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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


Premium Member A Father's Sacrifice
I 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caterpillar, appreciation, dad, daughter,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Joy In the Emptiness
Where 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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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caterpillar, easter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' 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
Premium Member Hey Jude - Dedicated To Winged Warrior
Hey 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caterpillar, love, music, tribute,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Green
green caterpillar
pupates....
yellow swallowtail

                   gardener's inner joy ...

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Categories: caterpillar, nature,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Gone
she 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caterpillar, analogy, lost love, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caterpillar, analogy, angst, perspective,
Form: Free verse
The Butterfly Flutters By
The 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
Premium Member My Alphabet
A a 	big A little a
                   What...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caterpillar, children, kindergarten, preschool,
Form: Abecedarian
The Butterfly You Cannot See
Once 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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© Cindy Lu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caterpillar, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Petals - Silence of Heartbeats
Devotion 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caterpillar, assonance, love, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am Whammy
It 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
Premium Member A Fox Was a Kit
A 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
Premium Member Broken Wings
Death 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caterpillar, dedication, emotions, poetess,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things