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Strays Poems - Poems about Strays


Strays
Lost sheep are hard to count, they appear most in an unlived life, bleating at the distant edge of a storm. Often there are too many voices, all speaking from the same cramped space. He has to listen, while the sheep encircle, they have disjointed minds, the babble drains him as he sleeps. Eventually a window breaks the night, stray thoughts plod away one by one. He needs wool for his...

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Categories: strays, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Love That Never Strays
Though we will never meet she enters my dreaming mind walks into a room for two and I know she is mine forever. Guardian angel, Guardian Goddess, Guardian reader? Nope, she's a dog, a saggy jowled Blood Hound I name Betty. We walk the wooded ways, we spend the days in any weather, alone with nature. One day she will be human and maybe I the dog, so until...

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Categories: strays, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Man That Strays
I ama man that strays I know for sure that's me I realise I should change my ways But free I want to be My current girlfriend Has asked if I'm sincere When I say I love her The answers no, I fear I thought I loved her But that was yesterday Until I met someone else And she caused me to stray Because I loved her...

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Categories: strays, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
No Sheep Ever Strays
?No Sheep Ever Strays She wanted to be Hallowed part of history Fight for you and me. Land where all agree God made her so we can see To success is key. Pray down on our knees Equalize societies And God always please. From life remove fees Have warm breeze blow through the trees That removes the freeze. We are sheep that graze And when God we always...

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Categories: strays, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Strays
She is in the habit of collecting strays Kitty and doggy don't mix very well It won't be long before she's all tears Did i say she loves hosting them strays It won't be that long and she's all tears...

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Categories: strays, allusion, metaphor,
Form: Verse



Strays
Alley dog who models matted coat, Incensing clothiers at Fifth and Main-- You have no proof you are a legal dog. One day you knew the power that you are. Beneath a stack of cast off tires you saw, You felt, you tasted in a dumpster's steam. So now you strut through uptown parking lots. Dog, in a paved field sniffing,...

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Categories: strays, animal, dog, , cute,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Strays
Many abandon their pets under the delusion that they. will comfortably live their lives in their natural wild way, but unseen they suffer. Unheard they cry. In agony they linger. In lonliness they die....

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Categories: strays, animals, pets,
Form: Rhyme
"winter Strays"
Ride brush, stray search. Sit high, leather perch. Lasso thrown, dally wrapped. Wind howls, brim flapped. Chaps warm, gloved hand. Twenty years, ride brand. Spurs jingle, double rowel. Heading home, ...

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Categories: strays, cowboy-western
Form: Cowboy Poetry

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