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Scythes Poems - Poems about Scythes

Premium Member The Heat of the Foam
...When young, stay in the heat of the foam where strange things -pyrite and miracles roll Old age is for picking out supple blue pools counting blessings and mincing what's left of the fool- The ......

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Categories: scythes, life,
Form: Rhyme
Marionetta
...From the chthonic chasm, I materialize in sarcophagus Spectral filaments of the netherworld Spiral in a maelstrom around my silhouette Osseous structures fracture contort I ascend from the fecund......

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Categories: scythes, crazy, dark, death, extended
Form: Free verse



Kissing Ghost
...An abattoir, a hymn of scythes severing flesh, is sung mellifluously by a siren with onyx scales. Bubbles in the twilight abyssal depths, a symphonic orchestra of eels gavotte. Orbs watch at these pr......

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Categories: scythes, beautiful, dark, deep, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Scythes Fate
...Sunlight glints off polished silver A river reflects in its face Water tinted a reddish hue Sweeps along the scythes base But iron and silver do not meet Until the blade swings toward a rock Th......

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Categories: scythes, death, water,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Is that an Alpaca
...We were careful as we entered the dark barn. There are always hoes, rakes, and scythes lying around. You do not want to step on something that means stitches. I had done that before. What is gr......

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Categories: scythes, animal,
Form: Free verse



December, and the Light is Low and Cutting
...Sky filters through scant woods printing a cold sunlight on shadowed tree trunks. Only December has this light, it both scours and forages, it scythes away all heaped-up flotsam. A December wi......

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Categories: scythes, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumnal
..."A melody whispers through the trees in the Autumnal season. A colorful song, a sing along, and nature's beauty is the reason." ~ by ......

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Categories: scythes, autumn, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Lorca Translations Iii
...Lorca Translations III Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright and theater director. He was assassinated by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War an......

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Categories: scythes, bird, dark, death, light,
Form: Free verse
Lorca Translations Ii
...Lorca Translations II Canción del jinete (“Song of the Rider”) by Federico Garcia Lorca translation by Michael R. Burch Cordoba. Distant and lone. Black pony, big moon, olives in my saddleb......

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Categories: scythes, death, love, moon, spanish,
Form: Free verse
Auguries From Apophenia
...NOT incarnated in an unlight inside this Great Hookworm's duotoroidal traumedy- NOR feverously skeined 'tween the Void's warp-weft over timeleft psukhai shivering- NIL latency in thoughtfoam fr......

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Categories: scythes, allegory, dark, horror, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Bad Screen
...It is too cold for bat flights around the moon but I take the trip anyway, the jar of moonshine was crazy strong. When this year topples into the next, time will find me in a crowded stadium m......

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Categories: scythes, poetry,
Form: Free verse
What the Ghost Was Thinking
...It wasn't like a dream It was rather a scream There wasn't any peaceful floating Or victorious taunt and gloating It was frightening and scary and red all over Damocles dangling as the scythes h......

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Categories: scythes, allusion, anxiety, death, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Coloured Putin
...Coloured Putin Shoot her full of rainbows Scythes from heaven Souls down in Hell Hundred thousand dead Mamushka I miss you Our Leader sent us there Not an Odessa holiday Opposite of that mama......

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Categories: scythes, engagement, heartbreak, military, war,
Form: Free verse
The Scythe
...Those that shove past you, glare and scatter, That drive the scares, in your wits and slither, That smile and stare, at things you did master, And then them that you will, lose and move, Or throu......

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Categories: scythes, anger, anti bullying, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Trickster Cometh
...Along street’s he’s casing, unseen in control Sickles and Scythes, double edged swords One hooks the young, other catches the old And for winding up days, gets a tidy reward Not diamonds ......

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Categories: scythes, allusion, dark, scary,
Form: Rhyme

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