Best Scraggly Poems

I am dreaming of you tonight,
though we  may never meet
but if  we do,  you will know me
by my hyacinth shoes.
You will remember...

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In 1957 I took my teaching certificate back to the land of my mother.  
She was raised on a cattle ranch in the north...

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Those BURMA SHAVE signs used to give us kids something to do,
As down the highways and byways in our 1935 Dodge we flew!
The chef-d'oeuvre from...

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there once was a flying monkey who didn't know what to eat.  so he ate the old scraggly poop hanging from his butthole. ...

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Could it be that two city streets meet at a portal
of awakening that leads to enlightenment?
May your next frontier be "Inter-Be" discovery.

Nearly forty years ago...

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We were poor, but my brother and I didn’t know it.
Before Christmas my dad would take us to find just the right scraggly 
fir tree..a...

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Abraham Lincoln, the president, 
Awe-inspiring American gent. 
Lead the American Civil war 
Abolishing slavery no more. 

Abraham Lincoln, the president, 
Scraggly and tall, cheeks each...

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On Christmas Eve night,
The only sound
Within our house
Comes from its wooden frame,
Creaking
And settling
Like three footsteps
Carefully
Stepping
From the upstairs
To downstairs
Then nothing more,

An exhausted ghost
Lifted
From the hot air
Of...

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When fire raged and burned it's roof, sun rays fell to forest floor,
And lit upon scraggly flowers once doomed to bloom no more.
Then unharnessed, like...

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Sunlight trickles through stained glass windows.
She kneels, a little apart from her fellows
who also seek salvation in water.
Her gray hair slips from her circumspect braid,
and...

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Z Z Top and Cousin It took the right approach
     Dark sun glasses and beards detract from scraggly hair
Next time my...

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Poor Tim, the timorous, one cold dark day

set out to prove that TIMID he was not!

He ventured one whole night alone to stay

inside the empty...

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The lessons of life remind me, 
the lack of substance, 
birth and rebirth without relevance or depth
death to some, “who cares”
life to others, “who cares”
meaningless...

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the man had a flat expression      and showed no emotion
     he seemed    disconnected...

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I took my periodic stroll through the local antique store today.
I stumbled over things and stepped 'round clutter to make my way.
I looked for clocks,...

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