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Best Scrutiny Poems


Scrutiny
Sadness scrambles to survive
and tears become termites

Self reliant moles taint speechless lips 
and form explanations yet to ripen

Tears that reject wiping 
smear pride's respiratory system
leaving heart beat unpuffed

Humility is Reality

What makes sense
is not always understood...
And weeping ensues....

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Categories: scrutiny, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Neutral Scrutiny
Cherub's unfurled fingers faithfully extend to his fallow fringe 
   hung from a chest made firm by suede, sweat and rain.

   Chernobyl blue irises mimic April '86 radiation, 
   dessimating her Cherokee's sense of societal decency.
   Devoted...

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Categories: scrutiny, 5th grade, adventure, baptism,
Form: Haibun
Destiny and the Muting of Scrutiny
Men fly The War-Plane of Mutiny
By querying their Destiny
And fly The Very Flag of Mutiny
When Destiny they mock with scrutiny
Vowing to no more drink Martini 
Nor in other coolers harbor any tinny

Just like Britain can’t erase her felony
When Nigeria was her colony
One can’t A World...

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Categories: scrutiny, adventure, anxiety, faith, people,
Form: Rhyme

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Scrutiny
Was it only for this
You endure trash and flies
Magi's bow and kiss
And parents laden arms
With dazzling gifts
In sparkling paper wraps
Hustling in the bustling
Drip and drizzle
O a season's festivities?


Was only for this
The African bowed
With his heavy charity of wood
He could not even own,
Being marginalized and propertyless
Property...

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Categories: scrutiny, education, lost love, seasons
Form: Free verse
Opportunity For Scrutiny
Opportunity for Scrutiny

At first, found it to be an opportunity; 
After I had looked with more scrutiny; 
Wondered around, 
And balance found; 
Me and my bank account had a mutiny.

Jim Horn...

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Categories: scrutiny, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Scrutiny Overload
If I examine the underside of life's leaf a little too long
crystal dust me with your gravity and pull me away
For scrutiny unravels even the tightest woven fibers
and reveals imperfections.
Sweep me beside you, place me a flower in your pocket
to be cocooned and perfumed in...

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Categories: scrutiny, introspection, life, people, me,
Form: Free verse



Self-Scrutiny
What enables me to infuse life with such meaning and my activity of cognition to understand a black and white humanity approach???

How did i discover such uncommon grounds in mist of struggles that has steered me far from using drugs like my parents for a...

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Categories: scrutiny, abuse, anxiety, conflict, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Scrutiny Following Muting
The whole thing had seemed some mutiny 
While hundred eyes stuck to scrutiny!
A young Eve with an old company 
She’d met at a roadside company,
Freshly by his side in bikini
And freshly quaffing iced martini…

Next, some careless bites of zucchini
She’d picked from a Free Sabatini, 
Litters...

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Categories: scrutiny, character, corruption, lost, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Scrutiny of Mounting Mutiny
Scrutiny of Mounting Mutiny

Wanted to feel secure so had a scrutiny,
Of what would  be big mounting mutiny;
How  they react,
To body contact;
Immediately knew ir required immunity.

Jim Horn...

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Categories: scrutiny, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Serendipity's Scrutiny
putridity rhymes with acridity
  for the same reason that
tumidity rhymes with turgidity

and tepidity is to vapidity
  as solidity is to rigidity
'course, all this has no validity
  ~ 'til they check my lucidity...

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Categories: scrutiny, crazy, word play, words,
Form: Monorhyme
Scrutiny
when placed under the 
microscope
all the flaws will show &
no matter how far one runs from the
past,
it will tap you on the shoulder---
what makes the light shine bright
is the audacious curiosity 
of another
whose own image has either
never been under the microscope
or they think for some...

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Categories: scrutiny, life, world, light, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Undergrowth with Two Figures - Van Gogh
I have the rhythm of a winding road
how do I consign myself to being confined
rows of poplar pillars prop
the rendezvous canopy beneath we meet
—I self-cajole on ooh-la-la afternoon 

yellow eyes; daffodils watching 
lean into gossip groups nodding
a prodding breeze instigating deep-freeze
I am a sweet weed...

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Categories: scrutiny, angst, conflict, endurance, engagement,
Form: Free verse
Choose a Cheap Hotel
Now, you’ve began to vex
Directing it to Rex:
You and Lawless Alex,
While you’d craved safe latex
For the marathon sex
You’d planned its huge success
At Hotel De Recess...

Last week, same marathon
At five-star Sheraton,
Beside you: Martini,
To take less: Mutiny;
Not you Sabatini:
Your drinks for scrutiny...

You can’t say you got less,
Though...

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Categories: scrutiny, analogy, celebration, depression, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Fish Bowl
Trapped in a bowl to live
On display to be picked apart
Every move watched and discussed
Judged by their own reflection in the mirror

Disconnect from the mind hive
Ignoring and avoiding a good start
Their word farts making me disgusted
The way of their thinking is sheer horror

Trapped in this...

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Categories: scrutiny, emotions, environment, freedom, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry