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Scabby Poems - Poems about Scabby

rat catcher
...Rat Catcher I feel repulsed when he is near, I ought to have compassion for this cripple, a twisted foot. an arm that does not function as it should a beggar with scabby skin, eyes as black as......

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Categories: scabby, absence, break up, crush,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Landlord Calls
...There’s a tabby ally cat And a very scabby rat And a vampire bat And a very hungry gnat And a horrid little brat And they lived in a flat Where a man in a hat Saw a stain on the mat It’s an a......

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Categories: scabby, animal,
Form: Monorhyme



Premium Member Empty Swing Swings
...The empty swing swings gently in the gentle breeze that wafts across the empty playground park. The dust in the foot-pans beneath the swings lifts up in the breeze, swirls and curls in a s......

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Categories: scabby, death, destiny, earth, earth
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Midwinter Night's Dream
...Midst sullen storm and winter's grip, Secure and warm I toddies sip. By fireside glow my thoughts take wing. While watching snow, I dream of spring. Spring's swimming pools, azalea shrubs, ......

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Categories: scabby, april, beauty, dream, happiness,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Tabby Cat Footles
...Cat Needs a Workout Flabby Tabby Chat Cat Gabby Tabby Grumpy Cat’s Relative Crabby Tabby Cat with 9 Violent Lives Scabby Tabby Cat with Raggedy Coat Shabby Tabby C......

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Categories: scabby, cat,
Form: Footle



The Evil Personified
...Personified evil I feel repulsed when he is near; I ought to have compassion for this cripple, his twisted foot and arm a beggar with scabby skin and eyes as black as looking into the dark s......

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Categories: scabby, allusion, anti bullying, corruption,
Form: Burlesque
The Monster
...Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I w......

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Categories: scabby, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Riddle of Shiny Helen
...Love hearts and scabby knees. Dead flies and stinging bees. Dirty nails and sweaty lips. Fishnets with ragged slips. Eyeholes in a hessian sack. Pimples on a tattooed back. Toys that she just c......

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Categories: scabby, abuse, character, hurt, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Where Is Thy Sting
...The hand, now cold as alabaster, the one that stroked my fevered brow, or applied the Germolene and plaster, is old and withered and lifeless now. Kind eyes, the first I ever saw, watched over......

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Categories: scabby, death, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Simply the Best
...You do it for me, better than tea, better than Camembert, or a nice runny Brie. Better than honey, or marmalade toast or an unexpected letter that arrives in the post. Better than hob nobs, or ba......

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Categories: scabby, dedication, eulogy, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Child Play
...As a ... child I was carefree played in the mud football my hero goals from the foot teenager I had worries imagined and real twisted illusions hands on the trigger ......

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Categories: scabby, child,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ecezma
...Eczema by M. Griswold 03162020 I have a fire raging beneath my skin. It's itchy and red, burning from within. From hands to fingers, feet to toes. The heat is extreme and ever grows. It's ......

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Categories: scabby, body, health, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Bygone Days
...Bygone days Climbing trees Paper boats Scabby knees Duffle coats Pick n mix Runny nose Thrupenny bits Scruffy clothes Flying kites Desperate Dan Conquer fights Tins of spam Spots n ......

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Categories: scabby, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Scabby Knees and Chimney Smoke
...Scabby knees and chimney stack smoke Scabby knees and chimney stack smoke, Short corduroy trousers, old flat cap bloke. Wash lines of linen hang over cobbled street, Holes in our shoes, dirty c......

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Categories: scabby, emotions, life, memory, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Seize the Day
...Before the day unfolds from crumpled sorrow prior to dawning yawning fake cumbersome fawning’s creases nocturnal tossing turning ragged motion rigor ante mortis refuses to leave the sheets and ple......

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Categories: scabby, depression,
Form: Free verse

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