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Best Scorches Poems

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


Premium Member Eccentric Eyes
Open eyed, long tearless, foul silvered orbs
have you no pity? The aqua tide rides dry.
Blind staring scorches, accusing twin barbs
who burrow inward, a destiny to...

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Categories: scorches, pain,
Form: Sonnet



Ironbar
He just appeared to me, like wispily curling 
Chimney smoke, 
One grim and early morning in the very midst of 
Decembers briefest days, on the...

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Categories: scorches, nature, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Lovers Beyond Compare
I greet you, oh mighty Sun!
You who warm us everyone
You who glow to make things grow
You who melt all ice and snow
You are a most...

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Categories: scorches, dedication, love,
Form: Personification
Premium Member When Darkness Falls
At night rapscallions in my head
Refuse the coal that scorches dread

And peace, however light the touch
Calms the seas where dragons rush

The crescent moon, my dreams...

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Categories: scorches, introspection, light, prayer,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Romantic Ramblings About the Ultimate Man
You’re the finest man I have ever seen
You are handsome and strong
Virile
Full bodied
Beautiful to the eyes
Alluring to the hands
Your lips
Send messages
“Come and taste
And never thirst...

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Categories: scorches, desire, dream, romance,
Form: Free verse



Erratic
Oh, Poisiden, you disrupt my sea;
                Alter not your color...

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Categories: scorches, introspection, loss, mystery, sad,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Strikeout
Standing at the plate there is no doubt
The pitcher is determined to strike me out
He squints to see the catcher's glove
Then spins and swings his...

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Categories: scorches, baseball, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Paradox
PARADOX
Every line has a meaning; every meaning has a line…
              We think...

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Categories: scorches, people,
Form: I do not know?
I Wish I Wouldn'T
The sun is burning my eyes, my hands and my feet
Harsh light scorches the ground, setting it ablaze
The heat brings out the pests and flies.
I...

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Categories: scorches, angst, anxiety, cry, death,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Need For Love
My need for love
is never sated
it's not dated
but continuously present
ever feeling
always reeling
from its demands
it gets out of hand
you can't possibly understand
My need for love...

My need...

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Categories: scorches, how i feel, longing,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member King Sun
A very mighty king resides on high.
His face beams down upon us from the sky.

We praise him when he’s shining happily,
Reflecting in the azure of...

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Categories: scorches, sun,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Fall's Charred Breakfast
The croissants of buttered hills
glisten in the searing marmalade
of August's arid oven.
September's cinnamon swirl
scorches muffin-colored homes,
the flames smothered
as October rains
send lives and mud
sliding into the...

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Categories: scorches, autumn, fire, imagery,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member The Stripper
A dark room as lights hit the stage,
I see an angel that takes, 
my breath away,
Her eyes are only hidden by a mask,
I am frozen...

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Categories: scorches, feelings, inspirational love, lost
Form: Free verse
The Neverending Flame
The candle, which sets my heart aflame
The fire, which scorches my soul with your name
One question I ask of you, the truth if you please
Why’d...

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Categories: scorches, happiness, life, love, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tied To Tradition
They pierce the unwelcoming night,
perserving eyes that receive nothing 
but an unwholesome darkness,
hot accelerated breath scorches the
freezing air, as it penetrates
in entirety her raffish body...

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Categories: scorches, irony,
Form: Free verse

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