why dont geckos sink in the sand
...Why don’t geckos sink into the sand
Disappearing into the promised land?
What saves their Arizona lives? What keeps them up?
The flaps in between their toes said my Uncle Hup.
I thought he was ...
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Categories:
geckos, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Songs from Grassy Blocks
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Written: May 04, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Constance La France
Quote: "Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love." By Rumi
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Categories:
geckos, appreciation, spring,
Form: Rhyme
going to zoo
...off to australia
to see a dingo or two
or canada lynx
golden white-eyed birds
how about knob tail geckos
or a crown nose ray...
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Categories:
geckos, animal,
Form: Haiku
tropical plants
...beautiful designs
misty rainforest feeling
small geckos hiding...
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Categories:
geckos, nature,
Form: Haiku
Song of The Geckos No 2: ABBA
...Rainbow suave sky soars the aliferous,
swarms as life bores a chance of existence,
so the geckos take without resistance,
for there are those who find them delicious.
They're unorganized, but the...
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Categories:
geckos, allusion, analogy, animal, imagery,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
OUR PLACE OUR SPACE
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Oh awesome, sweet garden, how happy you make me,
When I have breakfast on our patio and absorb you with glee,
Mid-morning comes in a flash with a fleeting cup of coffee,
Then lunch, have a qu...
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Categories:
geckos, garden,
Form: Free verse
Legos Nursery Rhyme
...Written: October 30, 2023, For Eve Roper Nursery Rhyme
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Where joyful colors and lively settings rule.
In which ideas run wi...
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Categories:
geckos, analogy, children, games,
Form: Rhyme
Chameleons
...“Chameleons”
Chameleons
many shades
of blue
pretty beautiful
things given time
change their colours
not so
delphinium
belladonna blue
Blue sky
hypnotises
blooms
face to th...
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Categories:
geckos, blue, dark, muse, sky,
Form: Narrative
Ten Years, Somewhere In Their Lost Neighbourhood
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“Ten Years, Somewhere in their Lost Neighbourhood”
Of course,
he said, like a god,
there is no course,
one must simply go with the flow
the penumbra stands waivering its ...
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Categories:
geckos, muse,
Form: Narrative
A Rainy Night and Pilferes
...Night came harvesting our sights
into his basket of darkness
at the same time, the once drizzles on our roof
had turned into a rainstorm
putting a period to the work of all nerves and eyes for th...
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Categories:
geckos, art, august, autumn, boat,
Form: Free verse
Starsandstripes
...STARS & STRIPES
I know the Treasures held by the snow
I know pleasures unknown
And the measure of the shadows below.
They said Look what you've become.
Red, I replied I know. I've grown numb.
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Categories:
geckos, adventure, anxiety, art, bible,
Form: Free verse
Plotting To Overthrow the Gecko King
...The diabolical Geckos were plotting
While our fall leaves were rotting
Yes there was some spotting
On those leaves that were rotting
But this is the crazy most maniacal ridiculous thing
Those ...
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Categories:
geckos, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
A Days Blessings
...What I remember about this day
was first waking and forgetting
about the time of doing in this moment
as I look forward to just being present
Brewing coffee of pumpkin spice
with cream and cinna...
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Categories:
geckos, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Ghost Chilling B O O
...the night is dark
man in the moon disembark
awful chilling and spooky
b o o , b o o ... soupy
no one in sight
even und...
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Categories:
geckos, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Psychobabble
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"Psychobabble"
She plants the seeds
in Her mind
through the
fathomless
oceanful wells
of Her eyes
saltwater falls
over the unchartered
sharp edges of
Her tig...
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Categories:
geckos, magic, memory, muse,
Form: Free verse
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