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
Breaki...
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Categories:
scotched, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
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!...
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Categories:
scotched, games,
Form: Limerick
An address to pebbles that protest
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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...
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Categories:
scotched, abuse, analogy, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
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 th...
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Categories:
scotched, beautiful, beauty, creation, death,
Form: Free verse
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 gov...
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Categories:
scotched, art, cat, dog,
Form: Free verse
A Definite Bonehead Moment
...A definite bonehead moment
since revised when das scribe
made laughing stock of himself
(circa ~ 8:30 post meridiem
December twenty eighth, 2022).
A retrospective account
revisited court...
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Categories:
scotched, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Wild Goose Chase
...Pursuit for elusive prey
teases yours truly
into treacherous catacombs
dangerous mentally
challenging pitfalls,
sets small hairs of back
on camp creeks edge
of night, where dark shadows
evo...
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Categories:
scotched, adventure, allegory, america, animal,
Form: Free verse
Mine Mortal Flesh Can Finally Escape
...Mine mortal flesh can finally escape...
Though mentally, physically,
and spiritually healthy... meth
hood dolled logy
hoop fully, ideally, joyfully...
unannounced twill be mine death
without...
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Categories:
scotched, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Let *****Sapiens Envision Eco Friendly Infrastructure
...Radical planet friendly measures
equals earning kudos as unsung hero
(think environmental/carbon footprint)
nearly absolute zero
while global population quarantine
suspension of civil rights
wo...
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Categories:
scotched, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Political Verse
Wild Goose Chase
...Pursuit for elusive prey
teases yours truly
into treacherous catacombs
dangerous mentally
challenging pitfalls,
sets small hairs of back
on camp creeks edge
of night, where dark shadows
evo...
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Categories:
scotched, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Afraid To Live
...Chinks of light filter
thru pitchblack emotional prison
vestigial shadow figure hunkers,
an atrophied, mortified, petrified old man
implacable self destructive nemesis
birthed in league pitiful ...
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Categories:
scotched, allusion, baptism, dark, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Shucking Evil In Favor of Good
...Shucking Evil In Favor Of Good...
(courtesy of tasseled colonel corny maise aye aire)
Challenge more difficult than threading
camel thru eye of needle, hence catchy title
scotched, and I aim to...
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Categories:
scotched, angel, blessing, devotion, faith,
Form: Free verse
Perdition Be Damned
...Perdition Be Damned!
Body electric zapped
lower gastrointestinal tract
wracked with wretchedness
pitted, rocked, and tortured
severe muscle spasms cramp
deathly hallowed deliverance
beseec...
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Categories:
scotched, atheist, death, father, funeral,
Form: Free verse
Unstained Soul
...I saw her a milky complexion and a voluptuous frame , she had a name but no surname noone gave her a surname .
I found her similar less incommon a saree she had draped in an impious commotion to...
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Categories:
scotched, pride,
Form: Ballad
The Lost Art of Composition
...The Lost Art Of Composition
too often my thoughts and the ability to express them
are taken hostage without a clue to the cause
this is an affliction familiar to many a writer
as if madness was...
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Categories:
scotched, creation,
Form: Free verse
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