Popular Poems About Homelessness

A pigeon was scavenging scraps
along the edge of the drive-thru
while we were waiting in line
for coffee and fries
and I imagined it pecking
on every car door
asking if we had any potato
and salt to spare

The people 'round here
aren't that much different
to that small grey pigeon
scavenging for scraps
and shiny things left on the ground

...

There's a family of shopping trolleys
around the corner from my house
that are filled with molding rubbish

It's only a matter of...

Back in the 80's,
besides the music & concerts.

We didn't know what we were
going to do for the summer

Hopefully, some farmer
would want his bails of hay
stacked up in the loft.  

Midnight Blues in New Orleans

Degas in his studio
Paints the NOLA cotton exchange
While sad clouds drift
Like floating islands of Bible belt dreams
High on the calluses of blues guitarists
Wailing like the ghosts of Hades
That haunt Claiborne Avenue
Like a hobo with his stove pipe hat
With a bottle of Port to welcome his ship
When he rises from his entombed dreams

Where Jelly Roll Morton was heard
Playing on the victrola
When the scent of whisky poured
From windows to the midnight voodoo
Of a...