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Ragamuffin Poems - Poems about Ragamuffin

Premium MemberP Q R S T U

...Prophet predicted priceless profit for Pree
***** prophecy if you ask me
Revitalized my cousin though said Dee
Saccharine suggestion motivated lazy she
Tickling this ragamuffin terrifically
Ulti...
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Categories: ragamuffin, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: ABC

Will wonders never cease!?

...Will wonders never cease!?

Alternately titled: Last of the fluff
belonging to a Mohican
Norwegian bachelor farmer wannabe.

Any resemblance between said unnamed individual
and living persons ...
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Categories: ragamuffin, absence, adventure, analogy, angst,
Form: Free verse



Premium Membera wornout ragamuffin

...Julie looked like a worn out ragamuffin
rolled out from under an alley garbage dumpster
her hair was dirty, her teeth reeked of tobacco
her clothes were unkempt and unfitted
there were holes in h...
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Categories: ragamuffin, drug,
Form: Free verse

Damn Bad Reputation Counts 500 Plus Paw Whet Tick Stints

...Damn bad reputation counts 500 plus paw whet tick stints

The following fictitious poetic vignette attempts a feeble tale of one ordinary day in life of anonymous miscreant.

"I don't give a damn...
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Categories: ragamuffin, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Man Is Nothing and Something

...To God Man is ‘Nothing’,
But I maintain ‘Also Somethiing’,
The only Nothing with His Breath,
To alternative views ‘A Real Threat’.

Man: God’s Evicted Dust,
At whom He still looked back,
Becau...
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Categories: ragamuffin, betrayal, character, creation, evil,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberThe Prodigal's Monorhyme

...In our father's house, you were doing fine,
but you did not want to toe the line.
Father, you said, 'give me what is mine.'
Leaving home sent a jolt of joy up your spine.

No more scenes of serv...
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Categories: ragamuffin, christian, growing up, heartbroken,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberA Journeyman's Plea

...The great poets begged for muse and not for moments stolen.
We lesser mortals cup in hand beg, not for attentions’ span nor
cause to celebrate, but Time; a worthy goal.
Seconds spent pondering hal...
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Categories: ragamuffin, angst, atheist, break up,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberScarecrow

...Scarecrow

You'll find me 
in paddy fields and gardens;
even on front porches. 
I'm a decoy, as lonely as can be. 
I look frozen in time, 
mimicking Jesus 
crucified on the cross, 
but I swe...
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Categories: ragamuffin, analogy, anger, humor, perspective,
Form: Personification

Theater of Utter Charm - Part 25

...part 25

there is enough pretense to deal with
when the future delivers
disappointment after disappointment
and the roles you play become stale
and you cling to the trend in the graph line
bre...
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Categories: ragamuffin, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGeorge Fulwider 1837-1918

...George Fulwider
1837-1918

My beating-heart age,
Reached the half century mark,
When I and my “better second,”
Found hopeful roots,
And an oleander trellis,
On burgeoning Philadelphia street,...
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Categories: ragamuffin, death,
Form: Epitaph

Premium Member6 To 8- Ragdoll

...Rag doll, received, ready for play, except for her tatterdemalion dress.
Yet this child, of doleful tears, hugs tight her ragamuffin, sans regret.
Sweet child, with soiled cheeks, sings sweetly in ...
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Categories: ragamuffin, child,
Form: Verse

Tongue Twister Time

...Tongue twister line: 
From the rustic rover to Samuel Sanders,  they try to tickle the tongue with tricky tongue twisters. 

1. A rustic rover round the ricks ran restlessly,  and restive, he rush...
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Categories: ragamuffin, fantasy,
Form: Alliteration

Penny For the Guy

...Penny for the guy

C’mon mister give us a penny for the guy
This little ragamuffin asked with sad eyes brimming
Need the money to buy food she said with a cry
We are poor mister tearful eyes sti...
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Categories: ragamuffin, fun, night,
Form: Rhyme

The Lord of Ragamuffins

...The Lord of Ragamuffins

If He were not The God of Mercy,
Where would I be right now,
If He were not The God of Love, 
What would I do?

For I bring nothing to the table,
I have nothing that ...
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Categories: ragamuffin, christian, faith, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIcebox Days

...A seething summer morning in the oil boom trailer park
Oral Roberts on the radio with the gospel told by Mark
The reek of raw petroleum is everywhere around
We little oil trash urchins play marble...
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Categories: ragamuffin, childhood, growing up, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

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