Best Scans Poems
...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 and pries,
denouncing loathed disse......
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Categories:
scans, evil,
Form:
Rhyme
...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 the rhapsody ......
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Categories:
scans,
Form:
Rhyme
...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, time races
with hope ......
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Categories:
scans, angst, lost,
Form:
Rhyme
...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 man I'd hoped to be
Often s......
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Categories:
scans, emotions, feelings, slavery,
Form:
Rhyme
...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, ......
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Categories:
scans, angst, sad, travel,
Form:
Free verse
...
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
...No challenge stops her
stance is set
shoulders squared
She needs no reassurance
no protective arm
What she want......
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Categories:
scans, daughter, father, hope, love,
Form:
Senryu
...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 stone pyramids to last
Hieroglyphics etched to ......
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Categories:
scans, future, history,
Form:
Rhyme
...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, as......
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Categories:
scans, angst, depression, me,
Form:
Free verse
...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 like a good healthy kick,
He or she should give mummy,
In......
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Categories:
scans, angel, baby,
Form:
Free verse
...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 I want to cry!
I watch transfixed, I am spellboun......
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Categories:
scans, bird, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
...Murky sea this day as she wades chest deep
Battling strong waves with every step
No other swimmers, no lifeguards, no sun
Nary a gull on the beach so windswept
Solitude is her preference, she f......
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Categories:
scans, angst, sea
Form:
Narrative
...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 whole.
He’s a lawman of sorts,
Born out of his time,
......
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Categories:
scans, cowboy-western, faith, life, people,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
...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 o......
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Categories:
scans, bereavement, cry, music,
Form:
Free verse
...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 it, it’s rewritten.
I......
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Categories:
scans, allegory, childhood, imagination, introspection,
Form:
Free verse