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Sing Spring

...
Scavenging squirrels search for acorns, scratching old stumps from trees. 
Scampering up my sugar maple, they steal my bird feeder seeds. 
Sleepy salamanders wake from their slumber to search on ...

Categories: inchworms, butterfly, imagery, rainbow, seasons,
Form: Acrostic

A Common Misconception About Inchworms

...The inchworm's in no hurry
        his vision's perhaps blurry

     A journey of five meters
        in ten hours, a world-beater
 
     I'd like to go on record
        to report they don't ...

Categories: inchworms, humor, jealousy, journey,
Form: Couplet

The Rulers

...Following the first thwack
we deduced that distance was
limited primarily
to unpredictable bursts of anger,
arbitrary chastisement factors.

The rule, all of its dozen commandments
plus the ex...

Categories: inchworms, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Traveling Worm

...If 12 marching inchworms moved a centimeter how far did they travel would it be a foot?

11/28/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

Categories: inchworms, 2nd grade, adventure, analogy,
Form: Monoku

A Big Mistake I'Ve Lived Happily Ever After

...---A big mistake and a parallel universe 
School days filled with endangered species cumulonimbus inchworms by the feet 
And whale songs sung in the deep waters
After the fire whirlpools of six de...

Categories: inchworms, analogy, anxiety, appreciation, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Daydreamer--

...I'm daydreaming again 
Poor rich a soil  farmer 
I dream of chalk boarding a whale song
Dreams of  brain-teasing 
Dreaming about buying mother a pair of ruby slippers Daydreaming again...

Categories: inchworms, adventure, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Superman On Torch Lake

...Overlooking
The lake from his cottage deck
Like a captain last to leave his ship
My dad
Discards his cane atop the stairs
Fastens his wobbly hips and knees
Sideways
And to the rickety railing
...

Categories: inchworms, age, devotion, family, father
Form: Free verse

New Neighbors

...I am just finishing my morning meditation when I hear my doorbell ring. It actually sounds more like that buzzing sound you hear if you fry a fat fly on one of those electronic bug swatters. On my wa...

Categories: inchworms, depression, family, funny love,
Form: Narrative

The Color Green

...Grasshoppers and katydids
Cactus, growing in the sand
Palm trees near the ocean
May-apples in the woodland

Parrots squawking in the jungle
Moss creeping over rotten logs
Luscious ferns fillin...

Categories: inchworms, beauty, color, nature,
Form: Quatrain

May Is Mother's Month

...May is Mother’s Month

May is green 
spawning inchworms.
I nest too
cleaning closets,

busily morphing 
contrary to my wont.
Even the slothful move,
to her blossom song. 

In a whistling fragrance
I ...

Categories: inchworms, mother, me,
Form: Free verse