Short Ragtag Poems

ragtag rainbows rush -
sun and rainstorm mingling -
white crane fantasies

January 23, 2020
A Nature Themed Haiku with Color Poetry Contest...

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One pristine 
unknowingly fragile

The other ragtag broken 
from numerous battles

Both beat at the same pace 
through the same rat race

One says to the other 
be careful watch out
but the pristine heart
has no idea what the
broken heart is 
talking about.

©SamHarty...

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Amidst summer’s day
Post middle school finale
In the concrete valley
A vanguard viking lay

We gathered as a ragtag crew
Peeled his corpse off the floor
Carrying him, despite the gore.
To the stream, as we knew what to do

Fashioning a mausoleum of straw
Hoping he felt no disdain,
His grave enveloped in flame
And gently floated away.

It was there I thought to myself,
“What is the meaning of it all?”
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dwellings of myriad ragtag! 
over the fluid moors I salute you
not hoping to see you again
till treasure of divine tings and syllables

greets the new dawn of calming noise
in shadowy slumber we remain
vaporizing as trees fall down
endlessly and expressly

averting a salvation

down the spiral of empty skulls
anarchist moods and petty pains
man is a silly thing made of flesh
not giving a damn in this mess...

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He does not sleep
he who is father of girls.
On his wooden ragtag bed,
he counts all night,
“These five fingers are five cows.
And this other one, five goats;
How many daughters do I have?
Six daughters!
Oh, what a wealthy fellow!
Let the sun rise quickly,
and the moon delays to come.
I will go and ask for my things,
and a powerful man I shall live.
cows, goats turkeys, everywhere
as many as times six daughters
Hurray!”...

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