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Scowls Poems - Poems about Scowls

Premium MemberGrey

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Written: May 28, 2025, for contest by Nette's Color my Mood

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the soiling scowls of cumulus night
the life soars, and the broken locks blight
he shrugged...
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Categories: scowls, analogy, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Just Think of It

...I only ride the subway
To a doctor or a show.
When teaching, that was not the way
To work I used to go.

Today, though, in the morning rush
I had to take a train
And I expected all the usuals
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Categories: scowls, appreciation, new york, today,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberMotherly Love and Frowns

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                         Motherly Love and Frowns


Treading down the memory lane streams to my mind 
memories from far yet near, some sweet, some sour,
memories preciously shelved in the prec...
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Categories: scowls, appreciation, feelings, life, mother,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSelf-Esteem

...Courage and confidence, like lifeblood, flow in me.
From life-giving streams, waters of wisdom I drink.
In scowls of my foes too, beams of smiles I can see.
With my flawless faith, all my endeavor...
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Categories: scowls, life, self,
Form: Ode

Sisyphus Silence

...Sisyphus’ Silence

I sit, a silent, carved-out zone,

A soul entrapped, unlit, unwhole,

The majority’s tide grinds flesh to bone,

While others’ feelings wallow, roll

In mud that clings, ...
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Categories: scowls, angst,
Form: Rhyme



wild, ingraitiating rancid supples teet

...It takes this version of you awhile for
Me to consider, as an illusion your so
Consistent i can lean on the 
Imaginary love i create to spend time
Being out of love, walking a path i
Can’t share...
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Categories: scowls, betrayal, city, integrity,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLiterary Feud Among - Pt 1

...Prelude to what…..

I see you,  /  you / yes, come into my…… 
laboratory of alchemist mystical languaging.
where arsenic spills into the whirlpool of thought 
and savage syntax shatter li...
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Categories: scowls, emotions, judgement, literature, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Night Labor, for Rachel Corrie

...Night Labor
by Michael R. Burch

for Rachel Corrie

Tonight we keep the flame alive;
we keep the candle lit.
We burn bright incense in your name
and swear we’ll not forget—
your innocence, y...
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Categories: scowls, children, courage, hate, innocence,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAge Gaps

...Cranky crusty Codgers

Skeptical scornfully scowls

Youthful yearning Yonkers

Heartful happily howls

Spurned spiteful Spinsters

Graying gracelessly grumbles

Marvelous merry Maidens

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Categories: scowls, age, old, youth,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAlluring Silver Screen Dreams

...Strong women would like someone there,
just not to rescue them; 
All of those alluring silver screen dreams; 
No they don’t need him but they’d like to
give love a second chance;

Rehab for hop...
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Categories: scowls, dream, emotions, feelings, love,
Form: Free verse

On a Roll Is my Role Horn Haik

...when in the parlor
should see Christmas squalor
grow taller and taller

while really on a roll
Christas tree was full of coal
all my gifts Santa stole

when college scholar
who would receive...
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Categories: scowls, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku

On a Roll Is my Role Horn Haik

...when in the parlor
should see Christmas squalor
grow taller and taller

while really on a roll
Christas tree was full of coal
all my gifts Santa stole

when college scholar
who would receive...
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Categories: scowls, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberANCESTRAL BONES

...Dark rainbowed wings enfold a tortured heart
An oil slick presence seeping through its core
As scarecrow scowls shout “oh please depart”
An ocean scent drifts idly far from shore

The corn has w...
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Categories: scowls, sun, winter,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberThe Jewel That You Are

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                             11/13/2023


Living in the glorious now, is the only way to go!
Stop thinking, you must be top dog in the show.

What good wearing that g...
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Categories: scowls, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Collective Punishment

...Our enemies the Philistines
As we were taught in Sunday school
Are extras in the battle lines
To die, as we were born to rule

What lovely racists we’ve become
Programmed to hate our nation’s f...
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Categories: scowls, allah, america, anger, arabic,
Form: Rhyme

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