Best Caterpillar Poems
Below are the all-time best Caterpillar poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of caterpillar poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Father's SacrificeI loved you the first day
I saw those big brown eyes blinking,
taking in your first moments of life.
Not a tear nor a little scream,
you seemed...
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Categories:
caterpillar, appreciation, dad, daughter,
Form:
Prose
Joy In the EmptinessWhere once a caterpillar ceased to crawl
knit into a temporary tomb
a chrysalis shell now lies, empty, broken
observed from above
...
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Categories:
caterpillar, easter,
Form:
Free verse
Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's LibraryToddlers' Exploration:
Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...
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Categories:
caterpillar, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form:
Narrative
Hey Jude - Dedicated To Winged WarriorHey Jude, love is like a butterfly - just let it be.
You've got a ticket to ride, go where you should be.
Love is a revolution...
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Categories:
caterpillar, love, music, tribute,
Form:
Pantoum
Categories:
caterpillar, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Goneshe was a caterpillar,
i her cocoon
she was the music
i her dance
she was the rose
i her thorns
she was lost among the stars
i showed her the moon
i...
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Categories:
caterpillar, analogy, lost love, love
Form:
Free verse
M-M-M First Kiss
Oh, how wonderfully innocent
and juvenile, 'twas for me.
You, scooting surreptitiously.
closer and closer to me.
Like a soft, gentle caterpillar,
slithering and smiling.
Making its way home in the
still...
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Categories:
caterpillar, car, first love, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Battles with silence“Let me be strong, for to be anything else is to languish in the abyss of compromise and to descend to places of impoverishment so...
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Categories:
caterpillar, analogy, angst, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
The Butterfly Flutters ByThe Butterfly Flutters By
On a steamy, sun-drenched, summer Sunday,
tree leaves delightfully dancing to the tune of
a warm, welcoming, wandering breeze blowing,
metamorphosis now complete,
no...
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Categories:
caterpillar, beauty, butterfly, garden, nature,
Form:
Alliteration
Categories:
caterpillar, children, kindergarten, preschool,
Form:
Abecedarian
The Butterfly You Cannot SeeOnce a caterpillar between a dream and reality thought she could be beautiful
~so on she dreamed...
Creating a shell to protect
under the bright new moon
The Cocoon~
Inside...
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Categories:
caterpillar, introspection, life,
Form:
Free verse
Petals - Silence of HeartbeatsDevotion floats in the
silence of heartbeats -
only lovers savor and devour.
I crawled to her
like a caterpillar.
Cradling in her cocoon -
her vision transformed
me into a butterfly.
She...
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Categories:
caterpillar, assonance, love, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
I Am WhammyIt was a lovely summer
the garden was filled with butterflies.
Whammy the caterpillar was full of joy.
He climbed the tallest stalk in the...
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Categories:
caterpillar, beauty, fantasy,
Form:
Narrative
A Fox Was a KitA fox was a kit and a dog was once a puppy.
Don’t throw a fit, but a fish was never a guppy.
A horse was a...
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Categories:
caterpillar, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Broken WingsDeath followed her, like an unwelcome guide.
Grim Reaper stalking, forced her shadow to hide.
Angel of death took her sister, but let her survive.
How could a...
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Categories:
caterpillar, dedication, emotions, poetess,
Form:
Rhyme