Moving what I like
Fabrics are sown
So eyes are drawn to quieter things
Softer
Scratching isn’t as unbearable as screaming
I wield control to my ears
Over the entry of theirs too
Better than taps
Pressure, expected,
Is not that intense
Leaning, relying, assisting
Mostly whispers cannot escape me
My ears with a constant ache
My head tries to convey my heart
Yet they say I cannot expel it to the
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Categories:
scratching, analogy, anxiety, how i
Form: Free verse
Scratching Fanny in Cock Lane A true tale
Scratching Fanny in Cock Lane, a true tale
The year1762 a tale of murder or mystery they boast
A teenage girl, a drunken parish clerk, and maybe even a ghost
About hordes of aristocrats and wealthy men assembling
Crowds rivalling Covent Garden, Theatres were now descending
To a house near St Paul’s on a road named Cock Lane
Although
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Categories:
scratching, murder, mystery,
Form: Ode
German Shepherds Curse
The battle starts everyday
His itch will not go away
Scratch and scratch is all he does
I yell to stop from above
Itching and biting evermore
Skin covered in sores
Itching continuously grows
When it stops nobody knows
As I wish it to stop
Redness, allergies, and hot spots
Going, going, non-stop
Trying to reach the itch up top
Off to the vet we go
Hoping to
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Categories:
scratching, animal, dog, sick,
Form: Rhyme
Share a Scratching-Post Day
for...whatever bugs you...eh?!
t.v as...this 'or'...that 'oar' with
only...just a sensed-sore of a hint of...
a real...sense-'ore' for understanding
that time is...natures imbalance...
a flow of...mental prism shadows that
demand a...neutral stance being that...
strength is...a sense of balance...not muscle
stans sand
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Categories:
scratching, absence, appreciation, butterfly, peace,
Form: Free verse
Scratching At My Back
When I look in the mirror, that's just not what I wanna be, that's just not me.
Why do I feel this way, take away this aching pain.
I'm lost, I'm lost and I want to be found, I'm drowning in this shallow ground.
Can this bottle numb the pain cause I don't know how much
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Categories:
scratching, dark, deep,
Form: I do not know?
Scratching Your Neck With a Knife
[a hard truth people ]
but you can't reason with those
who rape and stone women to death
treat them like cattle on a regular basis
cut hands from youth for simple theft
toss gay people from roof tops and laugh
you can't trust those who build
from the bones of Cordoba
or the flesh of New York
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Categories:
scratching, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Scratching On the Subway
Have an itch in a naughty place
Should you scratch on the subway or while you shave
Could be dangerous
Singing in a church chorus
Or during a romantic setting as you romantically gaze
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Categories:
scratching, endurance,
Form: Limerick
Scratching Itchy Wall's- -
So inviting of the scratchings on the wall
Hang gliding fingernails scraping you can hear the noise
Screeching and crunching
Cringing face smudging ears popping
Consciousness wondering when will it be stopping
Porous walls
Scratching itching claws
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Categories:
scratching, anxiety, emotions, granddaughter, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Catfucious 6
I skiddle down the hardwood hall;
Scratching, sliding, bump and fall.
Your floors???!!!
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Categories:
scratching, animal, cat, humor, pets,
Form: Senryu
If It Bleeds After Scratching It
If It Bleeds After Scratching It
If it bleeds after scratching it, then you went too far.
I see a parade of dead people walking by me in this old dream.
They are eating bananas and I recognize their faces as friends,
I hear their familiar voices, and I wish I can talk to them again.
Then, as if a
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Categories:
scratching, memory,
Form: Free verse
Unsatisfied Scratching
The scratching wakes me up
Ridiculously unsatisfying
Yet notoriously put there by shingles
Or excruciatingly painful allergen.
A scream for help
Time is in my way
Sorry I sid not sneak my Excedrin pm into hospital
Morphine is not cutting it.
Each time more insistent
On a more potent drug
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Categories:
scratching, addiction, sick,
Form: Light Verse
The Cat
The Cat
??Licking, Licking?
Grooming himself
?Licking licking
?Scratching himself
?Licking licking?
Pampering himself
?Licking, Licking
?Biting Himself?
Yeah, How Gorgeous!?
All curled Up?
On the purple velvety mink blanket
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Categories:
scratching, animal, cat, nursery rhyme,
Form: I do not know?
Scratching At My Soul
It had to be a dream
But so, so real
It did seem
And it did feel
Like everything in sight
Had it's own appeal
Oh how bright
Was the black
Of the night
Then the attack
From all around
Front and back
Unbelievable was the sound
Of pain's own cry
Even through the ground
Fight or fly
No! run and hide
Stay and die
Not hard to decide
It seems to be everywhere
Escape
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Categories:
scratching, crazy, dark, death, evil,
Form: Terza Rima
Police Scratching Head
Through the glass I spied an old man
And he’s reading his text
With no care and I’m vexed
A long letter...what’s next?
Origami folds into fan…
8/27/2018
ABBBA - Mad-Song Stanza/Quintain
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Categories:
scratching, humanity, humor,
Form: Quintain (English)
Scratching Sad Poetry
His words,
once a celebration of love,
poetic affection,
written from the deepest
part of his heart
for her,
are now
nothing more than
creased and torn
pages of empty verses
shoved in the back pocket
of his worn out jeans
Ink bleeding between
the lines of a man
who believed he mattered,
only to find that he is
as insignificant
as his writings,
a forgotten poet,
a dried up pen
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Categories:
scratching, sad,
Form: Free verse
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