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Premium Member Plagiarizing
"Mine all Mine!"

A thief I long to be
Your eyes original like the moon and sea

A lover in the world............
An Anthology, you walk and talk like...

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Categories: scrape by, addiction, beauty, cute love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Midnight Poet
Whisper's of October  

Whispers in this soup bowl
20 minutes after its muse explodes,
Daylight remains nothing more than a dream 
Warding off the howling sound...

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Categories: scrape by, addiction, character, devotion, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Images of Feathers
"Once upon a midnight Poe"

Underneath the midnight mask, I remove the makeup at last,
The moon is an anvil to my mood, mooring along the vacant...

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Categories: scrape by, allusion, devotion, loneliness, muse,
Form: Alliteration
Yellow Heart
This morning I wrote a poem
about a yellow heart 
pining for red fusion,
in a desperate attempt
to shake the fruit
that never 

falls

And tonight I am alone
without...

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Categories: scrape by, hope, life, love, yellow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tomorrow's Flowers
Across the Sprawl of wistful Fall
Through capricious Skies of broken Lies
Naive sweets leave tongues of the young
As the last leaf of summer dies

To Escape the...

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Categories: scrape by, hope, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Mother -- Come Home
Sitting with her now
       Watching 
How did she get so old?
       How did...

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Categories: scrape by, car, fear, love, mother,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Halloween's Evil Visage Cometh
Halloween’s Evil Visage Cometh

Halloween’s Evil Visage Cometh now alive in this famous predestined time
Where dubious shadow shades run a riot as the ghastly ghosts of...

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Categories: scrape by, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Halloween's Evil Visage Cometh -
Halloween’s Evil Visage Cometh now alive in this famous predestined time
Where dubious shadow shades run a riot as the ghastly ghosts of darkness,
Begin calling to...

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Categories: scrape by, evil, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Own Way
Along this season’s mid quarter-time,
I find myself wandering between 
The raw of night’s wanton  pleasure
And the sacredness from morn awakened:
Late evenings replay a dancing...

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Categories: scrape by, adventure, life, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heartbroken
FICTIONAL EMOTIVE WRITE

Since I was a tiny baby I was brought up by my grandparents and had a very happy childhood. I knew that they...

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Categories: scrape by, death, grave, grief, heartbreak,
Form: Haibun
A Curious Cat Roams At Peace
Evergreen pines 
Evergreen firs,
Yellow moon size star rays shining through,
Nighttime in the forest.

Red cardinals mutter, mourning doves coo
On branches in sleep
Roosting in their wait for...

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Categories: scrape by, christmas, imagery,
Form: Imagism
Wiggling Waves and Other Observations
Wiggling Waves and Other Observations

Wiggling waves reaching like tall grass,
Summertime’s warning to wear shoes,
Little stubbed toes from bare flip flops,
Tears, scrapes, little ones’ blues.

Searing sidewalks...

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Categories: scrape by, poetry, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Roomba Escape
A Roomba* in England went AWOL;
It disappeared from a hotel. 
They searched high and low 
All the spots it might go 
With no help from...

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Categories: scrape by, missing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cityscape
Cityscape

The artist’s hand reshapes yesterday
    In straight lines
    Of hard edges -
Peaks of 
    Right angles...

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Categories: scrape by, art, city, night, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Misty View
Sometimes it gets too steamy
Reality insists
On distorting our perception
As this heartbeat still persists

Sometimes it gets too frosty
When the winter comes to call
We scrape to see...

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© Sam Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scrape by, sorry,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs