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Scant Poems - Poems about Scant

Premium Member Tinea
... A day escaped, released from the sticky womb of night held firm in the arms of midwife morning, listen to its infant cries the wails of a newborn child unfed demanding of your bed and sleep......

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Categories: scant, morning, work,
Form: Free verse
Battle of Black and White
... The grainy screen, a world of olive drab, Vic Morrow's weathered face, a soldier's weary stab At duty, honor etched in lines so deep, While young Rick Jason fought the promises to keep. ......

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Categories: scant, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Echo Returns Not
...Memories wound like shards of shrapnel exploding through the restless night bursting into jagged slivers like broken glass, leaving a heart wretched and contrite. Ears strained to hear voices c......

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Categories: scant, emotions, eulogy,
Form: Rhyme
To Be An Artist
...Solemnly I sit in silence, slaving over scant sculptures I begin to carve away at the silky slip my tools gliding skillfully Although at a glance, I may seem serene inside there is a savage stor......

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Categories: scant, art, desire, gothic,
Form: Free verse
They got the whole world in their hands
...They got the whole world in their hands Worth north of a trillion dollars, (plus or minus a billion dollars here and there), the unnamed obscenely rich, (which top 15 billionaires projected to......

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Categories: scant, america, anger, angst, bullying,
Form: Free verse



si tu t'appelles melancolie - oui
...si tu t'appelles melancolie - oui if your name is melancholy, the scant tidbits I know of French. perfect cold day to down a cup of hot chocolate, java or joe in tandem with an intelligent con......

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Categories: scant, adventure, angel, appreciation, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Dearth of Poetry
... Lately, it seems to be there’s a dearth of poetry on the site... else it's me generalizing from scant experience as I often do when feeling imperious ......

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Categories: scant, how i feel, loss,
Form: Rhyme
HO HO WHOA Second Chance algorithm drawing for January 17, 2025
...HO HO WHOA Second Chance algorithm drawing for January 17, 2025 No matter I kept fingers and toes crossed, and waited with bated breath since January 2, 2025 even converted from skeptic to ortho......

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Categories: scant, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Same Old Boys
...Spaghetti drips from old-fashioned lips like a cascading waterfall; the pics, yellowed; and clothes, of three fellows, sepia-toned. Commonality of hunger or mere curiosity as directed at ......

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Categories: scant, boy,
Form: Free verse
Winter
...I ll sing a song of Winter gales its got us in its grip everything from storm to ice A Magpies solitary glance is all we need The grey sleet beating over hills crouching for shelter where th......

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Categories: scant, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
a regular day
...A regular day We read, with amusement, that Facebook is set free Mark, our erstwhile friend, has seen the light Not spending money on fast-checkers, more kudos to him Is he sincere For now, ......

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Categories: scant, abortion, absence, abuse, allusion,
Form: Blank verse
A Gray Light Sparkles
... Branches thatch a spackled sky. Snow lays itself down to sleep lightly. An airborne coyote-itch addles drops of sunlight until they drizzle. Splatters of graying-green on the hairy chops......

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Categories: scant, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ugly in the light vs Darky beautiful
...The Rose of Jericho is a grim plant, The Spider Orchid leafs are a tumbled mess , Looking at this plant where's the charm I confess , The Rose of Jericho’s leafs are dried , gross and not scant......

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Categories: scant, flower,
Form: Sonnet
Woman's Work
...Mother Earth is due for her hysterectomy. Soon she will lap dance in a crystal-clear sterility far from her blood-soaked fields. She is done with nurturing, done with death and destruction. ......

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Categories: scant, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Geoffrey Chaucer translations 2 by Michael R Burch
..."Cantus Troili" from "Troilus and Criseyde" by Petrarch translation by Geoffrey Chaucer modernization by Michael R. Burch If there’s no love, O God, why then, so low? And if love is, what thin......

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Categories: scant, death, drink, earth, god,
Form: Rhyme

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