Scales Poems | Examples

Scales of Control

In scales of steel, the city sleeps
Where dragon laws in darkness creep
The streets are veins of ancient stone 
Where freedom's blood has long been flown. 

The towers pierce the smoky sky 
Like claws that grasps and never die 
The people move with careful pace 
Under eyes that watch each secret place.

Through gates of fire, the rulers pass 
Their shadows cast in endless glass 
Where every breath must be confessed 
And dreams themselves are put to test. 

But deep within the burning core
A spark remains that dares ignore 
The chains of law, the weight of might 
And whisper still endless light.
Form: Rhyme

River

Glistening wet scales
Reticulated pattern
Meander movements
Form: Haiku


Premium Member scales of all sorts

rattlesnake scales locomotive them around
scales are needed when you make a musical sound
when you weigh food, you mean a tiny numbered scale
larger one needed to measure a dog or a Yak in Vail
on the memory scale, some days I do quite well
Other days I am lost in my own thoughts, here in the dale
Form: Rhyme

Fiddlesticks

There was a young man bought a pangolin
but thought it was a mandolin
to be played like a violin
he tipped its scales 'til they creaked
tweaked its tail so it squeaked 
and named the bow Anne Bowleyn
Form: Rhyme

Removing the Scales

Doubt and fear makes a name,
To try to over step loves gain,
By using what our eyes can see here,
Constantly trying to replace love with fear,
The hearts cry that shuts the mouth of the broken,
That leaves no room for words to be spoken,
Can you not see past this with your earthly eyes?,
Because eternally the heart will rise,
What we see and know here is just a glimpse of our bond,
Time and distance is just a fishad,
Eternally we walk which is much more than we see here,
And love loves in eternity where faith rules without fear,
As I place you in my heart you stay,
Because love transcends while fear and doubt try to limit our way,
We live and breathe in loves limitless supply,
And the Lord removes the scales from our eyes


Premium Member No Tipping the Scales

    Bach is to music 
      as integrity to sales

    Accuracy demanded
      on each of their scales
Form: Rhyme

a matter of scales

the matter of scales

We, you and I, who don't believe in a rose
scented heaven, painted by a five years
old child who has a mother named Glady 
Nor do we believe in that place where 
stokers go, tired of an electrified world 
I know of a man on X who is doing his 
best believing in a friendly God, that
must be difficult for a man who wonders
if he is a deity of wealth.
If I go before you, I like to be a memory
dwell there until it is time to go 
and become the non-returnable
As we sit on a bench that has a lone
tree and swirling fog, we can talk about  
the Savanna, when I was a lion and you 
were a gracious giraffe called baby
We can also reminiscence when we 
were warthogs, lived in a hole
with no hope of having a bath unless
it rained so much that our cave flooded 
We can also fry to nirvana, a place that
is less colorful and has an echo of 
wishes not fulfilled.
Failing that, we can go to Iceland said
to be the most peaceful place on earth
by those who have not heard the rumble 
of earthquakes
The aber is the island has no trees if
we should get bored and hang ourselves
Form: Ballade

Premium Member Riding the Scales

rules must be made for both sides - Libraic scales mind equilibrium

equal length
pan holders - no unfair weights, no pandering
justice must not take sides
judges should not be stuck in pockets; moneywise
dressed - for success, not their own
scales are not a see-saw, not a slide
papers read the same in each pan
a woman is a woman, a man is a man
both seek truth; liberty is watching
remember well the book on their heads; straight backs
Congress and Senate stay within their own branch
powers are kept separate
sound minds prevail

if a party’s at its precipice, what happens when the weights released?
Form: Verse

The scales of Lady Justice

The scales of Lady Justice

Slapped in the face on the left in the right.
Exposed in all my private place.

Choked by the cord of avenge and revenge both seek.
Stung by bees of foul and lied speech.

Yanked arms by extreme deception.
Legs mired in the sea of corruption.

Can Lady Justice no longer hold the scales
 in this American land?

Dark Scales


   You pay BLM...DOJ?
A Garland like a serpent over the 
Ten Commandments-Followers 
and over the Constitution.
You keep doing what you accuse 
Trump of doing, then let your Media Priests preach. 
Then you use Google to snatch descent 
out of the air.
Brought to you by Pfizer and the Lord of the Air.
You let rapists and murderers go.
But if you peacefully protest or pray for the 
defenseless, you face up to 11 years in prison.

Why don't you be honest and lay it on the line?
You serve Satan.
Just as John The Baptist paved the way for Christ, 
as His forerunner.
You are paving the way for the Anti-Christ, 
the persecution has begun,
RFID-BIO chip on it's way.
art

WE GOBBLED GOATS CHEESE

WE GOBBLE GOAT’S CHEESE


Scales of justice weighed in gold and coal
cherubs and demons cheer without fear
horns blow, rooms gather fat

Coaxing a grey Persian cat 
climb stairs of glamour 
or disillusioned clamour 

Heads dance across Florentine floor
joy shiver silent at a wooden door 
hazardous stealth the cunning core

Roti fry in sesame oil to serve 
with Côté D’ Or, everything coiled 
drops of champagne sorrowfully soil 

Chameleons cut own coloured flesh
hiding wounds wry waistcoated breasts
Botox gone awry, confess !

Scales dramatise to legitimise 
two platters evenly plead
weighing a crafty compromise 

We gobble goat’s cheese
celebration up in a breeze


©GhairoDanielsPoetry&
Songwriting2016

Premium Member Snake Skin Scales

On snakes gleaming skin,
scales shimmer like morning dew,
armor compliant.
Old flakes shed for new,
As silk snake skin is rebirthed.
It unfolds, hardens.
The scales slide over,
intertwine in sliver coils.
Body sinuous
glides effortlessly
over the ground, through the grass
it slithers, with no
sound nor disturbance.
The scales gripping the ground with
gentle caress touch,
carefully firm soft,
leaving shallow sliver trace.
Snake skin is indeed
artist's work when still,
and poetry in motion.
Marvel of nature.
An exquisite scaly thing.
Form: Choka

Premium Member Tipping the Scales

Finally finished with forcing the future 
Beginning to balance the scales of life 
Purposefully pivoting to the present

Ruminate, rinse, repeat was my motto
Causing consternation in all situations
Finally finished with forcing the future 

Pondering potential paths pulling me away
Capping my capacity to be in the moment 
Purposefully pivoting to the present

Relieved to no longer wrangle what’s next 
Calmly swapping control for letting go 
Finally finished with forcing the future 

Diving deeper into today is the only way 
Reassuring to realize I’m on the right track 
Purposefully pivoting to the present

The shift has started as the stage is set
Riding the wave of what’s coming my way
Since finally finished with forcing the future 
As purposefully pivoting to the present
Form: Rhyme

The Goddess With Golden Scales

She dresses perfectly with prominent spikes in her hair, 
long and flowing brown violet braids, 
which make her face exotic and relaxed..
she wears several precious stones between her hands and feet, 
with flower tattoos surrounding her fingers
mortals adore her because it is beautiful and impossible to have, 
the diaphanous and crystalline skin like perfect porcelain, 
smells of fresh algae and freshly picked water lilies..
they play ethereal music when she is around, 
and they build sheer and transparent dresses 
that enhance her sweet curves..
the way she sings awakens spring and lulls children of paradise into their smallest and most colorful dreams,
she is a surreal creature that man has ever seen..
the golden scales fade in color like the rainbow, 
peek out from under the skin, 
and shine brightly in your eyes through the sunbeam.

Scales of Justice

You can't certainly put a price on freedom
But if something's coming in the way of you having it
There's no price that you won't pay
For there's nothing greater than freedom 

It only took me lying on that edge
That I noticed how much we take for granted
That when granted comes for pay back
We at loss for we took too much 

Therefore you can't certainly put a number,
To the lure of freedom over that of being deprived it
Thats why at times money is and isn't everything 
Cause freedom can be bought but its more valuable than money 

It's sad just how many people have lost their freedom
When scales were tipped the other side of money
But come to think again, that's the price of freedom 
Even if it's one's freedom being put to scale by another's freedom 

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