Long Earthworm Poems

Otter trance dance meets mice, worms and soups

A single iron is fed up with flattening material. In fact it has spoke of breaking. It considers such actions as pointless and therefore fruitless. And creases are...

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“Dragons don’t live up to the talk. 
I’ll find a way to fix the wagon”,
Opined the jealous Jabberwock,
“Of the scaly, lummox dragon.” 

This foul fiend then, most inhumanely, 
Pausing to munch a trembling snack
As his...

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Thank you for your patient, kind bliss…
I want to make you happy, you see? 
I don’t want to hear you, speaking words of worthlessness 
I want to see you be free…you’re my cup of hot,...

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Create in me an extraordinary spirit of Pure Hope and Everlasting Love
Stitch me up, for I have been torn apart by a forlorn heart 
Refrain from shedding your sorrows upon me – these clothes don’t...

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A multitude of dishes is just not a sanctuary of fishes. Ok? Did you hear the trinkling of the water omitting from the tap? Gaps are small and small is smell and smell is stagnantly...

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I break my back bone to cultivate your life,
Your life, I mean your daily rice,
The  rising sun never wakes me,
I am already on the field saying Good morning,
When my fingers dig with axe and...

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THE SCORPION KING-A FABLE BY GWENDOLEN RIX

ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A VERY DARK AND DANGEROUS KINGDOM
ITS GOVERNING PRINCIPLES WERE HATRED AND GLOOM
ITS GOVERNMENT WAS ESTABLISHED BY AN EVIL DICTATOR
AND DROVES OF HIS EVIL...

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I have seen a crooked path
I have seen paths that lead in circles
I have seen paths that split into two
I have also seen the best path of them all, the straight one
Nothing is better than...

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Farcical fancies,
Woodland rhymes,
These are not just
For bedtimes!

Farcical fancies,
Wait and see;
You’ll repeat them
Back to me!

—————

Woodpecker, really,
Won’t you hush!
By now, aren’t your
Brains all mush?

Woodpecker, silly,
Watch your head!
If I did that,
I’d be dead!

—————

Polliwog, Bullfrog,
Here’s a joke
It’s so bad,
You’ll...

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We choose our scoops with our silver spoons. Try and deny that it's coming soon. 
   Don't fool yourself when you're giving up. Just sip your drink from the dirty cup. 
 ...

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Once again, I am feeling empty
Try to feel me…try to mess with me…
I dare you to, baby…do it majestically
I don’t want to feel empty no more, but eventually,

I will always numb the pain of emptiness...

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Pete a polite gentleman from Marsden
Everyday he works out in his garden
While digging something did squirm
Found he'd disturbed an earth worm
Pete said "Sorry I do beg your pardon."


The worm replied "Hello and good day"
Then fast...

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Flesh is compulsorily subjected to several bites
with the hope of later expensive lotions of comfort.
Hard work pays but luck issues the slips
toiling and moiling for the skin to keep soiling.

Every shot towards goal hits the...

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A fire,

alight beside the darkened door

that waits,

shadow over its weathered bones;

the flames envelop

and choke the heart.

A twisting fate winds like a snake:

sliding, hissing,

curling its wicked tongue -

yet it's nothing but an earthworm

when its eyes dig...

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True Blue Fisherman He Longed To Be

Once a seeking lad of long dreamt desires
true blue fisherman he longed to be
within summer's heat, its burning hot fires
went he through desert to welcoming sea
Only to find that...

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Lion 'bout grabbing tiger by tail

Holy mole lee
watch out fowl, balladeer
look out... i.e. donkey kong
primate doth share
footloose slothful writing,
essentially swiftly tailored hare

reed styled mountebank
gets made by mice elf,
an imperfect triangulated square,
while "fake" charioteer
looses neigh scent...

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The painful  life.
I saw tears like wind round me; blowing warms on me
Flow into all directions on  my face,
I remembered not the colour of my tears.
I felt pains as plants felt dust on...

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Lord I’m drawn to you
O’ Lord I’m drawn to you
Like a moth is to a fire, a flame


O’ I’m drawn to you 
Like clouds form waters, from the rain
Let me explain, this
You see I am...

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My faith in me
Have made vast changes to my dream
I shall never be again who I am
But who he meant for me to be
A pilgrim whose nomadic days are o'er

I did not come saturated like...

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It’s, for me, not nature’s just one aspect or the other;
But, each creature of nature is greater than the other.
An ant moving unnoticed under any leaf or flower,
Rolling food, even under feet of animals much...

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We've  created men of courage.
We've  created men as weak as the earthworm.
We've  cast the moon off the sky recently, 
We've  stopped the sun from shinning to men. 
Like we planted, so...

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Welcome, Stranger, to my humble little world.
Hope, the Time while you're here won't pass us by,
You'll enjoy the place to which your Fate had hurled
Your weak soul, of folly Wisdom being curled.
Just believe! This nest...

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For the past half billion years
They crawled the earth both soil and sphere
Million trillion unknown souls
To eat and breed their only goal
Homme or femme hermaphrodite
In pairs romance 'neath damp moonlight

Throughout the year they dig and...

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AMELIORATE.
not a word used in haiku ~
just crossword fodder

The earth worm startled. In panic it moved in its full extension, leaving behind its earthen cloak, to reveal it’s  glistening self, spotless and shimmering in...

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When a politician tells you that he put
On a red boxers with white singlet inside
Ask him to wait till you look at it properly
before you could believe him so to remain insane.


If a man on...

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