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Scuttling Poems - Poems about Scuttling

Premium Member October, You Amaze Me
... God in all His majesty gives us now His tenth great gift of multifarious joys. Ghostwinds whistle lilting tunes, motivating dancing leaves to make their scuttling noise. Distant ......

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Categories: scuttling, beauty, nature, october,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the Jungle
...Allow me to address you child. You've been born into the wild. Listen to this friendly fowl. While, innocently, you dream, wake up and bawl and scream, creatures crawl and scheme - says I, the ......

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Categories: scuttling, animal, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Harvest
...Hark, everyone, one and all, like crabs on rocks, on earth we crawl, minding tides that rise and fall, I say unto you. Vast, long-suffering, scuttling horde, welcome our new leader and lord, ......

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Categories: scuttling, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
THE MOUSE WITH THE HAT
...THE MOUSE WITH THE HAT But wait, is that a mouse with a hat Tilted sideways in a most casual way I guess it must be going somewhere Scuttling along with a purposeful air Perhaps to meet anothe......

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Categories: scuttling, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
New Life
...Hermit crab human scuttling about In my new life. Ill fitting suit. Like wearing your mother's clothes - Clip clopping around the kitchen... High heals filled with little feet... And dreams of a......

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Categories: scuttling, angst, anxiety, bereavement, break
Form: Free verse



Graveyard Groupies
...Look out you might see them scuttling down your street patting the neighbour’s dog nodding to people they meet They lurk on hospital corridors wearing their black shiny shoes then scour obit......

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Categories: scuttling, death, funeral, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dark Side of Night
...The clouds scuttled across the night sky obscuring from sight the silvery moon. Which managed sometimes to peep out covering the land with shadowed light. In the shadows appeared mystical shapes......

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Categories: scuttling, dark, moon, night,
Form: Prose Poetry
Night Bewitches
...NIGHT BEWITCHES Night offers that welcome darkness With only the pale moon to observe When undefined things will emerge And those rare emotions can surge Strangest sounds that touch a nerve A......

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Categories: scuttling, dark, night,
Form: Rhyme
Lorca Translations I
...Lorca Translations I Gacela of the Dark Death by Federico Garcia Lorca loose translation by Michael R. Burch I want to sleep the dreamless sleep of apples far from the bustle of cemeteries. ......

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Categories: scuttling, dark, death, heart, romance,
Form: Free verse
A Dialogue With God
...God, how do you feel watching your people? Do you chuckle when you see them, Scuttling beneath the weight of their own shadows? Do you find amusement in the plot of this world, With its comic cha......

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Categories: scuttling, allusion, analogy, art, black
Form: Free verse
In America June 14th Equals Flag Day
...In America June 14th equals flag day and in Pennsylvania a federal holiday. "...I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the republic for which it stands. One natio......

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Categories: scuttling, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Pirates
...Their ships must ride a rolling sky, masts too high to sail into view. They appear, board the land, they buccaneer. The clamoring mob fall upon a scuttling prey pluck the weakest into hun......

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Categories: scuttling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Harry Horsman
...Harry Horsman's treatment was withdrawn over a week ago and they are making him comfortable, he is now in Hospice care. Susan Ashly…we can only hope that Hospice care can keep Harry comfortable. M......

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Categories: scuttling, caregiving, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
The Oval
...Racing the oval of tide Watching the sun and moon collide Riding on horses in the oval of fate Saddling on courses in the ring of slate Horses in breeds of colors and shade Forces in creeds ......

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Categories: scuttling, courage, men, strength, women,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Prophet
...A thousand bees never settling down, buzzed within his head. Their confused drone, into a ruffled rumble grew, lengthening into frenzied drumbeats, taking the might of roaring waves ......

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Categories: scuttling, angst, conflict, confusion, crazy,
Form: Free verse

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