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Skittering Poems - Poems about Skittering

Watching The Storm Roll In
...I sit here on this wide, stone porch, the farms stretch for many miles, even on sunny days you can sit here and drift for a while… but this is not a day like that, the far horizon tells the tale......

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Categories: skittering, imagery, nature, rain, sky,
Form: Rhyme
Leaves and Leafy Grassiness
... We sleep on each other, lick on each other, run around and nip on each other, we are wholly 'each other,' personalities hid in the ruff and fur around our necks and the snaggle of ou......

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Categories: skittering, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Sixty-six years and six months
...My people set out sixty-six years and six months ago Give or take; sure, liberties taken, but I'll give her back, And if you want, they got a machine with occasional fact, But back to forbodingly ......

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Categories: skittering, confusion, growing up, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Chill of December
...(A raven’s shadow falls across the page. A quill scratches furiously, punctuated by heavy sighs.) December… a month draped in the funereal crepe of the dying year. Darkness descends with a......

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Categories: skittering, birth, dark, death, december,
Form: Acrostic
Sage and Embers
...Up on the winding mountain, there is a structure we knew so well— now consumed by red, devoured in flame. It was our shelter, a meeting place of like minds, a refuge against life’s weight, a......

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Categories: skittering, blessing, change, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse



The humble cockroach
...The humble cockroach - Survival of one wreath speck table insect, (poll ease pod din me Elmer Fudd speak) thus earning hardy laurels nsync with inxs of standing kudos ranking as bajillion year......

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Categories: skittering, america, animal, creation, dark,
Form: Free verse
Neigh say being corralled and cult shod
...Neigh say being corralled & cult shod "Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis" translation = thus always I bring death to tyrants.” Above the fray of twittering, squabbling, and madding crowd......

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Categories: skittering, 12th grade, age, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Light Rises On Her Passage
...free verse Sheltered in safety's shadows. Knowing God cares for her chief concern Soon the golden sunshine will flourish. She watches tiny minnows, skittering they scurry; and notes the ha......

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Categories: skittering, 11th grade, heart, journey,
Form: Free verse
Brownian Motion Writ Large
...Brownian motion writ large... within small medium as light brainstorm doth hail forth the following poem. Across the realm of gray matter slowly percolating within tissue composed of neuron......

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Categories: skittering, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Cadaverous Climate Controlled Cave Creature
...Cadaverous climate controlled cave creature (Idea birthed, engendered, and germinated from Lombok Indonesia earthquakes On 5 August 2018, a destructive and shallow earthquake measuring Mw 6......

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Categories: skittering, adventure, anxiety, august, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance
...Recluse by dint of circumstance Proud anonymous troglodytes forerunners of mine confronted threats less horrific than forty fifth commander in chief of United States of America. He/him (ma......

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Categories: skittering, adventure, america, angst, anti
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Souls Longing Wish To Write Its Poetry
...** The Soul’s Longing Wish to Write Its poetry ** The poems sleep Together in a wreath of curled words, Poised awaiting, allied, all set to affect Their impact Summoned From the depths of ......

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Categories: skittering, 3rd grade, christian, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oktoberfest
...It’s the time of the year for Oktoberfest, The nip in the air, the leaves skittering about A fall festival that rates among the year’s best. Custom beers and homemade pretzels to tes......

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Categories: skittering, fun, holiday, october,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Dancing In the Street
...Leaves are dancing in the street Skittering with the autumn breeze Something about this is very sweet Leaves are dancing in the street, Raking them, though, is not so neat The limbs ......

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Categories: skittering, autumn, dance,
Form: Triolet
Malignant Clouds
...Clouds loom drifting, passing by, The west wind gently tempts them on Though no one knows what cause them cry And no one hears their pleading voice As all their acid tears well dry. Snowy wh......

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Categories: skittering, environment, nature,
Form: Rhyme

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