Short Scoop Out Poems

He stood, ripped open his shirt
offered her a spoon;
“Take it, scoop out my heart,
try not to be disappointed, dear
when you find nothing;
you devoured it years ago!”...

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I am renting my dog out as an excavator
He can dig a trench next to that elevator
He will scoop out the clay faster than fast
This will be his sixth job, none of them last...

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They scoop out my eyes 
They sealed my ears 
They chained my legs and hands 
They freeze my heart 
They drank my marrow and blood 
They swallowed my brain 
Now I am searching who I am 
But they cannot extinguish 
The fire in my mind 
Oh hypocrite world 
One day I will break my chain 
One day I will break my chain...

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Across the brook, the bridge lay broken
stops the traveler’s momentum
he can't wade into the water
and wet his clothes and shoes
he had to find the stones
to step on and go across
they were mossy he saw
he can slip and fall
a twig can do the trick
scoop out the moss
he opened and held his shoes
and placed a foot on the stone
the slippery stones of life lay ahead
to reach a goal...

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