Scuffed Poems - Poems about Scuffed

...I’m proud to serve, that’s true as hell, But sometimes I wonder why we’re here to rebel— Not against the mission, not against the fight, But the brass and the game that fogs up the right. They sa......

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...I found them tucked beneath a cracked mirror, black leather dull with the dust of old grief, heels worn down from turning away— a shape molded by silence, not comfort. I wear them when the air ......

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... Written: April 12, 2025 for contest sponsored by Brian Strand ************* . . .In the silent expanse of lunar dust a momento rests shards of progress glint like stars ......

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...I once had a PE teacher from Lille, who cruelly knew how to make me feel like the sweaty, old rag stuffed in her scuffed gym bag to hide her cigs and butt plug of steel.......

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...Two skinny legs dangle from hand-me-down frocks. Elastic bands holding up her socks. Scuffed shoes upon her feet, so small they barely fit. Water leaks through the crack where the sole had spli......

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...In the middle ages these roughed and scuffed decades between newborn crocus snow-melt-nursed and dried hydrangea blooms sepia-skinned and papery thin I earned the right to wear sapphires and bur......

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...His dog stops often to sniff the scuffed turf of this recreation park. It smells last Sunday's soccer game, by tracing the sweaty play, the spots where the spinning ball slid crazily, through ......

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... Written: November 12, 2024, for — Glenn Hughes Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori, inspired by the song “Let America Be America Again” ______________......

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...My days are void of color It seems I cannot speak your name My consciousness lives within my memories Holding only myself to blame. The bleakness of reality My soul, it perseveres It lives f......

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...Two skinny legs dangle from hand-me-down frocks. Elastic bands holding up her socks. Scuffed shoes on her feet so small they barley fit. Water leaks through the crack where the sole had split. ......

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...With a SPLASH of color a chance for cooler weather falls BUZZ is heard the CHATTER of talking leaves DROP to the ground a CRUNCH under foot broken into a MUMBLE barely heard trees beco......

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... Life is not always filled with cloying contentment. There are taunting trials and things I'd rather not do. Those tedious tasks that steal my smiles and my time, but not the joy of life's mo......

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...sneakers twisted over hydro wires co-joined dangling from tied laces tracks to an unhappy ending a runner's castoff erasing the scourge of a race lost? an overhead tale of something snapped ......

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...Summer soil melded between bloodied feet. There is gravel stuck between bone and soul in their arch. A curve, a signature that belongs to an individual, it is yours and only yours. It ......

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...Aging man your shoes do not shine upon jagged century’s wooden floor scuffed, swollen leathers, buckles not laces, bereft of brush that buffed they tap your time, just time for you where ghosts......

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