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Scathe Poems - Poems about Scathe

Nihilism and Caffeine
...You plunge your fist into the creeping milieu of the ice cube by your ‘20s daydream. Does it not hurt? but it does, and you quickly retreat, surrendering to primal, human instinct. Your skin ......

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Categories: scathe, abuse, age,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unexpected
... Written: May 14, 2023 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your dewdrops are bedazzling on dunes, Hides enticing sparks so haphazardly fumes. Your eyes, akin to honey......

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Categories: scathe, analogy, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Wounded Sigh
... Written: March 28, 2024 For Edward Ibeh Contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It is a myth that time cures any wound, It is merely what people say and sound. When ......

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Categories: scathe, appreciation, bereavement, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Questions For God
...I wish I had a straight line to heaven, I’d ask God a question or two. With all of these different beliefs, I wonder just what we should do. Is it ok to read stories to our children, like th......

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Categories: scathe, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Reveries
..."Reveries are gifts of moments, even melancholy ones, when our hearts were happy." ~ by poet We planted a flow......

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Categories: scathe, lost love, memory,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Valley of My Heart
...The sun shines bright on the valley of my heart. Where once innocence thrived, now torn apart, Betrayed by those I whim I could trust, Left alone and lonesome, consumed by unjust. B......

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Categories: scathe, appreciation, beauty, character, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Petrified Tree
...Up near the peak of Rockies, Me and my limbs live in frigid cold, The mountain seems to be frozen in time, Being a petrified tree, I am frozen in stone. As I ascended to the heavens, I had to ......

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Categories: scathe, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Poet Aspiration
...I'll read you in stars, for my last supper. I follow you in blooms and clouds, today I Hear your breezeways, you're time wrapper I'll read you in stars, for my last supper. I taste yo......

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Categories: scathe, analogy, appreciation, poets,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Follow the Fire
...Kindled my soul at the time of my birth. It feeds my craving for the boundless, superior joys of desiring to be soulless. Owing to the breadth-widening death.  Like it drew the moth......

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Categories: scathe, analogy, appreciation, feelings, fire,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Tyrants
...An abnormal desire to scathe and to kill. If we all let them they can and they will.......

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Categories: scathe, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forbearance Vast Spectrum
...How do I acquire a place where I can forgive? How can I stop blaming myself for my mistakes? I can't recall the version of "Intrinsic", but it's conflictive, None can quash them If yo......

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Categories: scathe, analogy, appreciation, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member More About Hate
... More About Hate Miracle man 5/16/2022 Hate has never been a one way street, targeted at a belief, or color bound. It’s sometimes found to be discreet, and allowed to fester it will ......

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Categories: scathe, hate, sin,
Form: Quatrain
The War Saga
...Shedding blood is not a scathe, Saving people is not a salvage, Ruining kingdom is not an outrage, War, as they say – is fine to indulge, Putting lives to mortgage. I have seen war – fear in h......

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Categories: scathe, earth, patriotic, war, world,
Form: Rhyme
The Fish Worshipers
...Swashing waves and swimming fish who don’t cry The sun shining her rays on the ocean A massive fish stared to the ocean’s sky ......

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Categories: scathe, analogy, animal, fish, ocean,
Form: Dizain
Call of the Ocean
...The ocean calls out to me tonight, For it feels lonely. And here I am feeling homesick again, Nostalgia suffocates me as I taste the rain. The blue in it is but my ink, The depth in my eyes is......

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Categories: scathe, life, longing, moon, nature,
Form: Free verse

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