Scraggly Poems - Poems about Scraggly

Can't Sleep

...Lying in bed. 
Blankets. 
Imagining glass orbs.
With fireflies inside.
There’s people sleeping. 
Tracing skeleton thoughts. 
While lying around. 
Nothing.
I like to write. 
About scraggly ey...

Hermit

...a scraggly
beard down to his knees
been there long
and praying
same old prayers from long ago
sans circulation
...

emu birds at my window

...Three funny-looking scraggly emu birds were pecking at my window
I thought it was the rain or maybe hail until I looked out
They were hilarious-looking; what did they want? I wanted to know.
I did...

Sleeping Beauty

...
I remember the days when I'd fall
asleep before hitting the pillow.
Ah, the joy of a sound sleep.

I might not have been at my best
in the morning all things considered.
Day-old makeup very m...

coyote thief

...Coyotes are scraggly, ugly too
Eating carrion and roadkill overdue
She is a scavenger and a prey thief
Jackals enjoy kill until she makes it brief...

Lily And Billy Collab

...Lilly And Billy

Street cat Billy's spongy scraggly and cool
So, so edgy-sik, he's a grunge-dusky jewel
House cat Lily purrs he's so fine
Billy scoffs just get in line
But he knows deep...

Seedlings

...We all start out like seedlings
Just emerging from the earth,
Alike in that we’re each of us
A product of a birth.

Depending on our genus,
We may grow up tall and straight
Or be scraggly or b...

Pariah heap - savagely subjecting myself to humiliation

...Pariah heap - savagely subjecting myself to humiliation

Outward slovenly appearance bespeaks volumes
wordsworth their weight in gold
(exhumed from the pith
of these lovely bones -
beclothed wi...

Pets

...Our pets got old.
We all acted surprised.
When we had puppies and kittens…
They were playful and unstoppable.
So were we.
As they settled down-
We graduated high school.
As they got weak and s...

Kruse Rhodendendron Reserve

...When fire raged and burned it's roof, sun rays fell to forest floor,
And lit upon scraggly flowers once doomed to bloom no more.
Then unharnessed, like wild horses, the shrubs began to fight.
Each...

Her Fur and Her

...Her fur used to fly.
She used to fly.
From the floor to the couch.
Once she settled- 
We’d brush.
For years, it was full and youthful.
Then it was falling out in tufts,
So we’d brush more gent...

Dead

...I feel myself becoming scraggly in this place.

As if I’m old, but I don’t remember being old.

I feel my face and it’s smooth this time.

They lead me to bed.

They give me bland soup that I...

January 13th 2024 Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris

...January 13th 2024 - Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris

date of conception:?  ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date of expiration:? January i, emi...

Moxie and Grit

...
   Wandering, ever wandering 
     straddling cultural divides
   Never homing, ever-roaming
     o’er fretful borders or oceans’ high tides

   The hands of a tailor, a mender, a fixer-upper
...

Elf Sleeps In Mouse Hole

...What is in that mouse hole snoring away?
The cat sneaked a peek and tiptoed that day
Grabbed his owner’s phone and took a photo too.
Of a snoring elf sleeping in a matchbook box of red and blue.
...

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