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Why Caterpillars Do Not Wear Shoes
I watched a little caterpillar
walking up a tree
and wondered how 
that worm would look
if he were dressed like me.
I think his mother would complain
if she had shoes to buy,
cause by the time she tied them all
he’d be a butterfly!...

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Categories: caterpillars, 2nd grade, butterfly, change,
Form: Rhyme
Caterpillars Become Butterflies
They said that she was ugly, fat, and shy.
She went her way to shameful words and sneers.
Ignored or worse by those who passed her by,
She'd weep the dew each night with all her tears.

The caterpillar, few have understood.
In every garden scorned and undesired
Until such time...

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© Jesse Rowe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caterpillars, butterfly,
Form: Sonnet
Serpents and Caterpillars
Magic
advice on
keeping her temper
sees Alice experimenting with
mushrooms...

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Categories: caterpillars, books, writing,
Form: Cinquain

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Caterpillars Many Feet Many Boots
The suitable ramblings of a plate of acorn and carrots to a listening ear of a squirrel squire is very very good news for a bed of voltaic leaves.Vehemently described by a small stone to be akin to radio station chattering. Babbling brook then. Oh...

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Categories: caterpillars, america, animal, april, art,
Form:
The Caterpillars
The caterpillars
Built their cocoons in our school
To become butterflies!...

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Categories: caterpillars, animals, childhood, life, nature,
Form: Haiku
Of Flowers and Caterpillars
Someone decides
           And then terminates
The colorful catepillars, feeding
          On the lovely, little flowers.

No one stopped to ask
         ...

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Categories: caterpillars, symbolism, truth, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Eastern Tent Caterpillars
Mid-spring, skinny, black, blind
eastern tent caterpillars - 
Malacosoma americanum - 
falling from the cherry tree
leaning, human, over our deck.
Irksome. Mash and kick
them with my feet, continue
practicing or reading.

Three weeks later, reading
late at night. Heavy-bodied
black-eyed, reflexed antennae -
many hundreds of moths
crave the lamplight, some attaining
extinction through...

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Categories: caterpillars, body, light, morning, nature,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Caterpillars In Costume
Graceful butterflies

flutter about my garden

sipping droplets of nectar

from favored flowers,

caterpillars in costume;

they're uniquely beautiful....

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Categories: caterpillars, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Sedoka
Premium Member Small Rabbits Swims With Caterpillars--
SMALL RABBITS SWIMS WITH CATERPILLARS--- A Haiku

running game hillside
a little, small rabbits swims
a caterpillars


4/22/19

Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©...

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Categories: caterpillars, analogy, animal, appreciation, insect,
Form: Haiku
Caterpillars Delight
Looking beyond our differences,
  the image deepened

Speaking without words,
  the conversation spiked

Touching without holding on,
  all feelings turned to ecstasy

Loving while letting go,
 —the caterpillars delight

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)...

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Categories: caterpillars, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Caterpillars Search For Treasures
Caterpillars creeping and crawling

Along the forest floor

Seeking hidden treasures from 

Centuries before

Covered in extravagant velvety moss

And beneath earthen engraved rocks

Hidden treasures galore!


Written by Gwendolen Rix
6-9-14
(Inspired by the Holy Spirit)...

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Categories: caterpillars, adventure, imagination, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Caterpillars
There are caterpillars in my chest just waiting to turn into butterflies the moment your lips first touch mine...

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Categories: caterpillars, how i feel, lust,
Form:
Premium Member CATERPILLARS AND BABY LIZARDS
If I’m ever filled with dread…feelings of gloom and doom….
I look for new leaves on the trees…and flowers about to bloom.

I greet the stars up in the sky…watch the sun rise on a new day…
I stop and watch baby rabbits in the field as they...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caterpillars, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Lovely Butterfly
The lovely butterfly; exquisite small body and colourful wings
An insect of angelic nature, which the summer brings.
To the landscape it provides its majestic presence
Visiting leaves where it often clings.

He sees that butterfly, on that leaf
It sits for a moment, its stay but brief.
Purpose to him,...

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Categories: caterpillars, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
Mulberries and butterflies
They love the leaves—the butterflies,
mulberry for their eggs,
a home and caterpillars' feast,
where adults rest their legs.

Their beauty drawn—the butterflies,
mulberry for their dance,
where beauty mirrors beauty well,
even with fleeting glance.

With weather harsh—the butterflies,
mulberry their shelter,
through chilling winds or blazing heat,
no flight helter-skelter.

When hunger strikes—the butterflies,
mulberry their...

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Categories: caterpillars, beauty, butterfly, friendship, nature,
Form: Ballad

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry