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Skittered Poems - Poems about Skittered

Premium Member Holiday Limericks
...Clyde yearned for a kiss 'neath the mistletoe But not a gal took notice of his woe The ladies just twittered As by him they skittered His fly was unzipped an......

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Categories: skittered, christmas, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Deva Ossig, the landlady and property owner turned rogue
...Deva Ossig, the landlady (and property owner) turned rogue Just a couple weeks shy and seven years ago to the day, I still remember contractual obligations our previous residential abode 724 ......

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Categories: skittered, adventure, anger, animal, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Surfer Faerie
...Is she skating on blue gill the other faeries tittered. She was skimming the water, her skirts were all skittered. She is getting wet, doesn’t she care about that? This came from a watching intere......

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Categories: skittered, fairy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Alice Sleeps Beside a Brook
...Alice dipped her fingers into the water, grazing the top. The brook was mesmerizing. She watched minnows and bugs. They skittered across the top, too minute to identify. A slight breeze lulled h......

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Categories: skittered, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member December 2021 At Our House
...Sassy calico cat climbed the tree and took it down Children of the house thought this was a hoot all around Mother baked herself into a frenzied ball of worry Tiny mouse skittered across the floor......

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Categories: skittered, december,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member I Toss Another Stone
...You throw a rock into a pool. Watch the concentric ring slowly expand from its point of origin. Its curvature infinite. Shape pristine. And yet... there it dissipates at the subtle sternness o......

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Categories: skittered, allegory, analogy, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member After the Hurricane
...The sun illuminates where former smile, a crimson sunset into the crypsis fades. Optical illusion - boat upside- down, sails sullied, the upheaval of grit. My sight ebbs and flows, a buoy behol......

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Categories: skittered, imagery, storm,
Form: Dramatic Verse
These Eyes
...I went to bed a mouse, Scared to be immersed, I ran through a wood Of above unseen whispering owls, Thinking I would not know, But I know taunting when my heart raced as a squirrel skitt......

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Categories: skittered, bereavement, faith, feelings, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Abandoned School House
...On the wind-swept Nebraska prairie sits a building in wretched shambles, Surrounded by a sagging fence and overgrown with prickly brambles. It was once a bustling one-room school house, abandoned l......

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Categories: skittered, nostalgia, school,
Form: Rhyme
Where's Mummy Gone
...The car crashed with death. The force of fate could not hold the wheels. Our sky shattered to million pieces hither and thither........... My wife died. An ear splitting yowling reverberant soun......

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Categories: skittered, death, miss you, pain,
Form: Free verse
Six Days To Kennevor, Part I
...I set out from Chicago town in spring, eighteen seventy-nine, offered one hundred and a stake in the new Kennevor gold mine. Had to provide security and keep all of the miner’s safe, in the mou......

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Categories: skittered, adventure, conflict, journey, mountains,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member The Final Fly By
...Clyde stood 'neath the mistletoe coy and shy, Itching for a kiss from gals passing by. Behind their hands they tittered, As by him they all skittered! Seems ......

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Categories: skittered, christmas, humorous,
Form: Limerick
November 13th 2017 - Part 1
...November 13th 2017 Happy 83rd birthday to thy cremated mom Harriet Harris fought tooth and nail Mother succumbed to terminal illness without fail Ovarian/ Uterine Cancer to no avail hosted......

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Categories: skittered, dark, grave, happy birthday,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member A Lobotomy
...My psychiatrist told me “All things considered... You're as good as can be expected, given that you're skittered!” Said, “What the hell does that mean?” Answered, “Your brain's a bit lean!......

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Categories: skittered, age,
Form: Limerick
The Morning Soars With Skylarks Singing Repost
...The morning soars with skylarks singing o'er the greening meadow and the pliant pasture, the ocean sighing, gulls aloft on wings of prayer. A sudden shower would see me running fancy free between......

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Categories: skittered, writing,
Form: Verse

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