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Anteater Poems - Poems about Anteater

P is for Pangolin
...In an alphabet book that my grandson once liked, One page unfamiliar to me Which, in turn, got my curiosity spiked, Was the animal listed for P. For a pangolin isn’t your average beast, But an......

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Categories: anteater, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member SWEET IRONY
...A trail of sugar, invites ants to crawl along: anteater waiting:-......

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Categories: anteater, animal, conflict, hilarious, imagery,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Anteater Had Covid
...Anteater had Covid and no one would come over Swan ran toward his house with her pet dragonfly Clover. They brought him ants freshly picked from the fallen log. He was excited to see them, and so ......

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Categories: anteater, animal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member He Is So Dreamy
...Anteater guy swings his two tiny 'shrooms They toss and sway like willow tree blooms We watch him waddle on down the road Probably to visit his cousin spotted toad. He is so dreamy my cousin Su......

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Categories: anteater, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Paula the Pangolin
...Paula the pangolin polished her scaly skin Went to the market and traded her mandolin Told the shopkeeper, “I’ll swap for a mandarin, Oranges are a bit big for a pangolin.” The shopkeeper gave ......

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Categories: anteater, animal,
Form: Rhyme



Sir You Have Besmirched the Good Name of My Pangolin
...Sir! You Have Besmirched the Good Name Of My Pangolin Nothing can be the same now - before the recent pandemic my companion Pangolin Boris and I, were carefree, and happily plying our trade......

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Categories: anteater, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Untwine
...It lays helpless at the foot of the hill gasping for breath, while the shadows drifts slowly over the hardened earth and thickened skies. The scent of the gully birds kept meandering around strange d......

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Categories: anteater, cinderella, community, courage, endurance,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Suzie Q Anteater and Ms Gerbil
...Mrs. Suzie Q. Anteater will take the lead, Ms. Gerbil said. If I try to take over she might thump me hard on the head. We did not know what she was talking about, what did she know? We saw them pa......

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Categories: anteater, animal,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Envy Giggles
...The anteater gets to stick out its tongue... What fun!......

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Categories: anteater, animal, fun, jealousy,
Form: Free verse
Kid
...Spiky hair. Brittle. Porcupine, hedgehog, spiny anteater echidna, kid. Grow up prickly. Grow up quick. They raze - rib dig. Hurts in his alphabet soup. Jeers jar. quills quiver. C......

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Categories: anteater, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Almost Autobiography of the Bread and Butter King
...The Almost Autobiography of the Bread and Butter King The bread and butter king was pompous and proud He had no power, but he was insanely ugly and loud. An actor wanted to play him on stage in a ......

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Categories: anteater, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Anteater Gibbon and Kangaroo Too
...Anteater’s ideas are absolute. Buff-cheeked gibbon gives them a toot. Tree kangaroo throws down a shoot. Peacock pheasant gives them the boot. I run away with all of their loot. I am kind of a r......

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Categories: anteater, animal,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Hildy Badger Mad As Bells
...Hildy Honey Badger was mad as unleavened beer hops Alice her American Cousin said that she was tops How dare you she said, and you are a carnivore too! The bells I am said Alice. I’m an omnivore ......

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Categories: anteater, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
An Amazon Adventure
...An Amazon Adventure A Narrative Poem by C Russell Let’s go, let’s go to the Amazon far, We’ll catch a boat, won’t need a car! Let’s see, let’s see the wildlife here, Jaguar, anteater and whi......

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Categories: anteater, 3rd grade,
Form: Narrative
Kid
...Spiky hair, brittle waves, porcupine, hedgehog, spiny Anteater, echidna. A kid growing up prickly. The long tongues of children gibe him sharp. Tumbleweed in the schoolyard. ......

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Categories: anteater, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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