Best Raggedy Poems

A brand new doll, with braids and freckled face,
was tossed aside, left caged, with plastic bars.
She eyed the blue-eyed spat with no embrace.
Though box was dinged, she’d not receive sad scars.

Ann’s clean though tossed in attic space; it’s dark.
It’s not how she’d imagined play; she’s...

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Raggedy Weeds Poem
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Have you ever bought a used car and thought it was good
You didn’t even check the motor or under the hood
You drive it out the lot and it drives smooth
And then the very next day something just aint cool
You hear some funny sounds and you...

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The longing to go back,
Back to another time
Another place
I’m aging, and he doesn't care
A different crime
He can run
He can hide
He can he can soar
He can fly
Away in the 
Blue box
I don’t have one
I don’t have a police box
I’m all alone 
I’m stuck here watching every...

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I was a Tomboy to the core, 
Went to Kindergarten – hoping for more 
Than merely dolls and tea sets but some things
Like cars and trucks, airplanes with wings
All the things that make a boy’s heart sing
Also brought me to dreaming of every good thing

Despite...

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Goodbye.
Alone, and sad. He swings.
Fearing a future, dreading his past. 

What comes next? What happened?

His eyes full of a thousand years worth of the pain of loss.
Hands knitted together, one grasping the other. 
Feet dangling helplessly inches above the ground.

His mind races
Everything else around him...

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Loopy       
Lonely 
Goofy
Droopy
Raggedy Ann doll long forgotten
Dirty, discarded, alone, forlorn....

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I have raggedy
shoes with a long tongue yet my
shoes don't speak none their 
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silent souls searching
for something to say this day
as the latchets tied
~
in the marathon
race came in last place to place
these shoes don't speak none...

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Growing tired
of running circles around your eyes.
Time to slow the tempo of the jester's soul tangle.
Breathe-breathe....breathe
my deep blue raggedy sheep.
Easy-easy-easy
you don't need those happy pills
just these bucking, diamond flanks. 
Chill-chill chill.
rest your Velcro heart in my sticky mind.
Watch stars climb from frozen naps...
time to dream...dream...

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Raggedy Mules 

Ghosts of the past
     on their raggedy mules, 

Clichéd and typecast 
     as infidels and fools,

Travelling nearby 
     in their caravans of woe 

And in the blink of an eye 
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Raggedy Army

As morning bathes in spring sunshine
A raggedy army stands in line.
Unkempt and ragtag, oddly sized,
Unarranged, disorganised.
Red, a splash among the grey
A new parade at dawn each day.
Some heads drooping, some held high,
A handful gazing at the sky.
Fresh and bright to start the morning,
Most won’t...

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In the blithe breeze
A baby’s hand opens to the light.
In a daze, the radiant blaze, towering flower
arching toward the golden solar rays.
In a time-lapsing daydream, it rises, stretches 
and unfurls, soaking in and beckoning the sultry Sol,
the simmering summer Sol.
No wonder it is seen as...

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