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.

...

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...

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...

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
...

Container Continued

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            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, 
...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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