Short Wriggling Poems

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Sunburst

wriggling my nose
looking cross eyed at raindrops…
                                            trickling sunshine


John G. Lawless
©11/14/2022
Categories: wriggling, muse,
Form: Senryu


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Oh Sunrise

red streaks on maple
sunrise taunts the wriggling worms
a cardinal preys



blueblack of ravens
irridescent folded capes
peeking at sunrise

John G. Lawless
6/23/2020
Categories: wriggling, summer,
Form: Haiku
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Outdated, Inflated

   The truth is outdated
      Falsehoods inflated
    With hyperbole
      created…

    Fishing poles baited
      wriggling worms slated
    to reel in us guppies
       addlepated…
Categories: wriggling, analogy, fish, hyperbole, truth,
Form: Rubai

Three Haiku

a Goldfinch hoping
along an old weathered fence
pear tree blossoms

early afternoon
green woodpecker in field
hidden by wet grass

a small garden pond
hundreds of tiny tadpoles
wriggling at the edge
Categories: wriggling, nature,
Form: Haiku
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Worrisome Wiggle Worms

Worrisome wiggle worms 
wishfully wiping Wedgewood windows, 
wandering within William’s whiskers.
Wisely wriggling while wistfully waiting 
for whoops within William’s whiskers, 
wiggle worms wandering winsomely.
Categories: wriggling, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form: Alliteration


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Spring Reverie

From
Winter's
Fertile womb
Spring leaps newborn
Joy filled daffodils
Ribbons of rose sunshine
New music trimmed in lilac
Wrens and robins return the song
And savor wriggling joy like fat worms
Fragrant fantasies spin on silver rain
Categories: wriggling, spring,
Form: Etheree
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The Crying Child


The Crying Child 

The child cries 
wriggling limbs 
Scrolling the heavens 
Cringing away 
from the clinging shadows 
Streaming tears 
drowning the earth
Echoing thunders 
across the land 
The land bleeds 
even as the creators sleeps
Categories: wriggling, allusion,
Form: Light Verse
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In My Grasp

bottom of a bowel
of jagged rocks
slender bristling pines
ring  a ragged sky
through which slips
slivers of warmth
hugging me like a child
on this crisp morning

life on the line
wiggling wriggling
jumping
splashing, flashing
slippery, cold, and firm
in my grasp
Categories: wriggling, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
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I Am Free

drawn down in 
consummation
from heaven’s compost
I shall not be.

hacked as though
I were a succulent berry
juiced for the taking
I shall not be.

caught vole by a
diving shrike’s
talons
I shall not be.

I shall be Houdini
wriggling free.

    
©June 18, 2012
Kathryn M. Collins
Categories: wriggling, life,
Form: Free verse

Back Seat

We lie back listening
to the popping of stars in their pods.

I fish for words
that are not raw and wriggling.

You smoke a spiral staircase.

The car keeps swaying in our heads
over a shock absorbing silence.

I know you are looking through me,
searching for love-bones.

Sorry.
Categories: wriggling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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Bed Bottoms, Wet Entrails

Listen to poem:
Lakes lie limpid imponderable, 
glistening and glassy.
Looking like kites hanging 
suspended in the sky,
towing streams as shimmering tails,
wriggling in the wind.

Lakes and streams are inseparable, 
codependent, bedfellows,
each alike each other,
with wet bed bottoms
and wet watery entrails.
Categories: wriggling, river, water,
Form: Free verse

Back Seat

We lie back listening 
to the popping of stars in their dark pods.
I fish for words 
that are not raw and wriggling. 
You smoke a spiral staircase.
The car keeps swaying in our heads
over a shock absorbing silence.
I know you are looking through me, 
searching for love-bones
on a distant back seat.
Categories: wriggling, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
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Grouper and Bass

    Flagging socks in worn-down boots
       shiver in storm-soaked suits
    wriggling worms cast as prey
      off ghostly piers, rods bend and sway

    dawn awaits her cue to enter 
      grouper and bass flash front and center
    solitary rowboat far from shore
      kerosene lamp lit no more
Categories: wriggling, dark, fish, light, weather,
Form: Couplet

Ode To Kafka

What is this creepy thing
Infecting my body?
Busily digesting my flesh, melting,
The first stages of the blob.
End of my extremities
Swell ominously, wriggling,
Undulating like giant worms
Busily digesting my tissue
I’m becoming what I fear most,
Mistaken for castings
Shoveled up and thrown
On the compost heap.
Categories: wriggling, allegory, angst, fantasy, introspection, parody, satire
Form: Blank verse

This Lyric Is For You

This lyric is for you
take it eat it as cake
it is your great offer
I can make from afar

I can’t see your face
but your spirit is here
wriggling her waist
as I sing sweet melodies

This lyric is for you
take it drink as milk
it is your great gift
I make deep from heart

Dance, my friend dance
Renew your spirit, dance
Categories: wriggling, happiness, song,
Form: Lyric
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Naked Feet

My naked feet slipping into the sand
Toes wriggling like tiny crabs scurrying
To safety while the tide rocks relentlessly
And seagulls swoop down to feast.

written November 17, 2021
on the beach in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

HONORABLE MENTION
entered "Bite Size Poetry No. 28" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Line Gauthier
Categories: wriggling, beach, nature,
Form: Free verse

Teenage Girls

TEENAGE GIRLS


In the noisy café giggling
In their seats opposite me wriggling
Teen-age girls lean cheek-by-jowl.
Quiet as a cat’s footstep on a mouse prowl,
Their whispers to one another
With cupped hand-to-mouth to smother
Are so silent you don’t hear anything.
How do they speak so softly anyway?
Who would want to  listen anyhow?
Categories: wriggling, people
Form: Couplet
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Sir Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall

Singer Sir Mick Jagger Walks with a swagger Wriggling snakelike hips Pouts with big rubbery lips Texan model Jerry Hall Is very skinny and tall Their Bali wedding wasn’t valid Mick no longer lives on salad! Clerihew Couples for Valentine's Day Prizes Poetry Contest Sponsored by Carolyn Devonshire 1/11/19
Categories: wriggling, celebrity, humorous, music,
Form: Clerihew

Blow the Blowflies

Why did God make blowflies? 
To try our patience 
There is no doubt. 
They'll land on juicy steak 
When you leave it out 

Very soon you will find 
Little maggots wriggling on fresh meat 
The blowfly has laid her babies 
Now isn't that so sweet? 

That's what God intended 
All his creatures do 
Go forth and multiply 
That is his golden rule
Categories: wriggling, cute, funny, light,
Form: Light Verse
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Liven Up the Dead

Men grunting 
Mothers sighing 
All wailing 
for the willing soul
With a lamenting pitch 
As he renders 
a resounding call 
With a rising Crescendo 
Prising into every heart
Wriggling while thrusting away
 from this wanton emptiness 
Seeking relief amidst his mortal folks
Hailing his willingness to abide 
As they rove around 
Daring fate to his face.
Categories: wriggling, baby, confusion, feelings, grave, inspiration,
Form: Narrative

By a Muddy Creek

By a creek I sink my feet
in yesterday’s rain.

A swirl of green water
sucks at my boots.

Water rats swim near
not afraid of my stillness.

A willow tree sheds yellow catkins
they drop like magical caterpillars
wriggling as they learn to swim.

I scratch an itchy nose,
creek, rats and willow dreams
sink away
into nothing much,

just the usual mud.
Categories: wriggling, poetry,
Form: Free verse

From Earth With Love

Before dying
Wriggling soil
Asked the children

Would you give
The leafy eyes
Only to see me?

Before the fall
Writhing earth
Entreated the children

would you give
The ears of green trees
Only to hear me?

To the world of the matured
Went the little ones
Searching leafy eyes and ears.

Will they return?

If return
Will the soil and earth remain?
Categories: wriggling, nature
Form: Prose Poetry
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Complicit

watching through the looking lens as wickedness unfolds
  wriggling complicit, lounging in my comfort seat
  knee on neck, agony again, ... Again, .... AGAIN, ..... and YET AGAIN!
  weighing heavy, bearing down, my weary conscience scolds
  weaponise my wringing hands and my tongue-tied feet
  I CAN'T BREATHE! good-causes relieve the pressure
 ....... but only now and then
© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wriggling, abuse, black african american, humanity, murder, usa,
Form: Verse

Whirlpool of Fate, Siren Grasp of Quicksand

I forget what form of poetry this is (wrote it for English class a while back.)


Swallow within your own, Panic!
Wriggling in its strong grasp, Suffering!
Subdued beneath its murk, Frantic!
Twitching weakly with hope, Flickering!...

Peacefully captive lost soul, Unspoken…
Recalling events long past, Ebbing…
Neglected feelings pour out, Broken  .


© Samir Georges
2007
Categories: wriggling, introspection, life
Form: I do not know?
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What Fish Must Think of Fishermen

   What fish must think of us fishermen
      Do they wonder why we annoy them so
    with wriggling worms on silver hooks
       invading their waters, we weird-looking schnooks 

    Casting far out in hopes of catching bass
       or just dropping a line with bobbing popcorn 
    Fanatics take up the hunt by four in the morn
       no matter the forecast, sunshine or storm
Categories: wriggling, adventure, fish, judgement, morning, people,
Form: Rhyme
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