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Preens Poems - Poems about Preens

Premium Member Ostentacious Showy Crow
...Here comes the uppity bejeweled crow Carrying her loud beak just so and so She is wearing a cape as white as snow Her beady eyes turn on me; they have a glow Flashing gemstone rings are on her ......

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Categories: preens, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Crow
...winter afternoon... ebony crow perches, preens, like it owns the place, pecking into a bread crust... unregal lord of its realm......

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Categories: preens, bird,
Form: Tanka



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 h......

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Categories: preens, birthday, conflict, culture, dark,
Form: Narrative
Whilst beasts least bother to boast
...What if man’s made to run a race with deer, Or with Chita a sprint he were to face, That, man’s no match appears mighty clear, Beasts would beat with half of their highest pace. Take any seal, a......

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Categories: preens, fantasy, games, men,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member As a Raven Caws
... Something dreadful do I see, reflected in her eyes. Could be death she's seen in a horrid dream, or perhaps the relapse of a wretched addiction that's left her at the mercy of this rav......

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Categories: preens, sorrow,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Life, and Trekking Across Wild Wilderness
...Life, And Trekking Across Wild Wilderness As epic pain ebbs then subsides Nature's steals the mountainous scene With beauty's encompassing slides Home, farm life, peacock yardbird preens. ......

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Categories: preens, art, beauty, bird, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Animal Poems 2
...Animal Poems II These are poems about animals, limericks and other forms of doggerel. Ballade of the Bicameral Camel by Michael R. Burch There once was a camel who loved to hump. Pleas......

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Categories: preens, animal, earth, funny, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Robin Redbreast
...Robin Redbreast Spring is here, and the robins appear With morning and evening song in the air. A robin redbreast perched in a tree Sings a song for his lady bird to be, Undeterred, a......

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Categories: preens, bird, nature, spring,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Whimsical
...Hummingbirds gather, sipping nectar, wings buzzing as they rapidly flutter. Fun, feisty and fearless visitors, treasured enchanting moments. A bright ruby throated male, perched waiting for h......

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Categories: preens, beautiful, bird, nature, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Cup Runneth Over
...A Cup Runneth Over His cup runneth over, yet he craves more As flights of hubris on wings of greed soar, Rich is the life of caviar and champagne, Where ruthlessness wins his races in f......

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Categories: preens, emotions, humanity, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Agonizing
...Because you have known, like you look at my agony growing in it. While she looks, at the spark she has caused in the eye of it. As I moan because of what she does and still goes on I am fully ......

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Categories: preens, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Man of Means
...Oh, yes. A man of means. Harsh, cold creature Punctured smile Selfish demon Dark fills his genes Oh, yes. A man of means. Tongue like an asp Punctured words Words like a bee Meaning that s......

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Categories: preens, bullying, dark, evil, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Season of Grieving Color
...The Season of Grieving Color David J Walker The day dawns in golden streams Of pinks and grays And the frays of things In moist and curious blues What color of the pallor Could be pile......

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Categories: preens, color,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Purple Ice
...Purple ice — Flames of yellow sunshine freezing. Bittersweet, From golden scepter’d throne, Red and orange leaping. Purple ice — Snake eyes rolling, impassioned fire. King’s knife twists In......

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Categories: preens, imagery, jealousy,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Sudden Storm
...The storm blasted its way across near horizon Like a fleeting loss of Mother Nature’s temper-- Seething anger, blowing, and drumming ahead Shouting to the trees “Get out of my way!” an......

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Categories: preens, nature, storm, weather,
Form: Imagism

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