Best Centipede Poems
Below are the all-time best Centipede poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of centipede poems written by PoetrySoup members
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:
centipede, love hurts, metaphor, sad
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Centipede ScareA centipede found its way into our home
My hairs stood on end for hours on end!
And while we tried learning about it on Google...
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Categories:
centipede, fear, giggle, insect,
Form:
Ballad
Categories:
centipede, children, silly,
Form:
Rhyme
You, Me and the Open SeaJust you, me and the open sea,
in a boat with a big white sail.
We’ll ride the surf and laugh with glee,
said the centipede to the...
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Categories:
centipede, children, boat, , Lullaby,
Form:
Rhyme
Don'T Bug MeTom went to the ugly bug ball
Strange insects invaded the hall
Folks dressed up as fleas,
Cockroaches and bees
The smile on his face said it all
Tom...
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Categories:
centipede, dance, humorous, insect, romance,
Form:
Limerick
Where Beauty LiesI saw a dragon flying overhead
In fascination watched him flap his wings
Then suddenly, he was a thoroughbred
Whose smokey breath came out in giant rings
How gracefully...
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Categories:
centipede, imagination, simple,
Form:
Sonnet
Reincarnation ThinkingREINCARNATION THINKING?
Life is like a coloring book
with few or many pages
filled with complex
outlined images.
We are given a box of crayons
and are asked to color...
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Categories:
centipede, creation, death, feelings, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Willy, One LegWilly the one legged centipede
Often would wish that he could be freed
He should be so speedy and whizzing about
But not with his one little leg...
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Categories:
centipede, insect, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Couplet
In Belladonna Berries Love Was PaidWith lies you tried to hide your furtive eyes~
but breadcrumbs left impressions you betrayed,
and finding out the truth behind your guise
did shatter loving life that...
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Categories:
centipede, betrayal, heartbroken, lost love,
Form:
Sonnet
No One the SameA lady bug sat on a a leaf one day
When a long came a centipede that asked her to play
No no i couldn't do that...
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Categories:
centipede, children, life, love, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Overlooked Beauty My Pretty MaggotsOVERLOOKED BEAUTY MY PRETTY MAGGOTS
Beautiful as the tan, brown, red, black, white centipede be;
Beautiful worm-like the fly egg geometrically pretty to me;
Moist shiny, slimy don't...
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Categories:
centipede, analogy, confusion, cool, creation,
Form:
Couplet
3 Step PoetryIt springs upon you.
Gleaming clawed metaphor
struggle to unhinge.
Many-legged adjectives
commence to crawl over the page
similar to a robotic centipede
but bigger, shinier, brasher.
Then the seductive purr,
the...
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Categories:
centipede, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
WalkA bulging extremity,
a feminist integrity,
a swaggering centipede,
the cops arresting me,
my dick the right size,
the bang coming out of your eye's,
the sensitivity upon demise,
the dew and...
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Categories:
centipede, graduation, growing up, heart,
Form:
Imagism
Dr Suess' Shoe StoreLISTEN, LISTEN! I have BIG NEWS
Dr Suess has a store just full of SHOES..
A GAZILLION shoes I'm sure there must be
Line them all up, bet...
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Categories:
centipede, children, funny, halloween, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
First Springlittle hands clap
at first sighting
of a butterfly
little face smiles
at first sighting
of a sunflower
little fingers wriggle
at first sighting
of a centipede
little arms flap
at first sighting
of an eagle
little...
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Categories:
centipede, baby, butterfly, grandchild, granddaughter,
Form:
Haiku