Best Hatch Poems

Buzzing rail buggies 
spinning paddled tires beating
out a gritty wake feather
on sand dune
deliberation over alcohol burning
engines being better than gas
everyone with lit cigarette in hand
aroma of tobacco with salt launching
forth from frothy waves
forms low misty curtains
a soft silty beach records a tiny footprint
seagulls honking, hovering...

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(A Blank Verse Sonnet)

The moon creeps through the barnyard's busy night
where ducks chase bugs on top of pond's still face
and turtles wait in murky bottom's sludge
for tasty treats to float across their view.

A pair of mallards glide behind their young.
From shadows they emerge with watchful...

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The Egg’s Gonna’ Hatch (Revised)

The egg's gonna hatch, gonna bring in some light,
Keep it warm all day and into the night.
The cloud’s gonna break and make everything swell,
As a young chick's head pops out of the shell.

I woke up late, and that's just fine.
Cold 'n...

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Once there was a nest
high in a tree
where no one could even reach it
of course
In that tree was a little bird
who knew everything
that his mom said to do
because his mom said it in a way
that he could hear in his egg
For that, he giggled 
when...

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I rowed from Cambridge where
my scull was slapped by the wake
of the long boats from MIT and Harvard

then   dodged the hodgepodge of
tiny sloops in the lower basin
competing and sharing the venue

along the bank   in my "own" space
    I...

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Louise
has fleas

And nits –
the pits!

Scratch head
In bed

Sore bites
from mites

Sleeps bad
goes mad

Bedding -
shedding

Gets cross
with boss

(Itchy
B itchy)

Feels rough
buys stuff

Lotions
potions

Bug foam
nit comb

Prepare
cleanse hair

Comb through
shampoo

Hair washed
lice quashed

Nit free -
happy!

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One last street light glows
Where faith was lost and gone
It wasn't so long ago
You found yourself all alone
I know, I know...
Been down so long
Drop the burden , let it go
Find yourself another road
I was told
Always an escape hatch home

Reach out and touch the day
Time to...

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Hard blows traded in pitch-black night:
What do you expect? Funny fight?
The lips of the young devils tight!
All Blacks who’d seen films of Sir White,
In which men fought and forgot flight…

Speedy entry of teeth that bite:
From pain one of the Blacks turned white.

Still, exchange of blows...

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Doors unlocked
          Opportunity knocks

        Doors closed
          Fears exposed...

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when hatch down did batten
then up would have to fatten
when I learned Latin...

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hatch of horseflies
under blanketed storage
prepare their offense
...

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• I found a tiny snake egg
• I wonder if it will hatch
• I've heard they'll hatch faster with heat
• So I lit it up with a match ...

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it's been so long that
i'd completely forgotten
and now it seems
a battered weathered wreck
on the verge of change
things not to be spoken of yet

stan sand...

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The egg I hatched from,
the being I've been fed for nine months.
The first one that hugged me with her warmth.
The first time I've been told how beautiful I was, even if I was one more newborn child.
A sunny day by the end of June my...

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When I went out this morning,
I heard two robins somewhere singing.
Then, I heard them in a bush;
One said to the other: Shush...
our unhatched babies are laughing....

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