Short Ragged Poems

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Darkness

Darkness
It breeds in my chest
Suffocating
The light

It's hard
Suffering every ragged breath
Knowing
You're gone
Categories: ragged, loss, mother,
Form: Free verse


King

King
Haughty,royal
Ruling, gloating,dining
Gold,mansion,clay,straw
Sowing,hoeing,starving
Humble, ragged
Peasant


6-16-19
Categories: ragged, humanity,
Form: Diamante

Rags To Riches

a ragged woman
shivers and begs in the street -
revellers throw up

written 20th December for Constance's Winter senryu contest
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ragged, life,
Form: Senryu
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In the Abandoned Orchard

Enclosed by ragged 
wooden fence, yellow apples
have fallen into 
grasses where children once played
and laughter no longer sounds.
Categories: ragged, seasons,
Form: Tanka

Skeleton Tree

gnarled old bones creak with each ragged wind-blown breath lifeless fingers reach © 07-04-2012 Skeleton Tree Haiku Contest
Categories: ragged, nature,
Form: Haiku


When Truth Hurts

Like looking in  a mirror,
and being shown not fresh youth
but ragged age, lost dreams---
but good for the soul it is
I'm sure...mea culpa,
my bad
Categories: ragged, analogy, appreciation, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Skeeter Boy - Before and After

matted furball fluff
ears ragged, tail disheveled
shaved to summer 'do

now look so skinny -
slick, girly, all clean and white
hardly know it's you
Categories: ragged, animals, pets
Form: Haiku

Helen Santmyer's Prairie Town

Laugh at this grey town,
Dust lies thick; ragged trees
Streets lost—prairie seas

Unsoftened majesty
Wide streets end—wide earth begins
Sun sets; full moon-rise
Categories: ragged, august, beauty, community, earth, emotions,
Form: Haiku

Ragged and Torn

Since I've been born.
Just a peasant girl,
Not worth diamonds or pearls.

Born with the sheep
Have to sleep in the big dung heap.
Used and worn,
Ragged and torn.
Categories: ragged, childhood, sad,
Form: I do not know?
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Love In Summer

shall i compare you to a summer's night

with lost thrill

like ragged wood

you drift from beneath me

yet i do not drown in sorrow,

but remain afloat
Categories: ragged, love
Form: Free verse

Horde Mind

Rider comin' up behind me

Ragged ear pony shows message is important

As he draws alongside
I
indicate food in my saddlebag
hand across the reins
and

jump
Categories: ragged,
Form: Free verse
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Robin Redbreast-

Robin - A Didactic Cinquain


Robin
Ragged, perky
Splashing, bouncing, singing
Ever so jolly
Redbreast 

7/9/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020 ©
Categories: ragged, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, bird,
Form: Didactic

So This Is the Way Storms Work

You whispered. 
And ragged butterflies bled into the earth, 
Grasshoppers cut through clouds, 
And in mounds, roses grinned their jagged teeth
Quietly tucked in satin.
Categories: ragged, angst, dark,
Form: Lyric

Renvyle

Her look begged a thousand begs,
Such that i could not reach
Her as she trawled the stoney beach,
For ragged drowned things,
Such that i could not hear
Her cold water screech.
Categories: ragged, sea,
Form: ABC

You Are My Ocean

The blue ocean sea, Surges as you breathe, Waves then follow, Curling their ragged top lip, Rolling pebbles with their heels. (c) 2015 PJ Bayliss
© Pj Bayliss  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ragged, love, sea, sensual,
Form: Tanka

Pseudo-Expressionless

pseudo-expression's
      of ragged diamonds
  a fugazi sans brilliance,
  shiner midst vague skies 
           in the optical jags of
       practical indifference
© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ragged, allegory, muse, satire,
Form: Free verse

Soul of Love

Soul of Love

It is ragged now--
My soul of love.
Tattered and torn--
My soul of love.

Your thorny words 
Blind me.
Deep scars 
Adorn me,
But it has endured--
My soul of love.
Categories: ragged, lost love,
Form: Free verse
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Red

Birds were very 
aggressive today

There is a ragged loud 
screeching swooping Hawk

Outside always
Protecting his territory 

Scarring the little gentle songbirds away
Categories: ragged, animal,
Form: Free verse
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Seer

pain
   ragged
sharp searing
 hollow empty
     gone

     gone
   waiting
  horrid fear
 mad memory
    wake

      sun
 dream light
 burgeoning
 halleluiah
     born
Categories: ragged, allegory
Form: Lanterne

Rags Before Riches

Rags Before Riches

They ragged on me when I was rich;
Had been in rags digging a ditch;
Now in my own tower;
Riches down on shower,
And only God knows my each glitch.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ragged, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
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The Ragged Book

Today was a ragged book that no one remembers Alone on a dusty shelf Patiently waiting to share all of the beautiful secrets Written on brittle pages And in the margin
© Roy Wilde  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ragged, introspection,
Form: Free verse
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Willy's Ragged Old Mop

Willy's hair looked like a ragged old mop
His loving wife told him, 'Go get it cropped!'
  He sat down in the chair
  Yawned, 'I've got hair to spare' 
Willy woke up with a shiny bald top
Categories: ragged, hair, humor,
Form: Limerick

Two Hats Lost

Two hats lost in a desert felt so much dread
For unable to walk, they had to hop instead
Soon with a ragged rim
One hat cried, "It looks dim!"
The other said, "Wait, and I'll go on ahead!"
© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ragged, funny, imagery, word play,
Form: Limerick
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Sunflowers

  I'll bring Sunflowers
  calling on you, Dear.
  Bouquet sworn vows
  until promises wear
  time's ragged edge
  begs my suicide flight
  from top floor ledge
  I miss tomorrow light.
Categories: ragged, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
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tears of glass

my grief   runs   weeping
   bearing tears of
   broken glass
their ragged   edges
   cutting   my eyes
salty drops of yeterday
tracing   a jagged path
   down the   skin 
   of my soul.
Categories: ragged, bereavement, grief, loss, pain,
Form: Free verse
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