It's a Soup Creek Christmas
...It's time to get the stockings out of storage
before those who are nosey, begin to forage,
in my saloon, lookin' for their Christmas gift.
I know if I catch em' they'll plead the fifth...
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Categories:
scuffled, community, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Our Redemption Will Come
...Forgive me if I ask how long before we converge again around the bonfire in the wee hours to douse this chilly dust-laden winds of the season.
It was a misery, but it should happen again.
That subt...
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Categories:
scuffled, africa, anxiety, birth, christmas,
Form: Free verse
I'M Calling You Out
...I’m calling you out!
Many ‘came and went,’ but after George Floyd, I thought it was done;
Now, two more possibly got hanged, and another, shot with a gun.
‘Black disrespect’ is real! In the midst ...
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Categories:
scuffled, anger, conflict, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
Bronwyn's Mate, Part Ii
...To Hellie's credit, she had rightly judged...
for, all told- the young man was quite shady
so from her guard-post she would not be budged
for she was most loyal to her lady
And when he cooed an...
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Categories:
scuffled, animal, dog, fantasy, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Straight Talking Mcgee
...McGee sat deep in his overstuffed chair
As his son came home from school
McGee called out as Shawn rushed by
“I need to 'ave a word with you”
So Shawn scuffled over and flopped in a chair
His ...
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Categories:
scuffled, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The Loudest Silence
...the silence almost too heavy for my woozy body.
outside, kissing a cigarette, "goodnight",
i scuffled through the neighborhood. it was so quiet.
once i stopped moving, stopped thinking, stopped fe...
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Categories:
scuffled, addiction, meaningful, night, peace,
Form: Prose Poetry
Poem For Contest
...The Little Match Girl by H.C. Andersen Part Rewritten By Scarlett G. Rollins
Most terribly cold it was; it snowed, and was nearly quite dark, and evening-- the last evening of the year. In this cold...
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Categories:
scuffled, books,
Form: Blank verse
I Cannot Breathe -Scuffled
...I cannot breathe -scuffled
I cannot breathe -scuffled
Poisoned hearts muffled
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Categories:
scuffled, fear,
Form: Rhyme
A Christmas Tale
...As evenings dark began to close in
a little girl wipes her nose on her sleeve.
Listless and hungry she walks in the snow
a poor and lost soul, one cold New Year’s Eve.
Her dead mothers slippers...
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Categories:
scuffled, angst, child, christmas, new
Form: Narrative
The Slave's Tale: Revenge
...Exracted from Gerald Nforche's Epic, The Slave's Tale
-Across the Atlantic, 1793-
And as days tumbled away, we staggered
Along, knock-kneed, dead beat and haggard.
Our bodie...
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Categories:
scuffled, abuse, africa, anger, betrayal,
Form: Narrative
Look At That Face
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Look At That Face!
Before I was yours there was a time when I could not go outside. I would stay all day in this concrete cage and the days would pass me by. Many people scuffled through t...
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Categories:
scuffled, animals, inspirational, life, nostalgia,
Form: I do not know?
Jack and Clare (Part 2)
...These nights that he told me
He had to work late
He was out having drinks
With secretary Kate!
She drove through the night
Past the old Starlight Inn
Where she noticed Jack's car
As he wallo...
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Categories:
scuffled, husband, old, old,
Form: Ballad
Fight Fire...
...On cold and stormy winter nights
while mom was counting sheep
Dad and I would snuggle tight
eyes fixed on fire, staring deep
He’d talk and laugh the night away
though sickened by the smell of sm...
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Categories:
scuffled, imagination, introspection, sad, day,
Form: I do not know?