Best Scotched Poems
The Love of Nature...At times, the feel of the sun on my whole body is delicious
How warm, how comforting, how addicting
Of the sun's rays I shall never have enough
Why, amidst life's harsh darting arro......
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Categories:
scotched, mountains, nature,
Form:
Free verse
On My Mother's Grave...For three score years and little more you lived
Did you at once think of yourself?
Did you at once rest?
When the heartless sun bitterly scotched your back
You never thought of it
You concentrat......
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Categories:
scotched, appreciation,
Form:
Lyric
Unstained Soul...I saw her a milky complexion and a voluptuous frame , she had a name but no surname noone gave her a surname .
I found her similar less incommon a saree she had draped in an impious commotion to......
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Categories:
scotched, pride,
Form:
Ballad
A Joy of Everything...And
somewhere
far off on
hills,
Dwelled
deep upon
a summit,
a dappled
ground
A cock will
again
crow to
his mates,
whisper
To the
world: in
earnest
plea or
sweetness
......
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Categories:
scotched, naturejoy,
Form:
Pastoral
To Julianne...A lot said of Almighty’s modeling
Just a few minutes to lunchtime ding
Persons like thee make any evidence of such perish
You came out hot from a specific idea
From the horizon of my world
Your......
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Categories:
scotched, beautiful, deep, emotions,
Form:
Lay
Worship of Thankfulness...1. My sins may be an alarmist
hitting me hard with heavy fist
Your glory, I want to be near
my soul to you, I feel no pier
a flowerless life like lichen
you stop my spirit from itching
thank yo......
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Categories:
scotched, bible, christian, god, relationship,
Form:
Lyric
Garbled Vision...As Samuel saw vaulted Xanadu of Kublai Khan fame
In smoke-filled corridors of sweat-drenched Opium-eaters
Did I spy a vision so surreal as to render all my sentient senses to nought
And to replace......
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Categories:
scotched, confusion, gothic, magic, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Wild Goose Chase...Pursuit for elusive prey
teases yours truly
into treacherous catacombs
dangerous mentally
challenging pitfalls,
sets small hairs of back
on camp creeks edge
of night, where dark shadows
evo......
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Categories:
scotched, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Rag Trade..."Headline news! The rag trade is torn to pieces!
Dolls are strewn across the streets with skirts lifted high.
Headline news! Markets are buzzing with voracious bees;
Stinging for honey, for money ......
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Categories:
scotched, england,
Form:
Rhyme
Oh, Sometimes...Oh! sometimes, how it feels so heavy inside
When words can scarcely express
When laying back on a recliner would barely do
When looking out the window Won't do
When singing a loved song won't do
When......
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Categories:
scotched, faith, pain, passion,
Form:
Verse
Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania Circa Early 1970s...(just in time for summer reading...
recounting emotionally disastrous campy turbulence)
Amidst a raft of fellow (Brandywine Valley
Y.M.C.A) resident campers
who, didst excitedly quive......
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Categories:
scotched, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Scotched Flower....The sun is high, high in the harmattan season
The easterline wind withered the petals of love...
I clasp my chest on the grip of blood-cough
As is cosmic rumble upon the heart core
Without a ......
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Categories:
scotched, lost loveheart, heart,
Form:
Blank verse
The Lost Art of Composition...The Lost Art Of Composition
too often my thoughts and the ability to express them
are taken hostage without a clue to the cause
this is an affliction familiar to many a writer
as if madness was......
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Categories:
scotched, creation,
Form:
Free verse
Dragon Fly...An unearthed dominion
hell itself exposed barren
here life has no opinion
death boldly the only option
riding the unicorn stallion
aiming his enchanted horn
man’s only hope and only weapon
......
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Categories:
scotched, death, fantasy,
Form:
Monorhyme
A Soul's Home...Who am I supposed to be
A tear in someone’s eye, not me...
I am...
Of what is possible if valleys rise into ice capped mountains
And rivers flow until their waters sink to spring into beautiful......
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Categories:
scotched, inspiration, light,
Form:
Rhyme