Best Burrow Poems
Below are the all-time best Burrow poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of burrow poems written by PoetrySoup members
When Poets Come Together As OneLets flatten the curve with our words and soften our quill.
We are world siblings, showing solidarity through will.
Words that heal are like a prayer in...
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Categories:
burrow, hope, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Eccentric EyesOpen eyed, long tearless, foul silvered orbs
have you no pity? The aqua tide rides dry.
Blind staring scorches, accusing twin barbs
who burrow inward, a destiny to...
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Categories:
burrow, pain,
Form:
Sonnet
Winged WordsLike a creature hibernating in its burrow
Waiting to come out with the first verdure of spring,
The seed of a poem lay dormant in my heart
Through...
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Categories:
burrow, analogy, betrayal, birth, growth,
Form:
Verse
The True Mother
“The True Mother”
What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow
bleed out Life’s...
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Categories:
burrow, betrayal, imagery, love, mother
Form:
Free verse
Sunday MorningSunday Morning
I try not to wake him, though he stirs slightly
As I crawl out from the warmth of the covers.
I'm tempted to change my mind,...
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Categories:
burrow, child, children, family, morning,
Form:
Rhyme
sea of trees -
(for Aokigahara ... the souls lost)
~
jade canopy
waving while it
whispers
the lush secret, compelled
delicious word of
myriad words
casting...
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Categories:
burrow, death, imagery, metaphor, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Through the Cracks of DawnPeeking through
Thin fingers burrow
Anxious eyes follow
For a new gift on a new day
Forgotten heels tremble
Under the seas cold splash
The moonlight a distant ways
Her shadows a...
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Categories:
burrow, hope, life, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Victory To the PreyWhere a dingo, with crushed skull, lies,
a stout round creature backs up
from the entrance of his burrow.
His sturdy rump has saved him,
and his worst enemy...
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Categories:
burrow, animal,
Form:
Verse
Tideslazily the waves
lap the pebbles on the beach
a crab scurries by
to burrow beneath wet sand
a prisoner of the tides...
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Categories:
burrow, ocean,
Form:
Tanka
A Snow Queen TalePart 1: FORE SIBERIAN FATE
silk wings wet -
angel on the lake.
starlight glitter
separates from
the golden wheat.
her docile hair,
prophecy of ice.
winter pink,
pinched cheeks.
ice skate scrapes -
flecks of...
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Categories:
burrow, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
What Turned To Stone"What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of this stony rubbish?"
- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land.
Who tries to grow out of this...
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Categories:
burrow, psychological, simile, time, water,
Form:
Free verse
Lessons From the JungleAnimals animals all we are
Have come from the jungle that's oh so far!
Happily happily we came dancing here
With many lessons that you all have to...
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Categories:
burrow, kid, kindergarten,
Form:
Rhyme
Castle In the SandCastle In The Sand
Waves besiege the shore
As crashing long lost lovers--
Lonely lions roar--
Salty cling of sultry air
Glistens as sunlight weakens...
Latte-coloured sand
Reveals waving fiddler crab
The male--his...
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Categories:
burrow, animals, life, nature, sea,
Form:
Tanka
Fooling YourselfTry to sustain yourself on truth if you can,
but your noble aim will quickly come to naught.
Life is bitter, and so too are the actions...
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Categories:
burrow, betrayal, pain, truth,
Form:
Sonnet
Heart of a Centipede
You got a hundred lovers,
including me
Every one of us
give you something that you need
But you really only need us after that,
when your fire starts...
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Categories:
burrow, love hurts, metaphor, sad
Form:
Dramatic Monologue