Short Raggy Poems

M-ake
I-t
T-hrough
C-raggy
H-ills

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Monocrostic (Birthday of Mitch A. Meraña)
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Ragged forlorn a burden being born

A pale face framed in coal black hair


longing for a soft caress

Suckling from a mother's breast


Salty tears wet his lips instead
No music fills his heart

Life a painful existence to be endured
Unloved the world has forgotten him....

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Discard the foolish thoughts of worthless things,
instead reach out to somebody lonelier than a raggy vagrant
who can't find his cosy home remembering Christmas;
help him find it and fill his distraught spirit with sheer delight!


Excerpt fom the poem, " The Thrill of Imagination. "
Entered in Gregory R Barden's contest, " Rithimus Divisa 10 "...

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I feel so lifeless like a doll. 
With raggy hair and a body so tall.
So lifeless i am no emotion to see. 
Only a face but noone looks at me.
To them i am only a shadow that walks behind
No feeling of any musical rhyme or rhme
My arms could hug an entire tree.
Yet no one trys to hug me.
My mind is filled with so many thoughts
Very soon i will be lost....

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Blue ocean vistas
Rainforest encroaches down
Tree roots over stone
Vines reach, wind, twine and climb
Clutching trees that cradle them

Burleigh Heads beach path
Pandanus groves, mangroves
Strange variety
Spiky bushes, towering trees
Tiny flowers underfoot

Raggy  paperbarks,
Log bridge, white sand, shallow creek
Invisible birds give song
Each day travel the same path
Only to find it diff’rent....

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Winter Fields Of Laois

Wind song whispered
between drystone wall and hawthorn
morning cold stiffening face and fingers
every clod-n-sod is an obstacle,
my head bowed like a bull 
turning to look down the hill
moments pain and reflection.
A bitter droning voice 
pressing coat to spine...
now curved as an eggshell
Above the trees a crow 
a raggy dancer on the wind
is driven by the music
and rises...

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