Short Anteater Poems

Short Anteater Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Anteater by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Anteater by length and keyword.


Premium Member A Dainty Flower I Would Be

If a dainty pink flower I would be,
I would choose the delicate peony.
Anteater friendly,
Really bendy,
Encouraging him to lick ants off me.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Anteater Gibbon and Kangaroo Too

Anteater’s ideas are absolute.
Buff-cheeked gibbon gives them a toot.
Tree kangaroo throws down a shoot.
Peacock pheasant gives them the boot.
I run away with all of their loot.
I am kind of a robber galoot.
Form: Monorhyme

Kid

Spiky hair.
Brittle.
Porcupine,
hedgehog,
spiny anteater
echidna,
kid.

Grow up prickly.
Grow up quick.
They raze -
rib dig.

Hurts in his alphabet soup.
Jeers jar.
quills quiver.

Curled up,
face tucked
into heart.

The Aardvark and the Pangolin

The Aardvark and the Pangolin,
Romantically, had been entwined.
But infidelity, was in the air,
Aardvark, had a new suiter in mind.

Pangolin, did challenge his rival,
The Anteater with beautiful snout.
Don’t fear for me, on your betrayal,
Sweet Armadillo, is taking me out.
© Kevin Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member He Is So Dreamy

Anteater guy swings his two tiny 'shrooms
They toss and sway like willow tree blooms
We watch him waddle on down the road
Probably to visit his cousin spotted toad.

He is so dreamy my cousin Suzette said.
I am shocked at her idea – is she crazed in the head.
You don’t mean Anteater guy! I incredulously say
Who else? She asks as she watches him waddle away.
Form: Rhyme


Kid

Spiky hair, brittle waves, porcupine, hedgehog, spiny Anteater, echidna. A kid growing up prickly. The long tongues of children gibe him sharp. Tumbleweed in the schoolyard. Can’t tread him down. Hurts are on the surface like frozen alphabet spaghetti. Thorns and barbs, jagged Jeers, quills quietly quivering the quarry - face tucked into his heart.

It Was In My Mouth

I felt her gaze upon me
With unavoidable bright eyes
Her adoration made me smile
She is so innocent, yet so wise

I swooped her up and held her close
That's when it all went south
With the speed of an anteater
My dog Pixies tongue was in my mouth!

Her mouth may be cleaner than mine
That didn't dampen my chagrin
Because I forgot, and licked my lips
Even knowing where that tongue had been!
© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Anteater Had Covid

Anteater had Covid and no one would come over
Swan ran toward his house with her pet dragonfly Clover.
They brought him ants freshly picked from the fallen log.
He was excited to see them, and so was Chester, his dog.

Thank you for coming! Do you want something to eat?
I wouldn’t! Warned a scurrying corner-hugging mouse. 
Of course, they did not want food from this germy house
But the generous anteater’s gesture was sweet.

Premium Member Suzie Q Anteater and Ms Gerbil

Mrs. Suzie Q. Anteater will take the lead, Ms. Gerbil said.
If I try to take over she might thump me hard on the head.
We did not know what she was talking about, what did she know?
We saw them parading down to town, going kind of ploddish and slow.

I told you she’d take over, Ms. Gerbil’s eyes seemed to say.
This made us laugh a little bit into our hankies that day.
Mrs. Suzie Q. Anteater is the mother of eight or nine.
You’d best do what she says and stand straight in her line.
Form: Quatrain

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