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Scald Poems - Poems about Scald

Premium MemberPrior to intent

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Written: July 18, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker

Line of inquiry:
"heart sets up a vibration 
echoing as wordless intent
mind translates in symbols
flight of...
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Categories: scald, appreciation, change, mirror,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Prismatic Self

...I am a dare-dreamer, a mask wearer
a soul bare-r (but not always my own); a word-weaver. 
I pull at thoughts like strings. Strings of cobwebs
and cirrus, frayed dungarees and threadbare memories 
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Categories: scald, art, conflict, identity, inspiration,
Form: Free verse



Premium Memberthe scald war

...the scald war

even the penguins
gotta pay tax to make U.S.
implode on greed glut...
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Categories: scald, america, grief, money, war,
Form: Senryu

Burning Sandalwood

...In a ever expanding vast ,
dense,dark ,wild forest,
crooked ,cracked,bent trees,
which provide shade ,bearing
fruits venomous ,with
roots rotten deep down
and spreading to its offshoots.
In th...
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Categories: scald, giving, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Supernatural FIRE poetrix

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        when i'm penetrated randomly
             by magic fire of creation
             I neither burn nor scald...
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Categories: scald, allusion, analogy, creation, extended
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberA Spectacular Flow

...Jalapeños popped 
with that french kiss;
You may just have the heat 
to handle me;
Careful, dynamite explodes with a 
single spark.
Savor spicy slowly…

Blood and lust;

Your villainous eye...
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Categories: scald, devotion, emotions, feelings, lust,
Form: Free verse

Archibald the Maverick Pastor

...Fifty-year old pastor Archibald
And already the vessel is bald
Now cold not red heat would the priest scald;
Now 'irritable'when he is called...

For twenty years now A Pastor:
Would not sit on...
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Categories: scald, analogy, character, health, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRaver

...he’s a raver, deep from marrow, born
who screams at moons to curse the morn
and though his flesh is bloodless, torn
he woos the beast inside him
for night alone won’t hide him

he creeps the ne...
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Categories: scald, dark,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLove In the Spirit Realm

...I revere you here, in the midst of the flames
Which scald incinerates and purifies the faith,
And hurled ash and smoke into the frames
Where flowers blossomed before our birth.

Whic...
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Categories: scald, analogy, appreciation, cheer up,
Form: Pantoum

Premium MemberStigma

...Stigma; 
Kisses from Hell, 
slurring devoted fiend;
Your demons linger on my lips, 
scald me....
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Categories: scald, emotions, feelings, love, lust,
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberBoth Ways

...I can feel your flames 
feasting on me in the dark; 
Your kisses they scald my neck
your name alone winds me up;
Take me and do what you like, 
I have lost my voice;
Just remember, that goes bo...
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Categories: scald, emotions, feelings, lust, romance,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNowhere In Sight

...On a grassy verge above the surging rill 
she stood fair haired and proud,
three leaf clover substrate at her toes.
Clutching saline bouquets I had plucked 
from my neighbours walk-in green house...
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Categories: scald, adventure, analogy, appreciation, art,
Form: Prose Poetry

Evening Fry

...A priest once told me that the lump
on my hand was a ganglion,
a fortress of fat besieged by health.
At last it burst and the hand swelled
like an old man's,
shovel shaped and splayed.

It was...
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Categories: scald, food, friendship, loss, memory,
Form: Elegy

Premium MemberThe Dishes

...She rose from the table moving slowly to the sink. This was not her favorite time, too much time to think.  Her body moved from memory now, the right bit of dish detergent, she must refill that bottl...
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Categories: scald, care, character, home, mom,
Form: Prose Poetry

Love In Ashes

...A distant scream,
the future cries,
our past to burn
unclaimed

Predictions simmer,
forecasts stir,
denials rage
enflamed

All promise broken,
hearts on fire,
reasons singed with
pain

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Categories: scald, love,
Form: Rhyme

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