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Best Centipede Poems

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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 Scare
A 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
Premium Member Dr Suess and His Shoe Store
"I  LIKE NONSENSE, IT WAKES UP THE BRAIN CELLS!"
               ...

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Categories: centipede, children, silly,
Form: Rhyme
You, Me and the Open Sea
Just 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
Premium Member Don'T Bug Me
Tom 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



Premium Member Where Beauty Lies
I 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
Premium Member Reincarnation Thinking
REINCARNATION 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
Premium Member Willy, One Leg
Willy 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
Premium Member In Belladonna Berries Love Was Paid
With 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 Same
A 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
Premium Member Overlooked Beauty My Pretty Maggots
OVERLOOKED 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 Poetry
It 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
Walk
A 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
Premium Member Dr Suess' Shoe Store
LISTEN, 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 Spring
little 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

Book: Reflection on the Important Things