Rag Poems - Poems about Rag

Rag on a Cloudy Day - Scott Joplin 1868-1917

I am highly entertained
though I see through the window what lies there:
yes, dark cloud hovers above our street
like a piece of rag.

But we admire contraries.
I am entertained because I hear rag -
all about pineapple, reflection,
stoptime, a paragon, a maple leaf.

You would never predict your treasure,
how so many of us listen to it today,
your music downloaded

Rag Doll

Rag Doll
by Michael R. Burch, circa age 17

On an angry sea a rag doll is tossed
back and forth between cruel waves
that have marred her easy beauty
and ripped away her clothes.
And her arms, once smoothly tanned,
are gashed and torn and peeling
as she dances to the waters’
rockings and reelings.
She’s a rag doll now,
a toy of the sea,
and

Roses Are Red

At first all red
We hit the brakes
Then amber lights
A few mistakes
Green for go
But take it slow


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Form Tomorrow Start Using a Bag

Form the habit of using a bag:
Along the road hide your ugly rag,
About the contents of the bag brag,
Ready to lies and arguments drag
Or would you like Nasty Tongues to wag:
The Press you would have loved to gag…

Learn to price bag and pick up the bag:
Watchers won’t glimpse in your world your lag,
Even as you

I Am a Wash Rag

Rung out
 before you unfurl the rag
It's a muddled mess of colored cotton
It's just a mash in your wet
hands
In that moment it is nothing 
crumpled nothing
But
Once unfurled it can again find purpose
be useful 
 an agent of change
with potential to bring in the light
Alter the view
remove the aged dust

That one rag can change things
Clean the

Criticizing a Coat

Please, refuse the disguised rag
That wearer still makes a hag.
Be bold to say “No, thank you”
While leaving “Later, see you!

A coat of curious color
That offers the eye pallor,
Long threadbare to soonest sag
And straight goes into a bag….

Delight not in robe you’ve got,
Last wearer had liked it not;
Underneath its arms ink blot
And on its left breast

I Am Just a Filthy Rag Clease Me Lord-

"All my good is good
Filthy as rags from a sewer
But justice my Father gleans
From my sins He’s has sent His Son
He whom shed His blood
Shown us His love
His grave has forgiven us
My goodness, all of my goodness
In not enough
It took Our Jesus to die for me on the cross"

9/20/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.

Overweight

Please, continue with your exercise
To sensibly check your goddamned size
And profitably win A Painless Prize:
For The Sport Body Ounce must not rise;
For contests a loss The Bone dries
And no blunders in the end seem wise…

Please, continue to watch overweight 
That could make Coveted Prizes wait
And Expected Honors arrive late
And you leave in melancholic state…

In Boxing

A Rag Picker

Sometime after midnight, it had rained
Putting out summer’s sultry heat
The sky had its face washed clean
And wiped the grime off Earth’s soiled feet
	
The dawn is quietly breaking
Night lights still glimmer here and there
The blue firmament remains cloudless
And cool is the mild blowing air

The sleeping town is slowly waking up
And at this transitional point
I look out

Treated Like a Rag Doll

She was treated like a rag doll
Fought over as if she was inanimate
They argued about who was going to have her

She rolled her eyes
They were both clowns.
She wandered out of their circus

Took off her mask and began taming her own lions
One beast at a time
Never again thinking about the clowns

Rag Bagger With Notes

__________________   RAG BAGGER


      What is a blowboat
      which way does the warm wind blow
      Im lashed to the mast


      GINSU - KNIFE     EASTPORT , MAINE   USA


 

Red Rag To the Bull Says

Each of us is given a mission by God that's deemed essential 
one is protecting the rights of the most vulnerable in society 
when society socially tramples on these virtues removing values 
we have the authority from the bowels of the Word to act 

Marching and praying for the abomination against Justice to end and

Daffodil Rag

Daffodil Rag

Free, at last free
 from the desk and that phone –
 free to run down the stairs and outside!

All day I watched
 spring stretch in the sunshine
 from the business as usual office upstairs.

How easy, how simple,
 to look at life walking,
 coughing, running, holding it’s hat.

How peacefully sheltered
 the plate glass tombs keep

Rag-Picker :: Ladan

Rag-picker  (Poetic Form ::  LaDán )

Initial days of journalism, I got one
task to cover the rag-picker's life.
Met one boy in street, to learn what's being done.
As he talks, felt how life turns so rife.

His name was, say Nanku. Let's know strife
of life. Knows what to be done.
A big bag in hand, no time

Let's Be Frank On This Rag

This is what the local examiner preaches 

Lynchings, or killing someone by hanging, historically were mostly used by whites against black men in the South beginning in the late 19th century, according to the NAACP.

Below my reply in comment
 
How they twist words to suit narrative, lynch mobs were a common practice in Ireland and

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