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Dactyls Poems - Poems about Dactyls

Premium Member Zephyr Oxidation
... Written, March 24, 2025 For Contest, Your Choice E sponsor, Brian Strand ****************** hands aegis sculpting lullabies cradling ......

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Categories: dactyls, analogy, courage,
Form: Other
Dactyls and Elephants
...Dactyls are metrical Feet that are named after Fingers with three little Parts like the knuckles that Lie in a pattern of Stress like these sentences: 'Jealously murmuring Elephants quietly ......

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Categories: dactyls, words,
Form: Double Dactyl



Dabble Dactyls
...I have invented a nonce nonsense form: the "dabble dactyl." A dabble dactyl starts out like a double dactyl, but forgets the rules and changes horses midstream. Anyone who prefers order to chaos shou......

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Categories: dactyls, giggle, hilarious, humor, humorous,
Form: Double Dactyl
Premium Member Would You Like To Meter
...Today I feel iambic! I would say of all the meters, I like it the best. An iamb starts with some soft sound to say then ev'ry second syllable is stressed. Trochees likewise, alternate their str......

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Categories: dactyls, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Hands of the Eld Pianist Player
...Strangers but loved aged pianist's hands don't die in silence... The old pianist watches his hands ... learned ......

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Categories: dactyls, allegory, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member That Salad Went Right Through Me
...That Salad Went Right Through Me I've always wanted to write a poem called “That Salad Went Right Through Me”. And I would wager upon its best destiny: To begin with, there is the Universal......

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Categories: dactyls, assonance, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tortoise and Haradactyl
...Rabbit brags crazily; Tortoise plods lazily. Rabbit gets sleepy, see. Tortoise wins Easily. Work ethic is lacking; Rabbit gets shellacking. Relentless, forward, there. T’s out fro......

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Categories: dactyls, adventure, animal,
Form: Other
Premium Member Denizens: Prologue - 1
...Part 1 of ? Clippety, cloppety, clippety, cloppety All the king’s horses and all the king’s men mounted for battle in all of their armor; they rode off so gallantly through moors and fens. H......

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Categories: dactyls, adventure, death, mystery,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Dactyl Mcwhirtle
...Poetry, throw-a-three Dactyls for you and me Six silly bulls, I see All in a field! Myrtle McWhirtley This is the life for me No silly names, I see Less junk to wield. Dactylly Practical ......

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Categories: dactyls, silly,
Form: McWhirtle
Various Heresies 8
...Various Heresies 8 These are heretical poems with heresies about the bible, god, jesus christ and christianity. Red State Religion Rejection Slip by Michael R. Burch I’d like to believe i......

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Categories: dactyls, christian, christmas, death, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fragments of Fractals
...Fractals. Spawn of iterating quadratic functions. Choreographers of cosmic conjunctions. Impervious to human dysfunctions. Makers of multiverses. Encoders of creations. Limited only by......

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Categories: dactyls, nature, poetry, science,
Form: Rhyme
Dickensian Dactyl
...Squickleby Pickleby Nicholas Nickleby loses his Father and feels quite forlorn. Ralph his tight uncle a disciplinarian mean to the marrow regards him with scorn. Nicholas, penniless unco......

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Categories: dactyls, literature,
Form: Double Dactyl
Double Dactyls For Donald Trump
...Covidy Covidy Donald the President Stood on the balcony Out of his mind Muttering matters most Incomprehensible Still looking beautiful Lit from behind © Gail Foster 6th October 2020......

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Categories: dactyls, america, mental illness, political,
Form: Double Dactyl
Lurched Lousy Limbs
...*Lurched Lousy Limbs* thick soles seducing eerie earth scrunching tracing tactic trudges cowering cornered crushes pale paths tucked gaunt gaze; gulp! mystic monster smirked nocturnal nat......

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Categories: dactyls, horror,
Form: Sonnet
La Isla Del Encanto
... La Isla del Encanto (El Poema del Linda) There was no Elizabethan Changing of eyes On the Isle of Enchantment; No sudden moment of charm or bewilderment. Rather, came a delicate ......

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Categories: dactyls, love,
Form: Free verse

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