Best Scratches Poems

Four men standing in a row and then one laid across,
Just sticks of time and marks upon the wall,
A measurement of attitude, of loneliness and pain,
But others see it as a lot of scrawl.

Sticks of time, a calendar of wasted days and years,
Just scratches of...

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I love my house
Though it’s full of scratches and squeaks
To accept imperfection has always been difficult
For me,
Especially in myself
I’ve come to learn that when I truly love someone
Or something that I also love the flaws
Perhaps love is the only thing that is perfect...

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Take me in
Cater to my every whim
Show me what it is to be a child
For I feel I've only ever ran wild

My unfair reviews leave all mouths agape 
I'm surely wrong, need to rewatch tape
Composite detracts from all that good
I'd splice and edit more if...

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I lie here waiting for the endless stream,
Hoping no black tiger dreams
Night came and went, comes and goes
No human comfort makes its show.

Black tiger scratches in my mind,
Hoping one day love he’ll find
But my supple mind has no love left to share;
Black tiger’s sharp claws...

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a brown hen 
scratches in the soil --
worms wriggle

for tracie's ku contest...

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I contemplate often,
How everyone seems to be going a little mad.
But then I think: It's not possible for everything to be crazy,
So perhaps it's just me.

Sometimes I hear things they don't hear.
They say it's not normal.
But surely the voices inside my head
Are asking me to...

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It's tough for me to handle that 
These memories that distract
May soon be just scratches 
On the corner of your mind. 
  
It was such a big deal to me, 
The twitterpated pleasantries. 
You've got the right idea 
in letting go. 
  
Personally,...

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I met you in town the other day
Over laughs and casual gazes.
My lips cracked, my heart
Filled with giggles, and I stared
Into the pillows of your eyes, thinking,
When are you going to make your move?

I want to know what you think
Under the five o'clock shadow
That teases...

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At first it was nothing
Other people had it; I didn't care
Then it became something with him just lying there
Short of breath, short of air
I took him in, but it was too much
No medical plan, no nothing
Our money was not enough

I prayed and prayed, but after...

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how can you catch a thief
if you feign sleep?

Touch not her fingers
ice may break.

who can fathom her love?
i am blind.

she bleeds on earth
period of rose.

fireflies shimmer in the night sky
moon on the pond's surface.

her breasts swell with milk
under the earth.

shadow lets her go
a stalker.

the odor...

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Scratches on the jewel surface
of a black onyx watch
tiny hands tick endlessly around
now seven, now eight, now ten
Can you break the cycle?...

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Sad to participate in ritual relief
Of secret pain like dirty ice.
Scars like graves carved in a row on my forearm.
Blood flows in sink and shower.
Feelings writhe inside as
Bad thoughts eat each other alive.

Scratches and scars I understand.
They calm this worried mind.
I absently rub them with...

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It started from the scratches
A small frustration with myself
A mistake that may or may not have been my fault
But that didn’t make a difference
To me, everything was on me
And the world got a little grayer
Slowly more things fell apart
That core of self blame and complete...

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A journey taken again

Hello ,he dropped a message in my inbox
After a year's silence
He maintained flowing through eons of loneliness
He weaved a yarn with my tears and pain
Feelings he left behind
Going on his way
I picked on my palms
And they morphed to poems new
Forcing me to...

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"The talk before the walk" Love Caution

Make me understand how you are able to break my heart before dating you?

You took my breath away and l know ours beat in sync we are a rhythm constructed by destiny.

I do not have answers and so do...

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