Short Skitter Poems

June night, two points shine

claws skitter down waving tail

ratcheting sounds of possums.'...

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leaves skitter about
blowing machine loud roaring
autumn peace dwindling

written November 7, 2021...

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swirling leaves skitter
chasing squirrels on the lawn ~
fall Olympiad

Written October 26, 2022...

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autumn breezes sigh
dying leaves drift downward still …
skitter across lawn 

Written September 21, 2022...

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the droplets pitter-pattered
as my footprints melted into doesn't-matters
and all the buzzings and birds skitter-scattered
and, with Beauty on the nigh...all thought shattered...

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each second scrubbed clean with newness
I face my demons
they skitter off in corners
i get to decide whether to chase them
tame them or walk the other way
each second my own
to enjoy with free will...

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scarlet leaves litter the ground
the branches sway in the breeze
yellow leaves skitter away
chased by the unseen







03/11/2012
Francine Roberts
entered in Russell's "Natural Dodoitsu" contest...

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The laggard oak leaves
skitter like brown field mice
their stem-tails and sharp edges
scratching across the road.
Grates and bushes trap them.
Layering they accumulate
awaiting the recomposition of life....

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black shapes skitter across my eyeline
fluid and quick like a cat or a black ink shadow
sometimes in the corner of my eye
sometimes across the street just far enough so I'm
not sure
I wait in the dusk for answers...

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Today
5/20/2016

Words skitter across my page going nowhere, saying little,
True to their only purpose of birth, to make a sentence,
Which most will never read, and even fewer, embrace.

Tom
...

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My words fall down and skitter around
  like leaves from an autumn tree,
    dry and crinkly.
                   Sapless.
                   Lifeless.
Vestiges of prouder times
  when language used to speak my mind....

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Scurry scurry, Skitter scatter
Tick tick tick 
He found the cheese platter
Resting on jean
Metal in the air 
Riding down Beach
Wind in his fur
He has no jacket
Nothing like that
Because he’s a tiny 
Little white rat...

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Lost black clouds skitter across the sky
ice backs
reach to connect
black clouds as the blow across my window
heavy rain for days now
lost black clouds blow black against my eyes
I close them
lost in summary
lost in allegory 
just
lost...

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As the waves of the ocean crash,
Little creatures skitter-skatter pitter-patter past
by the shore.

As they turned around, more waves crashed,
And they pitter-pattered skitter-skattered past
by no more.
Taken back, back...
to the depth of the ocean floor....

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he passes me on the street 

the homesless man

with his grimey clothes unruly hair

pockets bulging like terrified eyeballs

eyes skitter about like a trapped animal

guarding his few belongings

what is his story

may have broken a dozen hearts...

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Listen to the birth before sunrise
That predawn movement which 
Pushes us into the light
Songs dispersing from elm
And maple, spruce and pine
Oak and ash
The skitter across a lawn
The ripples in the pond
The breath escaping our lungs
And it is not yet daybreak...

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Magazine ads and newspaper obituaries
skitter across the streets
like tumbleweed in the desert.
Rims the size of carriage wheels roll by.
Everyone's holsters are filled,
even the children carry pistols.
The schools are ghost towns
but the saloons stay occupied.
This is the Wild, Wild West....

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Telegraph poles
Derelict each in their own way
Watch the Forest creep around
Mountains watch them rot
Trains skitter past
The River pays no mind
Dragging their wires on the Ground
Useless
Many miss glass eyes
Many hang their arms
Some have fallen
None talk
No more dots and dashes...

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black ink shapes skitter in the road shade
in the tree shade under bushes into the dark
no streetlight
transform to running ink lines whipping whipping 
away from the light 
so fast eyes are deceived
yet every night under the moon
ink shapes skitter and shiver in place 
race
past all we know...

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Rapid Transit
By Miracle Man
August 30, 2020

My mind is like a playground,
where endless thoughts skitter rapidly.
Pining to be heard they appear unbound,
but few morph into words, to be displayed in ink.
When the bell rings and recess ends,
most vaporize, because they stink.
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they come like little pawed feet
gathering strings and yarns of life
silently sitting on their haunches
eager to peek further in the door
'til hounds arouse to nip at bytes 
and paws skitter and move on

© Goode Guy 2013-12-25

with appreciation to Carl Sandburg
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174299...

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gold
speckled
painted leaves
skitter in breeze
decorate my lawn
eager for my raking

I enjoy the sight of
nature's colorful 
autumn beauty
of gold leaf
before
cold

THIRD PLACE WINNER
written September 3, 2021
especially for "Merse - Beauty of Fall" poetry contest
sponsored by Malabika Ray Choudhury...

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As night decends on the town
murmers skitter through out the grounds
knowing that night will be here for awhile
daylight will come just before denile
and the bags of bones that lie underneath your bed
give you the sense of never ending dread
so embrace the night that tucks you in tight
until you see the first ray of sunlight...

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A Day out




Setting Sun of countryside,
Ducks skitter in lake,
Picnic basket, kids relish
pie and choco cake.

Taking turns for the frisbee,
till face flushes cool,
Exciting trills of Robin,
water splash of pool.




Written April 13th, 2015
For Andrea's " Have you tried a 7/5 trochee " contest

Awarded 11th place...

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I walk barefoot on the beach
Where the water greets the land.
Waves with their wet fingers reach,
Then retreat from where I stand.
White foam fizzles on the sand.

I pick up some rocks and shells,
Watch the shorebirds dive and fly
As the ocean ebbs and swells,
Plovers skitter, seagulls cry,
Soundless pelicans glide by.

8/3/2017...

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