Short Armadillo Poems

Big armadillo
invading my privacy
you are a leper...

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Armadillo digs
Japanese Beetles grub gone
One good trait check...

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Dead armadillo on the road
It bodes unwell 
Two vultures attending...

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Armadillo ruins
Flowers that are kept with care
So ugly creature...

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Yellow primula
Tubelike corollas
With five spreading lobes

Can't get one to grow
In my small herb garden plot
Armadillo digs...

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There once was a man from Amarillo
Whose wife looked like an armadillo
The tooth fairy came
And left in shame
Empty, like his mouth on the pillow....

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Napping under a weeping willow

He used a pine cone for a pillow

It was quite a surprise

He saw two beady eyes

Turned out to be an armadillo...

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you are my amorous armadillo
you reflect in the clouds that billow,

    and when i am lonely
    i think of you only

and whisper your name on my pillow!...

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                                                   Fat armadillo
                                            Waddles into garden ...
                                            Sweet potatoes gone...

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THE ARMADILLO

There was an armadillo
That came from Amarillo
He discovered an 18-wheeler
To really be a killer
Now the armadillo from Amarillo
Lies in death on a concrete pillow
Perhaps he should have stayed in Amarillo...

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Hunting Frog, late night
Splash, a stream of piercing light
bubbles from beneath 

I watch, amazed at
the path they follow across
the pond in a line

explosive, the sound
as the wet armadillo
touches the still earth...

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Robin Hood Armadillo can climb trees better than most.
He took his steed up there too, said an alligator ghost.
But that’s all part of his armor, argued one who would know.
An intimidated squirrel who watched from way down below....

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keep busy in this world
as a frog, jump
like a bird, fly
as a human being love
like a hoe plant
as a tongue talk
like an armadillo, sleep
as a sun, be generous
but as a Pangolin be obscure
this world of business
knows no friend or foe...

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It’s high noon in Armadillo Texas Sheriff cat announced in her way.
Her sidekick, Deputy Mouse Whiskers smiled and decided to stay.
They strapped on cowboy hats, holsters, belt buckles and a gun.
It was 1959, when outlaws were arrested, and TV westerns were fun....

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SMALL    CHILD    CHARACTERISTICS



Runs into a hundred resting  pigeon
Which explode into an escaping cloud

Eats her ice-cream with my shirt as napkin
Asks awkward family questions aloud

Favourite animal today – armadillo
Sleeps across me as her pillow...

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Armadillo


Love is a true story.
Love takes time.
True love means being faithful,
And truly loving only one woman for the rest of my life.
At this moment she is only on my mind;
I hope one day to find her hand in mine.


(C)2018 Aa Harvey. All Rights Reserved....

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The aardvark is a quirky beast,
Uniquely dentalated,
And to the armadillo gastronomically related.
He dines on termites, ants, and such,
Most any bug his tongue can touch,
On fruits and veggies, not so much,
Unless he's running low on Vitamin C…
Or needs to be re-regulated....

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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....

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Roly poly armor plated,
Clumsy gated beast.
Looking for a juicy worm,
A creepy, crawly feast.

Sleeping mostly through the day,
Prowling at night,
seeming quiet, docile, shy,
He can put up a fight.

Not a trouble maker,
It's just his lot in life.
He does his best not to be seen.
He's trying to survive....

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My Restless Pillow 

 
Crying in my pillow,

my limbs hanging 

as feeble and limp

as a weeping willow.

 

Drowning my sorrows

 in mounds of raspberry 

stuffed cheesecake phyllo,

running from my regretful 

days in ten gallon hat Texas,

when I spent my days

walking with the gray armadillo.....

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Armadillo


Armor placed upon a knighted
Rat, defender of the gold, not the
Man whose crown adorns it.
Addled pretender to the throne,
Dunce, in hidden jesters robe
Ill bred, ill tempered, 
Lothario, pompous preening,
Lecherous serpent seeking
Only the safety of self.


For PD’s contest
Acrostic Time #1
7/3/2014...

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Redbud and dogwood have blossomed
above the tulips and jonquils where
Alice's house used to be.

A possum and raccoon nose around 
where the garage was before the tornado. 
An armadillo has joined them.

Someone has hung a red feeder from
the old clothesline. No hummingbirds yet.
Spring has brought new life over there. 


Donal Mahoney...

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Roly poly armour plated,
Clumsy gaited beast.
Looking for a juicy worm,
A creepy, crawly feast.

Sleeping mostly through the day,
And prowling at night,
Seeming quiet, docile, shy,
He can put up a fight.

Not a trouble maker.
It's just his lot in life.
He does his best not to be seen,
He's tryng to survive.

                               Judy Ball...

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(With apologies to Robert Frost)

Four feet to the sky, he lay
in an attitude of surrender
confessing his sins
of hunger, of greed
of slavery to his quest
for surprise, for enchantment
around the next bend.

The Armadillo found
that life sometimes slings
death and destruction
and the road not taken
would have been the right one
had he known....

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Fist clenched,
fingernails dig their curves into my skin.
Heavy footprints grow silent.
I unravel my fist slowly;
like an armadillo when it knows it’s safe, 
extending my fingers out towards the stale air.
I watch as it sits there, 
in the center of my palm, 
near my zig-zag scar 
Times new roman 12 point black; 
 B*tch
Staring back at its new rightful owner....

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