim or John -- Who went over there And couldn't go home again. We didn't know what he did in the war Or...

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~~~~ Wino ? - Why No ! ~~~~ I like a glass of wine, now and then, While relaxing, feet up, in the den. I'll quit after one 'Cause spillings no fun When two often becomes five or ten....

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Shallow tracks he left now most dissipated by winds of time. "Britches" searches these tracks for good times, but recalls only those, which taste of persimmons before first frost. He represented things a son didn't want in a dad. "Britches" often wondered about mitigating circumstances, and while reluctant to indict; he reasoned why things were as they were, and how they had gotten that...

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