Scratch Out Poems - Poems about Scratch Out

Vinyl Scratch

                                                
 
The manner of this speech gives

Starting From Scratch

When you lost everything you worked for
You feel the real affects of being poor 
Life isn't normal you dont function the same 
Things were stolen from you with no one to blame
Thats when any and everything seems to matter most
As you gain items back you have reason to boast
Losing things quickly when you gained it

Feline Foibles

I have a cat
(or a cat has me),
a furry cat, a very purry cat
when on my lap it's sat,
independent it is
(egotistical too),
yet demands attention
(self-centred through and through),
and when well-fed, its purr
(a four-stroke motor),
is full of condescension,
when behind its ears you scratch
(it's expected of you),
you may believe you heard,
“Meow, meow, meow,”
(sorry, here's the catch),
what it really

The Itch She Cannot Scratch

she sits at the bar near chamberlain high school,
her nails chewed to nothing,
a lipstick smear on the rim of her glass.
the men orbit her like moths,
drawn to her heat,
but she keeps her eyes on the jukebox,
fingers twitching against
the lacquered wood.

there’s something inside her—
a scream buried too deep
or a wound sewn too tight.
she scratches at the

I Scribble Scrabble Scratch and Scrawl

I scribble, scrabble, scratch and scrawl
Squiggly words on walls down the hall
I am a scribe, and I must write
Sentences flowing out of sight

Some people might not be able to comprehend
My ideas are pushing and prodding me to begin
I have a pencil or pen in my hand every day.
Almost every moment is grand, writing is play.

Reel'ing'

Into the edge of adrift
time shrinks as the glowing
spectrum pans and shifts
i want to feel friendly with
the screen again
i want to feel the fuzzy static
embrace me
like arms made of out dozens
of freshly hatched chickadees
warm around my chest
like jet addled water 
outside the leaves flutter
like channels in the airways
its getting dark earlier in the day
i want

scratch

death is only a scratch to the soul

This life is an hors d'oeuvre to a heavenly buffet
somebody sprinkled poison on half of the plates
and therein lies the monumental problem.

death is only a scratch to the soul

Limericks IX

Limericks IX



Scratch-n-Sniff
by Michael R. Burch

The world’s first antinatalist limerick?

Life comes with a terrible catch:
It’s like starting a fire with a match.
Though the flames may delight
In the dark of the night,
In the end what remains from the scratch?



Time Out!
by Michael R. Burch

Time is at war with my body!
am i Time’s most diligent hobby?
for there’s never Time

Cooking Poetry from Scratch

NO exact 
measurement 
will do
because
my Poetry is truly
immeasurable
sometimes
heartbreaking
other times
pleasurable.

You definitely 
    want to 
Start with passion
mix it with loss
a dash of pain
from her deceit
        with
a pinch or two 
of how
I paid the cost.

Blend in tears
we wouldn't want 
it to be 
    

Live like a lame

All over is the same,
we scratch each other's, that is the game.
We kill logic, hard truth, wisdom and opinion,
we don't feel any shame.
We break our conscious like a horse
and live like a lame.

(11.08.2023)

Remembering

Remember what now you forget.
The days we've spent together
and that will never come back.
     Remember all the laughs 
and talking we had in the park,
listening to the birds in Spring, 
listening to ourselves in all the seasons.
     Remember about the days we used to make love without

Scratch the Itch

Illustrious 
Phantom
You chase 
My desire 
For satisfaction
As I chase you
Hither and thither
Like the rainbow's end
Always just out of reach
Escalating intensity or just
A trick of the cruel mind
Dancing across my skin
Infiltrating my sanity
As a ghostly feather 
Until I find your 
Illusive hiding
Place
Ahh

Catnip Scratch and Lick

You end up

Enjoying and loving it so much

You are willing to

Scratch away 

And lick at it

Like Catnip 

Chocking you on furr ball's

Stuck permanently in your throat

Like the worst kind of chest infected phlegm

You will never forget always remember 

Like people of old who used to smoke coughed

The way one day you may yourself

End up as

Chicken Scratch

"chicken scratch"


Cluck cluck cluck.

Cluck?

Cluck cluck.

Cluck cluck?

CLUCK!!!

Scratch Off

My nephew scratched his ticket 
For the lottery, to find
He’d won a rather hefty sum;
It really blew his mind.

Which made me think, does everyone
Who plays expect this news?
If so, perhaps to win at last
Means one has paid his dues.

In any case, I hope this windfall
Helps some plans to hatch
And doesn’t cause an outcome
That is not

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