Best Zagged Poems

One day in Soup Creek City, 
There was a duel 'tween Cunningham and Watt 
Tom said to John "I hear you're good, 
Let me see,...

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The jagged edges

of her brokenness

fit the zig-zagged

lines of all the times

I fell and was

made whole again

My puzzle's

missing piece

Picture perfect

iodine on a scraped

knee, a sensation

captured by...

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Cousin of the daisy, and born on summer's breeze,
It becomes a bright seedling of pale, green leaves.
In sunshine, it grows, as its edges become jagged,
Like...

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The hot savannah in late September 
Too far back to quite remember
Born in plains surrounded by the sands
An oasis of the treeless woodlands
To be uniquely...

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You are the newest thread
in the tapestry of my life -
once neatly-patterned, 
but now criss-crossed 
and sig-zagged
with the vibrant strands
of your sister.

You, too, will be...

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It is a witchy tradition to pass down your first broom to
The next generation, but poor dear sweet Mable inherited an eye 
Sore from her...

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God Bless America

Our 4th of July started
With fireworks all around
Lightening streaked, zig zagged and zoomed
While thunder created, the necessary boom

And as a good measure
God sent...

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Scrimmage upended linemen
Super bowl Sunday
The crowd roared, foot ball sailed high.

Receiver zig-zagged down field,
Ball spun overhead,   
Runner snatched in air— touch down!...

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I have my constitution
which exists in the tablets of my mind,
It's not an illusion,
but an ally, a friend,
A guide to perfection,
Perverts the way of the...

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Solo, like a butterfly, emerging out of its chrysallis  for the very first time
She tip-toed slowly , silently , then ran far far away.
Far...

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A centipede found its way into our home
My hairs stood on end for hours on end! 

And while we tried learning about it on Google...

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the footpaths that stretched
out of sight until never.

the parched ground and grasses
when miles seemed forever.

wild garlic, the heat
the nettles and heather.

the bees in the foxgloves
collecting...

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What I’m going to tell you now might make you think I’m loco. I hope that you’ll believe me, but I don’t care if you...

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DOUBLE HAIKU

iguanas, shells, stars
sipping dust multiplied thrice
earth shapes zig-zagged clay

chameleon grains 
silver buckets dot dash dot
sandcastles baptize!

(( for S*K*A*T's  sand castles contest))...

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Above green pastures I fell into a recollection

Beyond the shore side I made a connection

Concisely I wrote in a tiny flowered journal

Determined to be a...

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