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Best Scantly Poems

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Brave New World
(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")

Human hatchery

Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with...

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Categories: scantly, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity,
Form: Free verse



Remember the Season
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© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scantly, age, seasons,
Form: Concrete
The Exotic Dancer
She is scantly dressed as she twirls and dances
she dances on a raised platform with eyes staring
Her clients mostly male partaking lagers and beers
Her job...

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Categories: scantly, absence, emotions, feelings, for
Form: Blank verse
Insignificant
Staring at the Universe a speck of decaying dust, roaming like restless rust
A sovereign statue underrated & unjust, searching solitudes of trust
With a mirage of...

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Categories: scantly, dance, death, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stone - Mademoiselle L'Vampyre
STONE - MADEMOISELLE L'VAMPYRE
From out of all the darkest nights we've ever known
her heart as black as all the sins that man has shown
she came...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scantly, abuse, addiction, beautiful, horror,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



Time
Since the beginning it has been here.........
When we get up,weather its at the crack of dawn or before the roster crows its ahead of us.
We...

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Categories: scantly, time
Form: Personification
Premium Member Woman On My Bed
She lays sprawled out on my bed, scantly clothed
What she does wear is very revealing
There’s not a part of her that can be loathed
I loved...

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Categories: scantly, life, passion, sensual, woman,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member A Day of Short Poems
“Scantly-published in life, JD Salinger is set to become prolific in death”. 

This is Tuesday
and a day of short poems.
Salinger spoke to me
and said that...

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© Bill Yates  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scantly, poems,
Form: Free verse
American Gentleman Ii
America Gentleman II
	

His long stripped Hat is a storey thing
Yet his head scantly fills it to the brim
His Brain being below the first floor
Floats in...

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Categories: scantly, bird,
Form: Burlesque
Colour
Were you an airborne fire-fly
Exuding sparkle through its skin...
Mesmerising our keen eye
With daze would not be a sin.

Then, it would be sin to blink
Colour captivating...

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Categories: scantly,
Form: Ballad
Confused
Do you want to experience?
…the life of the writer
Who doesn’t really understand
Life continually moving to the right
Sideways emotional breakdowns
Dawning of a lunar sunrise on Tuesday
Knights...

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Categories: scantly, art, life, life, universe,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Old Man and a Baby
Whisper this in your baby's ear
science poses little fear.
Though still primitive and childlike,
it finds first tracks on which to strike.

Billions spent on science research
scantly more...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scantly, appreciation, child, earth, future,
Form: Couplet
Obstinacy
All life, he wanted to know himself
like a sea, which drowns itself
in the boat.

In your own turf, time had beaten 
you again and again. Still...

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Categories: scantly, art,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Mademoiselle L'Vampyre
MADEMOISELLE L'VAMPYRE
From out of all the darkest nights we've ever known
her heart as black as all the sins that man has shown
she came in scantly...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scantly, wifeheart, body, heart,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Madamoiselle L'Vampyre
MADEMOISELLE L'VAMPYRE
From out of all the darkest nights we've ever known
her heart as black as all the sins that man has shown
she came in scantly...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scantly, betrayal,
Form: Burlesque

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