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Rough And Ready Poems - Poems about Rough And Ready

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Premium Member Dead Ends
... It was near a river named Yuba and a little town named Rough and Ready. No. It was not dark. It was the heart of the day. There were no streets, dead ends, or otherwise. There was simply a d......Read the rest...
Categories: rough and ready, adventure,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Lost In Britain AND Lost In The USA
... LOST IN BRITAIN Poling, Patching, Nether Wallop, Matching Tye and Droop Plumpton, Lickfold, Puddletown, Westward Ho! and Throop. Hole of Horcum, New Invention, ......Read the rest...
Categories: rough and ready, america, england, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Balls and Belles
...These rugby-playing girls - or women, should I say? - are so rough and ready, dashing down that field, conveying that oval ball from this end to that, gritting their teeth. Oh, what might! Su......Read the rest...
Categories: rough and ready, color, sports, woman, women,
Form: Free verse
Low Sun Over Home Waters
...Nets are hauled and homeward go the shrimp boats rolling slow and easy on a sunset path, their droning engines chugging over a rippling seafoam. In the mangrove swamp an egret sets its white s......Read the rest...
Categories: rough and ready, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dear Katrina
...Silence, eyes forward, and stay Dear Katrina comes this way She seeks with us to play But we say Dear Katrina, stay Katrina, go away But she came She came just the same With murderous brill......Read the rest...
Categories: rough and ready, dark, weather,
Form: Rhyme



Stew With Nothing To Chew
...Now, I take you for The Heady With this Rather Rough and Ready: Your dared cooking of A Dead Stew, In it nothing to richly chew And clearly no Lump of Jew’s Ewe... A Thing you can’t try with A......Read the rest...
Categories: rough and ready, food, hate, health, money,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Firearms For Sale
...Firearms for sale Come and get them now. Our rifles are fine Our shotguns are a wow! So you can’t come by today, Chet? That’s okay. Buy them on the Internet. How much easier can it be? So ma......Read the rest...
Categories: rough and ready, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Eary Solution
...I’d been cutting spuds for seed beneath the pines on Rouse’s lot, and putting lime upon the open flesh to make sure they don’t rot. I had to slice so every piece contained a growing eye, and every......Read the rest...
Categories: rough and ready, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Old Farm Hat
...My old farm hat wears its scars on sleeve. Mended rough and ready for all to see is heroic deeds in tussles with cows, bulls and trees. Its soaked soft in sweat, mellowed with dust. Patched wi......Read the rest...
Categories: rough and ready, age,
Form: Free verse
Measuring a Corn Field
...The whole world I can measure in this cornfield. Why would I need to go to Indiana or Pennsylvania or Katmandu? Ohio is right here, and the rattling gold of the corn is here. Yes India......Read the rest...
Categories: rough and ready, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rough and Ready I Am
...Fighting my way to the top again Competing Evaluating Editing Completing Myself Against The best Me I have been or can ever be. Self improvement. Rough and ready, waiting and learning.......Read the rest...
Categories: rough and ready, 10th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fighting My Way To the Top Again
...Fighting my way to the top again Competing Evaluating Editing Completing Myself Against The best Me I have been or can ever be. Self improvement. Rough and ready, waiting and learning.......Read the rest...
Categories: rough and ready, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: List
After Easter
...Hawkish angels with golden bows chase away shawnee and wolves. A sinewy faith built the rough and ready. We were pleased to claim this land for Jesus. Despite the tornadoes, we continued to r......Read the rest...
Categories: rough and ready, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Pondering of a Puddle
...Ponded and becalmed after the downpour, lying in shining stillness, I reflect an earthly existence; above me newly leafed limbs, and beyond, the wild beauty of motley skies in the afternoon’s brighte......Read the rest...
Categories: rough and ready, april, destiny, fate, imagination,
Form: Haibun
No Fake Fire Drill
...No "FAKE" Fire Drill Residents at high land manor apartments (aside from myself) got rudely awakened - by what sounded like a screaming, seething, and shrieking......Read the rest...
Categories: rough and ready, 11th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse

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