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Beasties Poems - Poems about Beasties

Calamares, Chocos
... The Spanish with whom I sup asked me, so I did: “eat sea beasties – look it up!” Chocos, yes, there are, and there’s calamar: los del mar? Squid. ......

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Categories: beasties, food,
Form: Epulaeryu
Premium Member Dionysus Opens the Feast
...In rare gustation dine we here tonight! For you, my feast; for me, your pleasant sight! And for them both, I raise my glass to cheer: Let all that’s sober end before the year! Let music, wine and......

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Categories: beasties, celebration, drink, food, god,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member GRANNYS SPOOKY HOUSE
...Granny`s spooky house My granny has a spooky house she has a spiders web She keeps it in her room at night just above my bed. I cannot take my eyes of it however hard I try As it unwraps its pr......

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Categories: beasties, fantasy, fun, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Overactive Imagination
...Laying in my cozy bed And drifting off to dreams, A sudden panic fills my head: What if this isn't as it seems? What if while I'm tucked in, Slipping into sleep, Giant monsters and their kin ......

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Categories: beasties, 11th grade, childhood, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Container Continued
... In a mother's arms, a cradle of love, for a precious child, a haven so tender, sent from above as ultimate domicile. Nurturing souls with a gentle embrace, ......

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Categories: beasties, art,
Form: Ode



Premium Member Rum N Raisin 8 - All Growed Up
...‘Beasties’ is a bar that’s run for all the local pets It’s quite easily found because it’s next door to the vets The barman is an Emu but he gets it in the neck The locals call him Gregory and whi......

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Categories: beasties, cat,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Cockerel Mayhem, Or Bad Chicken Farmer Joe
...When his father-in-law got him into the poultry biz in Rhode Island Joe had not fully contemplated that first day to market when he when he failed to truss and bag the birds properly, a ho......

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Categories: beasties, animal, car,
Form: Free verse
We Need Better Monsters, Part I
...It was quite a surprise to us when monsters came out of the night, the beasts and bad guys of legends who for so long gave us a fright. We thought they lived on movie screens, pulpy books, and......

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Categories: beasties, abuse, conflict, corruption, dark,
Form: Narrative
Glesca Weans
...Grouin up in Glesga wis nae mean feat Pleyin in the back courts an dreepin the wass Plouterin in puddles manky water sploshing aboot, Searching in yon mucky middens fur treasure Thrown oot by the......

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Categories: beasties, character, childhood, children, clothes,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Marmalade King
...The Man casts a shadow purulent with stealth Having seen his apportion of nebulous days. In fear of himself... too long on the shelf And a vague memory of far better days. He then lowers ......

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Categories: beasties, courage, humanity, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Happy Jack's Beard
...Had a beard since nineteen sixty-two Hate to think what's underneath Might even be a family of boat people Maybe an old Christmas wreath Heard that it's even quite possible Animals have been k......

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Categories: beasties, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hairy Carrots
...The gleaners undirt these profane candy morphs as they sift through the fields in springs and falls. Apiaceous, mud beige burrowed beasties, them bow legged, cowboy pulps; others wit......

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Categories: beasties, family, food, fruit, giving,
Form: Free verse
A Day At the Laudromat
...Oh hi me hence to the laundromat Bearing many a malodorous sock As ofttimes a shepherd will boldly go To the babbling brook where the clear waters flow With a line of the wooliest beasti......

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Categories: beasties, clothes, love, silly,
Form: Rhyme
An Old Woman Weeps
...~ O’er this frail valley, darkness doth eclipse Winter fans death, o’ lonely wishes fall Blood of weakened flesh, high mountaintop drips Puddles reflect forms, shadow’d mourners call Bea......

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Categories: beasties, death, fear, war,
Form: Sonnet
Animal House
...ANIMAL HOUSE Oh, give me a home Where the beasties roam Where dogs on the couches play Where the ......

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Categories: beasties, animal, cat, dog, home,
Form: Rhyme

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