Best Crawlies Poems

A poem is a cryptic array
And could be the terrorist play
The web is complex
But will never perplex
The mighty and proud NSA

Author's note: It is not...

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I lay in bed and what do I see
A spider walking right above me
It is a huge and fleshy one
In the morning it would be...

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i stood looking outside
listening to the rain 
with its long slender fingers
tap a tune against my window

squeegees in hand
i could see 
the troops of drops
clean the air
for...

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In a province exploited 
by prejudiced seasons,
a minority ebony rose 
is taunted by prominent 
i v o r y      ...

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Written: November 19, 2023, For Ink Empress Contest

The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind. Its presence is more beautiful than...

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The naked night, the wailing wind; 
leaves in their flight are summers end.
Betwixt occult and morning’s light 
moon stands, it’s her birthright.

Ghost-nests revealed in abandoned...

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Mushrooms 
and 
meadows
Sunshine 
and 
shadows

Gentle 
ripples on 
the calm 
river
Foaming 
rapids in 
white 
water
 
The jungle 
echoes in 
the semi-
darkness
while 
daylight 
creepy 
crawlies 
clear the...

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The scarecrow 
Surrounded in a field of sugar cane
The sun begins to set 
He musters out a yawn
A horizon he has seen for the last...

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It’s dusk in Texas in May 
Keeping the June Bugs at bay 
Citronella works in a way 
Creepy-crawlies more dense in the day 

Reading Kafka...

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I am digging in my sandpit
and I find a wriggly worm
I take it to show my mummy
you should have seen her squirm!

She does not like...

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I

 
Take out the caked grimy faucet plug

Let those unseen crawlies dive and duck

           ...

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In the tangled jungle of my mind
creepies and crawlies
bite and suck.
They feast on your blood
and fill you with venom.
Howls of the night
keep you from rest,
and...

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Babylonia : Part Two -
Noah’s walk


Pandas chew bamboo, while you film them in the nude;
Red Elephants are extinct (Apart from a view).
Fly up high, escape...

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I din't travel by bus to school 
Neither did my mother drive  me there
With my friends and cousins
I had the best of childhood fun
During...

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Butterflies, beetles

 bugs and grubs. A

 blood thirsty mosquito.

 The bumblebee, the

 hornet, the wasp stings

 without warning. A

 daddy long-legs, a biting

 cleg, a...

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