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Best Caterpillars Poems

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One Square Mile
In one square mile, northeast of Noojee,
there are seven birds that I often get to see
as I walk on the tracks in pristine forestry,
in one...

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Categories: caterpillars, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Obsidian
An almost stillness came about
as she strode into my door,
like breath itself refused to move,
fearful of touching her mysterious beauty

But her obsidian eyes betrayed her....

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Categories: caterpillars, abuse, dark, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Princess of the Petals
Beyond her veil;

eyes induced by secretive stars
became drawn to a path illuminated by 
flickering, shimmering pale moonlight.
Each spirited step led to the 
revelation of her...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caterpillars, analogy, deep, silence,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Garden of a Wounded Soul
Like an ebony rose in a province 
of ivory and golden flowers,
you poisoned each peaceful petal
with your senseless scent of death.

You were never just another...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caterpillars, analogy, angst, forgiveness, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eternal Cocoon
Life is a beautiful liar,
where hope is a 
graveyard of caterpillars.
Death is an ugly truth,
where virgin butterflies 
flutter immortally.

Love is the only true guide.

Oh my...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caterpillars, absence, love, romance,
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member Of Days Gone By
Sometimes I laugh
Sometimes I cry
Sometimes I dream
Of Days gone by

Life was hard, each day we learned
We never wanted what we hadn’t earned
A handshake at the...

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Categories: caterpillars, nostalgiaprayer, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Zesty I Could Be Again
Apple blossoms flutter in the breeze.  Awakening,
Barefoot to the brook we go, brightly scampering,
Counting caterpillars discovered on our way -
Daffodil and daisy picking this...

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Categories: caterpillars, dream, spring,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member A Talk With Him
Outside, a table awaits idle: I join as though it was my companion
Pondering about life as if it were water appeasable to the deepest canyon
Trees...

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Categories: caterpillars, faith, life, religion, me,
Form: Free verse
Garden Fresh
Crisp end of winter morning,
my shovel digs the soil,
turning over weeds and worms,
and watch them twist and coil …
hoe the dirt once more again,
until a...

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Categories: caterpillars, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Ode to Last Leaf
Quote: " I am the last leaf on the tree and the wind is blowing" --G. Hinckley

In the fading light of autumn's embrace, 
A poet's...

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© Jay Narain  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caterpillars, autumn,
Form: Ode
The Wonderful Journey of the Butterfly
This beautiful journey begins
From a courtship routine
The male perch themselves on leaves
And create a glorious scene
Waiting for a female 
Just to fly on by
Now he...

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Categories: caterpillars, adventure, beautiful, education, nature,
Form: Light 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: caterpillars, beauty, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Butterflies of Beauty
BUTTERFLIES OF BEAUTY

Butterflies of beauty
Poetry in motion
Gorgeous little paintings
Flying thru the sky

Bored caterpillars
Sleeping on their cocoons
Amazing transformations
Happening inside

Little crawling creatures
Turning winged beauties
From rooted to the...

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Categories: caterpillars, beauty, butterfly, nature,
Form: Free verse
Rainy Days and Mondays
It's Monday
The day of the dead leaves and fresh flowers
The dry and wet hours
Like the other days
Of life and death
The desert and the lake
Thousands of...

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Categories: caterpillars, color, memory, pain, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On Lilac Breeze
Eggs
 Laid on
 Milkweed leaves,
 Caterpillars
 Soon emerge and weave
 Through the plant as they feast
 Then cocoon, a week at least
 On a warm...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caterpillars, butterfly, spring, summer,
Form: Nonet

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