P 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
a 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
The 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
A 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
Scarecrow
...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
George 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
6 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
Icebox 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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