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Best Scavenge Poems

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Premium Member What Have You Done
Dear humans, do you read me, I live in space,
Merely a being, sent by God, I'm all over the place.
I circle the world, live among...

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Categories: scavenge, weather,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Belly of the Beast
Belly of the BEAST 

In the dark mountain shadow
A fiery breeze coming from the East
Warmness is ripping up the sky
Hearing the sound of the Dragon...

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Categories: scavenge, death, imaginationsweet, sweet,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Of Birds and Lonely Men
Drab pigeons in flight, skimming over the streets
Swift, restless movement, but going nowhere
Cleaving curved wings in the hot and stagnant air
While no one takes notice...

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Categories: scavenge, loss, people, sad,
Form: Free verse
Who's Who At the Zoo
Anacondas crush to pieces
Bisons sport long shaggy hair
Cheetahs are the fastest species
Dolphins leap into the air
Elephants have large incisors
Fennec foxes, ears like Spock
Great white sharks...

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Categories: scavenge, animal,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Pando Waits
in Pando's shadow a young maiden sings
wander'd to and fro peat bog feet sloshing
auburn locks adorned in daisy crowned rings
quite unaware that something was watching...

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Categories: scavenge, friendship, heart, life, memory,
Form: Rhyme



George Burton
When Filey's rebel rousing rats,
    Were terrorising local cats,
    Who would not engage in rodent wars
   ...

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Categories: scavenge, cat,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Insect Inspection


Some disgusting and cute,
Many creepy and mute,

Some exotic and vain,
Mainly local and plain,

Some revolt, some amaze,
Most pest, bother and chase,

Some crawl, slither and jump,
Buzz, bite,...

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Categories: scavenge, humorous, insect, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Blue Ridge Nights
Above the Blue Ridge hills
flights of stealth owl
glide in from the moon.

Strange how a jungle is never quiet
but these Tennessee woods
sleepwalk along moccasin paths
watched over...

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Categories: scavenge, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Alienation
I am a stranger in an alien land,
Always searching  for eternal youth,
Controlled by an aristocracy with
Little time for honesty and truth.
The food banks are...

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Categories: scavenge, christmas, class, humanity, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Scavenging For Treasure
It began when I was a young girl, oh I did not scavenge,
in the mud or float in the river but I was known to...

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Categories: scavenge, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Mary King's Close
Mary King’s Close

Set underneath the cobbles
Below the Royal Mile
The close is dimly lit
You can visit there awhile

Go back into the past
Explore the narrow wynds
Live the...

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Categories: scavenge, scary, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vultures
Vultures

See them circle high upon the wing
Their beady eyes scan for anything
A weakness in their prey is all they need
And patience for its death before...

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Categories: scavenge, abuse, anti bullying,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Just 38 Cents a Day
Just 38 Cents a Day


Throughout history food has been used as a
Weapon of Mass Destruction.  The Romans
would pillage and plunder – then burn the
fields...

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Categories: scavenge, food, slam, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Regret
A New poetry form invented by Aggie in Malaysia. She named it Chinky - My first try, and not a very good one. My gerund...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scavenge, confidence, courage, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
The Homeless Child
Street lamps still lighted
night has retired and faded
a new day unfolds

heavens rolled darkness
tucked it away for the sun
to give light and shine

in the horizon
a golden...

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Categories: scavenge, childhood, life, poverty,
Form: Haiku

Book: Reflection on the Important Things