Short Duckling Poems

Black wings fluttering
   Pecking at pale prison walls-
Now free for cold swim...

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mean girls tag teaming
to bully
the ugly duckling



posted on July 16, 2018...

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Crack, push, wriggle, peck,
Wet duckling appears by night -

Easter breakfast runs...

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Well it's sad to say, that this ugly duckling
never grew into anything more than an ugly duck...

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Even the smallest creature makes ripples,
When it enters Life’s Great Pond,
And those ripples just keep on expanding -
Far, far, far beyond....

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There once was a duckling so cute
Who slid down a long water shute
His mother was shaken by the risk he had taken
But the duck thought the ride was a hoot...

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the ugly duckling
down changed to pure brilliant white
transformed totally

syllable count 5,7,5 
Feathers The Haiku Contest –  Skat
07~13~15...

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Quack!
Ducklings,
I have now,
running freely,
Girls put those ducklings back in their box now.
The ducklings chase the girls around the house.
Nurture,
these baby, 
ducklings.
Love....

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magical moment 
brook babbles contentedly 
duckling swim lessons


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it's the golden hour
young duck swimming afternoon
hard rain patters down

the sun yet shines on
duck revelry in late bath
green river frolic

drought endured so long
but blooms and smiles are coming
I've had days like this...

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Dreams are amazing, you can be a fairy or a king
A champion boxer, a cartoon character, about anything
You can be female or male
A kangaroo, a flock of quail
The mind is unlimited, you could even be an ugly duckling...

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Before you I was an Ugly Duckling
No one ever cared
But now you came into my life
This life is what we share
And now I'm a beautiful Swan
This is what you did to me
Oh, you are so sweet
I'm so glad to have you here
My heart is yours to keep...

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W hat fascinating thoughts to knoW
O ccupy its duckling mind sO
N otice how its focus is takeN
D iscovering the plane flying, anD
E xpressing in its eyes awE
R ealizing,  a bigger bird can soaR.


All rights reserved ~~~Cynthia Buhain-Baello~~~08.11.13...

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Duckling
Lost on a hill
Golden eyes of an owl
Frighten him to a damp chill
Quacking


Strict  Guidelines
Line 1-2 syllables is the title
Line 2-4 syllables 
Line 3-6 syllables 
Line 4-8 syllables 
Line 5- refers back to line 1


5/17/2019
9pm PST...

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the ugly duckling

                                 was ostracized by the herd -

                                      ... goes the path of shame








17/02/2020
Sun :) - A-L Andresen :)
Copyright © All Rights Reserved
 
www.howmanysyllables.com ~ 5-7-5...

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My shrink says I haven't any..
self esteem that is.
Not good enough or smart enough
I thought the ugly duckling would
turn in to a swan.. didn't happen.
Just  living life in the slow lane.
Gray and unattractive, old too
But my mother loved me..
that's something, right?...

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Like a rising sun, she is pretty
Unprecedented her beauty
Catchy this ugly duckling
Yet beauty and the beast retelling

Enter oh! Fair moon
Mythic at noon
Elegantly adorned like a garden
Radiant as the blue sky of Eden
Harmoniously hilarious her presence
Obvious in every sense...

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Debbie's duck Goosie blew the coop
                                   Went to Gruk got into a coupe
                                         She fell on Mo Jerry
                                       Who managed to marry
                                 An ugly duckling - real duck soup...

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WAIT

time lag

p a t i e n t l y

shy ugly  duckling

cold and sad he wants death

seasons change reveals mused swan 

"timed doorway to breakthroughs: patience"


(c) Olive Eloisa
11:56 am
June 03, 2014

Contest Name	CREATE YOUR PYRAMID!
Sponsor	Nette Onclaud
Theme: hourglass...

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A
New duckling
One day hatched
Abruptly cracked, newly detached
To the lake-edge dispatched 

To 
Mother’s feather
There, all together
Enjoy spring’s mild weather
Searching bugs in the heather

When
Brothers, sisters
Come chasing misters
Plus cats with whiskers
Make us scatter like twisters...

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Wondering where you are tonight?
Can't feel the warmth of your sight
Your wings that cuddle me under the moonlight
Your heat that incubates me in spotlight.
I'm a shelled-duckling not so pretty
My little heart beats so fast and plenty
Nearness of you I pray for each day
Your body to stay beside me all day!...

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People call me ugly,
And other hurtful names,
I'm often ostri-sized,
My feathers used for games.

They say the Ugly-Duckling
Grew up to be a swan,
And though I'm still but very young,
They ask me What went wrong?
I'm left here on my own-some;
And feel so sad and blue,
Well, you would feel the same
If you were an ... emu....

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Does the caterpillar understand
  it will become a butterfly so grand
Does the tiny ugly duckling realize
  it will be a gorgeous swan, life-size

Does the blind, featherless baby robin know
  that off into the sky, it will breathtakingly go
They, of course, can't imagine these things ~
  That requires a human mind with wings...

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*Image of Quebec City by LNEWS.

Hawaiian Eskimos

Quacking lone duckling on a crystal lake,
Queerly hops a loon, faux pas not a mistake,

Quebec, dad's trunk roads for sightseers,
Quaint scene, an edgy dad seeks volunteers,

Qualifying mountie, Hawaiians, he indulges,
Quality time, the whole of Canada, he divulges.

2022 July 26...

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In a quieten hidden corner

In a dark and danken room

Where mushrooms alone 
we're meant to grow

An ugly duckling

Swanned


And out of the fog and wetting mist

A solitary flower one day did grow


And bring to bare

A shrinking violet

Placing 1st in the county show


And grew on to be mamed


QUEEN OF ALL OUR BETTER TOMORROW's...

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