Short Scratches Poems

On piano keys
my cat scratches THe keyboard
 whet claws, sans music...

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a brown hen 
scratches in the soil --
worms wriggle

for tracie's ku contest...

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Our world with scratches
tearful experience of nature
unforeseen earthquake...

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Nicks, cuts and scratches
Stepping, reaching carefully-
Blurple stained buckets!...

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through slanted eyes 
she reads my mind
scratches my patience
then glides on by...

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swarms of cicadas
ravage the bloomin' orange groves 
u-picker scratches


May 26, 2018...

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too bad scratches on
wrists won't turn to roses,
for what fault bears a rose
but when it wilts?...

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Writer's block
Has found me;
Walled me up
And fenced me in.
My dulled pen
Very faintly
Scratches 'help'......

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Scratches amid grey
Ashes play
Reflexes that prey


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fed up splitting hairs
       the flea scratches at its head 
          ~ must stop nit picking 

By
David Kavanagh...

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Hummer
perches 'pon pear
Scratches looks all around
Cat spies tiny feathered treat
Too small  ...

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Scratches on the jewel surface
of a black onyx watch
tiny hands tick endlessly around
now seven, now eight, now ten
Can you break the cycle?...

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Never let your mind 
be covered by foggy patches, 
Even if they seem 
much softer than you think,
On the mind, they leave 
unvisible but hazardous scratches...

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I love my cat
she stand by me
on the stoops

looking the prowl
day and night
and a brush
she scratches me

I love my cat
as she is here
on the stoops
with me...

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Now blemishes appear on the
painted gold metal surface, miniscule
scratches accumulated through the
strains of daily life.
Even watches cannot escape the yoke of time....

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Ever notice cats just don't give a poop
Try to be nice to them here on the Soup
But all I get
Scratches I regret
Damn felines so low they wouldn't stoop...

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The red wheelbarrow
with its cement smudges
and rusty scratches
dwarfs the white rabbit
nibbling young lettuce
covered in morning dew
next to the flowering
crepe myrtle....

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WINTER IS COMING



Dried leaf scratches its noisy way
Across my path.
Cat retreats deeper into the doorway
Out of the blistering wind.
Skyful of clouds, smell of snow.
Winter is coming....

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Tear 
           into me,
mold with your scratches;
Carve away all the excess;
           Sculpt,
reshape the left over bits;
Take heed with matches;
    My crux chokes 
              air....

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clucking, chortling life
pecking the dust, without strife…
chicken scratches dirt






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March 14, 2022

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sitting there you would never imagine the roan he's traveled
the scares the scratches...the eyes
years ago when I first seen him...the white tiger far from  home
to today you never here the cries,...

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I stand tall
Among you all
I have scratches and scars 
But they make me who I am 
Branches that reach out, just to please others 
One Season my leaves all fall 
But Its okay Because I regrow them all....

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We think we are safe 
but it is our wrong thinking.
We are surrounded with enemies 
attack us in our mindset people has a volcano 
erupting in their body dented scratches of lava rising in our bones....

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Deep golden orb rises in the east
Revealing a heavy frost and frozen bath
Sparrow scratches in summer's garden now deceased 
Making a way for next year's garden winding path  ...

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I love my cat and I care for him too
but what is it I am to do

He bites and scratches the total time
That's why I'm sending out this rhyme

I am inquiring for this bout
Please confer to me a shout...

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