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Skink Poems - Poems about Skink

Premium Membercrevices and cracks

...along the crevices and cracks craggily creatures crawl
I saw a huge Kansas black rat snake one night last fall
Today I spied a silver skink, there might have been two
And something is wiggling rig...
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Categories: skink, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Skink Homes

...Skink Homes

The Skink Homes in The East Side of 
The House Sleepers was 
established under the aegis of 
NSW Housing Trust.
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Categories: skink, humor,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberCritter Caper

...Let’s go said the crow
Not now said the cow
But when said the hen
Don’t know said the doe
Hey look said the rook
Big truck said the duck
Go peep said the sheep
Not me said the bee

We’re the...
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Categories: skink, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRudbeckia

...rudbeckia's gold
topped by still chameleon ....
western skink runs    ...
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Categories: skink, nature,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberCovid Walk

...thermometer reads zero, a chilly breeze blows
  apple cores thrown, the blackbirds feed
  my multi-layered partner dons her wooly hat
  impatiently, she waits for me
  securing covid masks amidst...
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Categories: skink, anxiety, feelings, humanity, journey,
Form: Verse



Skink's Tail

...The man who took the tail of a skink
Is safe from the chocolate mink
He stopped on foot to breathe to think
The man who took the tail of a skink

He gained the powers of the magical skink
He gr...
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Categories: skink, animal, longing, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

Lovers of the Dark

...None came to such a remote place
Near Pannawonica in Australia, without access  
No bird has known it, not even a skink
Troglobites live in the dark caves, never shrink 
Humans came with iron min...
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Categories: skink, dark, environment, insect,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOddities

...Sea Lions are funny creatures
I think they are mammals
They have flippers for feet
Not humps like lots of camels

Wouldn't it be funny
A funny sort of weird
If a walrus had a football
And a b...
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Categories: skink, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme

The Desert

...There's a vast bare land afar
Blanketed with dry brown sand-dunes.
A brown ocean with no moisture in its heart
A land bereft of rivers and streams.

The home of dorcas gazelles, blind skink, 
C...
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Categories: skink, earth day,
Form: Free verse

The Priority

...On a patch pink
Called a brown skink
Near my bed room
Made a rose bloom

It is such things
There and then brings
Sparks from our soul
Waves in our bowl

In the pond’s froth
There was a mot...
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Categories: skink, joy, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSnapdragons and Dandy Lions - Part 2

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"Snapdragons and Dandy Lions - Part 2"


The day was cooling down 
pressing itself close into
the amythest and musk pink early eve
as the eggshell pale blue sky rolled over into 
Asto...
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Categories: skink, childhood, daughter, joy, love,
Form: Free verse

Don'T Take This Personally,

...Don't take this personally
But you're really a mess
Your hair is way awful
And what horrible choice of dress
And I saw Sara Bess
Beat you at chess
Don't take this personally
But you're really ...
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Categories: skink, culture,
Form: Rhyme

Cockroaches

...Oh the goddam cockroaches!
Like living aliens from 50’s movies: 
and in my house!

Where do they live, these errant knights? 
In search of food, and greasy squires, as 
they scurry across the  ...
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Categories: skink, anger, fun,
Form: Free verse

Captured By the Creek

...Like a drug of dependence, this will keep me coming back
out along the Sardine Creek, walking on a wombat track.
I should know every cranny and hurdle in the way,
But secrets of the bush keep aris...
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Categories: skink, nature, water, drug,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDo You Really Want To Know What I Think

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Do you really want to know what I think?
I think about what I’m going to eat and drink.
I think of doing the dishes in the sink.
I think about staying healthy and in the pink.
What would I t...
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Categories: skink, on writing and words,
Form: Monorhyme

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