Short Leathery Poems

slow moving reptile
lives inside leathery shell
     good pet for a child...

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plums
scrumptious
deep purple
leathery bite
prunes     ...

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gnarled
leathery
her hands
work magic
plunging
into
flour
water
and an
egg or two...

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The enormous
brown,leathery mushroom
had an upside  down cap
more like a birdbath
than a toad's stool
a great talking point for the cane toad and bullfrog....

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Well maybe I'll find love
in the shadowy doorway
of a tenement building
'neath a bullet grey sky.

Silver shrapnel will rain
down
soak our leathery feet
watered and overgrown.

Love in a shadowy doorway....

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you've got lined, leathery face,
astigmatic eyes well in place
behind what your generation
calls lennon bifocal sensation.

you still got a patch of dark hair,
but a closer, careful look there,
roots the tint of stainless spoon,
you need another dye job soon!...

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The Blue Jay's call wheels from his throat
like an un-oiled clothesline 
psychotic in the frozen air

he lands his leathery feet amongst
the scattering of assorted birds and seeds
bouncing like shrapnel around the feeder

and until the cat comes
he is king of the morning buffet...

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Our marriage is laden. 
Like dishes stuck in the sink for days. 
Putrid. 
Glazed with coppery laughter and leathery fights. 
T I R E D,
I then made home 
from the metaphors 
of my head. 
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from the book Scentsibility, an Amazon Best seller
published 2020 ©JinQue RD...

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I will rise
from the bodies
you threw down
you wasted,
gunning down old men's dreams
and women's smiles.
I will shake the leathery hand of rejection,
and scream blue success,
until you take your last breath
and sink below.
I will earn my drum
and beat it tirelessly. 
I will rise
I will shine
I will concur....

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Limpid lake blue eyes of lapis lazuli
Light like luminous lifeless lucent moons
Those lovely lively lustrous luscious lips
Taste like leathery little lingonberries

Yet, those loathsome lethal lavender pink lips
Lacked my long-lasting ladylike interest
While that ludicrous lawless lackluster brain
Literalized a lexicon of lazy lowlives...

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There's a guy I know that loots.
He often wears special boots:
Strong leathery ones he'd choose,
His feet in them starts to cruise

To break doors with non-helped feet!
Isn't that alone a feat?
Bruce should like to see rogues do that
"But feet later go flat!"

Means, then, looter can be caught:
From boot shop found straight to court...

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The cooling Savannah mud,
Where jungle beasts recline,
Refreshing their leathery hide,
And innocent eyes wink,
Unconcerned by matters of survival,
While Man struggles to find a solution,
To save a species sentenced to die by greed,
Barbaric huntsmen wanting a trophy of murder,
The magnificent horn of the majestic rhinoceros.




Form: Free Verse...

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The peak of the summertime brings the heat
All day in the sun leaves you feeling beat
Try hard to get cool
Time spent by the pool
So much time you are redder than a beet

Your skin feels like leathery dried out meat
You'd give anything for an icy cool treat
The sun is so cruel
You feel like a fool
To the sun I admit utter defeat
6/14/2020...

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You've got deeply lined, leathery face,
   with blurred, astigmatic eyes well in place
      behind what your old generation
         calls lennon eyeglasses sensation;

and you still got shoulder-length, dark hair,
   ah, but a slower, closer look there,
      gray roots the hue of stainless steel spoon,
         you do need another dye job soon!...

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a footprint in the sand
wet, sticky green moss
on an old gray stone

naked, hand-less statues
with pupil-less eyes
frozen in a pose

of glory, ashen bodies
curled in fetal position
with leathery skin

bleached bones
baking in a desert
as vultures circle

pyramids pointing
to an invisible lion
stretching his paws

out in the night
sky, stars shine
over our heads...

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. for public domain

Dappled shadows of fluttering leaves
on the Walnut's limb, dance merrily
upon her aging cheeks and chin.

Her withering smiling, once beguiling,
no longer hides her disappointment
at growing old, now wrinkled and thin,

and yet my eyes are always drawn to hers.
My leathery arms seek to draw her near me.
I rejoice her heart beats within....

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Smile e' heathery peaches,
though snow be falling softly.
A fuzz to yer texture touch-
yer coating turns leathery.

Ail is yer juice- wine within-
O frozen peach numbs 'y tounge.
Thoush winter be calling now,
yer wounder wind will wipe e down.

Lying peaches- a lean pink
smoothing to gray softness-
freezing ail underneath yer skin.
And I seek and loathe yer wetness....

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The best fire wood to be found
If dried it cannot be split
Extremely dense and heavy
And as hard as nails

Leathery evergreen leaves
Red bark peeling from the trunk
Whitish flowers, red berries
Growing from a cliff

It’s known as the Ironwood tree
But that’s not its actual name
A Pacific Coast native
The Madrona tree

Trees Everywhere Contest
Entry by Charles Sides...

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Tulips

                                   Tulips shy open faces
                              On stems of leathery green
                           The white glazed urn embraces
	                 Displaying tips of yellow and cream	





March 20, 2022
Poetry Contest: Lind30rhyming 7/7/7/9
Sponsored by; Chantelle Anne Cooke
Syllables verified on Howmanysyllables.com...

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I hide here at the back
Not the last page, but nearly so
The thick leathery binding which protects me
Is starting to fray and the letters fade

I'm safe up here on the top shelf
And none but the keenest would
Peer beneath this tired, tatty shell
But maybe they would appreciate...

For so many years I have remained unread
I almost fear the moment
When daylight comes
And at last I can sing...

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My old farm hat wears 
its scars on sleeve.
Mended rough and ready
for all to see is heroic deeds
in tussles with cows, bulls and trees.
Its soaked soft in sweat, mellowed with dust.
Patched with bits of other
old hats that have fallen apart, passed it.
Sewn with old leather throngs
through holes punched with a knife.
My old hat is as much a part of me
as my skin, burnt leathery brown
and scarred with age....

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More Woe To Florida

By Elton Camp

Living in Florida sure ain't grand
There's skeeters, flies and sand

Lotta old folks with leathery skin
And house prices dropped again

The tap water is yellow and foul
Gators and snakes make 'em howl

If the sea level happens to rise
Then underwater much of it lies

Now it may have a double punch
A hurricane & a Republican bunch

How much more can they take
Before they get a bad belly ache...

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Dressed up toes to head
from the curtain view of my backyard
to the scattered clothing at my bed.

Your sweet embrace lurks, out to get me.

Snakes crawling up from the dirt,
they stretch menacingly towards me, holding on until it hurts.

Your leathery fingers stroke me, always closer to home
stabbing daggers into my fleshy palms.

Sweet Oleander,
down turned smiles, bleeding hearts;
We adorn your handsome arms....

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Blind to the dark
     circles full moon
          watches in orbit

Aimless rotation
     choice or direction
          revolves around pattern

Leathery wings
     visionless radar
          faceless intuition

Howls in a distant
     barbarian expanse
          alert olive eyes

Kindly conjunction
     shared perception
          silent awareness

***

Triversen,
June 10, 2017 
Copyright © Darren White...

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olive skin so soft and silky smooth
dark brown hair the color of poo
sat in the sun too long is what she do
and now shes bronzed and leathery too
her skin and hair turned to vermouth
aged and withered unwise to see
the color of bronze she turned indeed
now caramel swirled and autumned hair
she sat in the mirror and wondered and stared
how to turn back to the dove she once heired
the tanning bed is a wreckless thing
it wrecks and wrinkles the skin!...

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