Long Scraggly Poems
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A Christmas Snow Angel - Part 1
The young lady's car slowed to a stop ...
As she pulled as far off the highway, (onto the shoulder), as she could
(Allowing for any snow plow that might come along).
She had chosen poorly this time
Believing...
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Categories:
scraggly, angel, appreciation, christmas, snow, uplifting,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
January 13th 2024 Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris
January 13th 2024 - Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris
date of conception:? ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date of expiration:? January i, eminem,
where earth, wind, and fire...
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Categories:
scraggly, age, appreciation, birthday, celebration, dad, humorous, january,
Form:
Free verse
Happy Lxiv Birthday Matthew Scott Harris
Happy Lxiv birthday Matthew Scott Harris
date of conception:? ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date of expiration:? January i, eminem.
A gangly, measly, and scraggly bundle
of lovely bones even as...
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Categories:
scraggly, appreciation, birthday, boy, celebrity, creation, happy birthday,
Form:
Rhyme
The Man At the Bus Stop
After I came home from work one day, and sitting down for tea
I looked out the window, and was surprised to see
A person sitting out there, as if waiting for a bus
The last one for...
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Categories:
scraggly, bereavement, death of a friend,
Form:
Ballad
Inextricably Rooted With Hair Fixation
Inextricably rooted with hair fixation
As a lad in grade school,
yours truly, (a diminutive, intuitive,
oversensitive, and vegetative potato head kid,
whose voice exhibited
a severe nasal twang)
felt envious at other boys,
especially those young bucks
who sported budding antlers
plus thick...
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Categories:
scraggly, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th grade, 6th
Form:
Rhyme
Pariah heap - savagely subjecting myself to humiliation
Pariah heap - savagely subjecting myself to humiliation
Outward slovenly appearance bespeaks volumes
wordsworth their weight in gold
(exhumed from the pith
of these lovely bones -
beclothed with mottled skin)
presages afterlife of hellish horror
(think Dante's inferno),
nevertheless a respite from...
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Categories:
scraggly, 12th grade, absence, age, anger, anxiety, bereavement,
Form:
Free verse
Ides In Ivy
Oh, these trees, arms reaching as they
did then, but even wiser ... perhaps I as
well have learned another thing-or-two
...
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Categories:
scraggly, education, imagery, memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Narrative
An Image of the Netherworld Envisioned By a Misanthrope
An image of the netherworld envisioned by a misanthrope
Mein kampf fraught re:
emotionally/psychologically challenged
impossible mission to cope
compared to classmates, I felt like a dope
and entertained escapist fantasies,
whereby Miss Rainbow
(sixth grade student teacher),
though robbing...
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Categories:
scraggly, 6th grade, adventure, age, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Match In the Dark
What a game ...
he was just a jester,
and this a ghastly prospect ...
The ground lay torn open before him,
a wound in the earth that called to his dark heart,
pulled on his better judgement like lead...
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Categories:
scraggly, analogy, death, fantasy, games, metaphor, raven, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Alms Za Try N To Reach Out As Legatee Wannabe
Alms Za Try'n To Reach Out As Legatee Wannabe
Yukon pots sib bully challah me Jude
dish hiss literary panhandler schlepping
along virtual figurative boulevard Asia
brogue kin bloke rattling tin cup aware
how quickly passersby dodge away as
if I...
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Categories:
scraggly, dream, fate, happiness, hope, humanity, humorous, joy,
Form:
Narrative
An Image of the Netherworld Envisioned By a Misanthrope
Deep within the bowels of the Earth
(dark visceral centre)
immensely distant from the sheltering sky
amidst a thick fog enveloped landscape
with here and there a projected
craggy, derelict chasm
precipitously crooked
rocky claws pointing toward
an infinitely wide yawning abyss
dwelt...
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Categories:
scraggly, allegory, crush, death, earth, grave, horror, journey,
Form:
Free verse
Calcivore, Part Iii
III.
Christine began crying, Zack vomited,
Klaus couldn’t move as he stared at the mess,
only stammering,“W-what could do this?”
Surely no beat to which they could attest.
Then came a rustling up above the falls,
and their horror transformed into...
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Categories:
scraggly, adventure, animal, dark, death, horror, military, scary,
Form:
Narrative
The Third Degree
"The Third Degree"
I’m thinking, if I am to commence this degree next year, then perhaps easier to have cats. I can’t leave a dog alone in the apartment all day. Unless I do the entire...
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Categories:
scraggly, dream, future, humanity,
Form:
Narrative
Intersection of Interbeing
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 on July twenty-fifth,
working in the center city of Philadelphia
I was...
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Categories:
scraggly, inspirational, memory, mystery, myth, philosophy, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Arcola Circa Late 1960s Early 1970s
Arcola circa late 1960's early 1970's...
easy to conjure this idyllic June 8th, 2020
Envision bucolic Currier
and Ives rendered landscape,
or canvas painted
courtesy gifted late Thomas Kinkade
(or substitute favorite creative soul)
how aforementioned illustrious artists drape
mesmerized amateur and/or
art appreciation...
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Categories:
scraggly, 11th grade, 12th grade, environment, father, growing
Form:
Free verse
Aging Long Haired Pencil Neck Geezer
(alternately titled no particular reason:
bring unto “fake” trumpeting Caesar
seven salad dressings from deep freezer
and lettuce deign at your plea azure.)
Graced with boyish good looks,
innocence and naiveté to boot,
an especial loathing toward me
chicken legs re: spindleshanks
(which...
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Categories:
scraggly, 12th grade, 7th grade, creation, humor, hyperbole,
Form:
Free verse
Ghosts of South Dakota Intro
In 1957 I took my teaching certificate back to the land of my mother.
She was raised on a cattle ranch in the north central area of Nebraska. The
famous Sand Hills. ...
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Categories:
scraggly, inspirational, life, love, children,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Eternity of Silent Suffering
These castle walls are cracked and moonlight seeps through, i hug my knees to my chest as
a sob threatens to break out of my throat. My skin is pale and thin; my bones stab through
my...
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Categories:
scraggly, art, fantasy, passion, sad, visionary, me, pain,
Form:
Epic
Signed In Blood (Part 1)
The night
has a bluish tint tonight
from the exceptionally
brilliant
full moon,
sky,
cloudless
with a slightly...
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Categories:
scraggly, angst, death, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Sarcastic Comments
So sick, ashamed, tuke-deh-blaim guilty
And tired of your sarcastic comments that tease me on purpose
Really not an accidental thing in the first place
Crazy talk I do on a daily basis
Aggravated beyond reason and logic...
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Categories:
scraggly, beautiful, , literature,
Form:
Acrostic
Ode' To Scraggly Tail
That meanest looking old grey cat,
just cross my path, me ~ meaning that,
he'd crowd out all the fine cats play
to gobble up their food ~ then stray!
Then two doors down ~ a new guy came
quite...
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Categories:
scraggly, petsold, me, old,
Form:
Monorhyme
A Familiar Tune
I saw a look of hurt so primordial, the dust teared and cleared
Every wrinkle, every agony,
Every twinkle in his eye hopelessly wrought by words
He struggled with a bag of old books,
His white hair scraggly, his...
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Categories:
scraggly, freedom, friend, life, love, pain, strength, sympathy,
Form:
Narrative
A Man's a Man Fer All Dat
When a man's on his own, he's just dat.
He's dis an he's dat … jus dis an dat … an dat's dat.
But now let a good woman enter his life
Let a good woman become...
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Categories:
scraggly, funny, love, social, life, woman, life,
Form:
I do not know?
Varsity Reunion
Reunion, Reunion I have to go
To meet those friends I used to know.
And talk about the days gone by
When we were young with spirits high.
But, all I found was a money speech
Asking for me to...
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Categories:
scraggly, people, me, me,
Form:
Light Verse
Darkness Reigns
The blood curdling screams rang out into the night
The little beggars were dragging someone to their lair
Huddled together, trembling with fear, we closed our eyes
She whispered “Do you think they will come?”
I held my...
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Categories:
scraggly, animal, cat, fear, sky,
Form:
Free verse