Short Tadpole Poems

Frog
Tiny 
Fast jumper
Tadpole watches
Bro'...

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Like a silver tadpole.. a silver tadpole on a chain...

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Like a silver tadpole  .. a silver tadpole on a chain...

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That was December! 
One tadpole swimming alone
In the blue spa....

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in the slow river
pressed flat against the bank
tadpole flirts


4/6/3...

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Rock 
Island
Puddles splash
Baby frog jumps
Stone

Boy
Catches
Frog for fun
Tadpole in mud
Bath...

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Little tadpole 
wanting to run and leap too early, 
how does it feel 
trying to breathe 
  when your lungs ain’t there yet ....

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I stood peeking through the keyhole 
and saw; mommy and daddy roll
in bed playing leapfrog.
I wish for a hotdog
I'll wait and go catch a tadpole.


1/30/2019...

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Ten tiny pollywogs
Happy as can be
Along came an alligator
Ate up three.

Seven skittish pollywogs
Beneath a lily pad
Up swam a rainbow trout
They all died sad....

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Fable of Tadpole and Lily

lily bed pillowed
wading time on the pond's breath
tucked in pole's warm pool
utopia kiss unwrap
a frog soon took his flower

connie pachecho

6/22/17...

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. . . crisp leaves, toss, crackle

                                    tiny, telltale rain puddle

                                                                tadpole tails wiggle . . ....

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... tadpole wiggles its tail
    'neath the reed's
    faint ripple

    itching to leap, to croak
    till its lungs
    puff purple.


... from up a nest chirping
    a fledgling aches
    to fly,

    swift swallows swish by,
    swooshing up
    to the sky!...

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I was told, 
To meet a tadpole,
Who slept on the slop,
Near the north pole.

Done! I said
And went ahead, 
Marching in the freezing dead.

I walked, I hopped
And I stopped,
realized,
My mind's plot.

A dream's fantasy
But comforting in reality,
A solo journey
Travelled in sleep....

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chirping from up a nest,

      a feeble chick longs to fly,

            while swallows swish

                  and swoosh in the sky...


                  as a tadpole wiggles

            by the reed's faint ripple,

      wanting to leap, to croak,

till its lungs puff purple....

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Tadpoles swimming,
so freely on
this cool breezy
    morning.

So many of you,
I see, wondering,
how many of you,
   will survive,

growing into toads,
or frogs will really
bring life to
this pond so grand.

What speed you
have as you
swim around
tadpole city.

wrote 9-27-07  at Lowell ponds...

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Tadpole tails flap!
Lightning strikes, zip-zap!
Showers rinse, splish-splash!
Gulp, sip from sun's cup!
Boing, flowers spring up!

Forests rumble~
Bambi's hustle!
Branches rustle~
Thumping bunnies!

Crack, chicks hatch!
Chirp, birds tweet!
Bleat, lambs leap!

Wildlife
revives,

speaks!


3-2-2021
Spring Diminished Hexaverse Contest
Sponsor: Caren Krutsinger...

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Hot peppers and spicy horseradish
   a gut-punch to the solar plexus
 Snake venom with moldy cheese
   not tonight, if you please...

 Tadpole skins and locust larvae
   strains my stomach of iron
 But a bloody Mary eggnog combo
   gags the esophagus of this Hawaiian

 Wonder how I developed my bizarre sense of taste?
   ~ A flush of the toilet for whoever said, 'Haste makes waste'...

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Everything changes
From a seed to a flower
From a smile to a laugh
From a minute to an hour

Everything changes
From a tadpole to a frog
From a caterpillar to a butterfly
From a puppy to a dog

Everything changes
From a puddle to a pond 
From a house to a city
From an ugly duckling to a 
swan

Everything changes 
Dont you see?
From a raindrop to a 
thunderstorm
From a baby to me!...

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A tree mast broken
Changes pond to pillow fast ...
The frog is asleep

The lilly pad swims
And toad applauds toad in songs
The moon will rise soon 
 
Water turns to dream
Light kisses the heart  of leaf -
Tadpole becomes groom

Lilly blooms sunlight
Frog calls mate and hug to leaf -
Day weds dawn and moon

A lilly leafed hope
The frog sang and perched in pond -
Silver falls the rain

by
David Smalling...

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Into the little pond I jump.....Landing with a noisy… plonk
Legs go up…… legs go down
I can go like this all day…. Treading water all the way.

Now you see me ....now you don’t
Who am I….can you say ?
Here’s a clue … to help you  find your way.

I change color frequently…to blend in with the scenery
Can you guess who I am ?
Think…… Geddup.…..Think.
A little tadpole learning how to swim.
                                                            See my grin?...

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a tadpole wiggles its tail

                            by the reed's  faint ripple,

                                    wanting to leap, to croak

                                                 till its lungs puff purple;

                                                 from up a nest, chirping,

                                    a birdling longs to fly,

                            as swift swallows swish by

                 and swoosh up to the sky!...

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