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Best Scrawling Poems

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


Premium Member Gnarled Shadows
Through shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare, 
     Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace...

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Categories: scrawling, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Silence Is Broken
I stand at the front of the exam hall, which is in total silence.
Grey desks stretch out in neat rows   - 
they remind...

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Categories: scrawling, high school, humorous, silence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Like a Baby's Birth
Writing a poem is like giving birth to a baby.
With the copulation of fancy and thought,
Comes the moment of conception!
 
It swims into you as...

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Categories: scrawling, angst, birth, child, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dolphin
Beneath the illumination of the elliptical moon,
Within the cove of diamond bay, waves gently sway
Back and forth, under the oceans clarity of the big blue,
As...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scrawling, animal, beauty, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Easter Ivy
It's used as an afterthought, fattening festive 
arrangements for Mother's Day, Easter, 
someone's birthday.  An underrated vine,
enhancing center-stage flowers whose star-power 
doesn't wear well. It's...

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© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scrawling, friendshipeaster, cousin,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Murmuration of Starlings High
Murmuration of starlings high. I’m high!
Low stars twinkling with wings. The trumpet’s call!
As winds of war, incline, in warm wind sigh,
the flock, a shock, sans...

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Categories: scrawling, bird,
Form: Sonnet
Disappear
DISAPPEAR
Tremors are the worst,
the full-body shakes
its like my skin is too tight,
my body doesn’t fit,
my life doesn’t fit
the anxiety no one understands
its invisible,
I’m invisible.
“Snap out...

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Categories: scrawling, anxiety, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Poet In the Making
A diaphanous mist hangs over me
Blurring my thoughts and fancy
Or is it that my Muses have gone into lazy slumber?

Whatever thoughts I have, they come...

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Categories: scrawling, angst, inspiration, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Yours Me
Amidst the amazing aroma of the angelic sticks
Cheering along the chants of charismatic priests
Promising on the petals of pearly purity 
You said, "I LOVE YOU"...

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Categories: scrawling, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Poetry Avalanche
** A Poetry Avalanche **

Goodness! Lord!
I’m on a roll this morning!
The poetry keeps coming —
  nearly torturing!
My keypad arm and fingers are
  alrady...

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Categories: scrawling, fun, humorous, light, poems,
Form: Alliteration
Why I'M a Poetess
I'm just a kid, and life is a nightmare
I'm forced to be mature beyond my age
Using my writing as my therapy
Scrawling my thoughts across the...

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Categories: scrawling, confusion, imagination, life, on
Form: Free verse
Cosmic Winks and DIY Inks
In the workshop of my waking hours,
I am the maker of my own day,
Crafting moments with a DIY attitude,
Twisting fate's threads with hands unbound.

At 6...

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Categories: scrawling, appreciation, art, wisdom, word
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Penning Words of Love For You
You always tell me how much you love my poetry
but is that the only reason you feel drawn to me?
I write Sonnets filled with love...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scrawling, love, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost Love Deliria - Part 3
 Part 3

9th Delerium: Emptyness
Water wheels in wastelands... turning,
drowning relics in the slum
Rumpled rags of fashioned burlap... burning,
lit by bandits blind and dumb
Pastured prisons, ponies...

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Categories: scrawling, lost love, time,
Form: Rhyme
Let Her Life Bloom
Underneath the calm exterior
quietly weeps a frightened child.
But beyond the reckoning here
lies agelessness and mystery .
Past the well-traveled soul searcher
rises a distinctly brave woman.
All these...

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© Deb Wilson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scrawling, courage, growth, hope,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs