Best Scathe Poems

"Reveries are gifts of moments, even melancholy ones, 
when our hearts were happy."             
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Rampage rumbling water roars dig the shores
Heavy hard they grapple trees and humans
Tumbling turner tides glide no one adore
Frightened humans, they run! Run and run fast!
As they desire to survive ever more
From angry nimbus clouds darkening span
To merry-go-round waves muddy wet skirt
Gnawing so hungry to...

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God's mercy and love raised you to this tier,
Amid the party of graduates assembled here.
So, think not of self more highly than you ought,
For it is the Lord's grace that kept you unfraught.

Try not to conform to the actions of this world,
But let your minds...

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Written: March 28, 2024 For Edward Ibeh Contest
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It is a myth that time cures any wound,
It is merely what people say and sound.
When the wound was simply skin-wide,
No reply may...

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Riots and chaos chastised by our kin.
More sibling rivalry taken right on the chin.
We need to wake up and pull our heads from the ground.
The hatred of past is still all around.

Keep love in your heart and never lose faith.
Do your part in these times...

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Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
alone with the enduring Earth, and Night.
With fold to fold, of mountain or of cape;
who wrestles with his dream; as some pale shape.
Their sharp black heads against a quiet sky,
where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies.
As if...

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Are you sure you want to be my naughty girl tonight...
are you sure that your lips can handle
the heat of my love head sweet woman,
Take it...Take it all...
feel the depth of my rise for you
as it reaches the limits of your honyed velvet throat
touching the...

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Kindled my soul at the time of my birth.
It feeds my craving for the boundless,
superior joys of desiring to be soulless.
Owing to the breadth-widening death. 

Like it drew the moth to the fire spot,
Your heart will no longer be the same.
The zeal blazed deep within my...

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DEVIL AMONG US or just MANY FACES


Hebrew described Satan as adversary,
Not a sole individual that you should worry.
But they walk among us.
They talk among us.
Never noticed? I doubt it;
As they drop their despicable bomb among us.
Never faced one? It’s skeptical,
Check out the mirror; they born...

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Tears surge as I revisit the pages

My mind clears, I recollect the stages


As we held hands and walked a promise path

of the undreamed hope since we said “I do”

Shook the dust of discarded past and grew

Adieu ,  were not intended  for our breath

I...

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You believe me to be an altruistic man as I smile with sneering reluctance. 
You may think me gentle as I extend my hand in goodwill, but degraded am I as I wistfully watch my hand recoil from your filthy phalanges with its foul clutch....

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Oceanic
sight awful shudder
haunt;
media echoing news;
Poverty sad sad
view....

Begging for some
mercy and food to
eat;
Rags and filth  ~
children on street;
Is this what we
gave?! STOP!

Rain bullets and
bombs clouding the
heavens;
Scathe canopy
'causing fear;
Is this what we
gave?! STOP!

Black and blue polka
dots pattern
scattered;
Zigzag drumbeat
beatings hurt;
Is this what we
gave?! STOP!

Hobnob campaign
rapport on
elections;
Blind eyes...

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There was hue...There was dew..
A lot of smiles...& some tears too...
Lot of friends....trusted enemies few...
Known to me was bliss and happiness...
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Will Cherry Blossoms Bloom Again?

The wrath of nature shows it face, in cherry-blossom land
Where the Tsunami spewed salt water, and churned up piles of sand
As it wiped out people, like a scathe cutting grass
But this time, sadly, its memory will not pass
When a wall of...

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I wish I had a straight line to heaven,
I’d ask God a question or two.
With all of these different beliefs, 
I wonder just what we should do.

Is it ok to read stories to our children, 
like the old tale of green eggs and ham.
How about...

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