Scalding Poems - Poems about Scalding

...Impressive machine with power in plenty. Ten tons of water tanked in its tender Along with coal cobs free from slate and slack. Essential fossil fuel feeds firebox flare That spews out sparks ......

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... She fell into his arms, so sweet He swept her off her glass-slippered feet But you’ve heard all this before They climbed into a golden carriage Where he took her h......

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...I’m stranded in the desert, Nowhere to run but through miles and miles of hot sand, Nowhere to hide, Yet I still look for shelter. The hot sun beats on my back, I feel myself burning, And as so......

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... "Americano" filter-dripped watered down weak coffee artificial the mood steaming diluted swings lower, unfilling; the wanting lusciously dark hot to the tongu......

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...We quarreled to bitter, burning degrees (you)loving me as a tender trespasser a chew toy boy demanding compliance forced feedings down to sock selection (your)cons......

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...break and believe in faith i dismiss, tree though i exit begone, and more hide, in front of fair let fall the tasting of me blind is your loving waste i'll be giant and brief callousing the f......

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...She was a hard woman to love She was the type to hold a grudge Her tongue could cut like a razor Cut to the quick, full of danger She'd carve you up, make your heart bleed Then smile so sweet, w......

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...Cursed Pen My pen is cursed. It flows poisoned ink. Ripped pages and severed dreams. Hollow. Screaming. Into the dark. Screaming into the life of others. Because there is nothing. ......

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... Mona Lisa’s crooked smile on a half-crushed Campbell’s Soup can Joe Dimaggio reciting his pronouns uneasily then lowering his batting hand into a scalding hot cup......

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... Unkept promises are hard blows that hit the psyche unexpecting. Unkind words are harsh slashes that rip through the essence undeserving. The mind becomes the fire in the wild, burns the ge......

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...six ghoulish goblins glowing in the dark one of them suggests a Halloween lark painting crazy faces on jack-o-lanterns in the road. a witch goes crazy; one turns into a loud toad. another ghoul......

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...Dishes are piling. I go on a walk, instead. It rains, but… It can’t hurt me, like the scalding water from the sink.. Watching puddles grow. Worrying. If I wait long enough, maybe the dishes wil......

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...What do I do, my soul inquires, abandoned in the shadow of the moment, When the call to move forward is incessantly declared wrong. My options are as hazy as dreams shattered at the dawn of day, M......

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...NA poetry contest Sponsor: Ink Empress 3rd Place. The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you ~ Rumi To me, you were my youth. The remainder of my childhood dreams, the obscure sm......

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...Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again - updated Steely Dan sing queen (me) outdid himself on sixtieth anniversary after Grahame Wood determined to meet the evolving needs of the communi......

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