Marks Poems

Marks of a survivor

Each scar has a name, etched into my skin—
White lines barely visible on my pale arms.
There’s one for every heartbreak I ever got,
One for each battle I silently fought,
One for all the wrongdoings I had,
For every time my thoughts turned bad.

Each scar holds a memory, a ghost from the past,
Every cut done silently, hidden away
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Categories: marks, dark, deep, feelings, hurt,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberK The Marks of the Roman Catholic Church

The one true Church established  by Father Christ is the Roman Catholic Church
It is the Church which our Divine Lord started when He picked the 12 Apostles
And made St. Peter as their head
We know that the Roman Catholic Church is the one true Church established by Father Christ 
Because it alone has the mark
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Categories: marks, christian, community, devotion, god,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberRoad Marks


He’s in the mountains, and the seas
He’s in the silence and in a gentle breeze
He’s in the music and in a heart who believes
He’s in the story of love amid rustling leaves
He’s in the wonder of autumn’s crisp smile
He offers His precious love to the Jew and Gentile

He’s the One I cling to when I
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Categories: marks, appreciation, christian, devotion, easter,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberStill Life: Seventh-Grade Art Teacher Gets High Marks

I'm a woman now. I have means to be  
mean and get away with it.  
 
He died—too fast for my liking.  
I’d already hired a detective, 
ready to face it—  
or at least harass the details of the since-me 
life he must have lived. 
I've never spoken about it,
the last
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Categories: marks, absence, anger, child,
Form: Free verse

X marks the spot




Monstrously Machievellian

Demonic pedagogic

Ominously Orwellian

Demagogic logic 

Fools’ Musk-ovite mules

Zuckerberg zeitgeist heist

Dickensian dystopia rules

Google last post bugle 

Fossil fuels myopia drools

Bellicose Bezos blows

Bro-ligarchy mates’ malarkey

Unions demonstrate

Amazon defenestrate 

Hades Gates hierarchy

In the dock

Murdoch foxy skulduggery

Poxy TikTok runs amok

Crass puns..shock thuggery

This lot don't give a jot
.
Bitter sh**ter Twitter

Greedier needier seedier

The death of mass media

X marks the spot!
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Categories: marks, corruption, discrimination, earth, political,
Form: Rhyme


X-Marks-the-Spot

X-Marks-the-Spot is a tickling game
Which is traced upon someone’s bare back.
In childhood, we played it and often it caused
A goose-bump filled giggling attack.

My kids got the treatment when bathtime arrived
And my grandson when he was a tot,
But it’s been a while since I’ve gotten the chance
To engage in some X-Marks-the-Spot.

Yet I came upon Henry, eleven
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Categories: marks, childhood, grandson,
Form: Rhyme

The painful memory of love

The Painful Memory of Love

The painful memory of love,
The treasures that I have kept in my heart.
Love is one of those.
Love is a beautiful yet painful feeling in the world.

It abandons those who trusted,
And devastates those who loved unconditionally.
It leaves scars that never heal,
And ashes that once were those who loved.

The two aspects of love
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Categories: marks, 11th grade, love hurts,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberbear marks his territory

bear
tree lean
urinates
territory
marked
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Categories: marks, animal,
Form: Cinquain

Premium MemberMy cat marks her territory

Some cats mark their territory with claw marks
Shredding your couch, putting gashes in your vinyl seats.
Other cats leave strong urine in their zone,
a warning to others to “keep out!”
My own cat uses her spray paints and paints murals
Some call it graffiti, I call it "aggressively territorial”.
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Categories: marks, cat,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberFootsteps




"Show me your marks, my dear.", he asked his son,
Having not even passed his subjects one.
"Dad, I got zero in math
Following your trodden path",
The son replied hiding his feelings none.
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Categories: marks, 3rd grade, father son,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberBite marks

Love souvenirs written on skin
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Categories: marks, love,
Form: Monoku

Hesitation Marks

You could've just drank whiskey like a smart man
Drown your sorrows in enough beer to drown a fish
Smoked enough cigarettes to burn your house down
Taken a walk

Pull up your mask and walk in for the day
Listen to the lost and damned wail once more
Bite your lip and try not to cry
Hide those hesitation marks from
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Categories: marks, anger, depression, night, suicide,
Form: Free verse

MARKS

Marks, Marks, Marks
Haunting me around like a group of sharks
A 2 or 3-digit number
that my parents think will decide whether I'll become a doctor or a plumber
For me my marks are decent
But for my parents, they are horrifying and unpleasant
My marks will decide whether my house will be a flower bed
or a coffin made for
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Categories: marks, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMarks

Even a pencil eraser can't erase the marks you've left on my heart
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Categories: marks, love hurts,
Form: Monoku

The Marks

The marks.
So deep, but not lethal.
So fresh, but barely bloody.
So painful, but feels oh so good.
The sting, so bad but so calming,
it actually makes me happy.
Just three small lines.
Not much, but enough.
Not messy, but so apparent.
The little, but horrible sting.
It's numbing.
It makes the voices quiet.
As long as there's pain,
the shouting is silent.
As long as there's
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Categories: marks, depression, hurt, mental health,
Form: Free verse

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