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Scuff Poems - Poems about Scuff

Premium Member To Be Known is To Be Loved
...The wind knows the rider before the horse does. Long before sunup, boots scuff barnwood and the rawhide creaks with memory. A buckaroo doesn’t announce himself… he just is. A silhouette stitched into......

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Categories: scuff, appreciation, love, poetry, western,
Form: Prose Poetry
Night Shades
...Under a smother of dark clouds a city skyline sinks, there will be no starshine the lights of a million windows must drain and replace another blanked out evening. The eyes of stray cats fire ......

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Categories: scuff, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Just Like an Old Shoe
... Just Like an Old Shoe I am worn and torn from hard use. I bear the scuff marks of a life, lived. I live alone, my partner has long since disappeared. I reside in a dark place tossed......

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Categories: scuff, age,
Form: Free verse
Shoes By The Door
...Your shoes by the door, worn soles tracing paths you used to walk - each scuff a story, each crease a memory, quiet but heavy. They sit there, still laced with quiet defiance, a reminder of......

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Categories: scuff, absence, dad, grandfather, grandparents,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sicily Evening
...Italia we strolled the country side throughout the villages of Sicily peeking through stone ways above garden nooks of Puglia catering to the soft and sensual galleries of floral canvases tha......

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Categories: scuff, allah,
Form: Epithalamium



That Untrampled And Unscuffed Blank Page
...When sat before a blank page I sometimes feel as lonely as I imagine that blank page must feel however that blank page is also quite stark and challenging daunting even it seems to be ancho......

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Categories: scuff, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seek Shelter
... Seek shelter from the snow and rain; from wind and stormy ocean waves. Seek shelter not to be in pain; with elements, do all that saves. But, there's a shelter for the mind; for it, ......

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Categories: scuff, america, inspirational, perspective, tribute,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member On the Way To School
...As I was walking down the road I saw an ugly fat brown toad He said don’t stand upon a nick They say you’ll turn into a stick I screwed my face up in distaste And ran away in confused haste The......

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Categories: scuff, school,
Form: Rhyme
Planting Texas Star Hibiscus Seed
...Lightly scuff the seeds with sandpaper or a file and soak overnight. Then plant in the ground or in containers or both. If in the ground, mark the spot so you remember where you planted as so......

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Categories: scuff, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Study In Kafkaesque
...I slowly come to as light creeps across the floor and dissolves what I thought had fallen through the torn sides of a dream. Nothing is there but the scuff marks left by fleeing ghosts. U......

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Categories: scuff, anxiety, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forsaken
...A haggard bit of burnt toast long since bruise-colored forlorn, it keeps to itself 'midst crumbs indeterminate Scuff marks from stylish pumps as dull now as the coat of neg......

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Categories: scuff, age, eulogy, farewell, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Back of Dad's Chair
...The back of Dad's chair is black like a void, its mid discontinuous of solid support. Cushion coils creak as his weight shifts, his interest unhinged from light hypnosis. The scuff of rough wheel......

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Categories: scuff, absence, addiction, child, dad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Studio At the Beach I
...The Red Dress Regalia Waning spirits sigh, the roaring ocean calls Her playground, the coolest place ever Dressed in flamboyant ruff......

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Categories: scuff, dedication, fathers day,
Form: Free verse
City Park
...The park empties inside a nightgown of dusk. They have talked yet only now are they speaking through a rhythmic articulation of the unsaid. She a trembling levee through which a river......

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Categories: scuff, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premature Irrelevance of Donald Trump
...Premature irrelevance of Donald Trump? Heartfelt congratulations to Raphael Warnock, now slated to become first Black senator of Georgia cuz he defeated Senator Kelly Loeffler quite a shock ......

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Categories: scuff, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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