Short Crouching Poems

The divorcee
Runs from a roaring lion
Into a crouching tiger...

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Yellow jack o' lanterns
dance in the eyes of
crouching inky cats...

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crouching for shelter
from pattering rain, I sat -
before cutting him....

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After you left, I 
Found my pride crouching inside
A homeless man’s box

I crawled inside and 
Collapsed, releasing the last
Of love’s butterflies


8/5/11

Susan Burch...

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Territorial, she stalks the wildebeest

Juxtaposition, she tarries, crouching low

Young cubs nearby with rumbling tums










Capcha Contest
Judy Konos...

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The hot rain was pregnant with moisture
Atmosphere foretold thunderstorm
Animals began to hide
Burrowing into earth
Crouching under bush
Slipping in holes
Tunneling
Hiding
Safe...

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It's easier said than done 
Brushing away the darker days
Holding on being totally fake
Smiling till your teeth shake
Despair in your very make
Crouching under the barrage of hearsays_...

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I MUST HIDE
FROM THESE BEASTS
WHO CREEP
LIKE GHOULS
IN THE NIGHT
HUNTING ME
LIKE SCARED PREY
I'M CROUCHING
SHAKY
SHIVERING
LOOK IN THE SHADOWS
YOU'LL FINE ME THERE
STUMBLING 
IN THE DARKNESS....

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dredging of the mind
banishing demons
new awareness
birth of a revolution
prismatical mirroring 
of hope
tempting yet repelling
shades of deep winter
looming and crouching
hibernating for a
blissful spring...

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Poet….
  Lone Wolf of the spoken word

Crouching in darkness
 —one verse in the herd

Stalking his prey
  far into the night

Attacking with feeling
   —that forever bites

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)...

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Crouching in a corner,
Hiding under a blanket,
Sucking my thumb,
I escape into the
carefree world of my childhood!



"Somewhere" contest by nette onclaud
~Abdul Malik - 01/08/15
~Syllables: 30...

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tromping hooves beat down
darkened, tear-stained earth below
battered, beaten, bruised
inside walls too thick to show
my true nature crouching low


©  10-10-2012

For: SKAT's  Tanka me this/that Contest

*about poem...

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Tough-wood and feather
half in flight;
bent as a dark fork.

The late of the year
spots her with blood berries
crouching against the wind.

The blasted daughter  of high North,
a tryst with the harsh sleet,
dark as the night`s splinter....

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Alas! 'Tis the lionesses out to hunt 
And the Mara antelopes out of luck 
That trouble your vision, me friend. 
Come, let's quick to our tent, 
Lest the crouching queen, 
And the scheming king, 
Find us in the wind
Curious friend
Of the Mara
Come
Oh...

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Sultry girl
Crouching tiptoed on a chair
Watching as it rises
She fears and welcomes the flood
Shivers in anticipation
Will she meet the waters with equal force?
Or will she be swept away
by the depth of his desire?


For Forever Malta's Contest...

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hungry monsters under the bed are creeping

              rumbling bellies hoping for something crunchy

                    crouching creatures waiting for quiet sleeping--

                          MOMMY AND DADDY!!!!





January 18, 2019...

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Leaves in trees
Shading out 
Green color to yellow
I did not see crouching 
And become quiet 
In the cold of autumn 

Opened the door and
Closed again
Began to read
A new chapter
In the way of running
Touched the mind
Lighting up a candle
In a cloud of darkness

 Udaya R. Tennakoon...

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It could not feel the vixen's stare,

The rabbit grazing, unaware.

It could not see her crouching form,

No movement there to forewarn.

Tensed muscle, ready, rapt.

A blur, a squeal, a neck snapped.

The limp rabbit, bleeding, dead.

There are cubs waiting to be fed....

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crouching staring opposition glare
tears stream down
unrealized
i fear nothing but the rage within my bones 
looking at my hands full of blood 
the shackles 
prayers i shout in silence
Spanish and English
falling to my knees all i can do is pray
with my chin up
hands forward...

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For a brief moment, she waits 
Patiently. Laughter stagnant ~
Paused in crippling depression, 

Crouching in sunken despair,  
Imprisoned to this moment 
Melancholy deeply impaled 

Withdrawing from isolation
Contentment blooms, sorrow lifts
In clusters of mere moments....

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To ocean's edge I knelt
to water, crouching down by
a lily guilded mirror.

In it I saw stars,
and was saddened
by the dark void in the middle.

As I moved it went with me,
so slowly I left,
and took it all away.

Leaving in my wake 
the stars, to shine on
peacefully, over moonlit bay....

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Crouching as many curves
               in a bronze spring
               a road full of turns

Tugging your knees
              into the apples of your chest
              hair seaweed over rocks

Hidden your face
              between a bone tunnel
              a circle perfect in itself...

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Imagination's leap,
has come to a sudden halt.
He crouches his dreams
on an altar of skinned knees.

Weary of his travels,
calloused hands soothe a calloused foot.
As he momentarily ponders,
his heritage of great pain. 



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Inspired by Michelangelo's Crouching Boy...

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crouching down in the grass
she felt like a puma or at least a tiger
the grass barely moved
she was careful not to breathe

a rabbit went past.
too big to take.
She let it live
She was waiting for a chipmunk

She had spotted him yesterday
He was overconfident
she could hardly wait to
bite off his head...

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Wye, 2 Konfabulation
 



Come folk; gather to my proboscis 
And hark to my impending psychosis. 
Tonight is December thirty-fust, 
Something is about to bust. 
\The clock is crouching, ready to pounce; 
Of pity it'll not give an ounce. 
This way comes rapacity, penury. 
Duck, here comes another century....

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