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Below are the all-time best Rough And Ready poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of rough and ready poems written by PoetrySoup members

Rough and Ready I Am

Fighting my way to the top again
Competing
Evaluating
Editing
Completing
Myself
Against 
The best
Me I have been
or can ever be.
Self improvement.
Rough and ready, waiting and learning....

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Categories: rough and ready, 10th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse

Pondering of a Puddle

Ponded and becalmed after the downpour, lying in shining stillness, I reflect an earthly existence; above me newly leafed limbs, and beyond, the wild beauty...

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Categories: rough and ready, april, destiny, fate, imagination,
Form: Haibun

Lost In Britain and NEW!! Lost In The USA

LOST IN BRITAIN

Poling, Patching, Nether Wallop, 
Matching Tye and Droop

Plumpton, Lickfold, Puddletown, 
Westward Ho! and Throop.

Hole of Horcum, New Invention,
Boghead, Frome, Cat's Ash

North Piddle, Staines...

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Categories: rough and ready, america, england, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

If You Could See In Me

If you could see, the inside of me
What would you view, that you would want to see
For inside of me for any given year
Is loaded...

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Categories: rough and ready, history, musicme,
Form: Rhyme

Bruiser, a Bichon Frise

Bichon Frise

Rough and ready

Ultimate companion

Intellectual breed

Shadow by my side

Ever so playful

Regal little dog...

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Categories: rough and ready, animals, pets
Form: Acrostic

Buttercupshalimarcat

ButtercupShalimar was a cat, that was white
She was fluffy and furry and real girl girly.
One day, in a baskety in the bedrommy,
She had six kittiebabies...

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Categories: rough and ready, children, word play,
Form: Free verse

On Two Old Characters At the Bus Stop

“Well now,
I’ve enough dirty knickers to be washin’,
That’s why I never got married”.

Now listen to them talk
For it’s hard not to.
He never got married 
or...

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Categories: rough and ready, character, city, friendship, humor,
Form: Blank verse

Big Hands Don

BIG HANDS DON
I s’pose I’ve been a cowboy since I was just a ‘teen
But I was herd’n bad guys, see I cowboy’d for the queen

I...

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Categories: rough and ready, cowboy-western, funny, smile,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

No Fake Fire Drill

No "FAKE" Fire Drill

Residents at high
     land manor apartments
     (aside from myself)
     got...

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Categories: rough and ready, 11th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse

The Long and Distant Connection

Amongst the rough and ready she waits.
Her ears pitched only for the music that will lift her up,
her eyes searching for the words and images...

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Categories: rough and ready, internet, longing,
Form: Verse

Fighting My Way To the Top Again

Fighting my way to the top again
Competing
Evaluating
Editing
Completing
Myself
Against 
The best
Me I have been
or can ever be.
Self improvement.
Rough and ready, waiting and learning....

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Categories: rough and ready, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: List

Balls and Belles

These rugby-playing girls - 
or women, should I say? -
are so rough and ready,
dashing down that field,
conveying that oval ball
from this end to that,
gritting their...

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Categories: rough and ready, color, sports, woman, women,
Form: Free verse

Why

WHY………….

Why does my heart beat so slow
Is it because I have to let my baby go
I have to leave your warm embrace
Its just too much...

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Categories: rough and ready, lost love, lovebaby, me,
Form: I do not know?

Low Sun Over Home Waters

Nets are hauled and homeward go the shrimp boats
rolling slow and easy on a sunset path,
their droning engines chugging
over a rippling seafoam.

In the mangrove swamp
an...

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Categories: rough and ready, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Eary Solution

I’d been cutting spuds for seed beneath the pines on Rouse’s lot,
and putting lime upon the open flesh to make sure they don’t rot.
I had...

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Categories: rough and ready, humor,
Form: Rhyme