Best Worm Poems
Below are the all-time best Worm poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of worm poems written by PoetrySoup members
Agatha Christie Taught Me to be a Book WormBehind a chair
Below a desk
with my bare feet on a wall, in my flannel pajama...
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Categories:
worm, books,
Form:
Free verse
The Worm PoemA Certain Kind Of Death
She was in love
Their expression of it
Was the perfection of it
The way they shared
What they had...
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Categories:
worm, baby, death, mother,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
the worm poem A Certain Kind Of Death
She was in love
Their expression of it
Was the perfection of it
The way they shared
Was beyond...
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Categories:
worm, upliftingbaby, care, family, husband,
Form:
Epic
The Distance of a Worm Hole 6 2016The distance between us is like a pencil line drawn on a page
like steam in air
like the drop of water that captures in its soul...
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Categories:
worm, love, universe,
Form:
Free verse
book worm
between pages
of biology book
prankster presses worm
AP: 3rd place 2020
Submitted on March 9, 2019, for contest THE BOOK WORM sponsored by KAI MICHAEL NEUMANN ...
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Categories:
worm, books, humor, word play,
Form:
Senryu
The TurningThe year has finally yawned and turned
Upon a half-revealed shoulder.
A vibrancy, intrinsic to a reemerging
Enforcement of the...
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Categories:
worm, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
The Strawman and the MoonA straw man stood fixed upon timber firm,
gazing at Autumn's gilded, moonlit prize.
He, the king of Earth and the winding worm,
she, the pale darling...
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Categories:
worm, autumn, imagery, inspirational, romance,
Form:
Sonnet
The ButterflyEnroling you a worm (cumbersome and)
hairy, you- scimitar of leaves
Knows the pain ,writhing pupae
Abandoned and convicted
Constricted hanging straightjacket
Squirming like a jackrabbit
Gagged nocturnally - ...
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Categories:
worm, angel, beauty, butterfly,
Form:
Free verse
A yarn of sunshine"I've got sunshine"
TANKA~ 1
This heavyweight wind
jiggles the chimes limbs hanging
sensitively
a thousand sound waves invade
visible radiation
~~~~~
TANKA~ 2
Dark moonlight tempest
blunders off the mountain top
a...
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Categories:
worm, allusion, desire, earth day,
Form:
Tanka
All On A Summers EveThe screen door droops lazily, slightly ajar
Crickets croon lullabies, heard from afar
Kid’s sticky faces, betray ice-cream bars
All on a summers eve
Legs peel off chairs, from...
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Categories:
worm, nature, sea, seasons, uplifting
Form:
Rhyme
Hubby's Hair Cut
A corner shop, a busy street
your mother's hand, your dragging feet
I can almost set the scene.......A messy rack of magazines,
A barber pole, some shaving...
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Categories:
worm, childhood, husband, people,
Form:
Rhyme
OOPS - PLEASE JOIN IN THE COLLABORATIONSue dated an old bloke called Darren
He said surgery'd made him barren
But one errant sperm
Escaped from his ‘worm’
Now Sue’s had a baby named Sharon!
05~24~17
WRITTEN BY...
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Categories:
worm, baby, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
remembrancei do not have the power
to control what haunts
beneath night's sheets
nor the courage
to send them packing
from the depths
of my mind
nor the words
to bid them...
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Categories:
worm, memory,
Form:
Free verse
I THINK THEREFORE I AMI THINK THEREFORE I AM
"An ounce of hypocrisy is worth
a pound of ambition" --Michael Korda
Liberty...
This everyone's want--
stretching an autonomy to unbuckle self-discovery
I got mites...
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Categories:
worm, character, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Dirty Laundry(She's Got Cooties)
Bitter every night, she speaks of another man
In dialogues, she rips and shreds my brothers sheets
Her moves are naught more than an exposed...
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Categories:
worm, abuse, betrayal, devotion, heartbreak,
Form:
Epic
A Farm YarnWhen we were young boys on our farm.
A fish tale never meant any harm,
We oft were given a look,
When from such a tiny brook,
We claimed...
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Categories:
worm, adventurefish, fishing,
Form:
Limerick
APPLES - MULTIPLE HAIKUIt bounced off the truck
And then rolled down the highway
Apple turnover
-----------------------------------------
How 'bout them apples
When Jonathan McIntosh
Won the spelling bee
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Apple of my eye
Jenny had the sweetest...
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Categories:
worm, food, funny
Form:
Haiku
Jukebox GigoloOld Zack Adams sits a slouch’n so sloppy drunk on a bar-room stool,
Wear’n his cheap-threaded cowboy suit and a stained satin shirt.
All the while a...
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Categories:
worm, abuse, addiction, allegory, emotions,
Form:
Quatrain
The Butterfly You Cannot See
Once a caterpillar between a dream and reality thought she could be beautiful
~so on she dreamed...
Creating a shell to protect
under the bright new moon
The Cocoon~
Inside...
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Categories:
worm, introspection, life,
Form:
Free verse
NevermoreI write of a man named Edgar Allan Poe,
Whose dark, tortured soul could not rest,
His work is something every poet should know,
These stories are among...
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Categories:
worm, horror, poetry, tribute, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Trials of Meretrix Canto IWhen your befuddled mind
Forsakes upon the ragged edge
Of swirling darkness;
Where eternal night awaits
To sate upon purest innocence
Besides an open grave!
When the gravity of your perils
Be...
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Categories:
worm, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Your Eyes Are ThereThe tree stays empty
No bird no breeze no glow worm
The soil looks morose
Dense clouds have gathered
On and around the grey tree
Blooms are comatose
Getting...
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Categories:
worm, beauty, hope, life,
Form:
Haiku
Caterpillar dreamsAh what wondrous happenstance,
For a worm to reach by chance,
The form of a beautiful butterfly,
And sip the dew dew drops where they lie,
On silken petals...
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Categories:
worm, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
HumanityEven so young, life is so precious
Of human nature there is but one thing on her mind
As the two year old sits on...
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Categories:
worm, humanity, life,
Form:
Free verse
Youth, Time, Night Sky And Heaven's Blessed Voice, Second Poets Tribute Series, Vladimir NabokovYouth, Time, Night Sky And Heaven's Blessed Voice
As I lay me down in lush verdant grass
Gazing into night sky as Heavens pass
Twinkling stars, to an...
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Categories:
worm, appreciation, art, creation, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme