Amphibian Poems

List of New Poems

PM	Poem Title	Poet	Form	Form	Categories
	Patrick's Day	Anthony Slausin	Free verse	Free verse	amphibian, drink, fun,
	Amphibian Me	Caren Krutsinger	Free verse	Free verse	amphibian, perspective, self,
	sometimes alone is better	Keith Teaser	Light Verse	Light Verse	amphibian, desire, heaven, nice, peace,
	Reachable but Lost	Funom Makama	Couplet	Couplet	amphibian, boyfriend, emotions, endurance, feelings,
	LANDON	Anita Harris	Acrostic	Acrostic	amphibian, grandchild,
	Clearly Paleozoic	Caren Krutsinger	Limerick	Limerick	amphibian, 4th grade, 5th grade,
	Unctuous Byproduct	Freddie Robinson Jr.	Dramatic Verse	Dramatic Verse	amphibian, allusion, corruption, truth, wisdom,
	Critterary Verses: If you could be an animal	Jim Slaughter	Light Verse	Light Verse	amphibian, animal, humor,
	Honest and Dishonest Differences	Gerald Dillenbeck	Political Verse	Political Verse	amphibian, caregiving, community, education, health,
	Nutritious Group Health Theories	Gerald Dillenbeck	Metrical Tale	Metrical Tale	amphibian, earth, education, environment, green,
	jagged jaws of smelted steel NOT the title:	matthew harris	Dramatic Verse	Dramatic Verse	amphibian, 10th grade, 12th grade,
	Toadie	Freddie Robinson Jr.	Light Verse	Light Verse	amphibian, character, funny, humorous, satire,
	Memory of Hawaii at the Age of Three	Neon Robinson	Free verse	Free verse	amphibian, adventure, animal, childhood, fate,
	Song of the Seals	Freddie Robinson Jr.	Romanticism	Romanticism	amphibian, animal, celebration, life, nature,
	Beneath the Sea	Geraldine Taylor	Free verse	Free verse	amphibian, animal, children,
	Oblivion	Dalton Ogletree	Rhyme	Rhyme	amphibian, dark, evil, how i
	Science and man	Solomon Ochwo-Oburu	Blank verse	Blank verse	amphibian, allusion, mystery, science, wisdom,
	Frogs Love Flies	Freddie Robinson Jr.	Dramatic monologue	Dramatic monologue	amphibian, humanity, symbolism, truth, wisdom,
	This wonderful World	Solomon Ochwo-Oburu	Sonnet	Sonnet	amphibian, humanity, philosophy,
	Allusivity	Christian Fuller	Free verse	Free verse	amphibian, allusion, analogy, conflict, environment,
	militarisation	Taoi Chanan	I do not know?	I do not know?	amphibian, beach, betrayal,
	Crows of the Common Senses	Anthony Slausin	Rhyme	Rhyme	amphibian, adventure,
	Morning Fog Memory	Toni Orban	Free verse	Free verse	amphibian, lost love, memory,
	Moon Frogs	Tom Quigley	Free verse	Free verse	amphibian, nature, night, symbolism,
	circumstantially	Taoi Chanan	I do not know?	I do not know?	amphibian, angel,
	A Thought Of A Frog	john chizoba vincent	Narrative	Narrative	amphibian, africa, animal,
	Lend Me Your Heart oh Child	Funom Makama	Light Verse	Light Verse	amphibian, adventure, growing up, growth,
	I'm a Great Crested Newt	Nathan Bach	Rhyme	Rhyme	amphibian, animal, children, nature,
	Mother Nature's Little Prince	liam mcdaid	Verse	Verse	amphibian, beautiful, beauty, emotions, feelings,
	Mother Nature's Little Prince	Gary Bateman	Narrative	Narrative	amphibian, allegory, beauty, celebration, emotions,
	Wetland Song	Robert Ronnow	Verse	Verse	amphibian, april, beauty, kiss, love,
	The Graffiti of Middle Earth	Thomas Martin	List	List	amphibian, cool, fairy, gender, nonsense,
	Late Summer	Robert Ronnow	Verse	Verse	amphibian, august, autumn, grief, june,
	AMPHIBIAN WARRIORS	Neldy Jolo	Free verse	Free verse	amphibian, addiction, adventure, art, birth,
	BENCHMARK OF HOPE	Neldy Jolo	Free verse	Free verse	amphibian, absence, adventure, angst, anxiety,
	Life, The Interloper	Bill Yates	Free verse	Free verse	amphibian, creation, life,
	LET'S SAIL TOGETHER	Neldy Jolo	Bio	Bio	amphibian, life, love, memory, miss
	MOCKINGBIRD - crown of sonnets	Carrie Richards	Crown of Sonnets	Crown of Sonnets	amphibian, children, discrimination, prejudice, integrity,
	I Like Frogs	Robert Pettit	Rhyme	Rhyme	amphibian, animal, life,
	free	Joel Hunt	I do not know?	I do not know?	amphibian, freedom, introspection,
	Searching	Michael-Shane Brown	Rhyme	Rhyme	amphibian, confusion, girlfriend-boyfriend, hope, lost
	Enough For All	J Eliza JAMES	Rhyme	Rhyme	amphibian, animals, caregiving, education, food,
	TOWERS OF MYSTERY	nette onclaud	Dramatic monologue	Dramatic monologue	amphibian, fantasy, scienceocean,
	SHORES	David Byrne	Sonnet	Sonnet	amphibian, lifebeauty, beauty,
	Counting Coup	Geoffery McHugh	Free verse	Free verse	amphibian, native americanpeople, people,
	Lost	Veronica Joseph	I do not know?	I do not know?	amphibian,
	ODE TO THE FROG IN THE BREEZEWAY	Nola Perez	Narrative	Narrative	amphibian, introspection
	Amphibians	Jon Hopwood	Free verse	Free verse	amphibian, angst, animals, confusion, depressionme,
	Soak it . . .	FATHIMA DAWOOD	Sonnet	Sonnet	amphibian, naturelonging, sensual,
	WHY I BOUGHT A DOG BED	Nola Perez	Ballad	Ballad	amphibian, fantasy, imagination

Amphibian Poem Example

MOCKINGBIRD - crown of sonnets

#1
"It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.
When playing games with rocks or guns, defray,
them, please, ...shoot old tin cans!"  "Whispered words 
of Mockingbirds, only heal wounds of the day"

Virtues are cultivated, children are weeds, 
exploring a small southern town. Seeds, so rare,
spread moral ivy, filling knotholes, threading trees,
lining streets, during mad-dog summers. 
Scout, one sprout with solid roots, sifts wrong from right
in spite of bull-headed pride. Stirring
up dust,  where resistance incites,
although, brother, Jem, gently, grows more reserved.
Scout, Jem, ...best bud, "Dill", are bronzed by summer's sky
Moral's compass guides them home, as night returns
#2
Moral's compass guides them home, as night returns
yet challenged, the precocious child
making  assumptions. Folks would confound her!
Some people were an oddity and quite beguiling
Summer would sigh with ceiling fans, softly purring,
people napping, long afternoons.  Wilted yawns
of a lethargic town, might seem undisturbed,
with complacency, behind pruned shrubs, tall grass, mowed.
Yet stilted air, would suffocate, with racial slurs
and secret hate.  Some hid by day, and spending
their nights in masquerade, while crosses  burned.
We'd see a face, pretentious smile, falsely blend
Integrity, at bitter cost, split wide the seams
in 1930.   Civil rights were just a dream
#3
In 1930, civil rights were just a dream,
and motherless children were coming of age.
Bare feet were swift.  Bandaged knees and hands unclean,
would slam old screen doors, to seek lemonade.
A ghost, they feared, in the raw sided house,
watched close. A tree in his yard, hid treasures he stashed.
The three Musketeers, upon discovering, shout! 
Armed by bravado, they are ready to dash.
Putting yourself into another man's shoes,
is a lesson, soon learned by Scout and Jem. 
They've faced their fear, and will make a friend.  "Boo",
the 'phantom', a new best friend left trinkets and gems.
Kindness learned, role model intact, was Atticus Finch.
A measure of integrity, inch by inch.
#4
A measure of integrity, inch by inch,
advocate for those who won't stand a chance.
Folks down on their luck, where dollars won't stretch
in a depression full blown. Money is scant.
Fighting for the underdog, who have no paycheck.
What's right is right. What's wrong, is wrong.
Someone must stand at the end of the day,
where flies fill a courtroom and tempers grow stronger.
Regardless of skin, be it  black, be it white
Unfit, by standards of  talcum shaved chins,
if injustice is war, he'll give his lot.
The falsely accused, he'll defend, to the end
Those who wallow in mud, eventually sling lies
when honor goes to hell, and folks sit idle
#5
When honor goes to hell, and folks sit idle,
false accusations can simmer,  slowly inciting
bigoted people, into mobs, spewing cries
of hate.  Screaming "rape" into the night.
Ignorance and prejudice, are all of one stuff
with corn-likker sauce and gravy mentality,
amphibian worms, as if from a trough,
gorging on mania. They covet brutality.
Led by Bob Ewell, with arrogance oozing.
Clan- fed, tantrums squirming out of control.
Small minded men, choosing squalor, alluding 
the truth.  Some would sell their mother's soul.
They have lied on the stand, where justice treaded thin.
Where white man's word, over a black, always wins.
#6
Where a white man's word, over black, always wins,
was a rule of the thumb, during those years...
The innocent man, Tom, shackled, condemned,
taken away and waits to die, and endure
With Indian summer, waxing and waning,
Atticus chooses the simplest words.
His children need, wisdom, and calm understanding,
in trying to explain, that most men are good.
He tells them, gently, how someone so crude,
even Bob Ewell, no matter how evil
perhaps in his life, was misunderstood.
The hellish of summers begins to unravel.
But another ill wind, would brew up a storm,
to bring more than a flurry, into their home.
#7
To bring more than a flurry into their home,
burnt embers of color, drift down, red and yellow. 
Carved  pumpkins, and a grieving autumn, looms
in the night. Roaches encroach, deep in the shadows
As Scout rushes homeward, behind her on the trail,
a whiskey-breath nightmare, with evil intentions
Then, someone appears!  Halts this devil,...,Ewell
is not immortal! .....as we come to conclusion.
A guardian presence,  waiting to rally
has kept a vigil, guarding children who run,
swiftly through thickets.  Lonely Boo Radley,
appeared like an angel,  a bird seeking the sun

So pure of heart, and a thing so rare
It is a sin to kill a mockingbird

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Re-submitted for Skat's Premiere Contest: #4

Poem Copyright © Carrie Richards