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Scathes Poems - Poems about Scathes


Frozen side of the sun
...The sun having a frozen side~ a wish like a snowball in hell, or netting the wind while oceans b o i l in f i r e. The rage of its heat needs curtailing. I'm melting... like chocolate......

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Categories: scathes, extended metaphor, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Winter Confession
... Little girl, Sunday through christening water Little woman, Monday through marring rain — and motions the berg slicker — fear the approaching snow their heart reign; together a frozen cho......

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Categories: scathes, childhood, christian, love, prayer,
Form: Free verse



Africa
...Africa Let me be me For what Africa Nothing in the 'be me' Just political propaganda What you are is black What's in you is poverty And you are corrupt A zoo ruled by rabid mokeys Armed......

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Categories: scathes, africa,
Form: Free verse
Do I Not Bleed
...Do I not bleed? The words that you read, before you. Do I not bleed? The blood that runs free, throughout me. Can I not bleed? For not a scratch scathes the surface. But deep down inside, The th......

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Categories: scathes, angst
Form: I do not know?
Living Loveless
...A breath escapes this lonely soul jilted sigh expels it heavily falling flat From on my back I see the stars align ...but only in other skies as charcoal cumulous and birds of ......

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Categories: scathes, love
Form: Free verse



Evil
...Like royalty she came in the room, Arm in arm with her beloved groom. Weary smiles and dreary eyes Follow her with strong demise. For she was like a cruel disease, Paralyzing all that she sees. ......

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Categories: scathes, death, satire, war
Form: Couplet
Warlord of the 21st Century
...Small visions Staggering insolence muted souls pinned by vertebral thrusts lay in feathered wasteland Spinning tongues imperial platitudes Right of passage misguided impenetrable to the ......

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Categories: scathes, social,
Form: Free verse

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