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Best Scold Poems

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Lily Letters of Jasmine
  Dear grandma, 
       you were my litchi  s u n r i s e, 
 ...

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Categories: scold, deep, emotions, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Poet
THE POET’S PANEGYRIC

“There’s someone I knew with talent unleashed
and a heart that had for so many relentlessly reached
This poet sought inspiration from the living and...

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Categories: scold, life, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lovesick
She told me to write about love…
…fine.

…

I gave up on you.
I gave up on your testaments.
I gave up on the way you said to hold...

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Categories: scold, identity, introspection, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member With Feigned Apologies
I wrote what I thought was a 'poem' some years ago,
but it lacked rhythm, rhyme, and had no smooth flow.
Its imagery was blurry, and it...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scold, anger, muse, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mystery Of love
Who can say where it comes from?
Only that it’s there, when least expected,
thought to be rare if not obsolete

One night, the air a swirl of...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scold, love, passion, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Xenodochial
 Quote:
"Xenodochial (pronounced zeena-doh-key-ul) means to be hospitable. Making others feel at home is truly an art. When you can make your friends, family, and...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scold, analogy, appreciation, character, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fate On the Feathers
When I met you in the language of lonely war
three feathers fastened to your breast breathing sore
many graves of gentlemen knew your score and the...

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Categories: scold, dark, gothic, i love
Form: Epic
Silent Scream
I can hear them from here 
Their wails and cries 
I can see their tears from here 
They are the babies I wasn't bold enough...

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Categories: scold, abortion, baby, death, evil,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Wolf - Part 3
...... Part 3 ......

The old wolf creeps, the old wolf leaps
on prey he’s been a’ trackin’ –
a deer adorned with branchin’ horns
is torn by beasts...

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Categories: scold, nature, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Grand Larceny
What’s it take for women to hate
their first born so long and so cold?
Sly smiles as he choked on the bait.
You sat in that one...

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Categories: scold, abuse, anger, bible, dark,
Form: Ballade
A Grim Fairy Tale
I was born a girl
whose parent’s died.
Then given to others
whose social status was high.
Papa, the king, but died in war.
Mama, the queen, who didn’t marry...

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Categories: scold, fantasy, freedom, suicide, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Hares Hill
Posting early on a dozing suburban 
hill
Mays warming morning rises and 
Gently wakes.
The dewy hares move through the
Earthy till,
Small dry twigs the nesting pigeons
take.

Blue-high sky...

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Categories: scold, may,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Broken Trust, Dying of Love
Broken Trust, Dying Of Love


Baby, nobody came when I cried out for you
if I were a lawyer maybe I would just sue
if a doctor, would...

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Categories: scold, betrayal, conflict, cry, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Volga 1 - 3
( while taking a tour through those poems readers are requested to keep in their hands,  a
feather from the pea-cock’s tail )

Volga - 1...

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Categories: scold, fantasy
Form: Prose Poetry
Can You Hear Me God
Sometimes I question my own faith and wonder if you are real,
can you really feel all the pain I feel.
I wonder, Can you hear me...

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© Katie Levy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scold, confusion, faith, lifeme, pain,
Form: Personification

Book: Shattered Sighs