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Best Taxidermy Poems

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Vegan Taxidermy
a hardly morbid paper mache crane full 
of jolly rancher candies.

 blindfolded children wildly
 swinging bats on the backporch.

the wise sit back and drink
 diet...

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Categories: taxidermy, allegory, perspective,
Form: Blank verse



Human Taxidermy
I'd like to be stuffed when I die 
  
Then, when I say I feel hollow 
  
and soft 
  
and dead,...

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Categories: taxidermy, death, emo,
Form: Free verse
New Future of the Internet
New Future Of The
Internet


Cable cost are up
too high
You turned to the
internet and so have
I

My Youtube channel
is the way to go
Now I can even make
video shows

I...

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Categories: taxidermy, business, career, film, grandparents,
Form: Free verse
Grandfathers Clock Revisited
The wrinkled gent woke up suddenly in the middle of the night. Staring into the 
darkness he saw nothing. Gloom and fear ganged up against...

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© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: taxidermy, confusionnight, old, cat, grandfather,
Form: Prose Poetry
Professor Ingram's Collection
At the top of the stairs there's a musty room
Full of curiosities weird and rare:

Seashells,
Hummingbird nest,
A globe of all the world,
A two-headed snake kept in...

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Categories: taxidermy, books, education, family, nature,
Form: List



Granddads Confounded Clock - Poe Style - Second Part
“My grandfather was strong and mighty, till he died at age of ninety.
The clock then stopped to run no more.
Then one of my relations wrote...

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© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: taxidermy, parodyspring, cat, grandfather, spring,
Form: Narrative
Grandfather's Clock Original Part Two
“My grandfather was strong and mighty, till he died at age of ninety.
The clock then stopped to run no more.
Then one of my relations wrote...

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© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: taxidermy, confusion, farewell, humor,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Large House At a Bargain Price
A Large House at a Bargain Price

By Elton Camp

It’s off from the busy highway
Making it a quiet place to stay

With two stories and a basement
It’s...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: taxidermy, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Drive Through Nursing Home
Hey man, let's stop by the drive through nursing home. 

'Okay.' 

I pulled up to the menu 

'Uh, I'll have a septuagenarian widower whose hobbies...

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Categories: taxidermy, age,
Form: Free verse
Scarred Streets
the streets are scarred for good and we know it
after the hits of untamed hearts
after this abstract damage of cyclic returnings

there's a window in my...

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Categories: taxidermy, imagery, lost love, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Museum
This is a monument.

It was born from us a town illegitimate; we never married.
 A great hall of artifacts, plucked still-gunked from our livers,
Others clean-picked...

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Categories: taxidermy, absence, analogy, change, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Selection From My New Novel
Apostrophe in time. Mixes twenty foot differences between mice and men. They all fail. But the failure is only a thought a big lie. The...

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© W. Hunt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: taxidermy,
Form: Free verse
The Badass Yodeler
I was in a bar in Texas,
in the eastern back-country,
with three beers already inside
and another draining quickly.
It was a perfect redneck bar,
the kind of place...

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Categories: taxidermy, anti bullying, bullying, drink,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Leaning On Light
But for those who forced darkness to take flight,
And could never by grounded thoughts abide,
But for those who fought the accustomed fright
At the new thunders...

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Categories: taxidermy, books, courage, inspiration, light,
Form: Sonnet
Stuffed
I'm a taxidermy with a soul
But I've seen foxes on display that look better than me....

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Categories: taxidermy, angst, animal, beauty, death,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things