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:
exoskeletons, humanity, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse
The new cicada trend
...Awakening early mornings with an eerie sound,
as cicadas start calling, emerging from the ground.
These harmless insects shed their exoskeletons,
leaving evidence of cycle changes for every one.
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Categories:
exoskeletons, earth, environment, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Tiny Troopers
...Marching in line, six legs on the ground,
These mini-soldiers do not make a sound.
Nature's army, tough as can be,
Fighting for the queen and colony.
Antennae twitching, always alert,
Ready fo...
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Categories:
exoskeletons, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Whispers
...The chitinous mechanics
of head, thorax, and abdomen,
clicking exoskeletons,
the chirring of dry whispers.
We admire the purposeful
simplicity of the heedless.
Houses crumble as evidence.
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Categories:
exoskeletons, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Crunch
...Crunch
by Michael R. Burch
A cockroach could live nine months on the dried mucous you scrounge from your nose
then fling like seedplants to the slowly greening floor ...
You claim to be the a...
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Categories:
exoskeletons, america, animal, environment, insect,
Form: Free verse
Evidence
...The chitinous mechanics
of head, thorax, and abdomen,
clicking exoskeletons,
the chirring dry whispers.
We admire the purposeful
simplicity of the heedless.
Houses crumble as evidence.
Tre...
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Categories:
exoskeletons, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Sultry Summer Sojourn
...Curling crests cassessing coastlines
backwash bumping beach breakers.
screeching Seagulls squark and scream
mocking maritime merrymakers.
Burning boogers brave blisterd backs
scorched surfers ...
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Categories:
exoskeletons, imagery, sea, summer,
Form: Alliteration
The Funeral Dream Shocks a Vision
...Sleeping in the bones of humanity
A fear snarls complications and apathy
As humid poverty dies ingesting vices
While tossing dice into the digital
Scream as surrealistic executions
Rifle throug...
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Categories:
exoskeletons, dark, deep, imagination, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Wooded Destinies
...The sun-bleached exoskeletons
of old dead trees stand like sentries
along the towpath riverfront
exfoliated and gangling.
In a former age they stood tall,
grandiose to all passerby’s
b...
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Categories:
exoskeletons, nature,
Form: Verse
What's That Horrible Sound
...What’s That Horrible Sound?
By Elton Camp
If anywhere in the South you reside,
You’ll hear it now if you go outside
From every direction it seems to come
That loud, incessant maddening hum
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Categories:
exoskeletons, naturetree, tree,
Form: Rhyme