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Best Scavenger Poems

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Premium Member Scavenger of Death
To bid farewell to you was life's cruel pun
while love remains so deep within my heart,
unending, as flames of fire in the sun.
Death, the dark...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scavenger, death,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Fondant Gates
The distance between us means nothing~
      l've f a l l e n in love with you, despite the moon...

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Categories: scavenger, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Magical Ocean Hs
waves gently caress
washing ashore sea treasures ~
beach scavenger hunt

a flock of seagulls
swoop and steal beach crustaceans ~
crab delicacy

a warm ocean breeze
wafts of beach roses and...

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Categories: scavenger, beach, beauty, imagery, nature,
Form: Other
Threadbare Clouds
Gray smeared sky like a quilt of rags
Winos sip rot gut from brown paper bags
Threadbare cloud crotch splits up the side
Rain pours down, you got...

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Categories: scavenger, angst, beautiful, change, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sea In Life
It’s a wonderful feeling as you gladly air your sweet melody
The canticle of your ebbs is heard from your sweet glee
Children shriek with laughter as...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scavenger, future, hope, inspiration, ,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Weasel
WEASEL

Tiny little weasel,
Sneaking `round the house,
Searching for a midnight snack,
A chick, a kit or mouse.

Crafty little rascal,
Scurries here and there,
Must find enough to feed the...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scavenger, nature
Form: Quatrain
A Compilation of Fickle Foolish Footles
FOOTLES FOR THE BIRDS AND THE BEASTS - 

Bad-ass old bear:
    Grizzly
    Grizzly

Dachshund making critical life choices:
  ...

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Categories: scavenger, funny,
Form: Footle
Premium Member English Language - 1 - Repost
I failed English in High School
                   ...

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Categories: scavenger, funny, imagination, people, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member "toronto Classic"
For: Scavenger Hunt
In Honor of: ~Constance~Rambling Poet

Rambling around in a traffic jam,
Poetess naked and on the lam.
  Constance’s very neat trick,
  Behind a...

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Categories: scavenger, funny
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Home Is Calling
A profound urge to come home.
Some invisible force is making its, presence known.
I must act. 
I cannot ignore this any longer,
I fear that if I...

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© Roger Harp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scavenger, adventure, courage, farewell, home,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Bones of a Forest
The bones of a forest are stripped clean by the ocean and strewn on her shores.  The sun-bleached wooden cemetery leaves a somber impression...

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Categories: scavenger, beach, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Inviolate Spirit
Written: December 04, 2023
             _________________________________________

Desensitizing me—destroying my delusion.
Snapping sight of the kaleidoscopic illusion.
Delving...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scavenger, analogy, appreciation, character, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dinosaurs
DINOSAURS

Let me take out my thesaurus
And talk about them stinky dinosaurs

I have my own theory on the Mesozoic Era,
First I'll share my reason on the...

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Categories: scavenger, slamfunny,
Form: Free verse
Humanity Lost
Wings spread out, the sun in its face, a scavenger set out hunting,
Looking for anything it could find to satisfy its hunger;
Down below a little...

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Categories: scavenger, death, people, religion, war,
Form: Ballad
Sweat
Summer sand soft and sultry,
Salty sweat, sweet and wet.
Wistless wind, waveless water,
Bathers baking, basking burning
Seagull scavenger of shiny sea
Searching, scurrying squabling over scraps.
Wandering women walk...

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Categories: scavenger, beach, beauty,
Form: Alliteration

Book: Reflection on the Important Things