Best Scratch Poems
Below are the all-time best Scratch poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of scratch poems written by PoetrySoup members
Scratch the ItchIllustrious
Phantom
You chase
My desire
For satisfaction
As I chase you
Hither and thither
Like the rainbow's end
Always just out of reach
Escalating intensity or just
A trick of the...
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Categories:
scratch, beautiful, deep, feelings, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
On My Mother PassingON MY MOTHER’S PASSING
i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still...
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Categories:
scratch, cheer up, mother, mother
Form:
Narrative
I'M Vinyl Babyi’m vinyl baby,
easy to scratch,
easy to gouge,
prone to warping.
i’m a 45 rpm record,
single and labelled,
still got track marks.
dot dot dot
from the seventies!
you know...
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Categories:
scratch, music,
Form:
Free verse
The Hands of Time-RondeauThe Hands of Time
The hands of time stand eerie still
Where hearts chamber a cagey chill,
And whispers warn of shadows deep
With eyes that strain as shower’s...
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Categories:
scratch, destiny, sleep, time,
Form:
Rondeau
Halloween On the Dark Side of TownIt's a nightmare down on Elm Street. Satan's waiting here at home.
Where's that little Freddy Krueger with his nails of sharpened chrome?
And that dearest Michael...
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Categories:
scratch, holiday, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Temptation Itches On All Living ThingsTemptation Itches On All Living Things
Temptation itches on all living things
often nobody knows just how it stings,
not the icky-glues in its sticky pastes
nor the rotten...
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Categories:
scratch, art, conflict, deep, humanity,
Form:
Sonnet
Categories:
scratch, feelings, introspection, words, writing,
Form:
Free verse
DustDust
airborne
can settle
everywhere
It lands on tables and under your bed
It also clings to your computer screen
on clothes it goes
and of course
up your
nose
Pets
people
in your food
not in...
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Categories:
scratch, funny
Form:
Tetractys
A Hound Dog TaleAs the
story
goes...
A
pesky
fly,
came buzzing by
to rest and munch
and eat his lunch
and have some fun
on the hound dog's
nose.
The old dog
snoozed
without a clue
in the...
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Categories:
scratch, old,
Form:
Free verse
Slow Movin TightsI'm in me bath here, with a box of red cheer,
yeah a box of red cheer, beer's too bloody dear.
Me mind's wanderin twixt big...
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Categories:
scratch, me, red, women,
Form:
Ballad
Ethan the CatEthan lies upon my lap
in sweet and tender slumber.
This happens all throughout the day,
...
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Categories:
scratch, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
InoutboxThe walls are stained by my fingers,
raw from trying to scratch them away,
but they’re unharmed and unmarked
on the random spots, here and there,
where I broke...
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Categories:
scratch, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Alabaster Bursts of HeavenCrimson's luster illuminates a brilliant bead
satin strokes of beauty a bottle bleeds
scratch softly across this barren chest
and along with moonbeams shall you rest
Silver streaks of...
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Categories:
scratch, love,
Form:
Sonnet
He's Just a DogHe’s just a dog, a mongrel pup that fitted in me hand,
short haired, tan and white, with needs of high demand,
he’s whingy and he’s whiny,...
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Categories:
scratch, animal, dog, trust, mum,
Form:
Rhyme
Frosted
"Frosted"
A penny for your thoughts?
Scratch that thought.
Thoughts are worth more than pennies
Thoughts are legions of brilliant glistening diamonds
shining dormant undiscovered in a deep deep...
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Categories:
scratch, black love, courage, freedom,
Form:
Free verse