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Scaled Poems - Poems about Scaled

Premium Member A Mermaid - Waterhouse
... mid song yet almost lost to longing methods of the mundane soothe no more the distance holds my gaze in ways that purge time but not infatuati......

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Categories: scaled, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member No Kings
...See, folks, here's the thing: in a republic, there is no king, and in a democracy such as yours or ours, no one is allowed to have absolute powers. One of your president's tragic flaws is that h......

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Categories: scaled, america, political,
Form: Rhyme



The Weight of Gold
... The climb begins in shadow, long before the lights ignite. Each step a solitary pact with dawn, with doubt, with fight. First, the small victories: a solved equation, a whispered truth fi......

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Categories: scaled, success,
Form: Free verse
The Clouds of Mount Everest - may you ever rest
...Flapping without flying. It feels okay. Your scales of fur corrode. A foul, but sweet, but warm, but damp... Scent of something new. You're red and blue tomorrow, Yellow, pink, today. But fo......

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Categories: scaled, bereavement, cat, death, deep,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member In a corner of the world, where silence weaves its web like a spider in the night
...In a corner of the world, where silence weaves its web like a spider in the night, Lives trickle away in lines of systematic renunciations, like rivers slowly retreating, Each step backward is a kn......

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Categories: scaled, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Mindscapes
... A deep pit with a crumbling edge. Far below, is a muddy pool swarming with crocodilians. There is someone with me, a boy. I shouldn't have taken the child here. I am slipping, taking......

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Categories: scaled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Reflections of the past, visions of the future
...At the most serene place where peace is sown, Our laughter mingles with the scent of meals, We unite, based on stories we have known, The telling of these fables still appeals. Many days we sle......

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Categories: scaled, cheer up, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Goetia
...My heart bleeds at the sight, torn by agony/ For your forms bear the weight of celestial cruelty/ Once radiant stars, now cast to shadows depths/ Your grace shattered, your beauty cloaked in desp......

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Categories: scaled, appreciation, beautiful, character, corruption,
Form: Free verse
SNEAKY SLIMY SLITHERING SERPENTY SNAKE
...The sneaky, slimy, slithering, squirming snake silently sat shamefully, Stupendously-stumped. The seated, sizzling, sneaky, slimy, slithering serpent still stupendously-stumped, Squirmed slowly ......

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Categories: scaled, animal, evil,
Form: Alliteration
The nanosecond bad **** to risk romance
...The nanosecond bad a** to risk romance Twenty first century technology allows, enables, and provides instantaneous virtual unconsummated love. Within the course of a texting or sexting sessio......

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Categories: scaled, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
I knew I would find it somewhere
...~ I drifted past the sunset where horizons make their place Imaginary lineage that artists love to trace I saw the world illumined in a shade of tangerine Beyond the treelined......

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Categories: scaled, morning,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sea of Roses
... We walked through the sea-glass garden of roses, where the sleeping flame of a celestial beast dozes. We need not run, nor hide in fear, even though we knew he was near. We’ve known h......

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Categories: scaled, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
First Encounter
...Fierce winds blow across the Atlantic tide, Colder she gets the rougher she'll ride, In matt'r minutes a chill to the bone, Few dare sail her northern zone, Far north the whaling be done, Colder......

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Categories: scaled, boat, fishing, imagery, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Filched formerly anatomical slender man me! Thus I take a pot belly stance!
...Filched formerly anatomical slender man - me! Thus I take a pot belly stance! Absolute zero escape velocity gutted dance sing days (contra and square), cuz metabolic full abundance abdominal a......

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Categories: scaled, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Great Conundrum
... There is something about matter that keeps me spellbound, enamored to its most exquisite blooms, oceans, forests and mountain streams. It holds who I am, gives me shape and form, a home, a p......

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Categories: scaled, earth, hope, life, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

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