Tree Frog Poems

Your Christmas tree looks like it is made of real frogs! I told the witch.
It is, she assured me. They are standing on circular risers.
Want...

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the hapless toad
who croaked a verse
and moved the trees around him

did sway the branches
sway the leaves
at the most profound of meaning

and too did cry 
the...

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Frog in a Well

By: Joanne Jin 

1.
The Frog

I am the frog in a well:
I do not speak; I do not move–

I think of sundaes and...

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The bow would let out a groan
the big green frog sang baritone
we had great home cooked food
with stars for the best mood
heavenly nights at the...

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The fiddler arrived
with a wry froggy grin,
and the party was born
in the dance of the bow
'cross the taut and the tuned
through the shivers of time.

The...

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A male frog was playing near the swamp, being watched by a chameleon.  The frog sensed someone is watching him, but cannot clearly see...

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A rose once grew where none could see, Shielded inside my old Oak tree. As the days passed swiftly by, it grew and grew so...

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Little green frog so sweet to me,                                     ...

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Once upon a time there was a particularly snarly frog named Jade.
She was fond of juices, especially fruity ones like pink lemonade.
Her brother was annoying,...

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 One Froggy Christmas Eve

A Frog went a-courtin' one Christmas Eve
Arms full of flowers for his latest squeeze 
She is a sweet tiny mouse who's...

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Loving life hid beneath rim of cool ceramic bowl
Tree frog claimed proud place, toilet's homely hole
Enamoured by his simple palace making stance
I bend to peer...

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a lime green tree frog
   clings tightly to a bare branch --
      butterfly kisses...

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Everything in this world is a fleeting illusion,
We live contented in unmitigated delusion,
What we can see perhaps is not quite as it is,
We hear the...

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calamondin eyes
hypnotise encroaching prey
sucker pads advance...

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Purple twilight darkens the day.
A green tree frog jumps embracing
an ashen bark. His eyes open
to silence, as it stares within
inches of a small flickering,
iridescent lightning...

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