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Scraggly Poems - Poems about Scraggly

Premium Member 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......

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Categories: scraggly, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: scraggly, beauty, sleep,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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......

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Categories: scraggly, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: scraggly, cat, cute, humor,
Form: Limerick
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......

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Categories: scraggly, life, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme



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......

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Categories: scraggly, 12th grade, absence, age,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: scraggly, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: scraggly, flower, nature,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: scraggly, cat, i miss you,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: scraggly, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: scraggly, age, appreciation, birthday, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: scraggly, courage, history, jewish, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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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Categories: scraggly, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Once Called Paradise
...Gravel road winds up to the gate logs from a bygone era, sturdy electrified now, to keep out ~ or perhaps to keep in ~ The cowshed, chicken coop scraggly gardens and gr......

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Categories: scraggly, dad, farm, nostalgia, remember,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Knowing Mamie
...Mamie has a rather shabby coat, it is a mainstay We all know it; green with tassels, a bit scraggly It was her mother’s coat, she will never get rid of it It still smells like her, she tells us. ......

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Categories: scraggly, women,
Form: Prose Poetry

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