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Best Duckling Poems

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Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As a Duckling
"I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud"
~by William Wordsworth~

I wandered lonely as a Duckling
Swimming in a big and lovely pond,
Trying to fit in and make a...

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Categories: duckling, hurt, judgement, lonely,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Woodland's Lullaby
The scarlet of the sky recedes from sight,
and whisperings of wildness are heard.
As shadows rush to fill the summer’s night,
they’re ushered in by call of...

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Categories: duckling, Lullaby, night,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Greatest Love In Effigy: a Pantoum
His eyes always see the beauty in my heart. 
An ugly duckling is the way I think of me.
He paints me as though I am...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: duckling, devotion, love,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Feeding the Ducklings
Cool water teases and tickles my toes
Whilst a warm summer breeze gently blows 
I sit here silently on the sun kissed wooden pier
Somehow the ducklings...

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Categories: duckling, bird, food, fun, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Fragment
You wrapped me in your wings
As together we lay
Seven days in heaven
Before you flew away

I regret that moment
When first I saw your smile
I longed for...

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Categories: duckling, emotions, lost love,
Form: Quatrain



To the Men of Poetry Soup
Oh I would give Christopher Higgins a peck..
as I read the words penned by John Heck..
and there just would not be such a spark without
the...

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Categories: duckling, dedication, funny, on writing
Form: Rhyme
Paper Bag Head
Paper Bag Head




                      Like...

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Categories: duckling, confusion, depression, emotions,
Form: Verse
Sleeping Beauty
Love
I wish I could tell how I feel
but I'm better with actions more than words
yet today I am just too far out of reach
I should...

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Categories: duckling, cute love,
Form: Free verse
Epiphany
Well it's sad to say, that this ugly duckling
never grew into anything more than an ugly duck...

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Categories: duckling, angst, introspection, life, sad,
Form: Free verse
In the Depths of Memory
When my imagination soars on adventurous wings
I'm a runaway carousel horse; a kite without strings
an ugly duckling evolving into a beautiful white swan,
the first glimmer...

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Categories: duckling, lost love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Suddenly Swans
Our Tall Duckling (original title)

Our daughter, always through her childhood,
at least a head above any other girl in her class,
stands somewhere offstage now 
with long...

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Categories: duckling, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Villains Protest Re-Writes
So let me get this straight
(if I can use that word
in a totally non-offensive way)

Jack and Jill now get bottled water
Delivered.

Little Bo Peep
Keeps her sheep...

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Categories: duckling, fun,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Suddenly Swans
choleric clouds, suspended
         over the leaking lake

   the rebellion of a teenage face
cross-eyed, ferocious

bereaved by...

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Categories: duckling, bird, teen,
Form: Free verse
Just Another Pretty Face

There’s a dark side to the pretty,
an ugly secret kept locked in a closet
She of perfect body dimensions,
masterpeice artistry muscle tone
Face of smitten appeal
sends gender...

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Categories: duckling, allusion, beauty, love, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Butterflies and Swans
Does the caterpillar understand
  it will become a butterfly so grand
Does the tiny ugly duckling realize
  it will be a gorgeous swan, life-size

Does...

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Categories: duckling, bird, flying, imagination,
Form: Couplet

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