Short Scathing Poems

The toxins leak-
Into my lungs, scathing them,
Painfully I exhale,
It doesn’t even cross my mind....

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In a yonder canyon
Upon earth’s finest grass I sit
Scathing mature flower petals
As if to sojourn the years
When youth nestled us
Grazing our faces with happiness...

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If I were to take a sledgehammer
Grip it tender but tight
So its iron skull may send
A scathing speech to your sternum
Would bricks take flight,
Or are you truly that dense?...

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scathing panther 
amidst the lime brush
onyx he stands

black shade betrays
soft stunning silence 
yellow eyes stare

eyes yellow jewels
a secret hunter
hungry to feasts
 
alert purring deep 
as he watches red tail hawk
before chaos...

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Tainted one's brain remains
When scathing remembrances it contains
Due diligence when not fulfilled
Leave one in a state of surreal
In love matters, bitter the pill
If swallowed it will kill
memories of love gone unfulfilled
Thoughts unrequired must yield...

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Scathing,
and sharp,
it was her harp,
it registered,
with shrill overtones,
as if an irritating fly droned,
it canned in these sounds,
inside my mind,
I kept canning them,
days after days,
till I was full to seams,
and ready to explode,
and explode I did,
with all sound on her quietly slid....

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A young man in search of fortune and fame
Wrote something so scathing he used a pen name
It was so much like porn
His family was torn
Their thoughts of him were never the same

This young man was a perpetual student
His writings should have been more prudent
Everyone knew it was him
The sales were quite grim
Proving again he was so impudent....

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Pitch Dark Rain: Apocalyptic

vanished polar ice
oceans’ currents all askew. . . .
skylines blaze scarlet

comes a scathing wind
scorching land left not immersed. . . .
waters turn crimson

moans escape parched tongues
prayers ascend to ashen skies. . . .
pitch-dark rain pounds down


For Royal Ninja's Crimson Poetry Contest...

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This conceivable whisper,

once taunted me...

action beckoned, strive my will,

Circle broken...

The new ring surround, strong, silent with truth...

Divine intervention...

Peace, deliverance crowned...

Away from the shadows...

torn past, scathing nightmares banished
rebuilt the hearts of ruin,

conceivable whisper...

Fortified in a time once borrowed....

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Fragmenting the oscillatory destiny, bounding amongst damnation. Tyranny divine 
halts a bullet mid shot to incite havoc throughout your skull, slowly dissolving reality. 
Beneath a sensuous veil the vivisection allures a prophetic dissociation. A cryptic 
dissension of virtues hidden, poisoning infecting scathing. All angles considered yet 
am I trapped willingly?...

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O for the vigor of long lost days
O for the strength of youth
gone now and fallen by the way
replaced by that bitter truth

The truth of which is wrought by time 
time that old scathing wind
that wind which courses thru our days
until the very end

Old wind of time take rest of me
leave me just for the day
leave me that I might laugh and sing
that I might run and play...

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Threadbare eyes hold long the night
secrets trip past most scathing blight
dual is the dark last to be unearthed
mirrored the lens  a mind disturbed

Hark, the shrills prepare the abyss
left back to carry on a burden amiss
with the wind let the trembles lie
still  where cherry blossoms die

Threadbare eyes hold long the night
sense forth dawn and hope of light
where tender tales are told of you
beneath most daunting shards of blue...

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Breaking red rabbit tail rock rolls
On course to find water's relief
Recieved splash on entry consoles
Cracked river banks scary belief 
Drought had claimed rain, abhorrant theif
Tortoise rise islands of today 
Spy submarines just yesterday 
Sponge edges flake, sandskrit their rage
Scathing hastens stainless foray
Kernels fall, popcorn covers stage



5th August 2020

Submitted for Contest Dizain Pick A Title 
Sponsor, Edward Ibeh...

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What do you remember when you look at me? 
 Can you even say, objectively? 
 I'm sure it's not a symphony.
 A tranquil sea, or being free.
 I probably remind you more of anarchy... Of villainy...
 My memories consists of acidity, with a touch of futility...
 Perhaps scathing dishonesty.
 I'll remember you mostly fondly. 
 Not saintly, blandly, nor blissfully...
 And at the risk of me being a mere fallacy, all I ask is that you remember me......

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Pilot Cletus O'Toole climbed in his plane and sailed for the blue!

  'Twas their wedding anniversary for him and his wife Mary Sue.

He intended to write in the sky, "MARY SUE I LOVE YOU!"

   Things went well 'til mischievous winds shifted and his plan fell askew!

Curiously, the winds wrote, "MARY SUE YOU OLD SHREW!"

   When Cletus landed Mary Sue unleashed a scathing hullabaloo!

She grounded hubby Cletus O'Toole and he never again flew!...

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MORNING

                   The sun is bathing sea is scathing blazing tips of volcanoes
                 Gods are traipsing moon is fading on the rigs of cloud canoes
                    Mother nature in her stature gliding birds are praying sun
                      Poet is busy pen is easy poems are coming one by one





                                            Sponsor	Isaiah Zerbst
                                  Contest Name	Interlocking Rhyme...

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On the autumnal dew
The delighted legs of Sun are walking

Through the mild coldness of breeze
The morning grassy leaves are dancing

On the joyful wings of sky birds
My heart of life is struggling

Yellow sighs of time is mending the unreachable horizon
Wave of tsunami is scathing the parched land of newborn 

Solar eclipse is coming to the dungeon of Hades
Emptiness of living vessel is bidding with top baits 

©Mahtab Bangalee
Chattogram
06/11/2022...

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A
person
at times can
feel like they are
a casualty 
of cruelty, at least
in some small way or other.
Some attacked my early writing.
Their scathing reviews I can’t forget,
yet I persisted doing what I do.
Not letting oneself feel defeated is
the only way to continue -   but
your cruelty, my love, hurt worse. 
You did not want to read my
special poem, so you 
threw it to the floor. 
It felt like you
were stomping
on my
heart....

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Words Often Hurt
Written: by Tom Wright
March 2015

Evil thoughts germinate like sprouting seeds,
Once birthed, as words, they’re released toward targets,
As unmanned drones to seek and destroy;

While the intended quarry may escape these scathing words,
Inadvertent collateral damage
To the launch site has already occurred;

Words cannot be launched, as projectiles, toward another
Without feeling the backward escape of unburned powder;
Tom
...

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Sirius sneers
& terrestrial fools 
fiddle

hateful heat domes
crush & deflate
as the earth smolders
& the oceans sizzle
   in the
   season
   of
   hell

apocalyptic eruptions
decorate the dark
angry turbulent skies
unleashing
vertically cruel
scathing tsunamis
in chaotic yet
clockwork rituals
  as our incipient
  Anthropocene
  commences
  efficient
  anti-terraforming

we enter
the gates of
hell & become
reptilian
  under
  the barking
  Dog Star...

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Indomitable 

The thing you never thought before 
Totally Unsaid unseen that is
My thought, virgin
It never depends on any membrane 
Nor my chastity belongs to my body 
It is completely a matter of soul 
Conviction is not a matter 
That you can cripple it
With missiles and bombs
The spirit of my humanity is not a wire 
That it will bend or bow under any pressure 
Neither my creed will vaporise 
Like a drop of camphor 
Under your scathing attack 
Nor will it be unholy by any human touch...

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