Down And Out Poems - Poems about Down And Out

dogs dash off back deck slipping and sliding through mud just like slip and slide...

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Occasionally, we might stub a toe, Or even sometimes, skin a knee. Now while most of us fully recover, It's not always done gracefully. We might also get our nose bloodied, Yet we're compelled to never quit. So that whenever we stumble and fall, We'll rise...

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When I feel down and out It makes me want to shout No one wants to hear it So it makes me feel arrogant My heart is good But to many get misunderstood I'm on my own And nothing is set in stone I'm there for friends But mine don't want to bend Nothing much I can do But keep going like I do...

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A Far Cry A far cry from home A man sat drinking Up a storm 2o drinks too sober Down on his luck Living by his wits Down and out On the street Of fabled Bangkok Just another loser Flotsam white boy Lost in inner space Out of his mind Dreaming dark dreams As he continued to drink A far cry from home A far cry contest entry May 3, 2021...

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When you are down and out When you feel alone When the key no longer fits When you no longer feel safe When you can’t reach; reach whom it concers When you can’t reach; reach the ones you love When you can’t reach; reach the one you love When you are isolated When you can’t have visitors When you aren’t allowed visitors When you needed...

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Down and Out in Saigon Southeast Asia, and Mexico has always attracted A certain type of westerner The down and out On a down word spiral Why? Relatively cheap to live Lots of part-time gigs Teaching English Or other things Cheap Booze, drugs, sex Readily available Places to stay Dirt cheap And no one needs To sleep outdoors Easy to disappear Into the foreigner's backpackers ghettos And escape From whatever...

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The cracks that people fall through are the cracks that can be filled By those of us who care enough for those down and out and ill Don’t wait around for politics government or laws For they are not interested in anything but waging bloody wars So spare a thought for those who live in alleys and doorways Because therefore...

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I keep fighting until I have nothing left I get knocked down and get back up But how much more of this can I take Til I stop getting back up And I'm down and out. I try to lift everyone up Making sure they are ok But who's got my back Who will lift me up Before I'm down and out I'm tired of...

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At times when feel down and out, and you just don't know what its all about. Try to do someone a good deed, and often times you will find that's just what you need. When you set and think all the things that are bad, it makes things seem more sad. So try to think about things that please, and it help...

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So many nights like these on my hands and knees Begging God please give me just a little release In a dark desperate state with too much on my plate Straight out of the gate this seems to be my fate Since the womb ive been denied, hated and despised Just another outcast from the tribe , discarded, judged and tried. A...

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Poor man down and out Set aside like trash at A cold curb left To wonder about how Life so promising And glee, could gray Into thick black haze Of somber dream And waking nightmare Where hunger live stout And doubt stouter still Each nights' eternity Coolly serves reminder Hope is beyond, Far beyond... This concrete laced lot....

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When your down and out You want someone to lay down with you Shine a light Wash away all your dreams Ease your mind So all your troubles disappear Look into your eyes and wipe away the the tear....

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You eager commuters you don’t see me in the shadows shivering Remembering that green door and the warm baking bread smells A king in a pocket sprung bed Beside my abdicated queen And the curly haired prince who No longer hears my song You eager commuters Forward looking I alone have Wealth and friendship Bottle shaped No idle chit-chat But whispering cold comfort in my ear and warming the broken...

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Hey stranger, will you help me I’m begging of you please My world has been turned upside down And now I’m on my knees. The job I held has disappeared The wife I had is gone The child whose hair I ruffled no longer hears my song My cosy hearth a memory now. The comfort of my...

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DOWN AND OUT By:Poetic-Life May 21, 2013 i cant explain my feeling anymore cause everytime i think of you i cry, i been crying for days and nothing i can do but cry i can wipe my tears but im still going to cry, i can promise you that im not going to cry but im still going...

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