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Best Biped Poems

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Computer Chair Woes: a Collaboration With Chris :D Aechtner
How do people do it?
For that matter, how do I pull it off?
Sitting in front of the computer for so many hours,
body compressed into a...

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Categories: biped, computer-internet, funny, life, me,
Form: Free verse



Postulate
Some time
before the biped thought
of history, he carved out image
of himself, and in the murky dawn
of consciousness, began to look around
to see just how he...

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Categories: biped, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Smiling Kingfish
Kingfish sat tall in the boat.
His baited hook trolled behind,
To entice lurking humanoids,
He would fillet before he dined.

The ocean had schools of bait,
Swimming humanoids could...

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© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: biped, fantasy, fish, humor, imagination,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Endge
The E(n)dge


I leave damp mudprints 
there where I met the shore.

The dragonflies' dances,
the goslings scrammed,
and I for now (or 'lo, for once)
exhaled.  Edges do...

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Categories: biped, death, memory, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Copla Diecinueve: This Bad Guy World
COPLA DIECINUEVE : This Bad Guy World

All biped animals aren’t Men
Some are elves, fairies and witches
Others yet thugs

All are born to play roles given
Time Place...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: biped, allegory,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Wisps
i wonder why we are always plagued by the sense of disappointment
with others
everything can float with currents so nicely and then
a gesture
a statement
an intonation
entropy rears...

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Categories: biped, foodlonging,
Form: Free verse
South Mumbai #1 : Morning Thoughts On Ballard Pier
Not the sleek modern skyscrapers
Fragile, slim, standing tall
Catwalk queens of present times

But squat, imposing, solid built
Dowagers of a bygone age!

Forgotten memorials
Screaming, unheard, unseen
Proclaim of valor...

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Categories: biped, places, social, , memorial,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Ballad For Precious Planet
Now hear this tale of Planet Earth
And how it was robbed of its worth.

From a species of quadruped
There evolved a novel biped,
A new species with...

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Categories: biped, planet,
Form: Ballad
The Planet of the Mice
The Planet of the Mice

By Elton Camp

Imagine if mice should gain the upper hand
It’d be a world people wouldn’t think grand

Cheese would become the main...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: biped, fantasy, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Skeptical Clam
Said a skeptical clam to one nearby:
They say beyond these waters is only sky.

Do you suppose life without mud or water
suits a clam, and is...

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Categories: biped, humor,
Form: Light Verse
The Foxy Neutrino
The psychology of the sun is strange...

The violinist's taupe 
strapped sandals, color of beach 
sand, burning, slap tiles

with embedded grime, like
the charred plaster walls of...

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Categories: biped, allusion, baptism, color, conflict,
Form: Free verse
A Twilight Lens
A fish crow has tan-
blue sparkles; pearls coat the sky.
A resting brook 

is melting chocolate, 
it flows through lime-green sprouts. 
A burning orange 

is the...

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Categories: biped, allusion, angst, beautiful,
Form: Haiku
To Sir With Gratitude
fair glinting gold

                   light shining bold

 ...

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Categories: biped, angst, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Babel Bagels
One day Gaia was doodling
with sharp twig, on scribbly gum.
"Note to Self"
These big-brained bipeds
are getting far too cocky for their britches.
All the dumb-arses 
are becoming...

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Categories: biped, earth, earth day,
Form: Free verse
The Reluctant Prey
Black grass dances in the warm winter air
And furry quadrupeds run wild with the
Shackles of instinct.

The metallic creature gives spontaneous birth
To bipeds who desire to...

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Categories: biped, abuse, allegory, corruption, freedom,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things