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Best Scrappy Poems

Below are the all-time best Scrappy poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of scrappy poems written by PoetrySoup members


A Scrappy Little Nest
Flightless, the smallest such bird,
he’s hopping about madly now,
dexterous little feet grab what they can -
he lost his beak decades ago
to a merciless marauder drone...

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Categories: scrappy, introspection, metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Two Sparrows
predictable pairing
        like plans and lovers
two sparrows fly, flirt
wing beats hyped
       ...

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Categories: scrappy, beauty, bird, happiness, spring,
Form: Free verse
Dwight D Eisenhower
Choosing a favorite President is quite an arduous task
Given that most politicians usually wear a spurious mask,
but as a student of History, there was one...

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Categories: scrappy, history, presidents day,
Form: Rhyme
It's Twilight Time In the City
Twilight Time in the City

Hear the hum of the Honda and Hundai,
It’s twilight time in the city.
Yellow boxes empty streams of ants
Into the twilight of...

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Categories: scrappy, city, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If Momma Ain'T Happy, Nobody's Happy
We made love, and then we fell in love
Not knowing what it really was…
Love’s just not a dream, a home, kids, pets and things..
But it...

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Categories: scrappy, music, song-wife, leaving, me,
Form: Lyric



Cartoon Network
These dudes funny like "Nickelodeon"
I see how these "Cartoons Network"
Come in "Dexters Laboratory " I'm Writing "Explosives" 
Blues Clues "Cues" in my "Excerpts"
Mandark hating thinking...

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Categories: scrappy, humorous, imagery, nursery rhyme,
Form: Free verse
I Am Not a Lamb
A Wolf...A Lamb...A Wolf

Forgetting myself...started with me
To be sweet, to be quiet...to fit in.
Conformity!
Impress by agreement.  A Lamb I could be.
Convince all my thoughts;...

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Categories: scrappy, confidence, courage, i am,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shotgun Annie
We would go to the forgotten towns of west Texas
Places that we couldn’t name and hunt for their souls
Sometime it was on the roadside a...

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Categories: scrappy, bereavement, death, sad, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Cartoon Flow
Yeah I got PokeBalls to catch Goals
I'm like Ash Ketchum when he Throws
Cause Ash Catch Em Bold I'm like Pidgeotto when my wings Flow
Look at...

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Categories: scrappy, character, creation, imagination, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Own the World
Orange crush
Bleachers on a sunny day
Standing underneath
Hiding in the shade
Woke up there
After an all nighter
Party at the field
Smoking crack
And huffing nitrous
What a scream
Old Skinny Scrappy...

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Categories: scrappy, discrimination, freedom, identity, moving
Form: Free verse
Thoughts of a Jamaican Christmas
THOUGHTS OF A JAMAICAN CHRISTMAS

I remember Christmas of yesteryear
Of John Canoe dancing with fife and drum
Horsehead would approach, it was scary but fun
And Scrippy scrappy...

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Categories: scrappy, celebration, christmas, family, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Indices of a Loon
GOODLUCK

Gutless muffled monarch wooed millions to the poll, 
Our feeble lord enforced by pathetic speech of poverty (I once had no shoes) 
On congruent grounds...

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Categories: scrappy, corruption, crazy, culture, heartbroken,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member I Cracked the Cream Cheese Through Your Whine
I Cracked The Cream Cheese Through Your Whine

Wining And Dining    we savoured together and we still share five beautiful children sweet 
...

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Categories: scrappy, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Gold Fever
Here's another story that I just made up
That just can't wait to be told
About a weary prospector, down on his luck
That gave his life for...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scrappy, fantasy, funny, imaginationold, fish,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Primal Choice
Paranoia feeds on dark roots.
In full bloom, everything and everyone that happens against me
happens for a sinister conspiratorial reason.
This is my felt conjecture,
to which I...

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Categories: scrappy, culture, fear, health, political,
Form: Prose Poetry

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