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Roughage Poems - Poems about Roughage

Leaning Against a Cow

...She is sitting,
front legs under her reddish-brown mass.
When I think of her shape
it is always her belly I see most.
The bulging warmth,
the mastication, her on-going digestion.

I'm a boy,
...
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Categories: roughage, poetry,
Form: Free verse

So That's How It Happened

...Three ladies all in lettuce dress
                         arrived to greet the crowd
their gowns were long and leafy green
                           with roughage all around
        
The gang ...
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Categories: roughage, food, fun, funny, history,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberAnd My Arnold Spoke Up

...You bought me as your loving pet; well trained and tamed,
From a cattle-fair; I was two; handsome; zestful;
You did not like cats and dogs as they turned nuisance - 
I heard you saying to my owner...
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Categories: roughage, animal, pets,
Form: Personification

Dawns Just Like This

...Dawns Just Like This

Wake now, discover that you are the song the mornin’ brings . . .em>

-The Grateful Dead-


Dawn easing through
Needle-Eye The Organs once 
clear-cut, parsed plain,...
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Categories: roughage, beauty, blessing, day, earth,
Form: Free verse

Dawns Just Like This

...Dawns Just Like This

Covid Summer 2020


Dawn easing through
Needle-Eye The Organs once
clear-cut, parsed plain, it seems,
like the desert, flattening its curve
over, bramble, pepperweed ro...
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Categories: roughage, beautiful, beauty, celebration, day,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberEmerald Greens --

...Cold cloud in Emerald leaves
 of shaded greens
 gray cascading roughage flows
 flowing streams
 Hues of blue 
flaunting falling down 
draping the emeralds green grasses dom
Beauty ...
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Categories: roughage, imagery, nature,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberThe Constipation Blues

...More blockage from the king of thrones.
A pencil needed to clear those stones.
My good friend Jan she can relate.
Her toilet hack will sure negate.

Plugged up tighter than a drum.
He screams i...
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Categories: roughage, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Stormzy Diss

...Stormzy you aint the dogs Boris
you're just a rapper with a forest
and I promise honest son
the strongest grow an amazon
you're just a woodchuck not Norris
a man should woodchuck Boris
shouting...
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Categories: roughage, hate, hip hop, power,
Form: Rhyme

Unforgiven

...I remember the silhouette
From her stares and gestures
How they gracefully slithered
Through minds and seasons
The silk in her demeanor
How it sucked un-weaved roughage
And tilted edges of disp...
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Categories: roughage, conflict,
Form: Acrostic

Paintings of Life Exposed

...Mark 4:12.

View the scene, absorb the signs. Dawn to dusk,
Backs & shoulders strain, the earth grasps stone & weeds.                                               Each has their role to play.
We...
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Categories: roughage, perspective,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFree Smiling World

...1. A constant smile is the alabaster
for struggle’s ornaments be made faster
average looks with a smile can be labial
its absence points to problems so filial,
may not keep the wolf away from the...
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Categories: roughage, angst, anxiety, fairy, fantasy,
Form: Lyric

Neanderthal Diaries

...My skeleton never grows fat
I wonder who my stomach is feeding
This morning,
I had rocks for breakfast 
I owe my existence some roughage 
I’ve logged thousands of mileage
But my feet haven’t ta...
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Categories: roughage, parody,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDiamond In the Roughage

...Browsing, window shopping,
foraging through flea markets,
all favorite ventures, drawn like a magnet 
to those final clearance signs.
	
Wallpaper Sale, this one announced.
Double Roll - $1.00 -...
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Categories: roughage, fashion, lost,
Form: Free verse

Food For the Gods

...Food For The Gods 



We overload young flesh
With hordes of old meat!
We defile bodies so fresh
With unwholesome treat

We forsake healthy veggies
In pursuit of fat steaks
We re-direct ou...
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Categories: roughage,
Form: I do not know?

Mushin

...A sizzling hot pancake metropolis
   Kingsize of all market places,
   Every mystery is salable 
   The wind and shadows move and speeds transaction times;
   And the delicious hawkers are on par...
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Categories: roughage, dedication
Form: Free verse

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