Scalds Poems - Poems about Scalds

...I see the way your body dances through the halls of our home, how dirty you are. dirty little girl. My teacher said this is not what we do. Mom tells me this is bad. They’re wrong. Beautiful girls ......

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... It’s not sweet as the Asian koel’s song. The red-wattled lapwing voices its irrecoverable loss. The bird’s sorrow scalds the night. It was brooding in the serene scrape nest. The black blo......

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...This journey we all make Through this winding path Scorched by the sun's anger. It scalds our bare feet Already torn by thorns. The rains make it slippery, We fall and bruise our knees. Like w......

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...You plead my cause Know that I'm not worthy Note that I am filthy And yet you came along You came a long and you wash me You know tat I was guilty and yet as my lawyer you plead my cau......

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...The rowan tree sees a light turn from white into grey colours turn to shades of dust and claws of branches blacken against the sky. Rowan made from feathers, made from blood keeping me safe. Th......

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...I once ate a secret, secret inside That fester'd and sank deep into my core Blackened and rotted, my gut it fried Prodding my conscience, I just can’t ignore Suddenly I am the worst of sinners A......

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...Applauded performers in dayspun course Embezzled by orbit, to variance succumb After venom scalds sun adoring audience Moon's butter churns mother cow......

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...Of late, nature moans inside a scraped womb As her lush environ FLOUNDERS breaks out… Played like a trusting NEOPHYTE from woods to rivers She endures the BOMBAST of dirt through ma......

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... Midnight envelops the pillow where her head rests sleeping as each shaft of moon light glows, umber and ocher traces, through the satin nimbus of her hair, gently caressing her soft cheek.......

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...Close your eyes, Plug your ears, Hold your breath. Imagine falling in love with someone. Imagine a love so alive it burns your lips and scalds your tongue. Imagine them gone. Close your eyes......

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...Your hand It fits perfectly into mine Those fingers, they all entwine So warm They protect me Your grip tightens in sense of danger It is so hard it hurts me Please don't stop Never See ......

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...Dear Universe, Today I talk to you as you are Today I talk to you for who you are I talk to you about the things you have witnessed All that happens under your skies and above your soil I talk t......

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...Villanelle: Who will dare not love La Belle Dame sans Merci Who will dare not love La Belle Dame sans Merci Will she now dare budge from her perch in the clouds No Knight-at-Arms her wiles en......

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..."Oh that this too,too solid flesh would thaw And resolve itself into a dew" Water slips through our fingers ,so fresh and sweet Yet a solid mass will smash all before it Where scree sits,solid on......

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...Your malignant image scalds my eyes like some strung out squatter in the high rise. July 10, 2016 *For Silent ones one liner contest......

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