Spiny Poems - Poems about Spiny

...“Peter Periwinkle had a car accident,” my brother said, as if reading it aloud from the back of a cereal box. It took me three full seconds to realize he meant our father. We were......

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...He rides beneath a sky of burning light, A shadow stretching wide across the plain. His boots are weathered, his hands are stiff with dust, Yet in his eyes, the calm of open land. The cactus stan......

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... A tsunami of black ash blankets half a world Trash toadstool hoodoos, wastelandic pillage and pollutant mucus ravishes lava villages Draining is the amalgam mass at the end of the spectrum......

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... I fought the good fight, yet still I lost and you stood in brackish silence with bitter reward in briny eyes proffering spiny frowns shoulders crumbled with aging ache and brow dimpled with so......

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... I Remaining Steadfast Warm In the Struggle’s Snow Storm Looking out up above the ......

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...December, daughter of winter, descends with a silence that invades my soul, Hatred crept slowly and surely into the marrow of my bones, poisoning them, My breaths release blue beads of carbon dioxi......

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...i am double rainbows. i am the streaks of silver in the old man's hair, i am spiny and bug-eyed. i am the rainbow around the moon on misty nights. i am cactus eyes with a center of molten gold......

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...One last Carolina Wren jabs and hops inside a shrinking ring of pale sunlight. At the white door of a cold season the wind dresses a scarecrow with the spiny feathers of the already dead. ......

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...Spiny horned lizard Arizona sand digger Flat body blunt snout Where are you going With slithery ugliness Wait up old friend......

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...Plant Every Easter a plant with big spiny leaves and spikes of purplish flowers grows out of my back, making it abundantly hard for me to sit up against my pillows. ......

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... A thornbush, crowned by a rose A spiny cactus, become ‘Queen of the Night’ ... Atop fraught frames, shines glorious splendor Heaven's treasures ~ man ought not surrender ......

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...It smells like pickles green in Autumn Aromas arise like Frankenstein in formaldehyde Tubular, somewhat spiny, objects plump Ready to be plucked at midnight Be not pickled in perpetuity Be not......

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... Oh, holly tree, friend to me, with scarlet berries to see that delight my eyes to feast ......

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...Two little kittens and a very big dog Gazed at the creature that was sitting on a log It looked a little slimy and it really wasn’t spiny So, you can’t mistake a bullfrog for a hedgehog… No, you......

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...Hedgehog, O hedgehog dear spiny, meek and mousy poppet. In England where the tickly grass grows greener we galumph in our rubber boots up to your little Hobbit nests beneath the thorny bushes......

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