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Best Creepy Crawly Poems

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Creepy Crawly Things
Creepy Crawly Things

Big eyes crying in the dust
May you not slither and bust
Those green creepy crawly things
Might prance unto you and sting
Seeing all those creepy...

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© Theresa Cw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: creepy crawly, angst,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Upon Misty Morning's Fast Fading Glow
Upon Misty Morning's Fast Fading Glow

Upon misty morning's fast fading glow, 
dance fairies on glittering silver wings. 
Flying with fantasies flowing in tow 
And sweetest...

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Categories: creepy crawly, blessing, creation, destiny, giving,
Form: Classicism
Halloween: My Favorite Time of the Year
Halloween: The Best Time of the Year

Halloween
Frightening
Everything about the nonliving
Everything about the dead
Scary stories to be said
Monsters coming out from under your bed
All in one...

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Categories: creepy crawly, fear, kids, fun, grave,
Form: Rhyme
To Catch a Butterfly
To Catch A Butterfly

I stand beside 
a wilderness
    to gaze upon 
    unfamiliar shores
where life once 
appeared so intimate
...

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Categories: creepy crawly, earth, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rata Rats Rats
Rats rats rats
I’m scared of creepy crawly rats
Thay have beedy eyes and a long slivering tail
And the ones around here are as big as cats.

Rats...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: creepy crawly, animal, fear,
Form: Free verse



Happy Halloween
Creepy crawly spider webs
Ghost and goblins in their head
Beware the night so full of dread
Apple bobbing, candy corn
Jack o lanterns light the way
Children so excited...

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Categories: creepy crawly, children, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Upon Misty Morn's Fast Fading Glow Collaboration
Upon misty morning's fast fading glow,
dance fairies on glittering silver wings.
Flying with fantasies flowing in tow
And sweetest joy such dancing often brings.

Above their heads the...

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Categories: creepy crawly, hope, mystery, time,
Form: Classicism
Ocean Beach Babies
The eve of darkness they come out to play
creepy crawly with our senses. The street
wise, the waifs, the tiny cherubs all blend
together to form a...

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© Mark Heil  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: creepy crawly, adventure, allusion, beautiful, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Butterfly
BUTTERFLY IN TUTU

Butterfly in tutu, deliriously delusional, bright
with spangles, tapping her wings.  All knew
she was cocky with glorified golden teeth.

She followed the cockamamie caterpillar...

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Categories: creepy crawly, angst, butterfly, fantasy,
Form: Burlesque
On a Dark, Dark, Night
On a dark, dark, night

                    ...

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Categories: creepy crawly, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Way Home - 1st Part
When we think of traveling we most often think of going from one location to another. That’s good but I sometimes like to return in...

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© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: creepy crawly, remember,
Form: Narrative
I May Be a Scaredy Cat, But
I am a real scaredy cat
and there's absolutely nothing that
I could do about that.

I'm scared of 'roaches
I'm scared of rats
I'm scared of spiders
and afraid of...

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Categories: creepy crawly, fear, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On All Hallow's Eve
unseen in forests
creepy crawly things slither. . . 
inhabiting night

miles from the black woods
bolder creatures (upright) flit. . . 
whooping in the streets

woods seem eerier
towns'...

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Categories: creepy crawly, holidayhalloween,
Form: Haiku
Hope
Hope

Hiking through the dark, watchful woods all night
Looking for any star that’s bright
Not a single living soul in sight
Only creepy, crawly critters in the shadows...

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Categories: creepy crawly, hope, symbolism,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Journey of An Inquisitive Worm Nursery Rhyme
On a warm, bright, sun-soaked golden dawn, 
a green, slimy, crawly worm woke up, 
eagerly burst out from his snug abode, 
opened tiny googly eyes,...

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Categories: creepy crawly, butterfly, fun,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs