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Shelled Poems - Poems about Shelled


Yours, the Pale-Shelled Cameo, Dear
Yours, the pale-shelled cameo, dear Moon-skied, Night-worn. Hung from its pure starred necklace. Pearls of the high-born! Of you what's mythic featured Afar, as dream-lit Alike within clasping's reach. Alike to claim it....

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Categories: shelled, moon,
Form: Rhyme
The Iron Shelled Crab
The crab is lonely in the sea Of regret and melancholy, He watches idly, in silent plea Of someone to embrace him. He wishes daily for a heart To share his longing, when apart, But terrified to make the start, Allows no one to face him. "Stay away," his bitter cry, "My claws are sharp and my tongue is sly, I'll cut you up if...

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Categories: shelled, depression, lonely,
Form: Rhyme



Shelter-In, Shelled Out
I'm keeping track of a big bug buzzing above my head, resembling Public order. How did it get in, I wonder and did it use hand-sanitizer before entering? Silly thought are easy to come by these days when yesterday came today and will likely impose itself tomorrow, making my kitchen calendar redundant, except for a dart game, puncturing holes in the wall....

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Categories: shelled, allegory,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Grey Shelled Moon
Early spring morning. Is it singing just for me? Tiny flecks of misty magic tumbling from its beak. Perhaps its screaming out for mercy. Beneath a broken wing... or offering a lullaby to a grey shelled moon....

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Categories: shelled, Lullaby, nature,
Form: Free verse
Shelled Soul
Need I for that while? To ascertain who I am A life to never have a registered file This body, simply a shell I found to lend A body only ever so vulnerable Every reason to be exploited again and again A someone, rather a soul more desirable Or rather an empty shell to better yet remain The kind of care to have...

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Categories: shelled, imagination, body,
Form: Rhyme




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