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Tatterdemalion Poems - Poems about Tatterdemalion

Folderol Gallimaufry

...At the risk of coming off turgid
I offer this tale esoteric
Hoping it’s not found insipid
Nor causes one to be apoplectic
But rather received with alacrity
Without the need for paroxysm
My word...
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Categories: tatterdemalion, funny, humor, language, words,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberSuspicious Upper

...

     Planned a pretty picnic, yet didn’t predict 
     Pigs begged - please eat us
     Allocated table had laid out a feisty feast
     Mince never been seen since 

     Rolled in cracklin...
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Categories: tatterdemalion, absence, angst, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Free verse



Every January first of the new year

...Every January first of the new year...

finds me (a doggone muttering *****sapien)
to give pause for reminiscences
and to take stock (sh lock and barrel)
about mein kampf in general
and previou...
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Categories: tatterdemalion, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse

Number forty seven White House occupant against all odds

...Number forty seven - White House occupant against all odds...

regarding President elect 
Donald John Trump.

As a cruel joke to self,
I imagined myself as a Republican
for that one glorious d...
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Categories: tatterdemalion, abuse, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Poets Are Dead

...On days I read…
   O dread
      The poets are dead!

A taste of bitter
   A tatterdemalion squalor
      A thread

that dangles
   in black death
      in the abyss

The art is lost
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Categories: tatterdemalion, writing,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberA Vagabond

...Dirty, tatterdemalion in appearance
He's clothed in worn-out raiment, his hair unkempt;
Perambulating through concrete jungles with...

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Categories: tatterdemalion, dark, life, sad, scary,
Form: Sapphic stanza

Caged

...Confined, slowly lightness vanishes
Darkness engulfed me
No longer at peace
Tatterdemalion mind, 
Has curved me into shard
As I try to escape my mind raddled
Feels like I'm in hoosgow
Slowly h...
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Categories: tatterdemalion, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberJoy of the Lord

...Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy o...
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Categories: tatterdemalion, happiness,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Tatterdemalion Kite

...“When we contemplate the globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole unive...
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Categories: tatterdemalion, adventure,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberDosado Through a Forbidden Land

...Lemony pines spring from my Summer mind,
dangling their scent, like Christmas ornaments.
I close my eyes and follow the sapphic breeze.

My bronze feet bounce through the mossy sea.
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Categories: tatterdemalion, flower, imagery, mystery, nature,
Form: Verse

Tatterdemalion

...Today I am Broken, Today was the worst act I have ever committed in my life and the natural painful escape he made leaving this shell of a body I could only imagine your flawless perfection for all t...
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Categories: tatterdemalion, abortion,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberAttempt To Rescue Spring

...tall, proud emerald stems like the West Witch’s guards

ruby-throated hummingbirds click in a homespun garden

tornadic spin thrusts homes, hither and thither, like flying brooms

strange snow ...
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Categories: tatterdemalion, spring,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBox of Chocolates

...BOX OF CHOCOLATES 

My heart aches for those who vanish —
a variety like chocolates, melting
into vanquished existence.

First and farewell - those lucky
who have died, without having
their n...
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Categories: tatterdemalion, farewell, friendship, heaven, love
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAge

...Horatio Hornblower adored her,
from the first time he saw her.
her hair all amiss.
tatterdemalion jeans
kissed her, before his lips touched hers.
the nose ring would adorn her
before his diamon...
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Categories: tatterdemalion, age, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member6 To 8- Ragdoll

...Rag doll, received, ready for play, except for her tatterdemalion dress.
Yet this child, of doleful tears, hugs tight her ragamuffin, sans regret.
Sweet child, with soiled cheeks, sings sweetly in ...
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Categories: tatterdemalion, child,
Form: Verse

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