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Best Rag Poems

Below are the all-time best Rag poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of rag poems written by PoetrySoup members


Doll
"Hi Doll!"
He's been calling me that for years
I like it

Truth is I have always been a doll

My permanent smile
My open arms

I was a sweet sixteen's...

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Categories: rag, abuse, appreciation, introspection, me,
Form: Free verse



Categories: rag, society, war,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member - Au Revoir - Goodbye -
- 2016 -

- JANUARY -

A freezing cold evening

Where the stars shining bright

With frost blade flanks

From mouth and nose steam

In the clear silence

White untrodden snows

Nature's frozen...

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Categories: rag, remember,
Form: Free verse
Let's All Drink To Lockdown
Let's All Drink to Lockdown 
by Jan Beaumont ©

I'm normally a social girl
I love to meet my mates
But lately with the virus here
We can't go...

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Categories: encouraging, friendship, fun, giggle,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Broken
his baby daughter
tossed aside like a rag doll
dad wanted a son

my mother told him
that I was ‘the next best thing’
at least she loved me!

always second...

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Categories: rag, feelings, growing up, me,
Form: Senryu



Elder Abuse
He sits quietly in the corner of the room
and dabs his face removing the blood that
still gently trickles down his cheek. Flinching 
from the pain...

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Categories: rag, abuse, confusion, heartbreak, old,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Make Do and Mend
Make Do and Mend,

Years ago we had jobs
We had fun and money in our pocket
Things were much better then
Once you could go out the door
And...

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Categories: rag, community,
Form: Verse
The Blue Collar Guy
In the stillness of my room  I lay in bed
arms snugged tightly around my pillow
turned  side-ways facing moon and light
But it is not...

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Categories: rag, fantasy, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Sea Songs
His heart is with the winds
that set his spirit free,
enduring breeze that sets the sails
and guides him out to sea.

Sea rover fair with eyes as...

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Categories: rag, adventure, loss, sad, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Unlike Thee Athenian
Those rarer men I once fondly 
knew...                  ...

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Categories: rag, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Souper Friend
I crawl into a cave called myself.
It’s dry and dusty, cobwebbed.
So afraid to be, alone in the dark,
“Who am I,” is my cry.

Then Trixie’s best...

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Categories: rag, friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumn
Autumn unreeled
Forests shaken hollow
               settling
      ...

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Categories: rag, autumn, beauty, color, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Milly Moll Is Missing - Ld
We’ve picnicked at the local park
It’s time to go, as it’s getting dark
But Lucy’s lost her small rag doll
And can’t sleep without Millie Moll

We have...

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Categories: rag, missing,
Form: Rhyme
Life Goes On
Why living in darkness,
If you have the shine at your side?
What is this rag for?
this cloak of sadness
You have the wonderful cape.
of joy at your...

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Categories: rag, allusion, life, prayer, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Evolution of a Broken Heart
“The Evolution of a Broken Heart”



In thy hands, 
I gently placed it

lacking hesitation’s pleas and virtues
‘twas ne’er a time to be uncourageous
plucked somewhere from deep...

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Categories: rag, abuse, betrayal, destiny, fate,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs