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Best Scavenges Poems

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Scarecrow Addict
Scarecrow Addict
           

Gritted and dusty
Powered by flack jacket eyes
Bootsteps through grey puddles
Flotilla of cigarette butts
Trash...

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Categories: scavenges, urban
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Searching For Rain
An expanse of pregnant clouds gather 
I hesitate mid-step in petrichor air
anticipating a breakthrough, a rumble 
the rain.

A lone desert tortoise roots for water
as he...

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Categories: scavenges, life, rain,
Form: Free verse
Dinner Date
Bring all your revenges to the table
Sit them down and serve them well
Crystal cut glass, French Champagne
And listen to the stories that they will tell

Place...

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Categories: scavenges, character, emotions, environment, imagery,
Form: Light Verse
Outside Jesus Town
Outside Jesus Town 

Old man dusted off his hat and whiskers
Polished off a tumbler of red wine
Continued baking in the California sun
Outside the town of...

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Categories: scavenges, art, character, clothes, drink,
Form: Free verse
Universal String Nonet Form Story Teller
~ (~) ~ By design this poem is interchangeable within-and-with-itself either 
way being or which ever Nonet you chose to read firsts, they always recycle...

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© James Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scavenges, loveme, time, proposal, universe,
Form: Name



Rapture and Riddle
A sleeping beast 
Or winged messenger from God 
Lays its quicksand of the truth
And I am spat like a petal from some nameless bloody heart
A...

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Categories: scavenges, timegod, prayer, god, riddle,
Form: Free verse
Pursued of Death
[Psalm of obsession]

Sleep with the remembrance of Death, and rise with the thought that you will not 
live long. - Dwais El-Qarni

He huffs and puffs
impatiently,
anxious...

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Categories: scavenges, death,
Form: Pastoral
When Astrologers Walk Into Church
Used to be the Mafia.
Glory to shameful violence.
Off balanced dodgers,
No reconciliation, by Story.
Oh, thank Jesus.
Oh, Thyatira
As time now diminishes?

Now urban dump sites,
Steps into focus.
I can't...

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Categories: scavenges, religion,
Form: I do not know?
Predetermination of Lovers
Predetermination of Lovers

Proactive on the lips of such sensual passions
Scavenges through follicles design
To written archangels of expression

Such are the hungry beats and pulses that evolve
In...

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Categories: scavenges, love, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Breath On Thy Breast
She's a mom from a poor family.
Everyday striving in a sidewalks.
No shelter,no roof to shed.
Her life is devastated.
No food ,she scavenges day by day.
She got...

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Categories: scavenges, baby, death, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Iceman
He is a porcupine 
Armed with lethal quills 
You massage his butts 
Butts from which comes atomic bomb 
He fumes and shoots himself 
Apparently a...

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Categories: scavenges, anger,
Form: Epic
Poverty Grows
Poverty.
Hardship and suffering
all behind society's eyes
raised by the ghetto
slums cracked lights out
scavenges for life
its gone. 
The same face in all places
no father figures
can't support, gone
moms...

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Categories: scavenges, black african american, child,
Form: Free verse
To All Aspiring
The cold man,
the starving youth
walks the destroyed roads.
Through the fields of corpses
he scavenges the water
while wishing to fill
the withering cave inside.

The warm soul, 
the hiding...

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Categories: scavenges, confusion, daughter, faith, hope
Form: I do not know?
Unspeakable Horrors
The beast roams and scavenges
Searching for a carcass to feed upon
Sadly, he is well fed on souls that have no care
Filling his pit of a...

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Categories: scavenges, angst
Form: Free verse
Aragon
A hero that fights with swords forged for battles
Swords forged by a blacksmither called Eris
Swords which were handed to Jeffrey
A warrior known for his victories...

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Categories: scavenges, fantasy,
Form: Ballad

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