Scotched Poems | Examples

Premium Member Implosion

The slope is tiring
I have been diligently struggling
The top of the mountain is called bliss
My eyes scotched to it
I keep trying to reach its peace

Yet, I could not anticipate myself
Breaking into pieces, tearing myself up
From the depths of my heart
Wanting to keep focused on the summit
Yet, wanting to be touched by the magical fireflies once again
Wanting solely the intoxication and the play of emotions
As they invade my mind, writing poetry on the walls of my sanctuary
And creating ripples in my sleeping pond

Breaking up from the inside
Swallowing myself up from within
Drowning in my own starry sparkles
Seeking only a moment to explain
To receive and to hold on tightly to forgiveness 
As a fully bloomed flower,
Fragranced and shining so bright that simply by gazing at it
The whole world would be dazzled!

Premium Member Backyard Hopscotch

I once tried hopscotch in reverse,
Backwards it went from bad to worse.
My hop was scotched,
My stone was botched,
I fell head over heels adverse!
Form: Limerick


An address to pebbles that protest

I am the maker of your fear, says the silver ocean.
like the dessert sun to a scotched frog,
I strike the sand and bury you deep with each beat,

Too when the night is calm, and moon puts me to slumber
I lay heavy on your soul that pleads to turn dust and fly,
If for a minute.

I hear your cracks and whimper when my cold, cold, skin
Envelopes your breath with salt of Sodom
Only to leave, and return, and leave.

I willfully craft a moonless night of my eyes to your anguish,
Send your pleas north, to a different god perchance,
I have not vowed myself to benevolence.

A trillion stones surrender their selves for sake of sand,
that which is my bed to sleep, my dog to beat and to break,
Why then thinks a single pebble that a lion ought to save a deer.

I shan’t take the tedium of stillness, and not dance ashore
If that be your woe, so be
Long before your cries, long after, yours is to serve my whim.

Dead Roses

Sharp blades through their stem
They evince smiles in all of them
Wrapped in plastics, bound by ribbons
Glittering in glass vases, beautiful prisons
They bleed in the sunshine for the bees
As the buzzers dance around petals and leaves
They could be moved from gardens to the graves
Like being sucked out of heaven to the hades
They could be with the joyous and those in pain
Scotched in the sun, soaked in the rain
They are adored flowers but all in vain
As they droop and wither to die again

Premium Member Surely

Surely
I am not
The only one
I remember
Thousands
I walked with
For a non nuclear stance
Now
Silence

Even before
Those brave humans
That took on apartheid
An battled
The Queensland government
Silence

And where's
The freedom voice bus?
Students r u
Drones
Or
Thinkers and tinkerer's

Slowly
By surely
Walling our self's in
To a fake
Normal
A false
Reality

For a few
Control nefariously
That new brick
Surveillance neo capital fascism
And the masses
Rejoice
Behold
Our new brick

And don't the people wonder
After the river floods
And Chunder's
Or
The fire
All scotched
All burnt
Their left
Standing alone
Pondering
What's a government for?
Cause
Harvey an Woodside
Ain't gonna come
An help me

But, no
They accept it
To not
Is not
To be normal

So
F@#k you all
I am
Not normal
And I don't accept it

If I write
Just one word
That provokes
An act of kindness
Or
Spark of curiosity
Just a small
Twinge of the lips
Heading for a smile
I will have succeeded
And I have
Just as others
Of my kind 
Have


Enthralled

Enthralled
As crystalline,  fluffy without weighing much
White perceived so resourceful, black seeded
Hand red scotched, blood stains... sweat drips
Off checks, sun heating and its rays amplified.

Picking on one to fill the packing, turmoil out
Backs bending to the weights of humiliation
Lashed, whipped and driven off the plantation
Mother's corpse never buried, I was too busy...

With the selecting process so rinsed, agitated
A third of it turns be the darkened seedlings, 
Yet to sprout and shoots forth anew tardy plant
If ever green leafed, elementary hope be drawn

And the other two thirds readily matured, white
Beheaded, readily  being sellouts for foreigner's
Note, and us the bandits only knows of the yoke 
And that oxen drawn plough,  proceeds are theirs...
Form: Ballade

When Eyes Refuse To Close

Where power rests
on a bed of roses,
citizens inquisitively lie 
on hot beds of ashes
But when citizens
are scotched,
when the hot ashes
are no longer tolerable,
they put  on sack- clothes.
They chant war-songs
of sorrow and agony,
as they wave spears.
Bushes around
where the animal is hiding,
are tortured with sticks
that carry big heads
in search of the animal
that snatched the father.
That is the time
the nation’s dogs 
bark without biting 
the eyes refuse to close
knowing that the time
for reckoning 
has struck.

The Rag Trade

"Headline news! The rag trade is torn to pieces!
Dolls are strewn across the streets with skirts lifted high.
Headline news! Markets are buzzing with voracious bees;
Stinging for honey, for money to burn. Sly.

May I escort you sir to higher gains? Just feed the slot
Machine coffers with offers of fine dining and lustful desires.
Become bloated and coated, botched and scotched
And drink embers mellow as you repast by the fire!

Suits you sir! That suit should fake them and shake them,
For you look a right toff and in those two tone brogues
None can guess and think anything less of you and your suit
That is pin striped and blue. Welcome to 'Cafe Rogues'.

Are you a gambler sir? Do you place your bets well?
Do you prefer evens or odds or don't you give a sod?
There are no consciences here sir! We'll take your money
And spend it on honey and fine clothes by God!

Paper!paper! Read all about it, headline news!
Dolls are found in alleyways torn to shreds!
Escorts are fattened calves ready for the slaughter!
Suited toff is found dying in Savile Row gutter!

Gambling money spinner wins. Camera closes the shutter.
Form: Rhyme

To Julianne

A lot said of Almighty’s modeling
Just a few minutes to lunchtime ding
Persons like thee make any evidence of such perish 
You came out hot from a specific idea
From the horizon of my world
Your image burns like the Maghreb sun

As a mortal of black earth that was once green
I made special effort to collect my mouth after a grin 
Which you planted scientifically upon me through a glance
Oh my poor scotched heart how will it ever decode
The messages you send from your bosom?

Upon the part of my lips 
Your  sweet name leaps
Straight into niche of memory 
Gazetted for cauliflory
Creating a colony 
There with live pixels

May the heavens bless your viability!
Your flower to be sweet upon maturity
And your virtues be multiplied as your pollen 
My nose will never tire to drag in your perfume.
Form: Lay

A Soul's Home

Who am I supposed to be
A tear in someone’s eye, not me...

I am...
Of what is possible if valleys rise into ice capped mountains
And rivers flow until their waters sink to spring into beautiful fountains
The unconscious becoming conscientised
Mother nature’s near equal, her blindsight

I am the son of the sun
I am a young people and time for me is still noon
I exist in all forms in all of humanity
My acceptance is only possible through humility

I am the son of the soil
Scotched from soul to sole
A creation to behold, 
A history to be told 

I offer my hand for you to hold
In return for greatness untold
My love is profound
Forgiveness is my threshold

My nose, is wide, my laughter is loud, 
My lips are expressive, my poise is proud
I am an omnipresent spirit 
I am white, shinning light
Form: Rhyme

Dragon Fly

An unearthed dominion
hell itself exposed barren
here life has no opinion
death boldly the only option

riding the unicorn stallion 
aiming his enchanted horn
man’s only hope and only weapon
galloping like a dart on a midair collision

a forbidden union
into a sky scotched crimson
of unleashed evil demons
a god in his own right in the heavens

aiming fire with ruthless precision
knights and braves fallen in his creation
death from another in a fireworks explosion
rebirth into a double dragon
Form: Monorhyme

A Joy of Everything

And 
somewhere 
far off on 
hills,
Dwelled 
deep upon 
a summit, 
a dappled 
ground
A cock will 
again 
crow to 
his mates, 
whisper
To the 
world: in 
earnest 
plea or 
sweetness
And 
soothe a 
air around 
and tumult
Kindled 
from the 
market's 
navel and 
someplace
Off the 
ocean's 
empty belly

And be it 
not sultry 
darkness 
dies,
Flatulent 
chirps 
risen from 
scant 
bushes 
blare
Against 
the sun's 
rising
But for 
ressurection 
that 
drowns life,
A stuff 
which 
existence 
be
In the 
misted 
dawns and 
sun-
scotched 
grooves,
Sky's 
twitching 
eye to a 
swarm
Of 
speckled 
wings. Let 
this throw
To the 
world a joy 
sublime, a 
feel divine
A joy of 
everything; 
a joy of 
flesh__
Form: Pastoral

I Miss You

a portion of courage is leading me,
i have written enough letters,
if you hear these solemn words know its me,
the sun has scotched all the nectar.

am surrounded by an outwit debt of promise,
that to the grave my heart will still keep,
and as dew starts to form on my eyes,
... i know you too will keep.

how do i say i miss you,
when each time you call i sink into idle tears,
the sensation in your voice,
and the images of your beauty seem to sever for years.

i wish i'd see the garden of flowers in your eyes,
maybe the rock of truth will sink,
that the new skins on my broken heart is a world of lies,
and is ending in the next blink.

i cant lie that i am ok,
when a deep loneliness has swept me,
come and be by me, my love,
and complete my world....

Positive Side

***********



                                            Exuberance - heed
                                      Stash dolor abyssal - hid
                                        Guffaw - untrammeled
                               Blithe, tranquil - smile, not puzzled
                          Anguish, woe - slayed, scotched by glee.




                                                                                             ************
Form: Tanka

Scotched Flower.

The sun is high, high in the harmattan season 
The easterline wind withered the petals of love...

I clasp my chest on the grip of blood-cough
As is cosmic rumble upon the heart core 
Without a pull to the earth surface...

Anguish and solitude my face thrilled-
The rivelries are all gone, gone along with
The hand straps across high hips, the intricate 
Smiles with freshened breath, and 
The beaming eyes searching another for meanings.

Now the heart bleeds, bleeds unbridled-
For the flower stood,pale and shrivelled 
Brown and unwanted, and like
Hindsight at twilight-moment
The truth stared glaringly at my face: 

The love of a stanger is nothing 
But a diamond in the rough.

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