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Scathing Poems - Poems about Scathing

Premium Member A Stroke of Bad Luck
...The elderly Elmer Brown dwelled alone, like a solitary tree on a hill, Loving quiet, glazed life still, in burgundy, sunset moments of until. A widower, Elmer Brown had generations of off......

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Categories: scathing, fantasy, imagery, nature, nursery
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Emotional Shrapnel
... There are some people in this world who either do not realize or do not care how badly words wound. Even slight agitation can cause them to bellow their bullying obscenities. Like lead balls f......

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Categories: scathing, abuse,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Casualty of Your Cruelty
... A person at times can feel like they are a casualty of cruelty, at least in some small way or other. Some attacked my early writing. Their scathing reviews I can’t forget, yet......

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Categories: scathing, hurt,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member Poetic Practice
...The poet is a physician of sorts tending care to the physical of his craft -- His patients, the hearts and souls of humanity -- Latching belts on sleds of words a-summit he descends, precariou......

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Categories: scathing, creation, inspirational, language, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Blues
...The blues you squeeze into your song. Without the grays, you don’t belong. The saxophone tonguing your grief; Downward, the tears’ a scathing relief. Turquoise battling the heavy waves. The fl......

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Categories: scathing, bereavement, music,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Sapphire Eyes Suffer
...The opal anchor clings, clutching, falling, fetching the lapis lazuli. Mermaids flee, frightened by the heavy ornament. Fate, like chain links of Jacob Marley; shaking of the seabed at the po......

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Categories: scathing, imagery, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love's Longings
...How much of love is longing’s dream A sheltered search to fill a need Peering from beneath the gray of doubt And yet devoid of fear save self A kite-less string attempts to fly Spurred on as ......

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Categories: scathing, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Giving Tree
...A course-correction knife was plunged too late. A smile was still, upon her lips, that date. Clueless, for most of life, the cherries, green. Her shoulder-bluffs and high-peak cheeks are see......

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Categories: scathing, imagery,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Premium Member Soul Speak
... True feelings concealed craftily beneath the sheath of surfeit psyche, fragile fantasy of self sanguinity fostered by the colors of chameleon skin, evoke emotions surreptitious, pretentiou......

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Categories: scathing, god, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul Speak
...“I Am as I Am complete Though ego opines otherwise Invoking grace we feel God’s heartbeat  What else does there remain for us to realise” Unseeking Seeker When the......

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Categories: scathing, perspective, silence,
Form: Free verse
Fledges Class
...footsteps as I walk to the podium* Lights dim, where words writhe like serpents in the darkness, I concoct a brew of bitter brutalities. “The cacophonies of criticism, discordant symphonie......

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Categories: scathing, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Peace
... When dragons ruled the atmosphere gliding here, and then flying there. No battle waged on kingdoms where the magical beasts made their lair. The wind blew strong beneath their wings, ......

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Categories: scathing, animal, community, fantasy, life,
Form: Rhyme
Shame full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration
...Sham(e) full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration American independence day linkedin severance from English crown Continental Congress representatives parlayed courtesy thirteen origin......

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Categories: scathing, adventure, america, betrayal, birth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Requiem For A Motherless Child
...The weeds have sheathed the garden from its care as more nails than wood appear of a house lacking adjectives. A sun liberated from scathing entrapment amongst an overburdened forest whose boughs are......

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Categories: scathing, appreciation, black african american,
Form: Free verse
I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks
...I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks..., (a poor excuse for legs), and get me the latest sophisticated prosthetics advancements, whereat integration of cultured stem cells into custom made......

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Categories: scathing, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

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