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Best Terrarium Poems

Below are the all-time best Terrarium poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of terrarium poems written by PoetrySoup members


Terrarium
A forest behind a glass
earth and green shades
blended to be artfully pleasing

Moss, lichens, and a twig
composed with a splash of color...

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Categories: terrarium, art, nature,
Form: Free verse



Terrarium
We Live in a terrarium..
With our lives we scurry around like little ants.
We run to the store.
We run to the Dentist.
We run to pick up...

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© Jg Collins  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: terrarium, art,
Form: Prose Poetry
Natures Autumnal Terrarium...
Autumn wind treetops dance their ballet
as bright colored contrast release summers shade
pinwheeled pirouettes kaleidoscopic scene
picturesque subtleties within natures terrarium......

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Categories: terrarium, nature, seasons
Form: Free verse
Terrarium
An empty bottle of glass walls 
soil beneath the carpet of moss
incubating within the effulgent cave
a floor of sand, droplets all across

sprouting little roots thin...

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Categories: terrarium, beautiful, happiness, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Tropical World
Green moss glass vase
Carbon, dirt sprigs of berries
A terrarium...

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Categories: terrarium, art, nature,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Alleviating Hunger
When feeding a family of four

From  a 16-inch terrarium

The secret is to eat less, not more

Or build a seafood aquarium...

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Categories: terrarium, funny
Form: Grook
Premium Member Pet-Sit Panics
Where were you when the lights went out.  

In my world I work in little clumps.
Today I worked outside for instance.
I planted a few...

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Categories: terrarium, animalshouse, house,
Form: Quatrain
My Teachers
Mrs. Campbell rewarded me 
with time in the closet 
with her fur coat. 

Mrs. Cantor helped me to speak
when the words wouldn't come, 
and laughed...

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Categories: terrarium, education, life, school, wife,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Captivity Or Utopian Society?
There's no easy way to say this so I'll just be blunt.
Every evening at 8:30 I venture outdoors and I hunt.
I don't slaughter my prey....

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Categories: terrarium, water, fish, space, water,
Form: Rhyme
Creative Thinking
Like many, Joan struggled, was poor

To feed her sweet fam’ly of four

All their vegan food came from

Sixteen-inch terrarium

The secret’s eat less, never more




Tax and Finance...

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Categories: terrarium, humor, poverty,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Bottled Garden
A bell-jar, crystalline, as transparent as an aquarium
Vibrant colors burnt umbers tints glass atop the kitchen table.
No elaborate gardening, just gentle misting in the terrarium
Muted...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: terrarium, beauty, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Visiting An Empty House
I visited an empty house today
I found elephants with mirrors on its hide
And a dromedary with fluffy yarn 
That raggedy Anne wore for hair

I asked...

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Categories: terrarium, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wandering, Not Lost
"Not all who wander are lost "

                  ...

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Categories: terrarium, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Bottle Garden
A bottle garden adorns like the most elegant rose
Horticulturists’ pride featured in most writers’ prose   
Crafted by the youngest ambidextrous botanist
Whose prowess blooms...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: terrarium, garden,
Form: Rhyme
A Wardian Case of Coruscating Light
Preternatural beauty dense and thickly lush 
elegantly displayed requiring very little gush 
A terrarium bottle garden in a growing rush
staving deep with vibrancy and gentle...

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Categories: terrarium, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

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