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Below are the all-time best Scans poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of scans poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Evil Eye
The darkness, now descending, floods the city as it dies
while shadows lurk in legions 'neath the looming Evil Eye.
Its frozen stare envelops all, it penetrates...

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Categories: scans, evil,
Form: Rhyme



Popcorn Music
Pop (corn) Music


Introduction

It’s time to dance, time to tango
There’s a Canadian on the banjo
When he sees the guitar strings
Jack’s mirth grows soaring wings;
As he scans...

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Categories: scans,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Suicide Prevention
On a harbor of restless shore
she scans across the deepened waves,
to end pain’s grim just like before...
as necklace breaks, in chilled farewell.

By edge of evening,...

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Categories: scans, angst, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Behind These Prison Walls
I prowl the days within myself
To heal these battle scars
But days at times unwrapps itself
With binding sturdy bars.

That holds me back from freedom's grace
From the...

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Categories: scans, emotions, feelings, slavery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nevada, 1969
An all-but-empty Interstate stretches
straight, streaking horizon to horizon:
it is a ribbon with no bow, wrapping
northern Nevada. The eye fixes
on absent fences, looks for limits,
scans scenery...

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Categories: scans, angst, sad, travel,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Night of the Ball
Music echoes through the halls,
climbing stairs, and gilded walls.
Our lovely lass discreetly swoons. 
With longing eyes, she scans the room.

Young ladies dressed, in gowns, divine,
are...

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Categories: scans, art, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Little Bulldog
No challenge stops her
    stance is set
       shoulders squared

       ...

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Categories: scans, daughter, father, hope, love,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Hieroglyphs and Holograms
I am lost in the heart of time and place
Stranded between the present and past
In my view are members of a civilized race
Whose slaves build...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scans, future, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Heartfelt Loss
I was due any day, had put on weight,
At an alarming rate,
But when I mentioned to my gynae.,
That my babies kicks were oh so tiny,
Not...

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Categories: scans, angel, baby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Withdrawal In a Dream
How different this place
this sanctuary feels, here
inside one’s head. Where
insidious illusions fondle
a subvert mind, and obscenities
resonate within the confusion,
when fidgety creatures, assume
guardianship of my preternatural
situation,...

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Categories: scans, angst, depression, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Survival of the Fittest
I gaze up at the pellucid sky
a red tailed hawk is flying high;
it scans for prey, which soon may die ...
rabbits run for your life...

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Categories: scans, bird, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Reclaim Your Domain
I wish I could plug
A flash drive in your ear.
I would wipe clean the worries
Hidden deep inside there.

I know they've been hiding
In camouflaged space.
Your very...

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© Deb Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scans, computer, corruption, depression, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Concrete Cowboy
He was born too late to be, 
What he knows he is in his soul, 
And though he’s quite accomplished, 
Sometimes he doesn’t feel quite...

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Categories: scans, cowboy-western, faith, life, people,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Wails of a Song
The coda of mourning jays vibrates
In bittersweet tracks when daybreak scans
An almost whipping backdrop, hushed
By low warbles from birds’ paean;
Indistinct as dusty sketches—
Throaty on a...

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Categories: scans, bereavement, cry, music,
Form: Free verse
Poa-Tetry Soup (The Name Inspired)
Thoughts melt and distil under a green/blue flame,
Swirling down, separated out and mixed.
If you’ve seen it, it’s broken;
If you’ve heard it, it’s shredded;
If you’ve read...

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Categories: scans, allegory, childhood, imagination, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs