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Premium Member This is Happy Land, The World's Playground, lyrics
"Welcome to the playground"
'Ring around the roses. Ring around the roses. 
Ring around the roses. Ring around the roses.'

Jack the ripper, he slept with a whore, and became deadly ill 
While his soulmate Jill became...

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© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caterpillar, birthday, conflict, culture, dark, death, drug, fantasy,
Form: Narrative



Yosa Buson Translations
Yosa Buson haiku translations

On the temple’s great bronze gong
a butterfly
snoozes.
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Hard to describe:
this light sensation of being pinched
by a butterfly!
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Not to worry...

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Categories: caterpillar, age, animal, autumn, father, moon, mother, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum and a thunderous beast
With playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide to dreams just out of reach
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles and Squeaks.
Moo! Quack! Giggles tumble and bump.
Flaps...

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Categories: caterpillar, adventure, books, childhood, imagination, literature, mystery, teen,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Alphabet
A a 	big A little a
                   What words start with the letter A
    ...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caterpillar, children, kindergarten, preschool,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Yes, I Met Alice
What if I ,
Saw a waist-coated white rabbit,
Pass and disappear down a hole
Would I think I was going quite mad
Or would I want to follow him
As he exclaimed I’m late!  I’m late!
For a very...

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Categories: caterpillar, beautiful,
Form: Free verse



Onerous Task Confronted Teachers and Parents
Onerous task confronted teachers and parents

As prospective students
ably ready themselves to matriculate
and/or first set little feet 
inside halls of learning,
I rebroadcast a poem crafted
at the height of Covid-19.

A couple years gone back educators
adaptation regarding coronavirus...

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Categories: caterpillar, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Lewis Trap
“The Lewis Trap”



Well, of course he's misanthropic
He’s a Misanthropic Man
The Devil’s in the details
Buried deep under the covers
Of bedtime stories, slithers ‘neath loose sand

A Liddell bit of cake
A Liddell bit of julip
Sweets for a sweet...

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Categories: caterpillar, abuse, addiction, child abuse, imagery, judgement, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Everything I Know
Everything I know...I learned from children’s books 

One day I ran to Grandpa and I looked into his ear.
“Mommy says you’re pretty smart…do you keep your brains in here?”

“Oh, It’s too dark. I can’t see...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caterpillar, books,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Everything I Need To Know
One day I ran to Grandpa…And I looked into his ear.
“Mommy says you’re pretty smart….Do you keep your brains in here?”

It’s too dark in here. I can’t see a thing…I don’t know what to do.
Grandpa...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caterpillar, childhood,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Ultimate Truth
“I have five friends; a Christian, a Buddhist, a Sikh, a Hindu and a Muslim. Each speaks of a different God or truth. Who should I believe?”

“Belief? Is that not a mind game? Is not...

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Categories: caterpillar, god, religion, spiritual, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ashtavakra Gita Verse 15:7
15.7
“You are That in which the universe appears 
like waves appearing in the ocean
You are Consciousness itself
No need to worry”


The concept being that the world is nothing but thought
Transient and therefore necessarily unreal like a...

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Categories: caterpillar, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ode To a Tree - Synopsis - Epic
I.

Espy, distinguish divinely made lively, lovely Trees
Unisex Trees, inhales carbon dioxide, then breathes
out for us humans, life given clean oxygen
Stout roots run deep, holding God's earth
Also, with you we were taught our first lesson

II.

Animals take...

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Categories: caterpillar, adventure, beauty, earth, earth day, introspection, nature,
Form: Ode
Flying Friends In the Firmament
In the midst of a quiet summer day, while the sun is peeping
And the gentle breeze brushing everything, dancing and passing
Our hero, an ant, seen sweating and puffing, but still climbing
Like a soldier on mission,...

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Categories: caterpillar, butterfly, friendship,
Form: Narrative
The Explorer
...and then just as suddenly, constellations appeared in a daytime sky, framed by white pines crawling with multicolored caterpillars.  So from this day forward, they would search the sky for more star pictures. They...

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Categories: caterpillar, beauty, color, culture, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 23
Erlenkönig knelt to the ground, his urge to destroy Reginn was strong but he knew it was one or the other. Rid yourself of Reginn or stop this coup.  He chose to stop the...

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Categories: caterpillar, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Hey Jude - Dedicated To Winged Warrior
Hey Jude, love is like a butterfly - just let it be.
You've got a ticket to ride, go where you should be.
Love is a revolution it shall set you free.
Don't live a life of sorrow...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caterpillar, love, music, tribute,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Memoirs
Although born in Scotland I have no memories of there as we left when I was two.
My first recollections are of Las Palmos in the Canaries.
I recall the donkey passing daily and being told he...

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Categories: caterpillar, adventure, africa, life, places, voyage, mum,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Alice's Adventure Down The Wormhole
Early one morn, Alice spied a strange spaceship, 
Rocketing towards her, with a rabbit cracking a whip.
In the blink of an eye, it landed beside her.
Out popped the rabbit, yelling in a frenzied blur: 
"It's...

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Categories: caterpillar, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Heart Knows What The Mind Doesn't-extended version
Abandoning the expected, you’ll find clarity in chaos,
       allowing our minds lens to transform, tune in, brighten
Believing in you is being just you, the simplicity of you,
  ...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caterpillar, spiritual,
Form: ABC
Thought Train Location As of October 27th, 2013
Thought Train Location As of October 27th,2013
Take 1

…don’t even try to believe or perceive or conceive any of this*
when the clouds come to veil the stars and the night puts you in an unsure but...

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Categories: caterpillar, how i feel, perspective,
Form: Prose
Television Triptych Throwback
Television triptych throwback

and despite remote chance 
to channel small medium at large
metamorphosis I may witness 
analogous to caterpillar
will transform me into a butterfly
otherwise Norwegian bachelor (batch chiller)
farmer will simply plow along
taking a stab writing "FAKE"...

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Categories: caterpillar, 12th grade, adventure, books, celebrity, character, color,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cool Calm Chaos
COOL CALM CHAOS

           Eager egrets hopping on mossy glossy grass of desert
           Cake made of...

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Categories: caterpillar, 7th grade, confusion, funny, hilarious,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Robbie
Robbie .

Like a snail, out of sea, stuck to Mother Earth.
Never able to see, never able to fly it’s girth 
since a time in youth and at a place 
where currents carried away Hope, created...

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Categories: caterpillar, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Circus Fat Man
The Circus Fat Man

This unusual man is truly a real sight to see as
“The Circus Fat Man” for a local Cajun circus.

He takes a sense of definite pride in being known
by this distinctive moniker, while...

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Categories: caterpillar, allegory, confidence, destiny, imagery, inspiration, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member In the Sun's Rosy Vicinity
Little Arabella Miller lived in town, but far enough out in green country,
To watch the raspberry sun go down, and to climb a lavish, plum tree.

Arabella was seven-years-old, and had a three-year-old, baby brother;
Like the...

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Categories: caterpillar, beautiful, color, fantasy, happiness, insect, nature, nursery
Form: Couplet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry