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Best Prehensile Poems

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Impatient Lover
impatient lover
white prehensile phalanxes 
smell of stale kisses













© RAJAT KANTI CHAKRABARTY
12 DECEMBER 2014...

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Categories: prehensile, horror,
Form: Haiku



The Tale of the Williwonk
The Williwonk rose from its hibernating sleep
And jumped up in joy with a sinuous leap.
Time for some mischief, he mischievously said,
I'll shake up Manvile and...

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Categories: prehensile, children, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Stela Epic, Part 1 of 8
The Stela Epic by DR. Mohammed F A Alrazak

The grains of sand, the drops of rain, makes the stage for souls to play 
The prints...

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Categories: prehensile, culture, freedom,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Darwin's Double-Dark Dilemma
Elder Darwin swims in ethology.
He rolls in his deep grave ecology.
He itches and scratches his dissonance
that survival of most fitted and dense
implies manifest destiny for...

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Categories: prehensile, culture, death, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Talking Mirrors
I'm a fairly active charter member
of Connecticut's Medical Marijuana Program,
qualifying because I'm also one of the oldest HIV+ survivors in the U.S.

In fact, 
not a...

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Categories: prehensile, earth, health, humanity, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Telepathic Consciousness
Said Harvard to Bucky
we feel quite so lucky
your genius on campus
has caused quite a ruckus
but this time we're sure you're less mucky;

And yet we're not...

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Categories: prehensile, humor, math, nature, philosophy,
Form: Limerick
Dear Miss Monkey Manners Vii
Dear Miss Monkey Manners: I’m a Spider Monkey in need of your help, 
Recently someone yanked my tail and I cried out with a yelp....

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prehensile, funny, me,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member This Transit Regeneration
My TransITion began there
right there
in my woodland playground,
when I first knew
something right feels wrong to others.

I was blind to curve-balls
hurled at me.
Being "It" is not...

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Categories: prehensile, angst, birth, bullying, culture,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Hunting Love
On life's easyrider days and nights
love plays a romping game.

On those more oppositionally challenging days,
and long anxious nights,
love is a hunt,
sometimes a passionate hunt,
special occasionally...

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Categories: prehensile, death, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seahorses On See-Saws Sashay
Seahorses on see-saws prance, sashay and dance
   gliding majestically under the sea.
No clip nor clop for this aquatic steed 
   for...

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Categories: prehensile, animal, fish, nature, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Becoming It
It was there
right there
on woodland's playground
when I first knew
something stirs very wrong.

I was blind to balls
hurled at me,
being It is not why I grow my...

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Categories: prehensile, bullying, earth, fairy, fire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thanksgiving's Substance
“Thanksgiving’s Substance” (Internal rhyme)
 
T-hanks my soul for everlasting life, I am freed from mind’s strife,
H-eavenly Godly material, Love’s faith ethereal,
A-ngels  appear as human...

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Categories: prehensile, inspirationalthanksgiving, faith,
Form: Acrostic
Categories: prehensile, fun, funny,
Form: Verse
Premium Member For Spacious Time
I need some natural,
organic,
spacious kinda time.
Where is nature in this time,
my time,
our time?

Perhaps nature is to time
as solid forms are to flowing recreation,
as body solidarity...

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Categories: prehensile, culture, love, music, race,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Recreating Story
Before human languaged time and cultural memory,
SunGod radiated EarthGoddess Gaia
"Let's partner to plant a life-giving network."

"Not a bad-good idea!" smiled Earth reflectively,
synergetically and photosynthetically,
regeneratively speaking.

"Yes,...

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Categories: prehensile, creation, culture, gender, history,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs