Scathing Poems - Poems about Scathing

a rain hiku

...scathing heat followed
      by unexpected d
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Dangle A Backdrop

...Fountains sprinkle summer city rising steam spiral, 
wet dispersed and raucous shrieks from children,
pavements, streets. lanes, byways imbued,
with that June to September jubilance,
jovial spiri...

Juxtapositions of Soul

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   embedded in avatar’s 
sequential chromosomes 
novel_sprite_ageless___BIRTHED 
Soul protected       simul...

bdSm

...Shackled; survival serves simple submissives.
Superficial, sedentary surfaces.
Sinister, savage snakes.. seething scoundrels.
Snared, subtly struggling, sage surrenders.
Scathing slaps. Stone col...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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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