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Best Scarecrow Poems

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Scarecrow
Blackened Crow circle
  frightened   hardly
     -plucking nightly
the fruits of her harvest

pitchforked hollow eyes watch
   behind the...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scarecrow, solitude,
Form: Personification



Premium Member Is the Lord Just a Scarecrow
Is the Lord just a scarecrow
     watching over my fields

   Is He no more than a guard dog
 ...

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Categories: scarecrow, care, family, god, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Scarecrow
"Scarecrow"



Worldliness 
in those 
who traverse 
poets’ 
re-edited
edited 
re-edited
thoughts;
semicolan, pause
their notes;
Mark a line
crossed black
on a 
Poet’s cross
caught still 
breeze blowing 
through
tightly tied 
forgotten
Love Knots

See there, 
an...

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Categories: scarecrow, freedom, love, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Scarecrow
golden harvest moon
    illuminates the night sky --
       a scarecrow keeps watch

9/20/16
For Catie Lindsey's Traditional Haiku...

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Categories: scarecrow, autumn, moon,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member To Dance In Fall
The falling leaves serenade and ballet 
Whilst the harvest moon slowly waves good-bye 
The sky; a straw-like yellow chardonnay 
As the "Good morning" sun rises...

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Categories: scarecrow, autumn,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member The Waltz of the Mannequin
A Fantasy

There was I, forgotten in the attic.
Mannequin discarded, ready for demolition.
Cracks everywhere with some rags thrown on
Haphazardly over me like a scarecrow.
Suddenly all lights...

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Categories: scarecrow, dance, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Rattling Rhyme
Ride of the Scarecrow Clan

(To: Mittens) 

She was born in the corn on a cold misty morn,
the most beautiful cat on the farm.
(I must keep...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scarecrow, beautiful, cat, jealousy, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Turkey Chase
Turkey's on the table, both legs up
Everything was fine, 'til I made the first cut!

The turkey unleashed a "CACKLE!", then jumped onto the floor
All you...

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Categories: scarecrow, giving, humor,
Form: Couplet
Wishes
Wish I was a snake slithering in the grass
     or a big black spider on a pane of glass
Or a cobweb...

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Categories: scarecrow, girl,
Form: Rhyme
Dawning Poetic Dreams
I'm an enlightened 
equinox, strolling in
faded universe, 
dreaming poetry in
susurrus serenades 
of rustling 
ruby-leaves which
whisper cool 
beamish hues
to my autumnal-
quartz heart, 
when the nucleus 
of...

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Categories: scarecrow, autumn, betrayal, dream, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poe Tree
I stood on a rocky shoal, regret lingering on my mind
Its fingers traced blood-filled lines along my bare arm
as if brittle veins in leaves, fallen...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scarecrow, death, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Seagulls and Scarecrows
I, a salty scarecrow, roam the shoreline
          The moon melts soft like butter on the reach
...

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Categories: scarecrow, appreciation, bird, morning, nature,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member The Spooks Family Halloween Party
It was quite a party at the old Spooks house,
to a spooktactular Samba they bobbed and bounced.
with skeletons banging their big ox-bone drums,
and the pumpkins...

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Categories: scarecrow, halloween, holiday, humor, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sienna in Season
I was a productive, proficient painter, long captivated by the manifold colors,
An infinite parade of hues and intensities, like tales of a thousand summers.

I worked...

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Categories: scarecrow, autumn, beautiful, color, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Elegy For Michael Jackson (1)
Refrain:
You shimmering waves on the ocean blue
Dance not again, he cannot dance with you
You weeping forests where the winds wail too
Let your bright tears fall...

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Categories: scarecrow, death, dedication, historytime,
Form: Elegy

Book: Shattered Sighs