Short Scour Poems

Hurricanes scour 
everything they touch, 
then rinse and 
blow dry....

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Waves

Fishers scour the sea
waves rear and roar lashing out
Mount Fuji asleep....

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leaden bows scour quavering cellos – lithely lilting violins

                                28 Dec 2017...

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No warning.
BOOM!

The taste spread swiftly
around the room.

Eyes scour.
They pinpoint the doom.

A little old lady
Who's big on perfume....

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I scour the earth 
And see the beauty in it all 
Look upon the night sky 
And count the stars twinkling high 
I imagine the way the silhouettes sigh...

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Is it sweet or salty or sour?
Brimming with happiness or always dour?
Prancing, living with gaiety
Or waiting for a guillotine 
Now standing forever to scour?...

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Creeping slick as silk
Crimson foxes scour the night
Like screaming banshees.

Mom and pups scatter
Like fluffy roaches fleeing
When we peek outside.

Blub......

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can you swim naked?
I do not know
I scour the brochures.
Naples Italy
home of Mount Vesuvius
Iconic Castle Nuovo
Mediterranean Sea
Big Cliff of Marechiaro
Great suggestive swimming...

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Trump Did Destroy American Dream

Trump thinks  he is reigning supreme,
While he did destroy American dream;
Even would scour;
Found golden shower,
And economy is floating down stream.

Jim Horn...

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today's gray tides wash
sands where love's warm feet wandered . . .
i watch the sobbing 
surf scour the white surface smooth
leaving only tears of shell

Copyright, March 25, 2015
Faye Lanham Gibson...

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Here, my arm-
A gaudy orange stain
Where my mark was

An x- my name forgotten
Adorn me
Your mess of thin black lines

Tied quite like a bow
We’ll discuss our childhoods
While we scour my veins

Did you pick your dreams?...

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Caution the freeway
Muffle the the noise 
Scour the earth 
Search out his boys
With regret 
Inform them their father lay dead
Succinct in his bed
And tell the to put aside there grief
The time has come to anoint a new Chief...

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Search for existence spreads thin
Our gasoline days numbered by the sun
While collection hounds scour zombie minds
Striving for fact and nimble opportunity
Institutions shunting brick and mortar
Each road running against walls of fate...

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It seems at least one dorm room is the dwelling of a bum.
		I visited my son and saw big piles of grungy clothes.
                leftover fast food, open garbage--things a mother loathes!
		Sloppy sons so seldom seek to scour sickening scum....

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A clearing vision fails.
Nothing is what it seems.
Your inheritance, scuffed
lenses, ammonia, sins
of a grandmother’s house.
Of a grandmother’s house
nothing departs unchanged.
Elbows, knees and knuckles
scraped raw by scour-pads,
solvent, sting of scrubbed air....

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The
Soup
Is my
Newest home.
Digital writings
Flood the domain as eyes scour
Pouring our hearts, souls, and minds on bleached sheets of paper.
The trial has completed and my home is chosen. Time for an upgrade to premium!

Nathan Bane Leccese
© All Rights Reserved 05/21/2009...

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I was tempted by angels of Addiction
and the devil of Alien affection. My
dying wish, a dirty martini enema
to scour my sanguine soul and write
poetry to suit my heralding headings.
Leave your dreary dungeon self behind
No pain for time served.
No time for pain served.
Love is all around...

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Pegasus on wings will fly
Hercules in strength nearby
Seven sisters dancing stars
Saturn rings,red glow Mars
Mercury avoids scorpion tail
Venus and virgins follow trail
Fresh water poured Aquarius
Nearby to scour is Uranus
Fish swim out new solar race
Original jewels alignment face.........

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that shimmering scruff
upon the fresh branches of spring
like fall, it catches the gaze

a riot of autumnal shades
subtly and truly elfin
sprinkle the earth with gems

until late May, days scour
with their broad broom
greenery all across the globe

Written: May 12, 2023...

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His beady eyes scour
As he looks for prey
This is his territory 
No-one gets away

He shows no mercy
What he wants
He devours
He’s sly and cunning
Possesses incredible power

His attacks are unexpected
Most times he’s unseen
Grabs his victims without warning
Blood the only evidence he’s been…....

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The new poems list I must scour
For poetry by Ilene Bauer
The flow of each line
Is simply divine
Her witty words I just devour

N B To the British ear the Name Ilene Bauer uses 4 syllables I-Lene Bau-er

Paean On Poets Poetry Contest

Sponsored by Margarita Lillico

03/22/22...

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Sky night, bright, alight
glitters such a wondrous sight.
Comes alive with vibrant moon,
the midnight hour approaches soon.
Starlight dances in these eyes 
as they scour the endless skies.
My pupils lost increase in size..
the twilight scape 
                        doth    
                              hypnotise......

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It was the event of the hour;
Celestial orbs aligned to scour,
Daylight from the earth.

People traveled from near and far;
To view the blocking of the star;
It led the cycle for what that’s worth.

Was it all it was cracked up to be?
Was it a sight to behold and see?
The answer may be different for you than me....

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. for public domain

For pages worth a dog's ear,
a crumpled work of lace,
we search for golden phrases,
mark their special place.

We stifle in library tiers,
churlish book stores,
coveting their treasures,
mining their aisles,

enduring for gleaming words,
to redeem our souls.
Monastic cells our Eden,
we monks who scour scrolls....

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Whose concerns are elbow germs?
The bugs we cannot see?
We wash our face and scour both hands
But hinge joint ligaments
Receive no such sentiment
Soaps' a stranger to our winged tips
Located somewhere between the hips
Fractures, aches, arthritis
Funny bones, bumps and bursitis
But elbow germs invite no press
Which is why arm colds are such distress!...

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