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Scabbing Poems - Poems about Scabbing

Bloodthirsty Blades

...Bloodthirsty blades;
I thought I knew a deep cut before, 
then I found your voice; 
Whispering over and over not scabbing, 
you didn’t mean to but you killed me anyway....

Categories: scabbing, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Bruises

...Bruises 
from screams to calm 
shaped like words 
scabbing memories 
Healing....

Categories: scabbing, anger, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Animals

...Animal 
Liv Van De Walker

The consciousness of hate, bubbling and boiling; so hot and vicious
Like warm blood oozing from splitting wounds
Licking and clawing, Licking and clawing
Attempting t...

Categories: scabbing, angel, anger, art, autumn,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Turnabout Is Fair Play

...Turnabout is fair play
Resentments push 
Anger inspired
Emotional wounds bleeding
Emotional scars scabbing
Hurt feelings avenged
So we try and make 
Ourselves believe...

Categories: scabbing,
Form: Lyric

Time

...Time
Why is time so precious to my mother?
I sit here
Here on this old rickety porch
White paint scabbing
Looking at the dark clouds
Dark clouds pouring their sadness
Out onto the land
I wond...

Categories: scabbing, absence, deep, depression, divorce,
Form: I do not know?

Lonesome Sound

...LONESOME
SOUND 
			
Old man said he could hear that whistle blow a hundred miles 
and they could write a song about that. 
Said he could tell how many cars a train freighted 
just by how sad wa...

Categories: scabbing, imagination,
Form: Free verse

Ready For the Close-Up

...hello,
i am ready to be seen now
the bush shield is scabbing over

hello,
i am ready to explore now
the implantation fever is breaking

hello,
i am ready for all roads now
the butterflies w...

Categories: scabbing, god, growing up, growth,
Form: Free verse

Besides You

...Besides you 

Nothing ever heals 
          Never this 
Bleeding heart will rejuvenate 
          New girls bandage me 
But these sores still fester 
          Never scabbing over 

Jaded th...

Categories: scabbing, first love, for her,
Form: Verse

The Plague

...as the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! ...

Categories: scabbing, society,
Form: Quatrain

Untitled 6

...She isn’t dormant, she moves through the dark in this new phase, 
as exact as a silver snowflake.  Despite her voicelessness, she speaks to me.
Her swollen body is idolized in the black that she unst...

Categories: scabbing, love, moon, tree, body,
Form: Prose Poetry

Withered Beast

...Rising tall
in the thicket,
cresting with
force nestled
behind matted
fur and eight
fresh gashes
scabbing
firm,
the elder
intimidates
with rattling
force only
guttural
pronouncements
d...

Categories: scabbing, allegory, nature
Form: Free verse

Skull King Around

...Skeletal treetops rake a Wagnerian sky.
like fingertips, chasing Valkyrie’s,
through cirrus clouds;
conducting the winter wind,
across the cerulean blue tarp
of early evening.

Bare beds, a mass of f...

Categories: scabbing, death, depression, seasons, daffodils,
Form: Free verse

Long Way Home

...Set on the cracked up streets and roads,
I took the long way home that night
Past the strings of shuttered glass
With steel blinds padlocked good and tight

Beyond the walls of scabbing brick,
...

Categories: scabbing, life, loss, nostalgia, sad,
Form: Verse