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Straggle Poems - Poems about Straggle

Distractions
...Confusion hangs in the air like lanterns not yet lit I look around in a daze, as if I have gone astray memories somber, like watercolors flooded in gray, I shrink in the silence that floods the ......

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Categories: straggle, confusion, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Internal Drive
...What is happening on the inside is a reflection of what is transpiring on the outside. What is happening on the inside is far damaging than what is going down on the outside. The dog was walking on t......

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Categories: straggle, adventure, betrayal, change, community,
Form: Narrative



Rain Rain Rain
...Rain – Rain - Rain Chandan Chatterjee Rain Rain Rain Everywhere it’s rain Where you come from Where you go No one knows. Small small oval drops Have a great fun From eight to eight......

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Categories: straggle, 3rd grade, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Glow of the Embers
...The glow of last embers now gone neither flicker nor flame greets the dawn Nighttime fires once more put to rout ~ first daylight rays straggle out......

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Categories: straggle, light, night, sun, uplifting,
Form: Couplet
Bees Waggle
...I buzzed around Amid our clan’s beesound. My swarm buzzed in cloud In beespeak spoke aloud. But the babble of the bees Suddenly did cease, For one with gut swollen, Legs burdened by pollen, ......

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Categories: straggle, dance, environment, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Into Dust
...The briny tears have dried The sounding knells are stilled The grieving crowd, dispersed The parting pain, allayed Benumbed lie the dead Beneath the marble vaults Bereft of power and prowes......

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Categories: straggle, death, destiny, fate,
Form: Blank verse
Brunswick Beacon Needs Poetry Contest
...need beacon contest better than all of the rest my poem which was best a thought conveying your front page needs a saying should be displaying need perfect excuse news by Beacon did break ......

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Categories: straggle, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Feeding Them Phonusbalonus
...That’s jake, said the dewdropper to the bluenose who snorted. Mind your potatoes, said the wurp. He had had too much footjuice. The bluenose held a gasper out to the dewdropper. Here. Nozzled, t......

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Categories: straggle, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Vogon Poetry
Cotton Pickers Lament
...Cotton Picker’s Lament Feet burn soul blends with the earth, the heat, the picking season Hands, hard calloused leather punctuated by picking scars Drag that long sack behind me across blac......

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Categories: straggle, black african american, slavery,
Form: Imagism
The Village On the Water
...Heavily laden boats, rectangular sails billowing Under seas of low cloud, braving the fierce Yangtze; Held between snow......

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Categories: straggle, appreciation, environment, winter,
Form: Free verse
Eleanor
...Eleanor cleans the church Wednesdays, Sundays And after weddings on other days She sweeps up the rice Remembering her own wedding So many years ago She is lonely Her husband was killed In the......

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Categories: straggle, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Teacher Scrambled Out of Bed
...Before the crack of dawn Quickly washes, throws her clothes on Hustles downstairs in a second or two In a rush: Instant coffee will have to do With love she makes breakfasts for her other......

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Categories: straggle, feelings, hurt, student, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oak leaves
...oak leaves straggle dangling in early gust of snow AP: Honorable Mention 2022 Posted on April 28, 2019......

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Categories: straggle, autumn, courage, endurance, snow,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Thirsty Gentle Giants
...THIRSTY GENTLE GIANTS Animals dread a drought! As do Elephants Who are heavier and more stout, They need to find water fast, Before poachers find them And become History Once lived, now pas......

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Categories: straggle, animal, courage, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Disorganized Sports
...When we were young, we'd freely roam While supervision stayed at home. We played the seasons' major sports On vacant lots and playground courts. No tryouts or permission slips. No uniforms ......

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Categories: straggle, freedom, friendship, games, history,
Form: Quatrain

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