Prior 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
The 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
the 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
A 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
Raver
...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
Love 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
Stigma
...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
Both 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
Nowhere 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
The 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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