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Best Oyster Shell Poems

Below are the all-time best Oyster Shell poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of oyster shell poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member A Desperate Housewife - In Limerick Form
A desperate housewife I knew
had such mundane housework to do.
Being so tired of it,
she decided to quit.
Then off to Las Vegas she flew.

Having always been...

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Categories: oyster shell, adventure, wife,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member His Golden Essence
The oyster shell 

                     ...

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Categories: oyster shell, appreciation, beauty, father, inspiration,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member On the 831
On the 831

Take time to write your story page
somehow in this great texting age
looking away to check things out
and see what life’s all about.
The winds...

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Categories: oyster shell, technology,
Form: Couplet
The Starfish
The Starfish

By Elton Camp

Starfish in the ocean dwell
Without a brain they do well

With just a simple nerve net
For their needs are all set

They aren’t some...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oyster shell, humor,
Form: Rhyme
La Peregrina - a Gem For Your Verse
La peregrina, why do I pick you from all the jewels of the world ?

Not because you were a fifty -eight and a half...

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Categories: oyster shell, beautiful,
Form: Free verse



Edible Music
EDIBLE    MUSIC

The garlics are on grand piano in the corner,
Playing alone because  of their halitosis.
After  making each other’s mouth water,
Clever...

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Categories: oyster shell, music
Form: Couplet
Hermit Crab
Scurrying across the ocean floor
leaving faint tracks in the sand
moving sideways to go forward
nothing mapped or even planned.

The sand is always shifting
ever changing the terrain
all...

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Categories: oyster shell, allegory, animals, sea, ocean,
Form: Quatrain
Tongue
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, 
Your tongue is the enemy of your soul 
Death and life are in...

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Categories: oyster shell, abuse, angst, betrayal, bible,
Form: ABC
Rain In My Heart
(4/11/13)

I am walking in the rain as so many people do
Letting the rain refresh me as I thought of you
The rain erasing all doubts from...

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© Louis Rams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oyster shell, love, me, rain, love,
Form: Rhyme
Of the Farmer's Land
Dusk, the gentle side of sunshine,
settled soft upon the folded sails.
The fresh stars were twinkling
on the smooth river surface.

And the gentle sound of herons
passing, stepping...

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Categories: oyster shell, growing up, happiness, river,
Form: Free verse
Surprise
 SURPRISE

S eductive sea of your tranquil eyes   
U shered me in for an adventurous dive 
R eceived resplendent corals nice
P eppy pure...

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© Anu Nayak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oyster shell, art, love, surreal,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Drifting On a Melody
The music got into his soul
As he slid across the dance floor
and the DJ  he did implore
For a chance to do that soulful stroll...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oyster shell, dance, fantasy, dance, dance,
Form: Free verse
Time Travel
An old wives tale of modern day

Say's do not eat before you swim

So why are cookies compulsory in order
to surf the web ?

A plethora of...

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Categories: oyster shell, slam,
Form: Free verse
Markov Chain Reactions
It’s 5pm and sunny in Ohio, 40 degrees
and dropping,
by dusk it will be grey turning to red
then black.

Where is the oyster shell now?
The heavenly picture
of...

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Categories: oyster shell, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Isle
A blind flight
above a brooding sea.

Dawn levers the darkness.
Ireland rising.
Whitecaps, bright tumbled cliffs.
Briny turf, moss-rooted walls,
wind-havens and cottages.
So green!

Tidal meadows run to dewy swards.
Patchwork pastures...

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Categories: oyster shell, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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