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Scrappers
Scrappers Poems - Poems about Scrappers
Donald a McCormick Boy
...Donald was born in a tough family It was beyond tough love, it was violent He learned to put up his dukes before he was two always getting struck down hard by a brother He had six of them and the......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
scrappers,
parents,
Form:
Narrative
My Neighborhood Gang
...My Neighborhood Gang Colorful drapes hung alongside of my narrow window A small one/bedroom apt. my first - from delivery of newspapers overlooking a park - past a spider web - made by a black w......
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Perry Campanella
Categories:
scrappers,
community,
Form:
Free verse
Tiger Davis Queensland Ringer
...There was a Ringer in the Basalt, Tiger Davis was his name As an acrobatic stockman, he was gifted with some fame On the station quite a hero, but a maniac in town He didn't win too many, but a fi......
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Warren Mbaht
Categories:
scrappers,
career,
Form:
Ballad
Come On Down To Inclusive Town
...Come on down to Inclusive Town We will throw you in by your knee or chin Come on my friend, and you all are Matter of fact, Become our holiday star Rappers, scrappers, mappers too You are al......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
scrappers,
3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form:
Free verse
To Isolation
...To Isolation By Joji Varghese Kuncheria Though I am self quarantined now for weeks, Through the glass window pane facing the east, I can see the red-orange globe arise, Between the two sky sc......
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Varghese Kuncheria
Categories:
scrappers,
12th grade, anxiety, introspection,
Form:
Sonnet
My Life As Tasmanian Devil
...Pups, imps, joeys, wiggling tailed marsupials, hunting in parties of five. Deadly facial cancer has killed lots of us, it’s a wonder I am still alive. I screech when I eat, carrion, my utmost favor......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
scrappers,
6th grade, 7th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Labor
...There is no labor described as low and unworthy doing nothing man does to earn genuine living makes one a dog those who sit on rolling chairs and talk through wise gourds are brain- bees who che......
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Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
Categories:
scrappers,
humanity, imagery,
Form:
Sonnet
The Wise Owl
...I am a white owl, I listen to people’s scowl, I turn a deaf ear to a drunk’s howl, I don’t quench my thirst from your water bowl! I come out at midnight, So that, I don’t get to see you fight, ......
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Jayeeta Shamsul
Categories:
scrappers,
art, beauty, night,
Form:
Bio
Pallikarnai Poems
...Pallikarnai,one of the prominent waterbodies that once provided life breath to Chennai (Tamilnadu, India) is now a garbage dumpyard. It now serves as a moving symbol of how the civilized ca......
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Sabu Shanmughom
Categories:
scrappers,
earth, nature, pollution,
Form:
Concrete
Modern Ways Versa Olden Ways
...First let us take our friend the horse a noble creature who serves us well supplying us with a source of good compost ferrying us here and there in fine style pulling carts and carriages with ap......
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Shadow Hamilton
Categories:
scrappers,
car, horse, house,
Form:
Epic
Wink
...Let's see..which one do I write about; we got ten. The four in the house can cause quite a stir, and every one is worthy of paper and pen, But the last shall come first so I'll talk about her. ......
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Robert A. Dufresne
Categories:
scrappers,
animalshouse, me, house, me,
Form:
Free verse
Human Noise
...I see city dwellers resting on concrete seats Day dreaming a thought or two The fragrance of coffee wafting out into the street Here’s to the situated sparrow poking and jumping about Searching......
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Laura Mckenzie
Categories:
scrappers,
life, nature, peopleold, city,
Form:
Rhyme Royal