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Scans Poems - Poems about Scans

The Invisible Army
...It was August 1st, Army Day in China— when I was escorted through concrete arteries deep beneath the pulse of the city. No cameras. No phones. Just retinal scans, encrypted codes, and a silen......

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Categories: scans, anniversary, conflict, science, science
Form: Free verse
Battle scarred but unbroken
...Battle scarred but unbroken I was captive in a silent war. My body, the battlefield. A quiet siege waged beneath my skin, where cells divided and uncertainty grew. This body, once solely m......

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Categories: scans, angst, cancer, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse



When Little Boys Fall in Love
...A Meditation on Growing Up I. [Age 6] — First Light Your fingernails, chewed to rosy tips, sort bottle caps by rust and gleam. I offer you my father’s Pepsi crown— you pocket it without a bl......

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Categories: scans, boy, girlfriend,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Forest of Toil
...Her hair black as the hills of oil, and thick as the forest of toil. Adonis, with large palms, works hard, to win her heart, under armed guard. Her father keeps her chaste; in stow. Charms’ lo......

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Categories: scans, heartbreak, imagery,
Form: Lay
Writer's Block
...I'm supposed to create a few lines each day, And arrange them into some kind of poem. There's always a new way to write them. Especially when it scans. It should rhyme. But today, the guide I ......

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Categories: scans, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member May I Hold Your Hands
...May I Hold Your Hands David J Walker May I hold your hands Your soft and smooth skin Soothed my brow and helped me breathe again We were so young And free back then May I hold your ......

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Categories: scans, age,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Reclaim Your Domain
... I wish I could plug A flash drive in your ear. I would wipe clean the worries Hidden deep inside there. I know they've been hiding In camouflaged space. Your very own virus firmly in place......

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Categories: scans, angst, depression, encouraging, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Time Has Gone By
...Time Has gone By By Franklin Price 01/14/2025 Time has gone by. I'm up in life. Three years ago I lost my wife Cancer, then covid came around She, way too soon, was Heaven bound Late in th......

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Categories: scans, age, appreciation, cancer, christian,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Regal and Lethal
... Perched on mountain peak a fearsome eye scans the sky ~ Open, its beak ......

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Categories: scans, bird, fear, food, sky,
Form: Rhyme
A Machine's Gaze
...beneath the screen’s unwavering eye it scans the words where truths may lie each line dissected parsed and weighed a judgment rendered coldly made this poem is not yours it claims patterns mat......

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Categories: scans, computer, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas in Twenty-Twenty-Four
...When day breaks on Christmas, and finished is your snore What awaits the daylight in twenty-twenty-four? Will you tear into the presents, wrapped up so neat Then gather at the table, be stuffed as......

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Categories: scans, bible, christian, christmas, god,
Form: Rhyme
night
...dark is the morning dark is my phone with aliens rushing our border i watch these vermin with contempt i take my eyes off at 8am sharp the commute is only an hour but a good first impression i wil......

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Categories: scans, 12th grade, poetry, student,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Poetry Club
...He enters looking bedraggled, tired and worn out, his skin like Vellum, blank and pale. Lifting his eyes to catch their gaze he gives a slight nod to acknowledge their presence. He scans the room as ......

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Categories: scans, imagination, inspirational, poetry,
Form: Free verse
52 pick up
...I got some bad news the other day Heart failure immenint, his genes at play While the doctor was talking to me All I could think was why god me But then I sat and had a thought It's genes at ......

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Categories: scans, anger, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beyond the Ivory Tower
...Soft ivory pages, crisp and new. Insulated from the world's harsh truths, Snuggled in the comfort of rote learning, it waits. Protected from challenging ideas, Camouflaged as a bastion of knowl......

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Categories: scans, children, education, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

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