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Rough And Ready Poems - Poems about Rough And Ready

Changing Tack
...Enrolling as a pirate is much harder than it seems, You’ll need to speak in present tense and chase your wildest dreams. Well, once you’ve trained a parrot and been measured for your hook, You ha......

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Categories: rough and ready, anger, boat, endurance, pollution,
Form: Rhyme
Here
...Ohio is right here, and the rattling gold of earth-born corn is here. All over creation the sky is wide open and the green and yellow stalks are swaying right here. Here the wind-songs are rou......

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Categories: rough and ready, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Rough and Ready Write
...The sun is up and coming in the morning, The moon is waving me a sad goodbye, The dawn of our solution, Is cleaning our pollution, With optimal collusion as we fry. I wonder as I wander in the......

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Categories: rough and ready, animal, appreciation, bird, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: rough and ready, adventure,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Very Weird And Wonderful World Of Place Names: UK And USA Edition
...THE UK Poling, Patching, Nether Wallop, Matching Tye and Droop Plumpton, Lickfold, Puddletown, Westward Ho! and Throop. Hole of Horcum, New Invention, Boghead, Frome, Cat's Ash ......

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Categories: rough and ready, america, crazy, england, humor,
Form: List



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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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.......

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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.......

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Categories: rough and ready, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: List

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