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Cephalopod Poems - Poems about Cephalopod

Premium Member Poets and Cephalopods - Oh Octopi
...You may consider it extremely odd I’m so easily influenced by a cephalopod Eight arms, three hearts, blue blood, nine brains All unique, yet something else remains The most important fact on whic......

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Categories: cephalopod, flying, imagination, metaphor, simile,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Critterature: The Peculiar Plight of the Poor Pitiable Octopus
...To the ancient Norse he was Kraken With a mean inclination, And the Greeks called him Gorgon With the same reputation. But as monster of myths He's been wrongly miscast, So I'm here to shed new......

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Categories: cephalopod, humor,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Water Dragons
...The roll of the waves hides the arcs of their backs. The shoal of porpoises are feeding on squid. Feasting amongst them on cephalopod snacks Are green-scaled dragons that choose to be hid. They......

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Categories: cephalopod, fantasy, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Nautilus Shell
...The nautilus is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The chambered nautilus (Nautilus pompilius) is a large, mobile cephalopod. They are called "living fossils" and have been ar......

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Categories: cephalopod, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Puppy Dreams of Octopuses
...Octopuses have a REM-like sleep. Just like you and I, and dogs! Their eyes gyrate wildly from side to side. They twitch and intertwine their eight long legs. Their suckers glitch the grip. The c......

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Categories: cephalopod, dream, nature, sleep,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Choose Something Fun To Kill Me
...Many things could kill you. Car wrecks, fall from a roof, electrocution, starvation, heart attack, brain cancer, Alzheimer’s. I shall choose something fun to kill me. Walking the plank, shoot out......

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Categories: cephalopod, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Christmas Stocking Stuffers
...Pity the Poor Octopus The octopus is a curious creature With eight long tentacles his most outstanding feature. But because of his oddly shaped cephalopod bod, He's not one of those who lo......

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Categories: cephalopod, christmas,
Form: Other
Time Slip
...there’s a temporal aberration happening in my head or it could be I am dreaming or maybe I am dead there’s a small purple t rex who is wearing a bowler hat while on his massive back legs he’s ......

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Categories: cephalopod, adventure, dream, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Drowning In Grime
...Sinking into the soil of his egocentric ocean Snarled and sniveled the cephalopod mollusk Since to be worthy of his charming prey Sensation beaming from his passion blasting Suspendin......

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Categories: cephalopod, analogy, bereavement, character,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aubade Reprisal of Light
...Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here. There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. — Lord Byron Morning love sought with riveting......

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Categories: cephalopod, day, night,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Note From An Octopus
...Dear humans, I am an octopus and I’m unhappy with how you humans think you’re so great. You might say I have a bone to pick with you… which would be true if I weren’t an invertebrate. I want ......

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Categories: cephalopod, humor, nature, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Riptide Wilderness
...Lunar swimming in angry cerulean torrents swiftly as primeval passing of blue equinox sea-born of indomitable nautical command to envelop cloaked within mother the ocean Remembering in-utero wi......

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Categories: cephalopod, beauty, devotion, environment, visionary,
Form: Romanticism
Shuffa's Assignment
...Defined as dull or lacking luster it became the word they used to speak of O'aho. who's real name was Cephalopod but none would speak of the person with that name. Instead for days, they wou......

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Categories: cephalopod, anti bullying, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Spirals In Black and White
...spirals like an escalator going down, serpentine, round and round with cephalopod limbs. nothing bright, black and white, round and round, like a child’s endless encircling of a departmen......

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Categories: cephalopod, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Psychedelic Sunshine
...PSYCHEDELIC SUNSHINE psychedelic sunshine, with cephalopod rays, stretches upward to the blue-eyed heavens. commander of sea and skies - the waistline of the bittersweet sun - under th......

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Categories: cephalopod, sea, sun,
Form: Free verse

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