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Best Vertebrates Poems

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Worried Water Vertebrates
Worried Water Vertebrates 

And the sun keeps on shining a bit warmer now in Mars. 
But rain keeps away and fish in the cisterna are...

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Categories: vertebrates, angst, hope, life, sun,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Gibraltar Crumbling
The Dune on the Rock
    where fine grains of time     
gradually slip
revealing footprints
of lost vertebrates:

an archaic 
human being...

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Categories: vertebrates, animal, time,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Premium Member Reflection
an emptiness and coolness just 
 in the midst of the chest, unease
 my corgi terrier, black and white
 watches me and stares with her...

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Categories: vertebrates, feelings, health,
Form: Free verse
A Visit To a Zoo
Zebras are stripy I’m sure you can see,
Yaks chewing cud as slow as can be, 
X-ray tetra in the aquarium are seen,
Warthogs with curly, white...

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Categories: vertebrates, animal,
Form: ABC
A Better Person
10/4/19
"A Better Person"

Long ago I learned it
Nobody on this Earth is 
Perfect
That's for certain

I'm determined
To be a better person
As I continue workin'
Ready to handle any...

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Categories: vertebrates, dark, poetry, rap, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Reptilian Anthropocene
"The Reptilian Anthropocene"



The Reptilians
war daily 
enrobed in their
stiff distinction suits
rainbow coloured badges 
pinned to their lapels
they beat their breasts 
and oily palms
profiting from all 
the...

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Categories: vertebrates, horror, humanity, war,
Form: Free verse
I Like Frogs
These creatures begin life as tadpoles in a lake.
What a radical change in morphology they take!
They lose their tails, and grow rather long legs.
Age makes...

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Categories: vertebrates, animal, life,
Form: Rhyme
Glitch
Its Hidden Messages in my Texts
worth Examining 
you can see the Chosen from The Strangling
beatens an chains
all linked to a prophecy ordained
I've looked through documents...

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Categories: vertebrates, deep, earth, truth, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Beneath the Sea
https://m.soundcloud.com/user-921599710/beneath-the-sea

Through the journey, life arrives
Underwater – start their lives
Stable neither hot nor cold
Soft tiny eggs there to behold

Of such a time, lay vulnerable
For many eggs...

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Categories: vertebrates, animal, children,
Form: Free verse
Sleeping Under the Powerlines
spin the lamp all the way down,
 lay low the polio eradic skyline.

 down to where beds exit through
 lime hollow eyelids.

 saint isotope on...

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Categories: vertebrates, allegory, places, grandmother,
Form: Blank verse
Due Season
https://m.soundcloud.com/user-921599710/due-season

Vertebrates with feathers and tails
Reptiles with their shiny scales
Birds of which that range in size
Returning cycles that comprise

Solid seal, protective shell
Danger near, seek to repel
Contained...

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Categories: vertebrates, animal, children,
Form: Free verse
Turkey Necks and Bat Wings
*Inspired by Cheryl Hoffman’s “The Skin We’re In”  — Go read it!

On a turkey it's called a wattle
on a moose, "the bell," (not “the...

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Categories: vertebrates, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Blue
Blue kangaroos, azure primates,
 cobalt cats and dogs, bright navy 
 vertebrates for heaven's sake,
 perception is a fine and fickle sense!
 it's usually true...

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Categories: vertebrates, funny, introspection,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Blooming
The mind reposed
in the muck
of the ocean floor,
waiting to be born.

The riddle of life
came out of the mud.
The ghosts
inhabit us all.

The origins,
the bloom of verdant...

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© Bill Yates  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vertebrates, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Theory In Crisis: Ii
If function is king, then there aren’t any Types,
but the living show us that’s simply not true.
The class tree is ordered according to forms
and not...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vertebrates, life, science,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs