Short Scraping Poems

The shovels scraping
Filling big pothole in street
My four brand new tires...

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Scraping morning ice off my windshield is not hard.
I just use an expired credit card....

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Sparks flew
The earth moved
And I knew

Your love was going to bury me



March 2nd, 2019...

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grim   reaper  calls  on  
 busy  scraping souls  today  
 doctor  stalls  awhile ...

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On the embankment of camouflage
character marked for life
scraping the barrel
secret promises of fertility
St. Vitus's Dance...

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Scraping screaming skin 
with the very softest touch;
A deceptive thief,
so soothing filled with aloe;
Poison passion is scalding....

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There is no sound
Except for skates scraping the ice
Spinning fast
Jumping high
Complete concentration is needed,
To perform this beautiful sport...

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Stand still
so I can paint you
capture your locks
your lovely energy

through the focused
point of a thin brush
scraping on void
canvas space....

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When some people are done, they ask for a fork, but
I'm charcoal grilled and scraping away the burnt
won't remove the carcinogens 
that polluted my heart...

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Dark and sour feeling
Festers inside me, intense
Scraping parts of me
That are irreparable
Hurting my tortured old soul 

Russell Sivey...

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Betty Crocker has a way with a cake
With her directions, anyone can bake 

Written October 14, 2022
[scraping the bottom
of the bowl]...

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POND
looks fun
after school

chasing silly boys
sitter mom watches me
scraping my knee on sharp rocks

“Tomboys get hurt less than some girls”...

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On granpappy's farm,in Arkansas
Picking cotton was the annual chore,
Recording the rural life,he saw-
Scraping a living ,on a small wage
A tender story..of coming of age....

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scraping and scrapping,
rolling on ramps,
trying tricks and falling flat.
Looking so determined although
you've been beaten,
just dont get anything,
scratched or swollen....

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scraping of the soil
invasion of millipedes
unearthed by rakers ~
those roly poly critters
in every nook and cranny

9/6/2021
A Buggy Tanka
M.L. Kiser...

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Scratching scraping bleeding panes...
Broken walls; marching through the halls
                                       
                                                "In progress." *...

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A lazy long-haired packer in a shop,
Lent against a wall to have a quiet stop,
He felt a scraping on his crown
Waking from his nap upside down,
Someone was using his head as a mop....

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Time slowly goes bye.
Tick, Tick.
All these words scraping my mind raw.
Tick, Tick.
This torture is stealing my will to live.
Tick, Tick.
I really want this geometry class to end....

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scraping by
picking my youth
out from under my nails

the trace remains
of an assailant or two

   on the page

make sense of symmetry 
when arranged 
  
    just so





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granite eagle mermaid
scraping in solitude
reverence toward the cross
and the One who gave all
storm cloud horizon
repose, rewarded
in mystical essence,
loved purely 
on spiritual plane...

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Its time for a change
Time for things to be
Rearranged
I love my life
And its time to start living
Again and not just scraping by
I don't know how much I have
Left to do but I will do too...

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Eyes bubble as whispers slip through ether
Busy life sits on hold impatiently
Let it dammit
The loss of friends in shadow net
Is plucking heartstrings 
Scraping nerves
Reality can wait
I need...

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NEO SCULPTURISTA
emotional
 glimpses
finger
  strokes
    smearing
in dynamic
 gestures
swooping
twisting
 scraping
  stabbing
squeezing
  inventive
    revelatary
iconics
  into shape...

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cliff erosion hurtling down kids play unaware - frantic shovels dig


Written 3rd March 2019
Contest Name: A SCRAPING OF SHOVELS 
Sponsor: John Lawless


Contest: Week 3 March 19 
Sponsor: Brian Strand...

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My neighbor next door is warming up his car
Sweeping off the snow, scraping the windshield
He must have somewhere very important to go
Why else would he be sweeping his driveway so?

written January 29, 2022...

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