Piranhas Poems | Examples

make way for the carpet beetles

The museum curator brought in tons of carpet beetles
The staff did not understand until they were shown
Carpet beetles will eat almost anything
They rapidly cleaned flesh and hair off animal skeletons
Like piranhas except out of water

National Poetry Month

Limb from limb, tear me apart.
Put me in a case with chains. 
Cut out my bleeding heart. 
In the river, toss my remains. 
Don't leave any stains.  

In the cold, my pieces shiver. 
Piranhas gladly clean my bones. 
Alligators eat my liver. 
I'm erased, tied down with stones, 
Wicked winds, bear my moans.

Ivory Flakes

You were never the sunset to me, but always the crimson hue veiling the sun; The subtle shyness in the eyes of a maiden wildly in love with the moonlit boy, her prominent lobster red cheeks when she was a blushing mess under his soothing touch. The sly smile lingering around her lips on her way back home, giggling on the reminiscence of the chocolate discovered under her desk, gifted by her ‘anonymously well known lover’; You kissed the sky, a final adieu while diffusing selflessly into the aqua ocean, deep into the underwater world. I would then dive into the ocean, searching for you, till the ‘deadly piranhas’ whisper into my ear, “She is no more a part of your world”. Maybe then I would weep like a widower but my transparent tears would be washed away by the ‘sun kissed ivory waves’.

After the party, i woke up on a tropical island

After the party, i woke up on a tropical island

I was with three new friends in Manaus,
We drunk, on, two, three Caipirhina, Brazilian booze,
I couldn’t stop thinking about a Brazilian girl in France,
Have you ever drink four Caipirhina, in the jungle?

Walking back to our little dirty hotel at midnight, 
We were singing and dancing in the deserted streets,
I remember a driver trying to run us over at green light,
That is what Saturdays look like in Manaus nights,
	
When I woke up, I really was in the virgin forest,
Multicolored birds were singing loud everywhere,
M hammock, was deep and comfortable like wool,
Later at noon, we were eating cooked piranhas,

A blue and yellow Ara Parrot, enjoyed our company,
When I Woke up, I really was in the virgin forest,
Ten blue and yellow Ara parrots were making conversation,
The girl I was thinking about became my loved wife

Blueprint

blueprint

To have the innocence
again, not abused 
nor denied

to see with the 
eyes of a child
the beauty 

that could be 
in it all -
what we lost,

through bitterness
the curse of 
me over you 

and warring life
throwing its poetic 
grenades, watching 

feathers fly 
the absurd piranhas
and cockerels fighting

fed love, 
the monsters
put to bed to sleep, 

to wake 
to live 
the beautiful dream

the sting 
of wonderment
in the child’s heart 

untouched 
open, sweet
beatific smiles

innocence untried
retrieved blueprint
could be ours again

in another world
in another time 
bathed in sun, 

Blue Sky


(LadyLabyrinth / 2022) 







"The Walk" 
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/the_walk_1376951

Mnopqr For Fun

Millions of merry mischievous mice made marmalade mincemeat for miles
Nineteen neckties snagged nimble necessary notetakers’ smiles
Outrageous ostentatious octopuses ogled ordinary octogens.
Private praying piranhas provided persnickety pieces of puns.
Querulous quails qualified quite quietly with quality quizzes.
Renegade ridiculous roosters readily rejected revealing robin's kisses.

A Tiger In My Trifle

[Just once in a while, I try to write a child friendly
Poem which doesn’t end up as a horrific gore-fest...
This is one such attempt...]


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There’s a tiger in my trifle, there’s a seahorse in the queue
Not sure about a café with a coypu in the stew
The polar bear just over there is chasing a gnu
Six penguins just got flattened by a manic kangaroo

The keeper’s got a net, he says I’ll catch the pelican
Can he catch the pelican? No-one knows how well he can
A chimpanzee is wearing clothes and strutting like a man
He’s blowing noisy kisses to the old orang-utan

The seals are in the pond causing lots of fuss and dramas 
A strange turn of events because they’re eating the piranhas
The gorilla who would often spend all day eating bananas 
Is making Tarzan noises as he tries to ride the llamas 

The rhino’s gone out through the gate, he just got on a bus
He couldn’t pay the fare... the driver didn’t make a fuss 
Police are running here and there, they don't know what to do
That's what happens when they have an earthquake at the zoo

Starfish-

'Starfish!' said I, 'thing of a moray eel.'
Be it black ocean space;
Or in the breathing coral seas;

Back into my memories squiding;
To warn me about the sea turtle;
The cetacean coral reef crabbing;
Sharks and piranhas kidnapping;

I heard a tentacled, seagoing inking;
I wrote a story with the octopus pen;
I was a harbour porpoise and you a tuna sandwich;
The brokered bottlenose whale blossoming;

The sphinx moth singeing;
Only this and a sturgeon;
In there stepped a shovel nose 'whale shark';
In there stepped a 'lake trout.';
Dolphins lookout;

To warn me about the bluefin;
The foul flatfish forging;
All my soul within me gorging;
In there stepped a coral sea cucumber;

I have dreamed of the spadefish;
An echo murmured back the word, 'channel catfish!'; 
The brook trout smiled;
I felt compelled to sniff the squid;
Smells like fish;

It was squish;
Take thy bluegill from out my heart;

Embrace the wish;
Starfish





6/20/20
WRITTEN WORDS BY James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©

Imagined Deaths

ecstasy of piranhas, perhaps
to dream the dream of falling
S P L A T
flying...i’m flying
thereafter eaten by raptors
well there’s that
the big bang
i’m the new world
inhabited by Fraggles
shake that off
the dust bowl
i think therefore i am sucked
up by a hoover
the anchor agitates the floor of the beautiful blue sea
surreality is attached to me
black eyes
of a pea lodge
in my eternity
dressed in a green and purple Barnie suit
my kids won’t even bury me
afraid of i love you you love me

5/11/2020

The Amazon

The Amazon
By C. Russell

Water flowing fiercely
Blue and green and brown;
I’m wanting to see clearly
Through your liquid gown!

The Armoured Catfish wriggles
Through the sticky mud.
Arapaima gliding,
Splashing with a thud!

The Tambaqui quietly
Searches for a seed
From the nearby rubber tree;
A giant fish indeed!

Pancake stingrays dancing
A watery ballet,
Piranhas darting here and there,
Inviting you to stay!

The electric Eel,
What can I say?
Don’t get too close,
Or you will pay!

Scarecrow Talking In Autumn

Autumn arrives
Like calloused hands
From Canada,
Squeezing
The summer sogginess
From the air
Like a wet rag
Wrung
From a pail of warm water.

Downhill
From
Its hollow avalanche of wind,
We bang
With brooms
At the shins of the fleeing trees
Like shepherds.

The first scarlet leaves
Are stripped
And flow like rivers
Of snapping piranhas
Vibrating atop the sidewalks.

I put my dog on a leash.

He is not trustworthy
In crowds,
Especially in riots
Of ghosts
That flail
In spiral gales
Like newspaper pages
Sailing back to life
From gutters.

In my garage,
I take my rake
From its hook on the wall.

I stand as a scarecrow in his front yard,
Straw shoulders
Shaking from the introduction.

One by one,
Crows
Gather
And eat from the ground.

A raspy cawing.
I am coughing.

Place of Refuge

pond of piranhas  

become as hot as Hades

clothesline of deaf ears

11/11/2017

A gloom I found 
hot as Hades in a garden
of dreams, fairy tales,
romance, and music.

Complex Alliteration - Hastily Hiding Wisely Waiting

HASTILY HIDING WISELY WAITING
Flying fish are really gliding, gracefully so.
Frantically, from so many predatory piranhas.
Silkily, sliding into the most fearsome fray!
Hastily hiding, in very thick growing, sightly sedges.
Wisely waiting until the predators pass.
Satisfyingly safe, start to safely fly feeding.
Dusk darkening, welcoming much needed silent sleep.
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2nd line- x+2 syllables 15
3rd line- x-1 syllables 12
4th line- (x+2)-1 syllables 14
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Which allows for infinite syllable sequences. An example, in the first line x=13:

Greg Louganis

Superior specimen of 
Beauty, dignity and perfection
What…? Victim of bullying…!?
What kind of world do we live in?

Obviously one full of bullies 
Inferior bottom-feeders
Ganging up on anyone who 
Shows even the least amount of gentleness

Predators looking for a trace of weakness
Who see benevolence as a flaw
Jealousy gnawing at goodness
Like a swarm of piranhas

Looking for prey who let their guard down
They thrive on destroying 
How can they truly not value 
Awesomeness before them

Intimated and infuriated by being outshined
With character and strength
Unpretentiousness and inner sanctum
Inspiration to millions who are impressed



AP: 3rd place 2020

Submitted on October 4, 2017 for contest PAINT A PICTURE 4 sponsored by SILENT ONE  -  RANKED 2ND

Empty

devoid of humanity,
the desert's got a wish;
the desert's got a secret
he doesn't need our teeth
when the piranhas are nicer than us;
when the megalodon is more gentle than us
there's a gray water-less fog only he can see
while the others are known for their sunlight
but for him, there's something in the air
that causes ultraviolet extinction
and now there's only his mental creation of reality
mirages and not, with no distinction
the sand is violet, with a blood red moat
the spines of the cacti build his back--
their points dulled down from lack of use
he makes the world, but the visitors that come
only skim the edges
to do nothing but flash their lights--
to capture his thin top layer
there's something deeper
all life evolved from the ocean
and he was separated from Pangaea
he saw it with his own eyes
everything

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