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Scrimshaw Poems - Poems about Scrimshaw

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Concentrated
...I find that modern concentration camps are now hygienically focused, fully concentrated upon themselves. There, every glass wall is a two-way mirror for the neatly dressed minds of swamp dwelle......Read the rest...
Categories: scrimshaw, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Hollow Waves
...Sharks swim in their bones, the little teeth of little fish hollow whales away. Shrimp and krill scrimshaw a limitless hunger upon the white crests of dark waves. On a basking beac......Read the rest...
Categories: scrimshaw, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Insomnia Man
...When he talks his tongue articulates with his every joint words grate upon his mind. When he speaks the house creaks. He reclines in a slow simmer of embers. Fog rises where his thoughts s......Read the rest...
Categories: scrimshaw, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Autumn Is For Dead Poets
...Trees turn their features inward. Cool winds wander in like stray cats. A fiery death is in the air. the party colors are flame and ash. Leafy campfires burn the residue of mammoth bones ......Read the rest...
Categories: scrimshaw, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hand-Picked Berries and Sun-Dried Tomatoes 1
...The following is a collection of selected critiques of the work of Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench from a variety of media outlets. The views expressed therein are entirely unsolicited, uncompensate......Read the rest...
Categories: scrimshaw, mythology,
Form: Prose



Premium Member The Book of Kings - 1 Kings 16:31-33
...Ahab needed shore leave, And obsessed so on his dream, Harpooning some sweet harlot Had become his major theme. He was just a novice mariner, His first time far from home. He’d made his maid......Read the rest...
Categories: scrimshaw, allegory, bible, humor, literature,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member If I Knew How To Carve a Scrimshaw
...If I knew how to carve a scrimshaw I would carve the world’s prettiest scene I would carve out a catfish jumping out of a lake After I carved a frog sitting on a lily pad I would carve one on a d......Read the rest...
Categories: scrimshaw, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stock Market Drivel
...Torrid sunshine blisters reign on pavement, that colour coded coffee stain slipway, bearer of insole-laden footwear, open source channel for glib hot air calculus from starchy social climber, sto......Read the rest...
Categories: scrimshaw, art, character, courage, creation,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Talent and Skill
...The mellow chords of a cello draw tears as its bow vibrates a combo of strings. For when that sound found its way to my ears, it tore my heart apart and clipped my wings. The violin, ak......Read the rest...
Categories: scrimshaw, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Eskimo Imagining
...An Arctic fox casts a shadowed glance Sideways on the frozen glassy lake, slipping Pigeon like, gingerly, through fractured light Images of a swollen moon swallows up the night Wanderlust for ......Read the rest...
Categories: scrimshaw, animal, child, hope, image,
Form: Free verse
A Shallow Creek To Nowhere
...In flood the creek is still a walk over. A limp washing of the land, a hesitant flow, never meant to be a tributary, or delta of anything at all. The opaque water slides through low, t......Read the rest...
Categories: scrimshaw, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Price of Free Will
...Medicine Hat Appaloosa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Remember free will too has been gifted, with freedom allied to fate's fickle choice. Tendered......Read the rest...
Categories: scrimshaw, 6th grade, earth, god,
Form: Sonnet
Chair of Fire
...Chair of Fire My father's naughehyde recliner was the dusky, sudden pink of pale pigs. Hair-oil halo Scrimshaw headrest He died in bed My brother, Richard, did not weep... he hosed ou......Read the rest...
Categories: scrimshaw, death, deep, write,
Form: Blank verse
Chair of Fire
Categories: scrimshaw, death, father daughter, write,
Form: Blank verse
Epitaph of the Dragon
...Chained to these walls of despair I was condemned by a Judas race. Assassins’ wait on every corner hiding in the lights of man looking for my face. To be last of your species is a lonely place in lo......Read the rest...
Categories: scrimshaw, dark,
Form: Free verse

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