crevices 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
Critter 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
Rudbeckia
...rudbeckia's gold
topped by still chameleon ....
western skink runs ...
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Categories:
skink, nature,
Form: Haiku
Covid 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
Oddities
...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
Snapdragons 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
Do You Really Want To Know What I Think
...
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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