The Scorpion's Touch
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“The Scorpion’s Touch”
Under glass
the sound cuts out sharp
just like under water
and we run out of breath
like insects running around
frantically out of time
we are ...
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Categories:
exoskeleton, humanity, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Chance
...I sit here pondering the next move as I watch the hour slowly slips away, and chance standing in the horizon muse steadfast at me. It is that little nudge that you get when you are almost out of brea...
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Categories:
exoskeleton, america, business, change, confidence,
Form: Narrative
Unscheduled Flight
...A black fly in midwinter
has burgled the warm air of the kitchen.
It struggles for height,
a brittle-winged air-bender
reaching for plateaus,
higher footstools,
grasping for spice shelves
or...
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Categories:
exoskeleton, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Exoskeleton Ghost
...Radiant beaches with a tropical tangerine sky
Always wondering & asking myself why
Reenacting the days we could've flown
If bravely to each other we just would've shown
A mystery of memories jumb...
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Categories:
exoskeleton, boyfriend, computer,
Form: Rhyme
Three Steps
...I almost trod on it
but then my shoe kinda flinched,
one leg hovered in the air
not wanting to feel or hear that sound.
There’s a large dead cricket
belly-up ...
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Categories:
exoskeleton, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Crawdaddy
...Crawdaddy, Crawdaddy!
A true tale of woe.
It’s into the boiling
hot water you go.
With spices a-pleasin’
Springtime is the season,
And you’re the real reason
For the beaches, you know.
Craw...
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Categories:
exoskeleton, food,
Form: Lyric
Unconquerable Almost
...Cockroaches are generalized insects with few special adaptations. Most are the size of a thumbnail, but they can be as big as 3.8 inches and weigh 30 grams. Their largest wingspan is 7.3 in. They are...
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Categories:
exoskeleton, insect,
Form: Free verse
Black Widow Spider
...I'm smaller and harmless if I'm male
and I have no venom. I'm dangerous
and much bigger if I'm female. It's hard
to tell my sex, so I avoid me all together
Better safe than sorry!
I look inn...
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Categories:
exoskeleton, insect, nature,
Form: Personification
As We Know It
...An ornamental doe and fawn,
suddenly move. Tails wave, noses nuzzle –
I have mistaken an actuality,
and now am thrown out of my skin.
I’m a millipede of fractal awareness.
I sniff the body-odor ...
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Categories:
exoskeleton, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Arthropodocene
...After human self-destruction ends the Anthropocene
will creepy crawlers build the Arthropodocene?
With rising levels of CO2 and methane
and temperature rising to profane,
will those of poikiloth...
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Categories:
exoskeleton, destiny,
Form: Couplet
Numb
...Sun slowly descends the skys
The light is fading, the warmth dissappearing
Standing still, while i go blind
Oblivion slowly swallowing everything.
Every next smile is less sincere
Every next l...
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Categories:
exoskeleton, life,
Form: I do not know?
Fundamental Frame
...https://m.soundcloud.com/user-921599710/fundamental-frame
The absence of which, who could withstand?
The evolution thereof corresponds with us
Expansion likewise
Enabler of movement, our fundam...
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Categories:
exoskeleton, body, children, education,
Form: Free verse
Invertebrates of the Kingdom
...https://m.soundcloud.com/user-921599710/invertebrates-of-the-kingdom
Varied species of the kingdom
Across our earthly home
From sponges to the octopus
Without a backbone
Laying small eggs
O...
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Categories:
exoskeleton, animal, children,
Form: Free verse
There Was 2 and Now There Is 3
...In the beginning there was two
Just me and you and you saw me just like I you...
And you came to me and I said "one day there will be two"...
Indeed it was a dream come true and
Together we wa...
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Categories:
exoskeleton, baby, break up, care,
Form: Free verse
Fascist State
...FASCIST STATE
They did not come upon us like blitzkrieg in the night
or goose step into town like a plague of parasites.
They crept on us like shadows in increments so small
they did not see...
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Categories:
exoskeleton, political, , cute,
Form: Couplet
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