Best Amphibious Poems

Wide the mirrored water stretched,
licking green upon the pointed pines, limbs sweeping low and cool.

The creek meandered, soft giggles escaping mossy rocks
where polliwogs swam, nearly,...

Read more of this work...

As I paddled the river Nile
I met a monstrous crocodile. 
She smiled at me enticingly.   
I smiled deferentially.  
Through large white teeth...

Read more of this work...

Sand in sheets
scuffing skin and reminding 
last nights attire reaks like bonfire
 a hundred days like this 
   a sea of endless laughs...

Read more of this work...

Mercurial, mischievous minx
Amphibious air swirling in turquoise tang
Ribald thief of restrained relief
Capricious caress in cobalt clouds
Hale blown heather tickles the daffodils' flaxen dress.

3/01/19...

Read more of this work...

I quickly joined the Navy on June the 4th, 1943,  
As soon as I graduated at 17, life was definitely to be;
I received boot...

Read more of this work...

Military maneuvers,
conducted by starship troopers,
make a Lot of king Chedorlaomer noise

Earhole space
penetrated by the Pentagon puffing pace ... 
stealth sound of smoke signals
Warning drumbeat signs...

Read more of this work...

All avenues are amphibious arenas
Bubbles belch-burst, bitter Bacchanalian bombs
Clouds' cast-iron crescendo creates cold cantankerous caricatures
Drenched - darkness descending, daylight dying, disappearing duskwards
Every eye echoing every...

Read more of this work...

Standing Watered Ground
                      ...

Read more of this work...

I feel my ears pop,
As the light above me increases ...
Columns of purple sunshine shimmer and dance.
I swim up out of the cool, inky blackness...

Read more of this work...

The frog jumps from pool to puddle...
       brain-death spark
       exhibits its unconscious species...

Read more of this work...

"Psychobabble"
 


She plants the seeds
in Her mind 
through the 
fathomless
oceanful wells
of Her eyes
saltwater falls
over the unchartered
sharp edges of 
Her tight boundaries
to the playing fields
Elysian
where She...

Read more of this work...

INSIDE D DAY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


The weather is really lousy rained all day
I’m so nervous and edgy, I’m learning to pray
We are prepped and ready to...

Read more of this work...

Preposterous hippopotamus laughs at scandalous rhinoceros. 
Precipitous, calamitous cumulus leaks rain on head.
Furious, igneous volcanoes spurt copious lava, aqueous and amphibious into sea. 
But despite...

Read more of this work...

MAN   IN    A    SUITCASE

Used to joke  how Gregory Peck  was my father   ...

Read more of this work...

Wet August
Umbrella mushrooms;
Bumper harvest

~~~~~~~~~


Cultured frog pond
Fresh amphibious meat;
Gourmet lifestyle

~~~~~~~~~


Chinese seventh month
Hungry ghosts loiter;
Earth-bound vacation

~~~~~~~~~


Chinese customs 
Before life, this life,
Afterlife connections

~~~~~~~~~


House by the woods
Solitary presence:
No one...

Read more of this work...