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Best Not Up To Scratch Poems

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Premium Member Anger - An Epiphany
Time slows next to stopping
A small glimpse, of what death might feel like
Everything, I've heard about this moment is true..

Crunching gravel scraping my back, fuels...

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Categories: not up to scratch, anger, car,
Form: Free verse



First Impression
Please do not hold me within those claws of unworthiness
As if your judgment alone DEFINES me!
Get out of here, you little baby,
You don’t recognize what’s...

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Categories: not up to scratch, anger, character, emotions, feelings,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Itch
I HAVE AN ITCH. iT'S A ***** OF AN ITCH. BUT THERE'S A GLITCH WITH MY ITCH. i'M NOT SUPPOSED TO SCRATCH THE ITCH.

 WHY...

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Categories: not up to scratch, passion,
Form: Ballad
Cleanliness and Whores
Cleanliness and Whores 

The ship was old once it had been a big ship now it was small
it had been overtaking by time, its shower...

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Categories: not up to scratch, body, class,
Form: Sonnet
Listen Up Kids!!!
Walking away with a “Fail” in written English in school.
Spelling and grammar not up to scratch, what a fool!
Having to type on a computer with...

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Categories: not up to scratch, education
Form: Couplet



Topsy-Turvy
Topsy-Turvy


"I WON'T sleep this side. I'll sleep there tonight!"
Though this demand was chimed with a soft voice,
As she might have thought protection of her right...

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Categories: not up to scratch,
Form: Quatrain
Where's My Sister
Where’s my sister gone?
The holiday season all wrapped up
A tarnished blanket of snow remains
Flipping the page into the New Year
Filling our thoughts with hope and...

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Categories: not up to scratch, family, sister,
Form: Narrative
Home Cooked!
A HOME COOKED MEAL IS THE ORDER OF THE DAY.
A TAKE OUT MEAL WON'T DO.
A BOX MEAL IS NOT MADE FROM SCRATCH.
COLD CUTS ARE FOR...

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Categories: not up to scratch, caregiving, family, food, satire,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things