Scruff Poems - Poems about Scruff

Should I Tell the Bishop?

...Am I to grab this nasty neighbour
by the scruff of his scruffy neck,
shove his head against
that lovely hard wall between our apartments,
and hear a delightful crack?

He is not as gracious as
...

Anyway

...Some gloom took her from me.
Or was it hate?
Or did it rest somewhere between the two?
She's gone is what matters.


The cars pass anyway.
The wind blows anyway.
That new apartment block gets...

Homework Blues

...Math is tough.
It plays rough -
take's no guff,
calls your bluff,
grabs your scruff.
Had enough?
It clocks you,
knocks you
On your duff....

Disability poem Until My Heart Sings

...I’m not a shrinking violet
Who is happy to 
Just fade and disappear,
I want to take the world
By the scruff of the neck
And let it know I’m here. 

I refuse to be restricted
By physical bound...

Strong suspicion a 2024 presidential win

...Strong suspicion a 2024 presidential win...

for the trumpeting don
spells loss for democracy
after inauguration day
witnesses his swearing-in
nepotism will run rampant
lawlessness the name of...

Passionate

...Pulling this wagon by the scruff of my neck,
is like relaxing cross-legged on feeble bike handles.
The gentle gusts of your hurricane dazzle me.
Humouring the limitless requests of an oxymoronic c...

Seasonal Oscillation

...that shimmering scruff
upon the fresh branches of spring
like fall, it catches the gaze

a riot of autumnal shades
subtly and truly elfin
sprinkle the earth with gems

until late ...

Art of Love, Not From Printed Page

...I
He left to learn more: art of love to make,
And sun down, wished to rest in a village,
To take off at the dawn soon as to wake,
A graceful woman gave him a cottage.

‘Forget me not on your wa...

Life Or Poetry

...I was never born a poet
But a pauper standing on a pulpit
Penning words in spring tide dings
Ritzy scribbling like trundling rings

Talons of my feet
Seething grounds I scratch and leet
Feathe...

Surgeons of Sky

...Just testing the night
The surgeons of sky
 to see
a Sky-net so faulted and frank
unflinching but still true

Full of expectation and hope...Just touching the night
feeling the texture of it
...

That Cat Chat

...It was love at first sight seeing your furry faces. 
To scoop you up and take you to various places. 
Me and Ash are so happy to be your mom and dad. 
Your shenanigans made us both glad and mad. 
...

Garden Tale

...gardens are where we are:

  from "Eden" to "Gilgamesh", "Babylon" to "Gethsemane"
  from mountain to coast, town to country
  from wetlands to desert oasis, under the sea to the edge of ice
  f...

Cigarette

...if cigarettes didn’t make me stink for days,
if I’d ever figured out how to tap the ash away
from my trembling fingertips,
I would sit on the porch taking a long drag
instead of filling the empty...

Heartiness Without Depth of Feeling

...Never before this sentiment stirred awareness,

did we care enough to start an enduring flame

and keep it burning through a moonless night?

We stared into the shallow obscurity and fret:

n...

After the Blow

...Yesterday the wind blew hard
branches now litter blacktops and lawns,
twigs crunch underfoot.

Minor damage
but this morning, neat suburbia
is a little ramshackle and shabby
the way in...

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