Best Scrounge Poems


Help
...On the poor side of the city,
there’s an innocent child crying.
The rats and roaches are crawling,
on the bed where he lies dying.

There’s a family of seven,
just trying to scrounge a dollar.
......

Continue reading...
Categories: scrounge, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Italy Isn'T So Little
...The blonde went down  
with not must resistance
shunning off a stressful afternoon
 
the scene played of society, high
as I peered at all the pretense
and pretend of an I want to be......

Continue reading...
© Ts Poetry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scrounge, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Confessions of a Killer
...Brown hills speckled with sage
Between cities in the southwest
A pink sky
A purple mountain
A line down the highway
Turning me brown
I drive my Datsun
Toward nirvana
In the desert
That is wh......

Continue reading...
Categories: scrounge, horror, inspirational, peace,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry


Fluff
...Maybe you were foaming at the mouth
Brain dead from reading so many poems now
That one more poem, my poem, was just too much
For you, depleted of original thought, to touch
And so you succumbed to th......

Continue reading...
Categories: scrounge, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Never Land Part 6
...The birds of pray are on their way, in every beak the Word

(of ptomaine tomes by gnarly gnomes) whose meaning is obscured;

they roost aloof on every roof, obscene but always herd,

to tell th......

Continue reading...
Categories: scrounge, drug, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Waste Not-Want Not
...Another trash bin filled with food
Reminding me of Society's strange paradox
Of how we gluttonously consume
And yet waste so much.
Ripping morcles from famished mouthes
Only to discover they are past......

Continue reading...
© Del Phil  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scrounge, food,
Form: Free verse


Premium Member Callie Cat, the Perfect Pet
...One day my daughter brought home a scraggly looking young cat who had always 
lived outside. In her first year, we learned she had given birth to two litters of kittens, most of which died. She’d alw......

Continue reading...
Categories: scrounge, animalsdaughter, me, cat, cat,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Contemplating Christmas Eve
...
The gifts are wrapped and ‘neath the tree
in brightly colored bags and bows.
I now sit back, my mind set free
to contemplate these thoughts I chose
and share this verse I now compose.

‘Tis q......

Continue reading...
Categories: scrounge, christmas, poetry,
Form: Quintain (English)
Never Let An Elephant
...Never let an elephant in your house
Get a rabbit or a lemur or a mouse
If you’re going to buy a pet
And you haven’t got one yet
Never, let an elephant in your house

Never let an Elephant in yo......

Continue reading...
© John Fenn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scrounge, animals, funny, imagination, nature,
Form: Light Verse
Story of Snowball Latham
...Down in the white famed plains of Western Kentucky in the 19th century, Alpha Omega Latham was born. Days after his father was shot on the porch, was the beginning of being, and the pass of a torch. ......

Continue reading...
Categories: scrounge, character, community, desire, dream,
Form: Verse
The Wife's Revenge
..."I'll have a sip of beer my dear," 
The wife would always say. 
 I was not one for sharing see, 
She knew that anyway. 
 
The sharing wasn't my concern, 
But would I have enough? 
To see me th......

Continue reading...
Categories: scrounge, funny, me, me,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Halloween In the West Virginia Hills
...As kids growing up in the hills of West Virginia,
We were poor, but no one was any better off.
Halloween was a time we looked forward to,
But there was no money for the store-bought st......

Continue reading...
Categories: scrounge, childhood, halloween, mountains, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Woman
...WOMAN 

The cruelty of civilization has failed the society
That coyness and awe matter less to bear  
Left in nowhere
Discarded by modern evolution
The carnage of life; by the life we live

L......

Continue reading...
Categories: scrounge, woman, , western,
Form: Light Verse
Pinned Down By a Million Pounds
...Erratic behavior is on the verge 
There's going to be a dramatic surge
Morality is at an all-time low
In this crazy twisted show, don't ya know
The ups and the downs with the crazy clowns
Being ......

Continue reading...
© Mike Grant  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scrounge, confidence, courage, emotions, england,
Form:
11009
...11009
CharlaXFabels
HOW ROOD
They took a cart with four wheels scootered by me just to almost hit my foot they 
tried to run between the bus stop and the bench where eye was standing waiting 
fo......

Continue reading...
Categories: scrounge, people, sad, satire, science
Form: Prose Poetry
Get a Premium Membership
Get more exposure for your poetry and more features with a Premium Membership.
Book: Reflection on the Important Things

Hide Ad