Short Crawlers Poems

They fought tooth and nail
To the amazement of the onlookers
With swollen hills on faces pale;
For brawls are part of night-crawlers...

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Most the things that mostly crawl

Mostly cost the most of all

Like crabs and snails and lobster claw

Pray the day that prices fall...

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It is the home
to all two-legged, four-legged,
scaly, and crawlers.

It is the only element
where water, fire
and air assemble,
creating the rhythm
of life.......

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slimy
and ugly
creepy crawlers
you can’t see them
in every crevasse
but
you know
they're there
lurking in the dark



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on March 10, 2019...

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grasses and trees stay calm
under the dark sky
at dusk

as sun moves to the west
birds settle on trees
night comes

silence broken
movement and noise from the pond
crawlers awake...

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Night Crawlers

As the bartender shouted last call
they clung to the bar lest they fall
then said “let’s continue”
“what’s next on the venue”
let go and completed the crawl.


John G. Lawless
10/12/2016...

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Kenya kangaroo flying colorful kaleidoscope kite
gnawing nimble gnashy night crawlers on Nairobi’s night
enticing enthusiastic Englewood eagles, filling them with excite
making melodious music, merrymaking magic as they might...

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After the rain I started to smell them
They have a distinct odor, not a fragrance
I had to walk carefully, as to not squash them
They were squirming on the sidewalk and in the grass
Night crawlers, giving me nightmares some nights...

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Good Morning!
Creatures, crawlers
Goblins, grass, grazers
Roots heaped on trash
Life flowing above
Flowing underneath
Life flowing through death
And spaces beneath
Dazed dreamers
Crazed lagoons
Dancing daffodils 
All seasons in bloom...

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After human self-destruction ends the Anthropocene
will creepy crawlers build the Arthropodocene?
With rising levels of CO2 and methane 
and temperature rising to profane,
will those of poikilothermic exoskeleton, 
be the best Phylum to bet on?...

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I do not like night crawlers.
They smell funny.
They are squishy when you step on them.
They have a weird pink bump.
They creep me out.
Today I read about the giant blue earthworm.
He can grow up to six and a half feet.
I dare not leave my house now in the rain....

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a filtered light strained and old
that hangs over us man crawlers
we are loaded with slow blood
we jaw-jaw under evening circles

empty as a watering can in august
up and up the garden, down down
we hammer the green into squares
as we think we may, foolish with dust...

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haiku/dissatisfaction
©  RAJAT KANTI CHAKRABARTY
15 November 2014




                                      put on your trousers
                                         i do not like snails in bed
                                             they are kerb-crawlers...

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Rugged and rebuffed it still sets all alone
A memory of my very long ago childhood
Vine covered with creepy crawlers all about
More frightening now then when a child I think
I remember the old outhouse from long ago


3rd Place Winner
Contest # 189
Sponsor Brian Strand
July 17, 2012...

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April is here budding the trees.
The bees and creepy crawlers emerge.
the rain clouds burst, starts the showers

Soon our eye are lifted to rainbows
that stretch across our earth
And flower begin to peek through the soil.

Birds sing, cats mate, and children get to play outdoors.
Thirty days of rebirth, renew, and now a days reuse.
When April leaves we May see June !...

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In the midst of ravaged nature you are a rose that blossoms hope
In the midst of thunder you are a voice in an angelic choir
In the midst of a storm you give a diamond glitter to rain drops
In the midst of crawlers you are a gracious flyer
In the midst of hate and pain you have an eye for love and joy
In the midst of prejudice and jealousy you are always the one with a cheer...

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Flashing lights and glitter
In the wee hours of the morn
Strange variety of critters
Walking about the streets
Suspicious characters
Nothing like the daytime breed
Nocturnal creepy crawlers
Lurking creatures of the dark
Till sunrise washes over
And the receding tide
Sweeps clean the streets
Under a most forgiving sun



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on January 19, 2019...

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Unspoken words do not, as poets say,
Die on the tongue - in truth they are transformed.
"Please, As you wish, I love you, will you stay,
These, lingering, turn crawlers, all deformed.
The webs they should have wrapped 'round hearts astray,
In throats catch words that might have coldness warmed.
Speak! lest you are likewise robed in silence,
And thus robbed of love do your soul violence....

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Cardinal is my moniker
I care not
Words are nothing
My tweet is pleasant.
Fresh birdseed in the feeder.
Succulent worms came out last night
I got them quickly 
Slurped them up next to the marigolds
Night crawlers are so tasty
I preen as the dark ones come near
Looking for my mate 
The hunt delicious
This is enough to satisfy me

Written 7-11-2020
Contest Bird
Sponsor: Constance LaFrance...

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Woken in the dead 
Of Night, Given
Myself such a fright
Screams aloud in my head
I can’t seem to go
Back to bed,
Knowing the creatures
Behind my walls
Waiting watching for
Me to doze off
Creepy crawlers all about
Just thinking of them
Makes me SHOUT!
This only happens once
A year and it always
Fill me with such fear
Its HALLOWEEN once again
As the all these monsters 
Become real again....

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BREAKFAST

Black wings    ready claws
They drop across my window
It has rained all night
A steady and long drenching
The night crawlers have surfaced

There is a cool breeze
A black cat in the window
Birds flutter by    unconcerned
A tail-twitch from time to time
But frozen in the moment

Nature is cruel
With wild things under the sun
Hear the birds singing
Happy the song    or    warning?
Of what does the lookout sing?...

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as the hen settled down on her eggs
  and the burro brayed his last bray
the moon slowly rose in the sky
  fulsome and round to the eye

sated calves nuzzled up against udders
  while fillies snuggled into their mothers
lambs curled up beside sheep
  the world had plunged into sleep

yet denizens of the dark kept on going
  internal time clocks never slowing
night crawlers dancing 'til dawn 
  miles from the doe and her fawn...

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In the country, we do not have city shine,
we have luster, 
we have the glimmer of voles,
the fumes of turbid crawlers
under the slow burn of iridescent woods. 

We who night-watch
see from sunken waters,
gather light from luminous cisterns.
We understand black;
how it sheens the clapper claw.

On the pitch of the concealed
a country ken leads us to a quickened vision,
we see as a horse sees
fleeing from a fire breathing barn....

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Halloween
       is when portals
           open
              deep within hell,
                 and darkness shadows 
                  spooky shapes
                    cast by
                    lanterns while
                    creepy
                  crawlers mix
                 in with the
              young trick-or-treaters.
           But a Halloween Moon
       makes
monsters less scary.


(Yalto)


09,30,2019...

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Smell of cut grass,
brings back memories
of better summers
as dear childhood chums,

we would play until
way past dark and
sit on that grass
so green and fresh.

Wishing on falling stars,
coming down from heaven,
telling stories and
watching fireflies.

As dew fell on the ground
in search of night crawlers,
we would find so many
into the can we would place them.

Voices calling to us,
our fun would end until
tomorrow night and more
wishes we would make....

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