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Marmots Poems

The Rung

...It would be a lonely trek
across the icy slopes
and devil's crevasse
where only ghosts of the damned 
dare to go.

I travelled day and night with little rest
broke bread with pica and marmots
...

Categories: marmots, faith,
Form: Free verse

Middling Mild

...Ducks are up in the air,
it is early - too much
a middling.
Nature lures,
leads us on,
the weather is wrong.

Icy licked stems
are surprised.

Defrosting ants and marmots
patch and mend,
...

Categories: marmots, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Gummy Bear in the Sawatch Range

...There were infinite shades of green
a few angelic scented cascades 
a pair of brown birds sang to me
I tossed a bit of chocolate on the pine needle carpet.
They beaked the pieces and quickly flew...

Categories: marmots, nature,
Form: Narrative

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Song of The Yellow-Bellied Marmot No 3: AABB

...Imagine ... our continental divide,
seen by nose lengthers who are not sharp-eyed.
The Yellow-Bellied Marmots, host the most,
from the northernmost down off the west coast.
There are six varietie...

Categories: marmots, allusion, analogy, animal, appreciation,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

taking my time

...If life goes too fast for us, where are we? Where are you going?
I have no fun then, I like to enjoy the summer holidays,
A few weeks, a few days, even a few evenings,  
I like a meal that lasts w...

Categories: marmots, care, identity,
Form: Free verse

I Want To Be a Marmot Trainer

...I want to be a marmot tamer Mateo promptly said.
All of the other ones have disappeared or are now dead.
There have been none that we know of said his annoyed father.
A marmot came right up to him...

Categories: marmots, 10th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme

On the Sixth Day

...On the Sixth Day

On the sixth day God created the animals
Oh what fun creating the animals;
Rolled up each sleeve to create all the animals
On the sixth day.

God made cats and dogs and hogs ...

Categories: marmots, animal, bird, creation, fish,
Form: Lyric

Surbuban Magic

...Placed strategically close 
to suburban hedgerows,
elderly backyard mavens 
nourish generations of groundhogs.

Daily the grass is seeded 
with 'Puffcorn Delites,'
bought wholesale from Costco...

Categories: marmots, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Translation With Commentary of On Est Les Oublies By T Wignesan

...Translation of « On est les oubliés » (They/We are the neglected and forgotten lot)
by the songster-poet Gauvin SERS
(For the last two years, this young unassuming Frenchman, full of verve and d...

Categories: marmots, 4th grade, anger, children,
Form: Free verse

Route 67

...Route 67 may not conjure up the romanticism of famed Route 66,
Nor does it wend its way across the country or provide you any kicks.
'Tis just a winding mountain road running from Divide to Cripple...

Categories: marmots, placessky,
Form: Rhyme

Xerus

...These marmots of South Africa 
Build cities underground.

The youngsters roam around in bands …
But I don’t know how they sound!...

Categories: marmots, animals, children, funny
Form: Epigram

Memoir of a Ghost Town

...Rickety shelters at the base of majestic peaks
Nestled here, memories of winters long and cold.
Miners searching treasures, precious silver and gold.
Ghost towns whisper what it is they seek.
Mis...

Categories: marmots, childhood,
Form: Sonnet